Appreciating and Appraising · B3 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B3.2.4.6.1 - Agree on guidelines for viewing performing artworks and expressing own feelings and thoughts about own and others’ performances as representations of artworks produced or found in other African communities

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

List at least four guidelines for watching a music, dance, or drama performance respectfully and attentively.
Use agreed guidelines to state their own feelings about a performance using simple sentences such as “I felt happy when…” or “The dancing made me think of…”.
Work in small groups to agree on a class set of viewing guidelines and present them to the whole class.
Identify at least one thing they enjoyed and one thing they noticed in a peer’s performance, using the agreed guidelines.
Explain in their own words why having guidelines helps us appreciate performances better.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Appreciating and Appraising (2.4)
Content standard: B3.2.4.6 - 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), the recordings and reports
Indicator: B3.2.4.6.1 - Agree on guidelines for viewing performing artworks and expressing own feelings and thoughts about own and others' performances as representations of artworks produced or found in other African communities
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 7 (Week 31 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. 89
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- agree on guidelines for viewing, examining and expressing own views about the music, dance and drama performances;
- agree on how to use the agreed guidelines to express own feelings and thoughts about own and others' displayed music, dance and drama performances.