CQSB+LES

Essential Question: Heroes - good or bad? ELA focus - main character characteristics (superhero in variety of text types) Reading focus: Response - working on structures and features of comic books and have students respond to a comic book exerpt Production: produce a comic page (using comic life) depicting an everyday hero and transforming that person into a superhero

Hook - superhero song or poem Activities: - defining hero and superhero - exploring characteristics of everyday heroes and superheroes - exploring the actions of superheroes (good? or bad?) - Text types: print (chapter book) - Captain Underpants print & visual (comic book) - Spiderman film (animation) - The Invincibles TV (animation) - Word Girl Complex Task - create a comic book page using comic life

January 18th 2011

Outline of the Heroes to Superheroes