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Lesson 1: Learning about…Carl Giles

Looking at the Carl Giles cartoon ‘Mother’s Day’ that depicts a family picnic, children consider the humour of the piece and explore the concept of family, drawing their own family having a meal in a cartoon style and giving each member a distinguishing feature

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Before the lesson

Learning objective

To draw cartoon characters, inspired by the style of other artists

National curriculum

Pupils should be taught to:

Pupils should be taught to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design
About great artists, architects and designers in history

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Children who are less able: Remind less confident drawers that cartoon characters are simple and there is no ‘right’ way to draw them.

Children who are more able: Could suggest how the scene plays out – what should each character do to make the scene happier?

More confident drawers will add details to their cartoon characters to personalise them and make them recognisable (e.g. Mum’s long hair).

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

In this unit

Created by:

Simon Chubb,

Art and design specialist

Simon is a teacher, cartoonist and artist. He uses his 25 years of experience to teach art in schools and has his own workshop business ‘Scartoons’ in which children create comic characters and strips. Simon is a member of The…

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