Planning, Making and Composing · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.1.2.2.4 - Plan to create from own imagination, visual artworks that reflect topical issues in other communities in Ghana

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Recall at least three topical issues currently affecting communities in other parts of Ghana and talk about them in simple sentences.
Organise their ideas by discussing in small groups which topical issue they want to portray and why.
Produce at least two rough line sketches from imagination showing a chosen topical issue from another Ghanaian community.
Select their best sketch and explain in one or two sentences what the sketch shows and which community it relates to.
List the materials and steps needed to turn their chosen sketch into a finished artwork, using the planning sheet provided.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Visual Arts (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (1.2)
Content standard: B2.1.2.2 - Demonstrate understanding of how to organise own ideas through experimenting with available media and techniques for creating/composing artworks, based on the history and culture as well as the environment and the topical local/national/global issues of other communities
Indicator: B2.1.2.2.4 - Plan to create from own imagination, visual artworks that reflect topical issues in other communities in Ghana
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 10 (Week 10 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. 41
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- recall and organise ideas on visual artworks and topical issues in Ghana
- develop sketches from ideas and concepts of topical issues to make own visual artworks (e.g. drawing and colouring pictures, printmaking, lettering, pattern making, modelling, casting)
- recall images of visual artworks and topical issues to make line sketches to represent visual artworks that reflect topical issues in other parts of Ghana.