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    Create Emotion Characters

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    Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)

    Lesson Length: 40 mins - 1 hour

    Topic: Emotions

    Grade Level: 4, 5

    Standards / Framework:

    Brief Description: Students will create a comic depicting a variety of emotions.

    Know Before You Start: Students should be able to label emotions, body language and expressions.

    Hook:

    • Have students stand up and use their bodies, facial expression, and voices to act out different emotions. What does excitement look like? Anger? Confusion?
    • Review how we know when someone is feeling a certain way.
      • We read body language.
      • We look at facial expressions.
      • We listen to the voice tone and words they choose to express themselves.
    • Review how we know what we are feeling?

      • We can feel what our bodies are physically experiencing.

      • We can listen to the words and tone we are using to express ourselves. How do we speak when we are angry? Excited?

    Activity:

    • Read and discuss the sample comic.

    • Have students create an emotion comic. Each panel should include: 
      • a character expressing a specific emotion.
      • a caption listing the emotion and dialogue.

         

    Closure:

    • Share and discuss student comics. Are there any similarities? Differences?
    • How do these differences relate to how each of us expresses our emotions?
    • Display and categorize comics by emotion. For example, all “frustrated” comics are displayed together.

    Differentiation:

    • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.

    • Preteach vocabulary.

    • Provide visuals of different emotions with labels.

    • Allow students to work with a peer model.

    • Provide sentence starters as needed.

    • As students create, discuss color as it relates to emotion.
      • Does yellow make you think of happiness?
      • Does blue make you feel low?
    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

    Resources:

    • Comic to print or display: Comic.

    • Showing a short clip of “Inside Out” from Disney’s Pixar and discussing how the artists showed each emotion through color, dialogue, and physical/body language?

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