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?