Appreciating and Appraising · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.2.4.6.2 - Agree on guidelines for assessing and deriving meaning from own and others’ performing artworks as representations of artworks produced or found in other Ghanaian communities

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

State at least three agreed guidelines for assessing a music, dance, or drama performance
Use agreed guidelines to derive and express the meaning of a short performance they watch or perform
Discuss how the agreed guidelines help them understand performances from other Ghanaian communities
Demonstrate the correct vocabulary for appreciating and appraising performances (for example, theme, harmony, characterization, diction)
Agree as a class on how to record and share the appraisal report and fix a date for the jury

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Appreciating and Appraising (2.4)
Content standard: B2.2.4.6 - Demonstrate understanding of how to analyse, appreciate, appraise/critique and present report on own works and that of others based on established guide for judging artworks (the theme, subject matter, media, techniques, elements and principles of design, social, aesthetic, cultural and functional values) and, the recordings and reports
Indicator: B2.2.4.6.2 - Agree on guidelines for assessing and deriving meaning from own and others' performing artworks as representations of artworks produced or found in other Ghanaian communities
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 8 (Week 32 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. 58
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- agree on guidelines for deducing the meaning of each artwork displayed;
- discuss how to use the guidelines to express the meaning of each displayed artwork.
Suggested Process/Steps
- discuss and accept a guide for appreciating and appraising own and/or others' compositions and performances based on the guidelines suggested above.;
- identify the correct vocabulary to use for appreciating and appraising music, dance and drama;
- agree on what to use the appraisal report for and how to share it;
- agree on the approach/method (manual/digital) to use in recording/documenting the appraisal process;
- fix a day/date for the appreciation/appraisal/jury.
Note: appreciate and appraise own and/or others' music, dance and drama performances.
Use the following guidelines: o Music: theme, voice production and diction, harmony and blending of parts, interpretation, the elements and knowledge of music; o Dance: theme, entrance/exit, movement variation, gestures, creativity, makeup, movement in relation to singing and drumming, costume, props, energy, stage use, etc.; o Drama: characterization, makeup, gestures, voice projection, diction, use of space, aesthetics, creativity.