CORE CLASSROOM COURSE Life Skills/Life Orientation
HEADSTART LIFE SKILLS
HEADSTART LIFE ORIENTATION
OUP SA Headstart Life Skills and Headstart Life Orientation are CAPS-aligned series that offer a simple step-by-step approach to teaching these subjects using:
Learner’s Books that: are written in accessible language aim to improve learners’ visual literacy skills improve skills acquisition.
Teacher’s Guides that: include step-by-step planning offer detailed teaching tips help explain the activities include assessment tools support teachers without training in Life Skills disciplines help in teaching Physical Education, Personal Development and Creative Arts.
Headstart Life Skills has a free music CD for Grades 4 to 6 comprising songs used in the activities to support the teaching of Creative Arts.
The Grades 4 to 6 assessment plans have been updated according to the DBE’s 2017 Strengthening the CAPS
GRADE 4 LIFE SKILLS Learner’s Book
Teacher’s Guide
GRADE 5 LIFE SKILLS Learner’s Book
Teacher’s Guide
GRADE 6 LIFE SKILLS Learner’s Book
Teacher’s Guide
978 0 19 904893 9 978 0 19 904481 8
978 0 19 904705 5 978 0 19 905447 3
978 0 19 599638 8 978 0 19 905961 4
GRADE 7 LIFE ORIENTATION *Learner’s Book
*Teacher’s Guide *Leerdersboek
*Onderwysersgids
978 0 19 904428 3 978 0 19 904852 6 978 0 19 599764 4 978 0 19 905483 1
*The full list of e-pdf titles is available in the price list.
INTERMEDIATE PHASE + GRADE 7
Headstart Life Skills Grade 6 Learner’s Book
48 Oxford University Press South Africa
OxfordSASchools
UNIT Visual literacy
If something is balanced, it usually means that weight is shared equally on each side. A painting can also be balanced. It can be balanced by: • Areas of colour that have more or er ar
less the same tone. One darker area by a larg
hat have more or e. O
Which half of the butterfl y looks heavier? Why do you think this is so?
can be balanced by a larger, lighter area.
• Shapes that are more or less the same size. One large shape can be ap s.
• When one side of something is the mple a
same as the other side, for example butterfl y wings. T. T is is known as balance.
balanced by a few smaller shapes. of something is th her side, for exam
ew sm
Look at this painting b South A artist, George Pemba. Look at the tone and the shapes. Try to ‘feel’ they to ‘feel’ the weight in the pain
symmetrical balance nting by
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more or less the arge shape can be es
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Activity 1 Discuss balance and contrast ance and co
Find the answers in pairs. 1.
contrast
Look at the light areas and the dark areas of Pemba’s painting. How has the artist used tone to create balance?
as the artist used tone to
d the dark a eas of st
symmetrical having two halves th exactly in size, shape, etc
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2. How has the artist used colour to create balance? 3. If we drew a line from the top left-hand corner of the painting to the bottom right-hand corner of the painting, which part would be heavier? Why do you think this?
4. How has the artist created a focal point in this painting?
5. What contrasts can you fi nd in this painting?
Monochromatic colour If something is monochromatic, it is produced in one colour or tones of one colour. Look at the monochromatic colour wheel. What do you notice about the colour in each of the photographs?
Activity 2
Discuss monochromatic colour
Work in pairs. 1. Why do you think artists sometimes use monochromatic colour?
2. What do you notice about the tones in the monochromatic photographs?
3. Which of these photographs is balanced, and which is not balanced?
monochromatic having only tones of one colour (mono means one)
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