Planning, Making and Composing · B3 Creative Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: B3.2.2.3.3 - Create own music, dance and drama performances using available instruments, resources and methods to express own views that reflect topical issues in other Africa communities

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

identify at least three topical issues affecting communities in Africa that can be expressed through music, dance, or drama.
select suitable available instruments (drums, shakers, rattles, clappers, bells) to support a performance on a chosen topical issue.
create a short performance piece (music, dance, or drama) that expresses their own views on a topical issue such as plastic waste, flooding, or safe road practices.
use voice, gestures, movements, and simple props or costumes to communicate the message of their performance clearly.
perform their created piece for the class and talk about how their choices of instruments and methods helped express their views.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Performing Arts (Strand 2)
Sub-strand: Planning, Making and Composing (2.2)
Content standard: B3.2.2.3 - 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: B3.2.2.3.3 - Create own music, dance and drama performances using available instruments, resources and methods to express own views that reflect topical issues in other Africa communities
Suggested placement: Term 2, Week 6 (Week 18 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. 77
Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Learners to:
- use available instruments, elements, resources and techniques for public education and entertainment;
- using available instruments, resources and techniques, create own music, dance and drama based on the concept of performances in Africa that reflect Topical issues such as plastic waste, drowning, flooding, safe road practices, use of ICT devices, etc.)
Suggested Process/Steps
- select and use suitable and appropriate instruments, elements, resources, equipment available (e.g. xylophone, drums, flutes, bells, shakers, rattles, clappers, castanets, horn, whistles);
- select and use suitable and appropriate manual/mechanical/electronic production methods/techniques (e.g. voice, gestures, movements, language, improvisation, imitation, adaptation, guided writing skills to communicate feelings, melody, and dramatization);
- select/create props, scenery, and costumes for different styles and performances which support and enhance the intent of a production;
- demonstrate basic knowledge and skills in the use and application of the elements and principles of design, instruments, methods and techniques freely in creative and expressive ways to produce own music, dance and drama.
Note: produce own music, dance and drama by arranging, composing, performing, reciting, dancing, singing, costuming, acting, imitating, drumming, role-playing, gesturing, miming, etc.