You're a superhero
With this at-home digital art lesson, anyone can become a superhero! This lesson is a straight forward, low tech lesson that can easily be completed with any materials as long as the artist has an active imagination!
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Dress up as the superhero you have always wanted to be! Use materials you find at home. Think about blankets, hats, pots and pans, tin foil, wrapping paper, foods, cardboard and pretty much anything you could wear.
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Once you are nice and dressed up, pose and take a photo of yourself. Then you'll write a paragraph of backstory for your superhero and submit both the photo and the text. An assessment, to be completed after photo submission, will ask why you made the choices you did.
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If you are unable to take and/or submit a photograph it is acceptable to draw (and color!) yourself as the hero.
Brainstorm
Brainstorm the kind of superhero you want to create, jot down things they might have or might wear.
gather materials
Look everywhere! The sky is the limit! *ask permission if it isn't yours and don't break anything*
get dressed and pose!
perfect your outfit and pose for your photo op! Does your hero need a snack or maybe a canine sidekick??
create the lore
Write your heroes backstory! What powers do you possess? do you have an arch-nemesis?
Submit both
Submit TWO photos(or one photo and a few typed sentences): one of you as a superhero and then one of your written feedback.
Assessment
Answer the exit slip questions found in the right column after you have completed the assignment. It is important to think about why we do art!
Learning objectives
1. this lesson is meant to help students connect with their imagination or inner child
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2. help students develop and express create ideas in a low technology and low material way.
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3. This lesson also gives students a deeper more introspective element which is for them to consider WHY they made the superhero the way that they did and how it makes them feel.
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visual art standards
VA: Cr. 1. 2. 6a
VA. Cr. 2. 1. 7a
VA: Pr. 5. 1. 7a
VA: Re. 7. 1. 8a
creating superhero lore
Tips to help you create the perfect lore (backstory) for your superhero!
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Think about what KIND of hero you are..for example: what drives batman as a hero (revenge) and what drives superman as a hero (obligation) and what's the difference..
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How did you get your powers, if you have them? for example: maybe it was a science experiment gone wrong or maybe you were born with them
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Do you have a sidekick or a mortal enemy? For example: batman and robin or batman and the joker, what drives each of them?
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assessment
EXIT SLIP ASSESSMENT:
Some questions for you to think about after your hero design and backstory is complete...
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1. What are your favorite aspects of your heroes costume? Why did you choose them?
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2. In your backstory you wrote about what kind of hero you are, what did you decide drives you to be a hero?
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2.b. what in your real life can help explain why you chose that?
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3. What is the first good thing you would do as the hero? (could be ANYTHING)
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