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Lesson 2: Paula Rego: The Dance (Original scheme)

Analysing Paula Rego’s 'The Dance' to discuss and justify opinions with reference to the formal elements

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Learning objective

To understand how to find meaning in painting

National curriculum

Pupils should be taught to:

About great artists, architects and designers in history

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Before the lesson

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: May benefit from having discussion prompts to help them to offer their opinion in a group, e.g.: I think that…, Perhaps…, I can see that…, etc.

Pupils working at greater depth: Encourage extended open questions such as ‘Why do you think that?”

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

In this unit

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