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By Kelsi Brosnahan
Identity
Social Justice
Story
Big Ideas
Identity - The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting
entity.
Social Justice - Social justice is the view that everyone deserves to enjoy the
same economic, political and social rights, regardless of race, socioeconomic
status, gender or other characteristics.
Story - A narrative of an event, mostly created from the human experience.
Goal/Objectives
1. Students will shape an artistic investigation and then either follow or break tradition in their pursuit
of creative art making. (Students will research and compile information a superhero that they have a
personal connection with.)
2. Students will create and interact with objects and design that define, shape, enhance, and empower
their lives. (Students will redesign their researched superhero into a hero that fits them personally.)
3. Students will relate their artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historic context to
deepen their understanding. (Students will enhance their ideas of their redesigned personal superhero
to the class by communicating their social justice through stop motion film.)
Essential Questions
1.
How does the idea of superheroes impact your thoughts on visual culture?
2.
How can you create your own superhero that you can identify with?
3.
Can you create a story of your superhero bringing social justice to your
community
Superhero Artist
Stan Lee
Creator of Marvel Comics
Jeffrey Veregge
Superhero artist
http://jeffreyveregge.com/
Adriana Melo
Pencil Artist that has worked
with Marvel and DC
http://adrianamelo.deviantart.
com/gallery/
Create
Building Superheroes
How will you create your superhero that you identify with?
Outline
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Options
Construction Paper Build
Storyboard Outline
Tim Burton
Stop Motion Artist
Student Example
Assessment
Formative - Participation, effort, and active collaboration with peers. Evidence of
story development through completed storyboard.
Presentation
Film Premier
Teacher
Reflection
Curricula Design
Students are learning several Conceptual Age skills through this unit.
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Strategic Imagination
Provocative Inquiry
Creative Problem Solving
Agility
Resilience
Pinks 6 Senses
All of Pinks 6 sense are
represented in this unit.
These senses are a base for
students scaffolding in not
only in their art process but
their responsiveness
towards the art world.
Personal
Favorite
Refrences
Pink, D. H. (2006). A Whole New Mind. Penguin Books.
Freedman, K. J. (2003). Teaching visual culture: Curriculum, aesthetics, and the social life of art. New York: Teachers College
Press.
Bodell, L. (2012, July 17). Work Skills You'll Need to Survive the 'Conceptual Age' Retrieved June 21, 2016, from http://www.
cnn.com/2012/07/17/opinion/work-skills-future-conceptual-bodell/
T. (2013). What makes a superhero? Stan Lee at TEDxGateway 2013. Retrieved June 21, 2016, from https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=DSGf6is3U2w
M. (2015). Super Spidey Showdown in the City Art Room Stop Motion Video. Retrieved June 21, 2016, from https://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=05Vn1Y1kuQM
M. (2013). Frankenweenie Behind The Scenes - Helping Puppets Act (2012) - Tim Burton Movie HD. Retrieved June 21,
2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUFkjD9_QPQ
L. (2014). How to make LEGO Stop Motion Videos with LEGO Movie Maker App - Cheep Jokes. Retrieved June 21, 2016,
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmC9lduipho