B6 Creative Arts · Term 1 Week 9: Thinking and Exploring Ideas

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B6.2.1.1.6 - Brainstorm and generate ideas for creating own performing artworks that reflect topical issues in some communities in the world

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least three topical issues affecting communities in different parts of the world from teacher-selected videos, articles or discussions.
Work in groups to brainstorm and record at least five original ideas for a performing artwork (music, dance, drama or poem) on one chosen topical issue.
Draft a short poem, song lyric, dramatic scene or dance concept of at least four lines that reflects a chosen topical issue.
Present their drafted idea to the class and give one piece of constructive feedback to another group’s idea.
Revise their original idea based on feedback received, explaining at least one change they made and why.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Thinking and Exploring Ideas (2.1)
Content standard: B6.2.1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of how to generate own ideas for artistic expressions on the people based on their history and culture, the environment and topical local/national/global issues
Indicator: B6.2.1.1.6 - Brainstorm and generate ideas for creating own performing artworks that reflect topical issues in some communities in the world
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 9 (Week 9 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Source document note: The official curriculum document has a fault in this entry, so the curriculum text above is transcribed exactly as printed:

exemplars - p.102: the song that follows is printed as a three-column table inside this exemplar, so the linear extraction read it across the columns ("Choice, Choice, Choice! Choice, Choice, Choice Choice, Choice, Choice ..."). It is re-flowed here as the three verses the page prints, read down each column; no word is changed or dropped. Check against the page
Curriculum reference: Creative Arts Curriculum (Basic 4-6), 2019, p. 102
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- use available OERs (e.g. libraries, videos, documentaries, internet, Facebook) to research current topical issues of much concern in some communities in the world;.
- document results of findings in the forms of notes, statements, downloads and recordings for presentations and class discussions;
- reflect on feedback from class discussions and peer reviews to generate concepts for composing music, dance, drama, poem etc. on current topical issues of much concern in the world. For example:
Choice, Choice, Choice!
We can make a choice,
This is our time,
When to make choices,

Choice, Choice, Choice
Take a stand, brother
Take a stand, sister
When to make choices

Choice, Choice, Choice
On the world we want,
On the way we learn
We can make choices