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60 Activities to Blend

Social-Emotional
Learning and ELA
Content Standards New & Must-Haves

Create a positive classroom culture by integrating social
and emotional lessons into your instruction. CCSS-aligned
activities can be incorporated into existing curricula or
used as anchor assessments.
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EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT
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Name: _________________________________________ Date: ________________ Class: ________________ LESSON PLAN DETAILS
Handling Stress—Handbook for Teens
Creating Empathy—Narrative Writing Description and appropriate color choice and intended for a teen audience. Learning Themes:
For this project, students will research the most common causes of stress
Authors are selective about the choices they make when they write a story. Their choices
• Self
for teens, as well as methods to help teens effectively manage their stress.
influence the mood and tone of the story and help the reader experience the emotions that the
They will publish their findings in a handbook that is enhanced with visuals
characters in the story feel. Name: _________________________________________ Date: ________________ Class: ________________ • Relationships
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is for students to learn about external
events that cause stress and how to effectively manage that stress.
Consider an experience you have had that caused you to feel a strong emotion: excitement, Self-Realization—Reflective Essay • Emotional Management
Because they are creating a handbook intended for teens, they will gain a
nervousness, anger, sadness, boredom, apathy, irritation, etc. Then write a developed scene
WRITING TASK:
manage stress in their lives.
deeper understanding of their own sources of stress and how to effectively
that shows the experience and helps your reader feel the same emotion(s). Make the reader
WRITING TASK:
feel how you felt during that experience through your carefully crafted scene.
Modifications
Suggested
Uses and
Once you have finished writing your scene, find a partner to work with. Without telling your
The students could use technology tools, such as Microsoft Publisher, to
create and publish their handbook.
partner the emotion you were trying to capture in your scene, have the person read your scene
Consider a point in your life when you realized something surprising about yourself. Perhaps
and tell you what they felt as they were reading it. Make changes to your scene based on the
you learned of a skill that you didn’t know you had. Maybe you realized that you weren’t as good
This project would work well in a research unit. The teacher could
at something as you thought you were. Or maybe you realized that your role in a relationship
lessons on documentation.
• Social Awareness
feedback from your partner. was different than what you understood it to be. incorporate research strategies, source evaluation techniques, and • Empathy http://tdgo.to/5rS
The point is that we all have moments in our lives when we realize something significant about
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ourselves, and that realization changes our self-awareness in important ways.
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1. Identify the experience that you would like to write about. Getting Started: Common Core Standards Alignment CCRA.W.6 Reproducible. 188 pages.
Getting Started: In this essay, you will describe the experience, reflect on what you came to understand about
yourself, and explain how your new self-awareness changed your life.
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2. Brainstorm and record notes about how that experience made you feel.
3. Consider how you can convey those same emotions to readers.
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4. Write the draft of your scene. Brainstorm experiences in your life that have led to self-awareness.
you realize about yourself.
After you have your list of experiences, jot down some notes about what each experience made
5. Share your scene with a partner and get feedback. Choose the two or three most significant experiences, and reflect on how the self-awareness
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6. Revise and edit your final scene. that you gained from each experience changed your life. Book Download: Color PDF. PDF requires Adobe® Reader®.
Finally, narrow it down to one experience that led to self-realization, and begin writing your essay.
Your scene should include the following: Your essay should include the following:
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Dialogue to show a conversation you had
9 Imagery to describe the people and the setting A clear description of the experience. Include internal and external dialogue, action, Print Book: 8.5 x 11 inches. Spiral-bound. Black-and-white
and names of people
9 Vivid verbs to bring the action alive 9 A clear reflection on what you learned about yourself from that experience—a newfound
Structure to develop tension and anticipation
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strength, an understanding of a limitation, a worldview, a role in a relationship, or a
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guiding principle that you live by
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All writing should be free of grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors.
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