Exploring Emotions: Creating Expanded Noun Phrases

Exploring Emotions: Creating Expanded Noun Phrases

Learning Objective

At the end of the lesson, you will be able to create expanded noun phrases to describe emotions using tears as inspiration.

What do you already know about emotions and crying?

Understanding Tears and Emotions

Discuss the concept of tears representing different emotions and why people cry.

Exploring Different Emotions

Examine the different colors of tears and the emotions they represent.

Acceptance of Crying

Discuss the importance of accepting crying as a natural response to intense emotions.

Creating Expanded Noun Phrases

Engage students in creating noun phrases to describe different emotions using tears as inspiration.

Expressing Emotions through Art

Have students work in groups to decide which colored 'tear' best represents an emotion and create visual representations.

Describing Emotions

Ask students to draw and label the colored tears using 'noun (of) noun' phrases, such as tears of rage or tears of pure joy.

Justification of Choices

Encourage students to record in sentences why they have chosen a certain color to represent a specific emotion.

Poetic Language

Encourage the use of poetic language such as similes and metaphors in justifying their choices of colored tears for different emotions.

Using Apostrophes

Introduce the use of apostrophes to show possession in expanded noun phrases, e.g., rage's tears or a child's tears of rage.

Class Poem Display

Gather the 'tears' and display them in a jar, while also recording the writing as a class poem on the wall.

Review and Reflection

Reflect on the lesson and the importance of expressing emotions through language and art.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.