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Lesson 5
Draw a Hero
Activity 5: Working with the Art teacher Jeanne Weil we decided 
to come up
with a project that could be placed on permanent display and used as covers
for letters of support sent to some New York Fire Departments. To begin
we used the real life picture of the firemen raising the flag at the World
Trade Centers site. We
enlarged the photo and traced the outline of the firemen and the flag
with black marker on one large sheet of drawing paper. We divided
the larger picture into 2" by 3" inch squares and cut and numbered each
square. Based on the synectics activity each student was given a small
square of the numbered drawing paper, 2" by 3". They were asked to
draw a small picture
representing their synectics writing example. All the pictures were
pasted together to form a larger collage representing heroes from the more
recent September 11th events. Students did not know what the final
picture would be. They choose their own images on 2"x3" squares.
The final drawing is seen on the right. When we presented the drawing
the children were quite surprised to see the finished product. Many
went on to use the same technique in their own multi-media presentations.
Class work was published on the classroom website.
