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Basic 8 Creative Arts and Design Notes

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Term Preparation

  1. Preparing for the Term in Creative Arts and DesignIn this topic you will review the key ideas of design, visual arts and performing arts from Basic 7, prepare your sketchbook and materials, and apply your knowledge in a short practical review.

Drawing

  1. Drawing Tools, Drawing from Observation, Memory and Imagination, and TempoIn this topic you will explore manual and digital tools and materials for drawing, shading and colouring, draw from direct observation, memory and imagination, and tell how fast or slow music is using Italian tempo terms.
  2. Freehand and Outline Drawing, Weaving and Dance-Drama on Social IssuesIn this topic you will practise freehand and outline drawing with manual tools, explore weaving as a medium for visual artworks, and create a dance-drama on a socio-cultural issue.
  3. Digital Drawing, Printmaking Techniques and Creating a Musical PieceIn this topic you will use digital tools for freehand and outline drawing, shading and colouring, experiment with printmaking techniques to make visual artworks, and design a musical piece in a Ghanaian genre.
  4. Digital Design Projects, Making Prints and Displaying Dance and DramaIn this topic you will complete a digital design project, produce a printed artwork using relief and stencil techniques, and plan and display dance and drama pieces from different times and cultures.
  5. Generating Design Ideas, Artworks on Topical Issues and Appraising PerformancesIn this topic you will generate design ideas and templates for simple models, produce an artwork on a topical issue, and organise an appreciation and appraisal of dance and drama performances.
  6. Three-Dimensional Models, Ghanaian Visual Artists and Art ComposersIn this topic you will develop three-dimensional models of simple shapes and forms from nets for display, identify Ghanaian visual artists whose works reflect history and culture, and distinguish how works of Ghanaian art composers reflect history, culture and topical issues.

Shading and Colouring

  1. Colouring Techniques, Designs from Lines and Shapes, and Ghanaian Dance TypesIn this topic you will use colouring media and techniques, create designs from lines, simple shapes and forms, and identify Ghanaian dance types and the contexts in which they are performed.

Media and Techniques

  1. Imaginative Composition, Tempo and Events, and Rhythm in Dance and DramaIn this topic you will create an imaginative composition using drawing media, compare events associated with fast and slow music, and practise the techniques and dynamics of rhythm in dance and drama.

Creative and Aesthetic Expression

  1. Artworks and Music from Different Times and CulturesIn this topic you will research, design and produce your own artworks that reflect different times and cultures, and plan and display your own and others' musical works.

Term Revision

  1. Term Revision in Creative Arts and DesignIn this topic you will recall and summarise the term's work in design, visual arts and performing arts, and practise answering end-of-term questions.

Term Project

  1. Term Project in Creative Arts and DesignIn this topic you will apply the term's learning through a creative project in which you design, make, display and appraise an artefact or performance.
Basic 8 Creative Arts and Design Notes for Students | sirbus