Basic 4 Creative Arts Term 1 Week 8 Lesson Plan

Use questions and answers to review the previous lesson with learners. Engage learners to play games and sing songs to begin the lesson Engage learners to sing songs and play games to get them ready for lesson. Use questions and answers to review learners understanding in the previous lesson.

The easiest way to understand and appreciate a performance is to develop a relevance and appropriate criteria or checklist. Guide learners to create a checklist or criteria for appreciating and appraising a performance; - Creative process - Subject matter - Selection and use of instruments and elements - Styles and techniques - Originality or creativity - Use of space - Selection and use of costumes - Symbolism and cultural relevance - Aesthetic qualities - suitability Lead a discussion to explain the criteria with learners. Now let learners use the checklist to appreciate and appraise a previous art performed in class. e.g. Kweku Ananse and the Wisdom Pot. Put learners into groups and share roles or allow learners to pick up roles for themselves. invite each group to perform the drama as others observe. Set up a three member judge to use the checklist or criteria to appraise the performance of each group. For this activity, learners use locally made drum, gourd shaker and kente cloth sample to perform a short piece and discuss how the instruments and costume support its meaning.

Use questions to review learners understanding of the lesson. Ask learners to tell the class what they have learnt. Call learners to summarize the main points of the lesson.