TDS Lesson Plan

Teacher: Jose Angel Lucero

Title: The importance and representation of the Superheroes in American society

Subject: US History

Grade Level: Middle School

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Students will learn:

• Understand the importance and reasons for those heroes being created and see
Learning Objectives: the background behind those stories.
• Being able to identify the values they represent and the positive impact they have
in American society and the world.

How does the media influence the population and what is the approach to the youngest
Essential Question(s):
generations?
Are the philosophies of these characters really important of society?

Essential Vocabulary: Superman, X-men, mutants, racism Justice, freedom, defend, protect, Malcolm X and
Martin Luther King.

X-men and the mutant metaphor

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/utep/reader.action?docID=1676312
Origin story: the creation of superman https://www.ohiohistory.org/origin-story-the-
Resources/Materials: creation-of-superman/#:~:text=With%20Hitler's%20rise%20in%20Europe,War%20II%20began
%20in%20Europe.
How The Civil Rights Movement Inspired The X-Men Comics
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2561742/how-the-civil-rights-movement-inspired-the-
x-men-comics
Procedures:

To understand the values of superman, watch the first 5 minutes of the video
Time: 5
in superman’s story.
minutes
And the brief video explanation Stan Lee of his perspective on spiderman
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3KVQ8nOHy_4

Start the explanation of the context of the creation of the X-men, superman, Time: 15
and captain America, including the values and messages they wanted to give minutes
direct and indirectly, mentioning interesting data such as the possible
inspiration they received to create them such as Magneto and Professor X.
TDS Lesson Plan

Beginning to see the values of those heroes and the way they may impact
people’s lives, with some quotes and the interpretation of the professor on
how this impacted the perspective of the population over the time.
Time: 15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGtiinR6ni8 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhLeO7odrnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBCFH1lVcP4

Class discussion on the subject

Time: 10
Students will talk about their opinion on the subject and the representation
minutes
superheroes had and have at the time and their perspective of the news of
the story behind them was new.

What do these superheroes represent for you?

Assessment: Do any of the values represent anything for you? Time: 5
Have they inspired you? minutes
Did you learn anything about their real meaning?