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1.1 Roles of Creative Arts and Sports

Creative Arts and Sports · Grade 8 · 8 lessons in the design

What this covers

  • Social roles of Creative Arts and Sports: cohesion, identity, culture preservation, health, citizenship, patriotism, entertainment
  • Economic roles: creating employment and poverty eradication
  • Painting a background using wash and splattering
  • Making a photographic storyboard that highlights the roles of Creative Arts and Sports

What you will be able to do

  • describe the roles of Creative Arts and Sports in society
  • make a storyboard highlighting the roles of Creative Arts and Sports in society
  • appreciate the role played by Creative Arts and Sports in society

Key questions

“What is the importance of Creative Arts and Sports in society?”

Lessons

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  1. What roles of Creative Arts and Sports are
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    A role is a job CAS does in society; Grade 8 names nine of them, seven social and two economic.
  2. Social roles: cohesion, identity and culture
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Cohesion holds people together; identity says who we are; culture preservation keeps folk arts and games alive.
  3. Social roles: health, citizenship, patriotism and entertainment
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    CAS supports health, trains civic behaviour, expresses love of Kenya, and entertains; all four are social roles.
  4. Economic roles: employment and poverty eradication
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    CAS creates paid work; when that pay reduces household hardship it contributes to poverty eradication.
  5. Painting a wash background
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    A wash is a thin even layer of diluted paint that will sit behind the storyboard pictures.
  6. Splattering the dry wash
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Splattering flicks droplets onto a dry wash to texture the storyboard background, with the title area masked.
  7. Making the photographic storyboard
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Plan nine cells on the painted board, paste collected pictures of the roles in sequence, and label them.
  8. Displaying and appreciating the roles
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Learners display storyboards, give kind specific feedback, and answer the inquiry with evidence on the wall.