New+direction+(take+45)

Heroes to Superheroes is our new starting statement

We changed our question and angle of focus again by eliminating the "role model" idea. We will now start by defining every day heroes to then come up with the common characteristics of Superheroes. As our complex task, we will ask students to take an everyday hero (person or animal) and transform them into a Superhero. They will create a comic book page to display their "super"hero in action using the conventions and traits they will have found during the LES.

We have found our Hook activity for the beginning of our LES and are still brainstorming ideas for simple tasks to get the students to recognise everyday heroes vs Superheroes. We have also spent time looking and finding ressources for our Response (possibly moving away from the response to a comic book since it is difficult to find an age-appropriate superhero comic...to be determined). We have found picture books about everyday heroes that we could use instead.

We are now moving towards finding specific activities and simple tasks that would lead to our response and complex task.

QEP elements have not changes from our previous draft, only the route to get there slightly changed.

This sounds good! I like the idea of taking an everyday hero and transforming him/her/it into a superhero - great fun! Are you folks going to call us or there isn't any need to? We don't particularly need to....

We don't need to either. Jill will e-mail you for January 19th or 20th and we will find our own date on our side.