Suggested Grades

Any

Objective

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.

Materials

• 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	love-struck	mischievous
mysterious	nervous	overwhelmed	sad
surprised	shocked	shy	smug
suspicious	sympathetic

Method

• 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: Every time 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 feeling can be present in. This would emphasize that there are many different feelings out there, and many different ways that they manifest themselves.