Dramatic Feelings
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Suggested Grades
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Any
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Objective
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Students will examine a feeling word and represent it in a dramatic presentation. Through this, students will present and observe the different situations that different feelings can exist in.
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Materials
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- a hat, container, or bag
- Pieces of paper with a different feeling word written on each. Use feeling words that your class would understand really well. Maybe you can generate a list to use ahead of time by asking your class to brainstorm a list of feeling words that they know.
Some examples of feeling words are:
| angry |
anxious |
apprehensive |
ashamed |
| bored |
cautious |
confident |
confused |
| depressed |
disgusted |
ecstatic |
embarrassed |
| enraged |
exhausted |
frightened |
frustrated |
| guilty |
happy |
hopeful |
hysterical |
| jealous |
lonely |
lovestruck |
mischievous |
| mysterious |
nervous |
overwhelmed |
sad |
| surprised |
shocked |
shy |
smug |
| suspicious |
sympathetic |
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Method
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- Place the feeling words in some sort of container.
- Ask one student to come up and pick out a feeling without looking.
- Now, this student is to act out a scene that has the feeling that they chose.
- The rest of the class guesses the feeling that is being represented. The student who guesses correctly gets to go next, and the process is repeated.
- Extension: Everytime you do this activity write out the feeling and the situation presented right beside it on chart paper. Eventually, you will have a variety of situations that the feelling can be present in. This would emphasize that there are many different feelings out there, and many different ways that they manifest themselves.
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