Vulnerability

By: Michelle Dillman,

Brittney Ojascastro, Megan
Turner, and Amber
Westmoreland

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

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.

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!

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?