Essential Skills
Communication:

• Convey and receive information, instruction, ideas and feelings appropriately and effectively in a range of different cultural, language, and social contexts
• Communicate competently and confidently by listening, speaking, reading, and writing and by using other forms of communication where appropriate.

Social and Co-operative:

• Develop good relationships with others and work in co-operative ways to achieve common goals
• Take responsibility as a member of a group for jointly decided actions and decisions
• Participate appropriately in a range of social and cultural settings.

Work and Study:

• Work effectively, both independently and in groups
• Build on own learning experiences, cultural backgrounds, and preferred learning styles.

Achievement Objectives Investigate the functions of dance, drama, music and visual art in past and present cultures Explore, view and respond to dance, using a variety of technologies Describe how communities are interdependent on drama and other performing arts Identify characteristics of music associated with particular contexts, purposes and styles Evaluate a range of musical pieces for a variety of purposes Identify contexts in which objects and images were made, viewed, and valued Describe how technologies used to communicate ideas influence meaning Investigate ways to encourage artists working in communities.

Specific Learning Outcomes
Students will:

• List interesting story starters based on personal experiences within your community
• Write a story from your own experience
• Research then draft an outline of your own whakapapa
• Investigate some well known New Zealand writers and their links to a community
• Write a short story that celebrates difference
• Prepare interview questions that investigate social and cultural influences in the arts
• Demonstrate understanding of community influences on the work of artists
• View and respond to examples of the interdependence of artists and communities
• Describe the form and function of selected domestic objects in societies
• Identify and discuss ways in which meaning is expressed through the mass media
• Demonstrate understanding of art works reflecting cultural heritage
• Describe how communities accommodate traditional and contemporary arts practices
• Research information relating to your own school community and the arts
• Plan ways to encourage young artists within your community.

Links to other Learning Areas

English

Strand: Written language

Achievement Objective:

Expressive Writing

• Write regularly and with ease to express personal responses to a range of experiences and texts, explore ideas, and record observations.

Poetic Writing

Achievement Objective:

• Write on a variety of topics, shaping, editing, and reworking texts in a range of genres, expressing ideas and experiences imaginatively and using appropriate vocabularly and conventions.

Strand: Visual language

Achievement Objective:

• Respond to and discuss meanings, ideas and effects, identifying the purposes for which the verbal and visual features are used and combined.

Social Studies

Strand: Social Organisation

Achievement Objective:

• how and why people exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities.

Strand: Culture and Heritage

Achievement Objective:

• why and how individuals and groups pass on and sustain their culture and heritage
• the impact of the spread of new technology and ideas on culture and heritage.

Strand: Place and Environment

Achievement Objective:

• how places reflect past interactions of people with their environment.