A Look at Judith LeysterLesson plan
Classroom Activity A Look at Judith Leyster Part of Who Am I?: Self-Portraits in Art and Writing Students will identify clues and adjectives to describe Judith Leyster’s personality and then develop and refine her characterizations through poetry writing. Using Leyster’s monogram as their inspiration, they will then shift the focus to themselves by creating their own monogram and then writing a self-reflective poem about themselves. Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait , c. 1630, oil on canvas, Gift of