1. PowerPoint to accompany lessons on
Frida Kahlo for LGBT History Month 2019
Version 1
This PowerPoint is designed to accompany Stonewall’s Frida Kahlo lesson plans, to help schools celebrate LGBT History Month through art.
Feel free to add symbols to support your students’ understanding.
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2. Frida Kahlo
Objectives
To express an opinion
To paint a self portrait

3. Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico in 1907.
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4. Frida was ill Frida had Polio when she was a child.
Polio is an illness.
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5. Frida was ill Frida walked with a limp.
Frida was bullied because of her limp.
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6. Growing up Frida liked art and politics. She wanted to be a doctor.
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7. The accident Frida was in a bus accident. She was badly hurt.
She had to spend 3 months in bed.
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8. Recovery Frida had to spend a lot of time in bed.
She did lots of paintings.
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9. An artist Frida was an artist. She painted with bright colours.
She painted self-portraits.
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10. Married Frida Kahlo married a man called Diego.
They lived in America for 3 years.
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11. Famous Lots of people liked Frida’s paintings.
Her paintings were put in galleries in Mexico, America and France.
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12. Divorce Frida and Diego got divorced in 1939. Frida Kahlo was bi.
She had girlfriends and boyfriends.
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13. Illness and a wedding Frida kept being ill. Diego looked after Frida.
Frida and Diego got married
again.
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14. The 1940s Frida got very ill. She died when she was 47.
Frida had a hard life. She did well.
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15. The 1940s Do you like Frida’s paintings? LGBT History Month 201815