Appreciating and Appraising · B3 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B3.1.4.6.1

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

State at least three agreed guidelines for viewing and examining displayed visual artworks.
Use the agreed guidelines to express their own feelings and thoughts about their own displayed artwork.
Use the agreed guidelines to express their own feelings and thoughts about a classmate’s displayed artwork.
Demonstrate respect for others’ opinions during whole-class sharing of feelings and thoughts about artworks.
Identify at least one African community (outside Ghana) whose artworks are displayed and discussed in class.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Appreciating and Appraising (1.4)
Content standard: B3.1.4.6 - 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: B3.1.4.6.1 - Agree on guidelines for viewing artworks and expressing own feelings and thoughts about own and others' displayed visual artworks as representations of artworks produced or found in other African communities
Suggested placement: Term 3, Week 5 (Week 29 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. 87
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- agree to the guidelines for viewing, examining and reporting own feelings and thoughts about the displayed visual artworks;
- agree on how to use the guidelines to express own feelings and thoughts about own and others' displayed artworks.