Lesson plan (English)

Title: Guided by emotions

Lesson plan elaborated by: Katarzyna Maciejak

Topic:

Naming emotions and feelings.

Target group

5th‑grade students of an eight‑year elementary school.

Core curriculum

I. Literary and cultural education.

1. Reading literary works. Student:

7) discusses plot events, determines the order of events and understands their interdependence;

9) characterizes the lyrical subject, the narrator and the characters in the works read;

11) indicates the main and supporting characters in the work and determines their traits;

12) defines the theme and topic of the work;

14) names impressions felt after reading the text;

16) defines the experiences of literary characters and compares them with his/her own.

2. Perception of cultural texts. Student:

3) defines the theme and the main thought of the text.

II. Language education.

2. Diversity of language. Student:

5) recognizes neutral and evaluative vocabulary, understands its functions in the text.

III. Creation of utterances.

1. Elements of the rhetoric. Student:

1) participates in a conversation on a given topic, separates its parts, constructional signals strengthening the bond between the participants of the dialog, explaining the meaning;

3) creates a logical, semantically complete and ordered utterance, using composition and graphic layout appropriate to a given genre form; understands the role of paragraphs in creating a whole mental utterance;

4) selects the information.

2. Speaking and writing. Student:

5) discusses the text he/she has read.

IV. Self‑study Student:

1) perfects reading quietly and aloud;

2) perfects various forms of recording the information acquired;

8) develops the skill of critical thinking and opinion forming;

9) develops the skill of effective use of information technology and Internet resources and uses these skills to present his/her own interests.

The general aim of education

The student learns how to identify and name the emotions of the characters and reflects on his/her emotions and the consequences of expressing them.

Key competences

communication in the mother tongue;
communication in foreign languages;
learning to learn;
social and civic competences.

Learning outcomes

Student:

names basic emotions;
names the emotions of the characters;
identifies the emotions from the facial expressions.

Methods / techniques

problematic: talk;
practical: working with text, exercises concerned;
programmed: using the computer, using an e‑textbook.

Forms of work

uniform individual activity;
collective activity.

Lesson plan overview (Process)

Introduction

1. The teacher defines the purpose of the course and gives the students criteria for success.

2. Talking about emotions. Examples of questions:

Have you ever done anything guided by emotions?
What was the situation?
What emotions did you feel then?
Would you do the same now, in retrospect?

Realization

1. Individual work: writing as many names of emotions as possible (ex. 1) within two minutes. The person who will write down the most nouns wins and should be rewarded.

2. A pun game. Each student chooses one emotion, preferably one of the less frequent ones (no: sadness, joy, anger, yes: melting mood, alarm, excitement etc.). Eager students present scenes, while others guess the emotions they illustrate.

3. Reading the text by Małgorzata Musierowicz entitled “Jak Kuba Bogu…”, paying special attention to the emotions of the characters. Brief overview: determining when and where the action takes place, who is involved in the events, which pushes the characters to action. Explanation of the title of the passage (ex. 4). Naming the characters' emotions (interactive board).

4. As a summary of the lesson, students recognize the emotions of people in the photos (ex. 5).

Summary

The teacher asks the students summarizing questions:

Why is the ability to recognize emotions so important?
What tells us about the emotions of the other person?
Is it possible to recognize the other person's emotions without words? How?

Together with the students, the teacher prepares a note summarizing the classes.

Homework

Choose any fragment of your favorite novel in which the characters' emotions will be expressed. Write in the notebook their names and their emotions. How do the characters express their emotions?

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