Planning, Making and Composing · B2 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B2.2.2.3.1 - Compose own artworks using available performing arts instruments, resources and methods to represent performing artworks that reflect the history and way of life of people in other communities in Ghana

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Describe at least two features of the history and way of life of a Ghanaian community outside their own, such as occupation, customs, staple foods, festivals, buildings or symbols.
Demonstrate the rhythms, movements or speech patterns used by people in another Ghanaian community through a short performance piece.
Compose a short music, dance or drama piece (30 to 60 seconds long) that reflects the culture of a chosen Ghanaian community using available instruments and resources.
Perform their composed piece for the class, explaining one way their work represents the history or way of life of the chosen community.
Give simple feedback on a peer’s performance, identifying what the performance showed about the community’s way of life.

Sign in with your phone number to read the full note and download the GES plan - free.

Sign in with phone number

Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (2.2)
Content standard: B2.2.2.3 - Demonstrate understanding of how to create expressive artworks based on own ideas by applying knowledge of media and methods of production to reflect other cultures in Africa as well as the visual artists, their culture, the environment and emerging topical issues
Indicator: B2.2.2.3.1 - Compose own artworks using available performing arts instruments, resources and methods to represent performing artworks that reflect the history and way of life of people in other communities in Ghana
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 5 (Week 17 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. 46
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners are to:
- identify the history and culture of the people from other parts of Ghana (e.g. their occupation, customs, staple foods, festivals, buildings, symbols) using available instruments and techniques;
- role play music, dance and drama performances in the identified communities in Ghana, using available instruments and resources;
- create own music, dance and drama to represent those performed by people in other communities in Ghana.