Curriculum Unit
Become a Superhero!
Seven Habits for a Successful Student
Julie V McCann
Title Author
KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.
The students will understand: -the Seven Habits of Leader in Me. -comics have specific components that makes them different than other books.
-art can help one learn, understand and remember content and express ideas and feelings.
- we can become a community of learners through adding a social/emotional component to our curriculum.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT
What are the Seven Habits and how do they help me?
What makes up a comic or graphic novel?
What is a community or learners and how is it developed?
CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C
Social Emotional Learning
Leadership
Comics
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C
What are comics?
What are the characteristics of a comic?
How do you draw Ivan Burnetti style?
What is a community of learners?
What is a Growth Mindset?
What is GRIT and empathy?
What is a daily meeting?
What is leadership?
What are goals?
How do I set goals for myself?
What are habits?
VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY B VOCABULARY C
leadership, leader, goals, goal setting, mission statement, collaboration, proactive,
Social emotional learning, community of learners, empathy, grit, class meeting, growth mindset, circle of control, consequences, intrinsic, extrinsic,
Comics, gutter, juxtapose, frames, closure, motion lines, speech balloons, color, line, synaesthetics,
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES
Nadia The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still-Kristie Hickley, Rosie Revere, Engineer-Andrea Beaty, Thanks for the Feedback, I Think-Julie Cook, Whistle for Willie-Ezra Jack Keats,The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes-Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein, Your Fantastic Elastic Brain-JoAnn Deak, The Berenstain Bears and the Bad Habit- Jan and Stan Berenstain, Bread and Jam for Francis-Russell Hoban, DW the Picky Eater-Marc Brown, Sam Who Never Forgets-Eve Rice, Berenstain Bears Teasing- Jan and Stan Berenstain, Amazing Grace- Mary Hoffman, The Little Engine That Could- Watty Piper, The Very Lonely Firefly- Eric Carle, The Carrot Seed- Ruth Frauss, Froggy Gets Dressed- Jonathan London, The Little Red Hen- Paul Galdone, The Very Hungry Caterpillar- Eric Carle, Alejandro’s Gift- Richard E Albert, Jamaica’s Find- Juanita Havill, Ant and the Grasshopper-Aesop and many more.