Skills in Performance · SHS3 Performing Arts

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: 3.1.2.LI.4 - Communicate and connect one’s own and others’ life experiences to new perspectives and new realisations to the selected artistic product(s)

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Identify at least three personal life experiences that connect to the themes and content of their selected five to ten-minute artistic product (DANCE, MUSIC, DRAMA, or collaboration).
Explain how a peer’s life experience, cultural background, or historical context has reshaped or deepened their own understanding of the artistic product.
Articulate at least one “new realisation” gained through reflecting on their own and others’ experiences in relation to the global issue their product addresses.
Present a two to three-minute oral reflection connecting personal experiences, cultural knowledge (festivals, rites of passage, history, nature), and cross-curricular knowledge (Maths, Language Arts) to the artistic product using appropriate Performing Arts terminology.
Demonstrate positive social-emotional skills by respectfully listening to, questioning, and affirming the diverse views and experiences of group members during discussion and reflection sessions.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Foundations in Artistic Knowledge and Processes (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Skills in Performance (1.2)
Content standard: 3.1.2.CS.1 - 3.1.2.CS.1 Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills in Performing Arts artistic product(s) [DANCE, MUSIC, DRAMA, or a collaboration] and develop a repertoire of five to ten-minute presentations/performances that exhibit advanced level skills in the Performing Arts area. 3.1.2.LO.1 Explore skills in performance by presenting a five to ten-minute artistic product(s) [DANCE, MUSIC, DRAMA, or, a collaboration] based on emerging global topical issues.
Indicator: 3.1.2.LI.4 - Communicate and connect one's own and others' life experiences to new perspectives and new realisations to the selected artistic product(s)
Suggested placement: Semester 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: NaCCA curriculum document, p. 117

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Talk-for-Learning:

- Through a teacher-led discussion, brainstorm on the connection between various life experiences and various ideas in the artistic product(s).
- Teacher encourages Learners to describe various life experiences and activities involved (culturally, historically, musically, dramatically, artistically, etc.) and connect with their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge.
- Learners demonstrate a correlation between DANCE, MUSIC, and DRAMA, and possibly, VISUAL ARTS:
- a) cross-curricula knowledge in say Maths skills through the songs, acts, etc., pertaining to numbers, days of the week, and seasons and months of the year;
- b) about nature, weather, and the seasons.
- c) history and geography
- d) rite-de-passage
- e) festivals when relating to the community.
- f) language arts skills when expressing themselves through L and L mediums, etc. 1 2 Project-Based Learning: Individually write down how your life experiences, ideas, and perspectives realized connect to everyday life.

Assessment (3.1.2.AS.4). The document marks these depth-of-knowledge levels for this indicator: Level 3 Strategic reasoning; Level 4 Extended critical thinking and reasoning.

Teaching and Learning Resources:
- Musical Scores, Play Directing Notes, Dance Choreography Sketches, CDs, electronic video files [MP4 &MP5], and audio electronic files [MP3], etc.
- Rubrics
- Writing pads
- Projector
- Screen
- Cell phones
- IT playing and recording gadgets e.g., mobile phone, cameras, etc.
- Assessment tools - [DANCE, MUSIC, and DRAMA, or a collaboration]
- Music manuscript sheets, notation software - Finale and Sibelius
- Music programming software - 5 DAW (audio formats)
- Video editing software - Wondershare Filmora 9.
- Drama production software - Scriptwriter and Adobe Photoshop
- Make-up kits
- Space
- Flat files