Basic 2 · Creative Arts · Displaying and Sharing

Sharing Our Creative Work

In this topic you will perform and display your artworks to share what you have learnt.

By the end of these notes you should be able to:

  • Display your waste artworks
  • Perform a short drama about a topical issue
  • Explain your work to visitors

What you already know

  • Art about problems in Ghana

Copy everything that has a blue line on its left into your notebook. The other parts are for reading.

Strand
Visual Arts & Performing Arts
Sub-strand
Displaying and Sharing
Indicator
B2.2.3.4.1 – Perform own artworks to share creative experiences

Introduction

Your class will hold a "Clean Ghana Day". You will show your waste art and perform a short drama about littering.

1. Display

  • Hang or place artworks with labels.
  • Group them by topical issue.
  • Stand by your work to explain it.

2. Short Drama

Drama plan: "The Plastic Problem"
SceneWhat happens
1A child throws a sachet on the road.
2Rain comes; the gutter is blocked and the street floods.
3Friends clean the gutter and put rubbish in bins.
4Everyone sings "Keep Ghana clean!"
Children acting a drama about cleaning a blocked gutter
Figure 1: Our drama about littering Draw one scene of the drama.Illustration: Sirbus

New words

drama
A story acted out.
scene
One part of a drama.
display
To show artworks.
message
What the work teaches.

Summary

  • We share our work through displays and performances.
  • A drama can teach a message about a problem.
  • We explain our work to visitors.

Class activity: Clean Ghana Day

  1. Display your waste artworks with labels.
  2. Perform the drama in scenes.
  3. Invite another class to watch.

You need: Learners’ own artworks, Label cards cut from manila paper, String, Clothes pegs

Exercises

Answer in your exercise book first, then check your answers.

  1. 1. A story acted out is a…

    • A. Drama
    • B. Basket
    • C. Bead
    • D. Map
    Show answer
    Answer: DramaDramas are acted.
  2. 2. What message does "The Plastic Problem" teach?

    • A. Keep Ghana clean
    • B. Throw rubbish anywhere
    • C. Do not sing
    • D. Block gutters
    Show answer
    Answer: Keep Ghana cleanThe drama teaches cleanliness.
  3. 3. One part of a drama is a scene.

    • A. True
    • B. False
    Show answer
    Answer: TrueDramas have scenes.
  4. 4. We should not explain our work to visitors.

    • A. True
    • B. False
    Show answer
    Answer: FalseExplaining shares our ideas.
  5. 5. What a work teaches is its ______.

    Show answer
    Answer: messageThat is the message.
  6. 6. Write one scene for a drama about saving water.

    Show answer
    Answer: E.g. A child closes a dripping tap.Scenes show what happens.

Homework

  1. Tell your family the message of your drama.