MSCE Creative Arts case studies
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The Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) Creative Arts is a school-leaving subject for candidates who have completed secondary schooling and want a qualification that recognises both making and understanding of the arts. It suits students who draw, design, craft, perform music, act or dance, and who are willing to write about works and processes as well as produce them. The MSCE Creative Arts case studies are 5 cases and about 3,201 words.
1The Market Scene That Flattened in Daylight
A Form Four candidate has five days to finish a 1.2 m × 0.9 m acrylic painting for the school open day. The image is a crowded market scene: a woman in a red wrapper carries a basin in the foreground, three traders sit behind her, and a corrugated-iron stall fills the upper right.
666 words, about 3 min2Forty Bowls, Ten Days, and a Fan
A school craft club has an order for 40 earthenware soup bowls for a local lodge. They have 80 kg of local clay containing about 15% grog, a small electric kiln that fires to 1100°C, and ten working days.
652 words, about 3 min3Pitch Drift in a Reverberant Hall
A 24-singer school choir is preparing a six-minute a cappella arrangement of a local song for a national competition. There are three parts - soprano, alto and bass - and three weeks left, with two 45-minute rehearsals each week.
662 words, about 3 min4The Injured Actor and the Outdoor Malaria Play
A youth drama group has devised a 12-minute piece on malaria prevention for an outdoor district festival. Eight Form Three and Form Four actors perform it.
608 words, about 3 min5The Tight V on Uneven Ground
A ten-dancer troupe is performing a six-minute traditional dance at a district function. The ground is uneven and has small stones; the only musician is one drummer; there are no mirrors and no proper rehearsal space.
613 words, about 3 min