Heroes: Behind the Mask

Jacky Bugarin, Jerry Vang,

Terina Orcutt, Robert Favila

21st Century Art Ed Approach:

Visual Culture
 May 1, 2018
AGENDA: HEROES- 6th grade
• Ice breaker - who is your role model or who do you look up
to?
• Background - Stan Lee
• Background – Historical Heroes
• Studio demonstration
• Studio time
  Introduction of the big idea, Heroes by
demonstrating the diversity of the term
itself.
Lesson  Showing various examples of fictional
overview and non-fictional forms of a hero.
 Creating of a face mask using the big
idea of Heroes
  A hero could be anything or anyone an
individual looks up to or draws
inspiration from.
 Heroes are important.

Key Conceots  Heroes make an impact on individual’s

life.
 Heroes can come from the past, present
or the future.
  Heroes - a person who is admired or idealized for
courage, outstanding achievements, or noble
qualities.
 Mask - a covering for all or part of the face, worn
as a disguise, ot to amuse or terrify other people.
 Leadership - the action of leading a group of
people or an organization

Vocab..  Courage - the ability to do something that

frightens
 Vigilante - a member of a self-appointed group of
citizens who undertake law enforcement in their
community without legal authority, typically
because the legal agencies are thought to be
inadequate
  1. Whatmotivates children in our modern
culture?
 2. How does visual culture affect children
today?
Holz  3. Why is it important for us as teachers
to change our teaching styles?
 4. Why do children often fidget or draw in
classrooms and how can we use that to
our advantage?
  Prior to this heroes were idealistically perfect.
 No flaws, but retained humanity despite this.
 Stan Lee introduced a new type of hero.
 In the 1950's Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the
fantastic four.

Stan Lee
  Naturalistic heroes are you and me. Every
day people, who gained a power.
 Introduced flawed characters. Selfish,
Naturalistic hero self-centered intelligences, narcissist,
long lasting problems.
 Powers don't fix the life's problems
anymore.
HERO? 1. WHAT IS A HERO?
IMPORTANCE
2. WHY ARE HEROES IMPORTANT?
OF HEROS
 3. HOW HAS A HERO IMPACTED YOUR LIFE?
 Super powers?
 Money?
 Courage in the face of danger?
Impact on
individual OR

 Life they lead

 Inspired you to make a difference
 Commit an act of kindness or bravery.
 4. WHAT MAKES A HERO A HERO?
 Is it an daring act that against all
A hero could be odds a person is successful?
anything or anyone an  An act or morals restoring faith in
individual the artist looks humanity?
up to or draws  A leader or motivator? Firefighter
inspiration from. or police officer?
 Dad, Mom, older siblings!
Historical Heroes
In Greek and Roman mythology, a
hero was described as a man
whose courageous actions
brought favor from gods.
 But yesterday, today, and
tomorrow...
A hero can be just anyone – from a steadfast politician
working to secure world peace to an average man or
woman who demonstrate remarkable bravery.
 Martin Luther King Jr.
 An activist and humanitarian, as well
as a devout Christian who believed that
he could change the world with non-
violent protest.
Yesterday
  https://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch-teachers-aide-

Today rescues-boy-choking-on-penny/
  Look over to the student to your left
and to your right...

Tomorrow
 Why do
some
heroes wear
mask?

NYX, Thanatos, Knight Vigil, Soundwave and Jetstorm

  -create a mask that represent a hero to the
artist.

 Choose a mask type

 Trace the mask onto the paper and cut out
Studio Mask  Grab paint, feathers, glitter, makers, to
decorate the mask.
 Leave space at the sides for string to be
attached.
 Create a background story for the artist
hero to accompany the mask (fictional or
historical).
  explore their understanding in studio by
the creation of the masks which the
history for it will be represented by
having the artists come up with a
background story for their hero and why
TSW... they became/ are a hero (fictional or real
history).