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Exploring Vulnerability Through Art

This document provides an overview of a lesson plan about vulnerability. The lesson will have students create an analog drawing to express their feelings in a vulnerable state. They will then learn about iconography and add symbols to represent themselves. A discussion will follow about how the assigned reading and activity relate to the key concept that vulnerability can lead to meaningful relationships and meaning making. The objectives are for students to understand vocabulary, communicate feelings through art, and discuss how vulnerability brings meaning.

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Exploring Vulnerability Through Art

This document provides an overview of a lesson plan about vulnerability. The lesson will have students create an analog drawing to express their feelings in a vulnerable state. They will then learn about iconography and add symbols to represent themselves. A discussion will follow about how the assigned reading and activity relate to the key concept that vulnerability can lead to meaningful relationships and meaning making. The objectives are for students to understand vocabulary, communicate feelings through art, and discuss how vulnerability brings meaning.

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Vulnerability

By: Michelle Dillman,


Brittney Ojascastro, Megan
Turner, and Amber
Westmoreland
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Lesson Overview
We will provide the students with a safe
place to be in a vulnerable state and
complete an analog drawing. Then, after a
brief lesson about iconography, they will
add icons that represent themselves to
their analog drawing. Subsequently, a
discussion will take place about the reading
they were assigned and its relation to the
activity.

Focus Lesson
(Vocabulary Words)
Vulnerability
Analog drawing
Iconography
Service learning
Big Idea
Understand how these vocabulary
words relate to vulnerability as a big
idea.

Key Concepts
Vulnerability is Empathetic, Feeling,
Inclusive
Vulnerability can be mistaken as a
weakness
Vulnerability can effect meaningful
relationship
Vulnerability leads to meaning making in
art and discussion

Essential Questions
What is Vulnerability?
How can vulnerability turn weakness into
strength?
How can being vulnerability build a
foundation for meaningful relationship?
How can vulnerability bring meaning
making to art?

Lesson Objectives

Content area 1 Literacy: The students will be able


to identify vocabulary words: Iconography,
Vulnerability, Service, Learning, Analog Drawing,
Big Idea, summarize reading and how it relates to
Vulnerability, and discuss how it all ties to the Big
Idea
Content area 2 Visual Art: The students will be
able to Use Analog drawing and icons to
communicate what the are feeling
Content area 3 Gepgraphy: The students will be
able to Recognize and introduce icons from
various parts of the world and connect political or
historical symbolism to it

analogue drawing is a freely drawn picture that conveys a mood or feeling, it is


sort of a scribble like that imparts an emotion, or at least that is what I have been told

Guided instruction
Gather your pens and paper
Start your song (headphones required)
Create an analog drawing of your
feelings
When finished, place your pencils and
headphones on the table
Respect others by being quiet

Iconography

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Iconography

Definition: the visual images and


symbols used in a work of art or the
study or interpretation of these.

Geographically used to build nations.

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Guided instructions 2
Consider who you are and what defines
you.
Find a symbol to represent that.
Add those symbols to your analog
drawing.
There can be as many or few symbols as
you want!

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Collaborative Learning and Closure


(Assessment)

Group 1: What makes somebody vulnerable?

Group 3: How did the I am somebody activity


affect your drawing activity?

Group 4: Explain how service learning can


relate to vulnerability.

Group 5: Agree on a sentence that summarizes


the reading.

Group 6: How does vulnerability affect an


artist?

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