Appreciating and Appraising · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.2.4.7.2

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Report their own views and feelings about displayed performing artworks (music, dance, or drama) using the agreed appraisal guidelines from previous lessons.
Suggest at least two specific ways a displayed performance can be modified or improved.
Apply suggestions from the class appraisal to modify their own group performance.
Record and share a short video or audio clip of their modified performance using an approved platform.
Explain why appraisal helps performers improve their work before the next performance.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Appreciating and Appraising (2.4)
Content standard: B2.2.4.7 - Demonstrate understanding of how to make informed decisions on displays, presentations, performances, recordings and/or reports, based on an established guide for judging artworks (the theme, subject matter, media, techniques, elements and principles of design, social, aesthetic, cultural and functional values) for correlation, correction and future modifications
Indicator: B2.2.4.7.2 - Report own views and feelings about the displayed performing artworks and suggest how the artworks can be modified or improved
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 12 (Week 36 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: Creative Arts Curriculum (Basic 1-3), 2019, p. 62
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- display (real/photographs/video) selected own and others' displayed performing artworks
- talk about the works dispassionately using agreed guidelines;
- use the outcome of the appreciation/appraisal to modify the performance or to present similar or different music, dance and drama artworks.
Suggested Process/Steps
- talk about, appreciate and appraise own and/or others' compositions and performances using the guidelines above dispassionately;
- use the outcome of the appreciation/appraisal to modify the product or to produce a similar or different composition or performance;
- record/document the activity and share using a platform accepted social media by the class/group (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp);
Note: appreciate and appraise own and/or others' music, dance and drama
Use the following guidelines for documentations, recordings and sharing:
- Music: theme, voice production and diction, harmony and blending of parts, interpretation, the elements and knowledge of music;
- Dance: theme, entrance/exit, movement variation, gestures, creativity, makeup, movement in relation to singing and drumming, costume, props, energy, stage use, stage setting and dynamics;
- Drama: characterisation, makeup, gestures, voice projection, diction, use of space, aesthetics, creativity.