What is a Hero? Lesson Plan for Kindergarten - Higher Ed.
This lesson plan was designed to tie into the Mensa Hero Bracket Challenge that began in the October 2010 issue of the Mensa Bulletin, with the results announced in the March 2011 issue. It is not necessary to read the article, however, for stu-dents to benefit from the lesson plan. If you are a member of.
If you are using Share, students can use the Hero's Journey template to define each stage and identify it using examples from the text. They can add photos, images, and drawings to illustrate the event and record audio to summarize events. In addition to having conversations as they are working, have students turn in the first draft as a formative assessment you can use to gauge understanding.
Assessing the Lesson: (Download an example of a rubric for this lesson plan, in rich text format.) Lesson Extensions After reviewing all that they've learned about heroes and heroism, help your class develop definitions of the words hero and heroic.
The Hero’s Journey poster project is one of my favorite projects of the year. Students form groups of 2-3 and select a movie or book that they feel is a quintessential representation of the Hero’s Journey. Together, they discuss the movie and create a poster that represents all of the elements of the Hero’s Journey. I provide my students with a tabloid size piece of paper (affiliate link.
The following lesson plan was intended as an introduction into the themes of the Odyssey before we started reading the poem itself. Throughout the unit on the Odyssey, I had my students focus on the idea of heroism, both the classical ideal of Odysseus as an epic hero, and their own modern preconceptions of heroism. This lesson took advantage of their background knowledge on heroes and helped.
Then, begin the first draft of a class list of what makes a hero. Continue to refine this list as you proceed through the unit. Continue to refine this list as you proceed through the unit. Next, ask the students into what groups they would classify the people on the list (for example, freedom fighters, entertainers, parents, and so on).
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