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Example of the contents of a teaching folder

The notes include an introductory poem or prose quotation on the subject; a graphic showing how it could be approached; three pages of suggestions for discussion and practical classwork - using direct observation and memory and imagination; a glossary of artists and titles with dates and brief leads into the images; and a general guide to developing visual literacy.

Artistic Elements of the Subject

PORTRAITS through a poet's eyes

Draw him as like too, as you can,
An old, poore, lying, flatt'ring man:
His cheeks be-pimpled, red and blue;
His nose and lips of mulbrie hiew...

Next, make his cheeks with breath to swell,
And for to speak, if possible:
But do not so; for feare, lest he
Sh'd by his breathing, poyson thee.

From
TO THE PAINTER,
TO DRAW HIM A PICTURE
By Robert Herrick (English, 1591-1674)