Super Hero Transformation Project 6l12w

Name___________________________ Math 8

Due Date:_______________

Superhero Transformation Project

Goal: With a partner, create a comic book of a brand new superhero!! Your superhero will save the world by navigating past obstacle courses to conquer arch enemies along the way. Role: Comic Book Designer (This is you and your partner!) Audience: Marvel Comics Development Staff (a.k.a. Your Math teacher ) Situation: You are in charge of creating a new superhero and creating a comic book to pose to sell to the Marvel Comics Development Staff. This new superhero MUST use Transformations to help defeat the evil in the world. The development staff wants you to show how your superhero can navigate two different obstacle courses using only combinations of transformations – reflection, rotations, and translations, to reach their ultimate goal. Performance: The Development staff would like to see a well-planned, organized, and creative/colorful comic book describing your epic tale, along with mathematical accuracy of all transformations on the given coordinate graphs of the path your Superhero has to take.

Creating your Superhero Tale – A Step by Step Guide 1. Choose a name for your super hero! Be creative and appropriate  2. Choose names for your super hero’s evil nemesis or villains. 3. Create a story line. For example: the evil nemesis is hiding all the rulers at Robert Frost Middle School and the super hero wants to get them back because they need to use these rulers for their final exam! (This story line is just an example, you may NOT use this specific storyline, be creative. It also does not have to relate to mathematics.) 4. What does your super hero look like? Draw your superhero in this square. You will be using this picture with all transformations so draw something that you can easily produce multiple times within this comic book!

This image will be located on the coordinate plane: Starting Locations: A (-11, 16) B (-8, 16) C (-8, 13) D (-11,13) 5. Comic Book: a) Page 1 Create a Cover for your Comic Book Be creative with your cover and make it stand out so someone would want to buy your comic!  Cover should include: Title, Picture/Drawing, Authors Names, Teachers Name as well as Class Period. b)

Page 2 – Leave Blank (This is the back of page 1) (if time permits you can include an all about the authors)

c) Page 3 – Create a story line of your Super Hero’s mission which must include who your superhero has to defeat and why. This should consist of at least 10 sentences. Be creative with your mission as well as keep the mission appropriate to school standards.

d) Page 4 – Work with your partner and come up with a sequence of transformations that can get your Super Hero from Start to Finish in each coordinate grid given. Below you will find specific directions for these transformations: Obstacle Course: Draw your super hero at the start in the given square ABCD. Your mission is to move it to the ending square using the following rules: a) You cannot perform the same transformation twice in a row. Good Example – Trans, Rot, Ref, Rot, Trans, Rot Bad Example – Trans, Rot, Ref, Trans, Trans, Rot, Rot b) When rotating use the rotations rules about the origin. When reflecting your superhero square, you may use any line of your choosing which also includes the x and y axis. c) Your superhero must land in each of the four quadrants. So you must use at least three transformations in each obstacle. d) Make sure to use the correct prime notations on all new superhero images (your square) e) You must avoid all obstacles – you cannot touch any of the shapes placed on the course. You cannot slide through an obstacle. You can only flip or rotate over them. e) Page 5 – For each transformation created on the obstacle course you must describe a realistic scenario that corresponds to your plot line. The list of transformations must be in order and with full details in descriptions. Make sure to include what transformation was used and list the new coordinates. f) Page 6- Repeat Directions from Page 4 g) Page 7- Repeat Directions from Page 5 h) Page 8- Complete the given task of dilating your superhero image with the directions given. i) Page 9- Create an ending/conclusion to your comic book writing at least 5 sentences. If you have any questions regarding rules of transformations refer to your notes from the previous unit. In addition, make sure your transformations are accurate to receive full credit as well as adding your own spark of creativity. Effort should be put in by both partners so plan who is in charge of what portion of the comic book in advance. You and your partner will receive the same grade for this project. Refer to the Model Projects as guides; HOWEVER you may not use these same examples for your own project. If used, you will receive NO credit for this assignment.

Student Name_______________________________________________ Transformation Superhero Comic Book