Planning, Making and Composing · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.2.2.2.4 - Experiment with available performing arts instruments, resources and techniques to create artworks that reflect topical issues in other communities in Ghana

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least three topical issues currently affecting communities in other parts of Ghana (such as illegal mining, flooding, or school dropout) through discussion of news and stories.
Explore the school environment to collect or identify at least two available instruments or resources that can be used for composing and performing music, dance or drama.
Demonstrate at least two different techniques (such as body percussion, call and response, or mime) for using the collected instruments or resources.
Create a short performing artwork (song, rhythmic piece, dance or drama scene) in a group that reflects one topical issue from another Ghanaian community.
Present the created artwork to the class and explain how the instruments and techniques were used to communicate the topical issue.

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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: B2.2.2.2.4 - Experiment with available performing arts instruments, resources and techniques to create artworks that reflect topical issues in other communities in Ghana
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 1 (Week 13 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. 43
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- explore the local environment to select available instruments and resources that are good for composing and performing music, dance and drama;
- discuss types of music, dance and drama that reflect topical issues
- create own performing artworks that reflect topical issues in the identified Ghanaian communities.