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HOHAM's Heroes

HOHAM's Heroes was a collaboration between Humanities (me) and Art (Shani Leader) - though in the interest of full disclosure I will say now that nearly all the actual work took place in art.

In this project, students created superheroes who embodied one of High Tech High North County's Habits of Heart and Mind (HOHAMs). We introduced the project with this Google Slideshow:

A few days later, we added a "Hero Profile" to the assignment: 



Gallery of Heroes:

Here you can see some of the heroes - you can find each hero's profile beside their picture.

[Note - these images came directly from students' sketchbooks]

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Smart Alice

Name: Smart Alice

Alter-ego: Alice Smarts

HOHAM: Evidence

Super-power: Alice uses metaphorical statements literally to point out unimportant facts and holes in her foe’s arguments.

Costume: A nice sweater and hand-me-down jeans.

Fatal weakness (their “kryptonite”): Ignorance

Origin story: Alice Smarts is a university student who always looks at things differently than most people. Her use of Evidence and intelligence helps defeat the evil Theoretical Man.

Arch-nemesis: Theoretical Man

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Connection Man

Name:  Connection Man

Alter-ego: Jacob Miles and Sarah Alice

HOHAM: Connection

Super-power: Two robots combine to create one super-bot

Costume: Tech suits

Fatal weakness (their “kryptonite”): Procrastinite

Origin story: An art teacher and a humanities teacher create two tech suits that correspond to their topics and work together to defeat the evil Procrastinator.

Arch-nemesis: Procrastinator

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Cool Kid

Name: Cool Kid

Alter-ego: Jimmy

HOHAM: Intellectual Curiosity

Super-power: Ultra cool

Costume: Striped Shirt

Fatal weakness (their “kryptonite”): Fire

Origin story: Jimmy was a normal kid living a life that he enjoyed, but wanted something more. Working with his Physics teacher, they put together an elixir similar to a recent space discovery. The elixir transformed Jimmy into Cool Kid. Using intellectual curiosity, he stops crimes in and outside of school.

Arch-nemesis: Buck, the school bully.




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Suzy Supposition

Name: Suzy Supposition

Alter-ego: Suzan Smith

HOHAM: Supposition

Super-power: Reflection

Costume: Tank top and leggings

Fatal weakness (their “kryptonite”): Distraction

Origin story: Suzy is an old yoga teacher who, throughout her years of yoga classes and research, was able to harness the power of supposition.

Arch-nemesis: Mr. Mind-Block

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