Vulnerability

By: Michelle Dillman,

Brittney Ojascastro, Megan
Turner, and Amber
Westmoreland

Lesson Overview
We will provide the students with a safe
place to be in a vulnerable state and
complete an analog drawing. Then, after a
brief lesson about iconography, they will
add icons that represent themselves to their
analog drawing. Subsequently, a discussion
will take place about the reading they were
assigned and its relation to the activity.

Focus Lesson
(Vocabulary Words)
Vulnerability
Analog

drawing
Iconography
Service learning
Big Idea
Understand how these vocabulary words
relate to vulnerability as a big idea.

Key Concepts
Vulnerability

is Empathetic, Feeling,

Inclusive
Vulnerability can be mistaken as a
weakness
Vulnerability can effect meaningful
relationship
Vulnerability leads to meaning making in
art and discussion

Essential Questions
What

is Vulnerability?
How can vulnerability turn weakness into
strength?
How can being vulnerability build a
foundation for meaningful relationship?
How can vulnerability bring meaning
making to art?

Lesson Objectives

Content area 1 Literacy: The students will be able

to identify vocabulary words: Iconography,
Vulnerability, Service, Learning, Analog Drawing,
Big Idea, summarize reading and how it relates to
Vulnerability, and discuss how it all ties to the Big
Idea
Content area 2 Visual Art: The students will be able
to Use Analog drawing and icons to communicate
what the are feeling
Content area 3 Gepgraphy: The students will be
able to Recognize and introduce icons from
various parts of the world and connect political or
historical symbolism to it

analogue drawing is a freely drawn picture that conveys a mood or feeling, it is sort
of a scribble like that imparts an emotion, or at least that is what I have been told

Guided instruction
Gather

your pens and paper

Start your song (headphones required)
Create an analog drawing of your
feelings
When finished, place your pencils and
headphones on the table
Respect others by being quiet

Iconography

Iconography
Definition:

the visual images and symbols

used in a work of art or the study or
interpretation of these.

Geographically

used to build nations.

Guided instructions 2
Consider

who you are and what defines

you.
Find a symbol to represent that.
Add those symbols to your analog
drawing.
There can be as many or few symbols as
you want!

Collaborative Learning and

Closure
(Assessment)

Group 1: What makes somebody vulnerable?

Group 3: How did the I am somebody

activity affect your drawing activity?

Group 4: Explain how service learning can

relate to vulnerability.

Group 5: Agree on a sentence that

summarizes the reading.

Group 6: How does vulnerability affect an

artist?