Lesson Plan #3-Gr.

6 ELA
Topic-Action Heroes—Superheroes?
Lesson Description: This lesson will get students to start to look at stereotypical
perspectives of superhero cartoons and their characteristics.

Objectives:

Knowledge: Students will have an Assessment/Evaluation

understanding about what different
-participation in discussion/writing
factors make up superheroes.
assignment
Skills/Abilities: Students will write -assignment
based on discussion had in class.
Affective: Students will begin to explore
their own values and beliefs about how
they perceive others.

Materials: cartoon, tv/projector, poster paper, markers

CELS: COM, CCT, PSVS

Prerequisite Learnings: what are stereotypes

Set: MMCW: protagonist/antagonist. 5 min

-the main character

-A character that has conflict or makes

trouble for the protagonist.

-Watch cartoon: Spiderman (first with sound

5 min
off, then with sound on.)
Development: -discuss who is the protagonist/antagonist,
would you know this without the sound if the 5 min
characters were unfamiliar?
-get volunteers to share -what makes the protagonist and antagonist
some answers so different, since many qualities of them are
the same(superhuman complex)ex: both use
violence, secret identities, costumes, use of
color. 10
min
Wild Mind Writing: is violence necessary
Discuss in peers/Class when fighting crime?
discussion:

which parts of the cartoon

were realistic/unrealistic
what are some stereotypes
in the cartoon?

Who has power in this

world? Who do we let
have power? Do we let
them break the rules?
Class brainstorm: (get a
student to write down
on chart paper)

what are some

characteristics of
superheroes
Get students to write a paragraph about:
what are some conflicts or
What makes superheroes different from
problems that superheroes
regular people?
face?

Closure: Get some students(volunteers) to share some

of their writing

Professional Goals: try to equally involve both sides of the room, and give good
attention getting cues