Our Everyday

Heroes
Big Idea: Heroes Grade: 5th
Created By: Kaela Punsalan, Jenna Conrad, Montha Mouer, Samantha Hughston

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What Makes a Hero?

***How are heroes in books & movies different from

heroes in real life?
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Lesson Overview:

Students will be able to recognize how there are

heroes all around us, especially in their daily lives.
Students will understand what it means to be an
everyday hero and be able to recognize a hero in
his/her life.
Students will be able to recognize traits of a hero.

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Essential Questions:
1. What are traits of an everyday hero? Why do you
think this?
2. How do heroes/mentors impact your life?
3. How are heroes in books & movies different from
heroes in real life?
4. How do the traits of an everyday hero make you want
to become a hero to someone?

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Real Life Heroes

***How do the traits of an everyday hero make you want to

become a hero to someone?
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Lesson Objective
1. Content area 2 Literacy: The students will (TSW) be able to
understand the meaning of an everyday hero after reading the article,
"Unraveling a Meaningful Mentor Relationship: A Visual Culture
Dialogue Between an Art Education Professor and her Former
Students"
2. Content area 1 Visual Art: The students will (TSW) be able to identify
and design icon logos, and other graphic devices as symbols for ideas
and information.
3. Content area 3 Visual Culture: The students will (TSW) be able to
identify heroes in their everyday life and how they impact their lives.

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Key Concepts

Heroes can be personal or cultural.

Heroes represent moral values.
Heroic characteristics change over time.
What makes a hero is not uniformly agreed upon now
who is a hero.

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Vocabulary
Recontextualization-positioning a
familiar image in relationship to
pictures, symbols, or texts with which
it is not usually associated and
generates meaning in an artwork.
Representin-describes the strategy of
locating ones artistic voice within ones
own personal history and culture of
origin.

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Hybridity-contemporary artists
incorporate various media into their
pieces, using whatever is required to
fully investigate the subject.
Appropriation-taking ,aterial as reusing
images from the internet for example
and recycling the material to create
ones own artwork.

Show this video if you were to change this lesson plan

to fit towards younger elementary school aged
children.
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Lesson Procedure:
Students will think of an everyday hero in their life. They will think of a type of "emblem" to
represent their hero (I.e. cross, fire truck, military symbol) and they will print it out and bring it to
class. Students will then put the emblem on a piece of cardstock paper and use materials provided
to create a collage and design the surrounding emblem. Students can write words, create drawings
and designs to represent their hero on their paper.We will have the students pair share at their
table and do a "show & tell" talking about their artwork they have created and why they chose to
use their emblem as a representation of their hero. Students will do a gallery walk at the end to see
all of their classmates artwork.

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Group Discussion: Connect the importance of the following topics to being a mentor
Pages 144-145

Group 1: A Sense of Place

Group 2: Similar Roots
Group 3: Desire for Connection
Group 4: Reciprocity and Possibility
Group 6: Conclusion (why does your group think its important to have
mentors/heroes in the workplace?)

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