Planning, Making and Composing · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.2.2.2.1 - Generate ideas to create own artworks based on performing artworks that reflect the history and culture of people in other Ghanaian communities

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Name at least three performing artworks (music, dance, or drama) from other Ghanaian communities and state one feature of each.
Identify the history and cultural elements (customs, religion, festivals, buildings, symbols) that appear in performing artworks from other communities.
Brainstorm and list at least three original ideas for their own music, dance, or drama based on a performing artwork from another Ghanaian community.
Select one idea and plan the key parts of their own artwork, stating what it will show about the history and culture of the chosen community.
Share their planned idea with a partner and give simple feedback on each other’s plans.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (2.2)
Content standard: B2.2.2.2 - 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: B2.2.2.2.1 - Generate ideas to create own artworks based on performing artworks that reflect the history and culture of people in other Ghanaian communities
Suggested placement: Term 1, Week 11 (Week 11 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. 42
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- recall images of performing artworks that are produced or performed in other parts of Ghana;
- define own ideas for improvising own music, dance or drama based on the identified performing artworks
- use ideas formed about the performing artworks to plan own music, dance and drama that reflect the history and culture (e.g. customs, religion, festivals, buildings, symbols) of people in those parts of Ghana;