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What’s Included in This Bundle?

What’s Inside Each Week?

📋 Week 1: Opening and Receiving Learners

School opening activities and learner reception.

🎭 Week 2: Connection Across Learning Areas

• Identify learning areas that relate to Performing Arts

• Discuss the relationship between Performing Arts and other learning areas

• Appreciate the interdependence between Performing Arts disciplines

Key Inquiry Question: How do the Performing Arts and other learning areas support each other?

🎵 Week 3: Rhythm

• Perform rhythmic patterns involving tied and dotted notes

• Write rhythmic patterns involving tied and dotted notes

• Group rhythms in simple time

• Write rhythmic patterns incorporating dotted notes and rests

Key Inquiry Question: How do note extensions enhance rhythmic variation in music?

🎶 Week 4: Pitch

• Read music notes on the bass staff

• Write music notes on the bass staff

• Construct diatonic major scale on treble and bass stave

• Perform simple melodies in diatonic major scale

• Describe melodic intervals in a diatonic major scale

Key Inquiry Questions:

• What is the relationship between the treble staff and bass staff?

• What is the importance of intervals and keys in music?

💃 Week 5: Cultural Creative Dances

• Describe the elements of a cultural creative dance

• Develop a plot for a creative cultural dance addressing a societal issue

• Discuss the role of songs and instruments in a cultural creative dance

• Make simple dance movements to varied cultural idioms

• Recognize the functions of cultural creative dance in society

Key Inquiry Questions:

• What role does a cultural creative dance play in the community?

• How are the features of a cultural creative dance integrated with its development?

📢 Week 7: Public Speaking

• Discuss the elements of a good public speech

• Outline the organization of a public speech

• Illustrate how a speaker organizes language for effective communication

• Value public speaking as a tool of communication

Key Inquiry Questions:

• How can public speaking address issues that affect society?

• How does a speaker utilize voice, body and space to communicate effectively?

🎭 Week 8: Short Play

• Outline elements of theatre in a short play

• Sketch a storyline of a short play from a script or performance

• Discuss the significance of costume and scenic design in play-acting

• Appreciate the short play as a medium for addressing pertinent issues

Key Inquiry Questions:

• How do the various theatre elements contribute to the development of a short play?

• What is the relationship between character, role and actor?

🎼 Week 9: Melody

• Identify question and answer phrases in given melodies

• Improvise answering phrases to given opening phrases

• Create 4-bar melodies on treble staff

• Perform melodies created by self and others

Key Inquiry Questions:

• How can one create an interesting melody?

• How is balance achieved in a melody?

💃 Week 10: Cultural Creative Dance

• Create a storyline based on own ideas and those sourced from the community

• Choose songs relevant to the theme identified

• Create dance steps, formations and patterns

• Make appropriate costumes, makeup, ornaments, and props

• Write a script for the cultural creative dance performance

Key Inquiry Questions:

• How can we use a cultural creative dance to address pertinent issues in society?

• How does the use of music, character, body, and space develop the storyline?

• How does a cultural creative dance exploit the diversity of musical ideas in Kenyan society?

🎙️ Week 11: Public Speaking

• Identify a theme to be developed into a speech

• Prepare a logically structured speech using suitable language

• Recognize public speaking as a means of addressing pertinent issues

Key Inquiry Questions:

• What do you consider when devising a public speech?

• How does the appropriate choice of words contribute to a good speech?

• What do you consider when editing a speech?

📝 Week 12: Short Play

• Describe the elements of a short play in a script

• Develop a scenario with a clear storyline for a short play

• Write a 2 to 5 minute script for a short play

• Gain interest in creating a script for a short play

Key Inquiry Questions:

• What makes a good short play?

• Why is conflict considered to be very important in the plot of a short play?

• Which scenarios can be developed into a short play on types of consumers in society?

📝 Week 13: End of Term Assessment

Comprehensive end-of-term assessment covering all strands and sub-strands taught.