SHS2 Performing Arts · Semester 2 Week 18: Connecting Artworks with Life Experiences

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: 2.3.2.LI.2 - Communicate and connect one’s own and others’ life experiences to new perspectives and new realisations.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Explain how a specific life experience (such as a festival, rite of passage, or community event) connects to the ideas and meaning in a chosen performing arts work.
Analyse a peer’s artistic product and identify at least two life experiences that may have shaped its creation, justifying their interpretation with evidence from the work.
Formulate and communicate at least one new perspective or realisation that emerges when their own life experience is compared with another person’s artistic product.
Present an individual written reflection connecting personal life experiences to an existing DANCE, MUSIC, or DRAMA work, using strategic reasoning to support their claims.
Engage respectfully in group discussions, recognising and valuing divergent views on how artworks connect to lived experiences.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Analysis and Interpretation (Strand 3)
Sub-strand: Connecting Artworks with Life Experiences (3.2)
Content standard: 2.3.2.CS.1 - 2.3.2.CS.1 Demonstrate accomplished level skills in communicating and connecting own and others' artistic products [DANCE MUSIC, DRAMA, or a collaboration] to life experiences for the exploration of perspectives and new realisations. Learning Outcomes 2.3.2.LO.1 Communicate and connect own and others' artistic products [DANCE, MUSIC, DRAMA, or a collaboration] to life experiences to explore new perspectives and new realizations.
Indicator: 2.3.2.LI.2 - Communicate and connect one's own and others' life experiences to new perspectives and new realisations.
Suggested placement: Semester 2, Week 18 (Week 38 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.
Curriculum reference: NaCCA curriculum document, p. 104

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Talk-for-Learning:

- Through a teacher-led discussion, brainstorm on the connection between various life experiences and various ideas in the artistic product(s).
- Teacher encourages Learners to describe various life experiences and activities involved (culturally, historically, musically, dramatically, artistically, etc.) and connect with their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge.
- Learners demonstrate a correlation between DANCE, MUSIC, and DRAMA, and possibly, VISUAL ARTS:
- a) cross-curricula knowledge in say Maths skills through the songs, acts, etc., pertaining to numbers, days of the week, and seasons and months of the year;
- b) about nature, weather, and the seasons.
- c) history and geography
- d) rite-de-passage
- e) festivals when relating to the community.
- f) language arts skills when expressing themselves through L and L mediums, etc. 1 2

Project-Based Learning: Individually write down how your life experiences, ideas, and perspectives realised connect to everyday life.

Assessment (2.3.2.AS.2). The document marks these depth-of-knowledge levels for this indicator: Level 3 Strategic reasoning; Level 4 Extended critical thinking and reasoning.

Teaching and Learning Resources:
- The artworks
- Stationery
- Electronic devices e.g., mobile phone, cameras, etc.