Outcome: Students build Page 1 so the hero's identity, abilities, facts, and goals give a reader enough evidence to predict one choice that hero would make.

Before class

• Download the revised Lesson 2 slide deck. · Make a Google copy Image credits and teaching notes are included in the speaker notes.
• Prepare one connected detail and one random detail from any familiar character. Students should hear why a fun fact, such as a favorite food, does not automatically explain a hero's choices.

Suggested one-period route

1. Launch: Compare Superman and Icon. They have similar abilities but make different choices. Ask which life details could explain that difference.
2. Teach: Build the chain: fact or experience → what matters → goal → likely choice. Keep power and motivation separate.
3. Model: Use Jaime Reyes, then the completed VILBot biography page, to show how connected details support a prediction.
4. Create: Leave the Page 1 work slide projected while students complete the biography page with words, labels, drawings, or a combination.
5. Test: Partners predict one choice and point to the biography detail that supports it. Students revise one unclear connection before the exit ticket.

Check before students leave

Look for a readable identity, abilities, notes or facts, and goals. At least one fact should help explain why a goal matters. Ask: "What would this hero do if someone needed help, and what on the page makes you think that?"

Support without writing the hero for them

• Offer the stems "My hero cares about ____ because ____" and "When ____, my hero usually ____."
• Let students dictate to speech-to-text, then choose the words they want to keep.
• Reduce decoration time before reducing the biography evidence.

Handoff to Lesson 3: The biography gives the hero a reason to act. The gadget gives the hero a designed way to respond to a need.