4. Claude Monet

Guiding Questions:
• Who was Claude Monet?
• What did he like to paint?
• What is impressionism?

Objectives/Goals:
• Know Monet and recognize his work
• Know Monet painted light, shadow, reflections, lilies, gardens, clouds,
water and sky
• Know how to recognize impressionist painting

Activities:
• Video: Linnea in Monet’s Garden
• Learn to use pastels
• Copy a Monet

Vocabulary:
Impressionism- “a style of painting that concentrates on the general tone and effect produced by a subject without elaboration of details.”

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