While re-reading The Girl Who Drank the Moon, I was struck by the role of emotion in moving the plot forward. Novels are always laden with emotion, but in this book emotion drives the plot in a unique way. This is mostly due to the role of sorrow in the book. Like magic, sorrow is a named and assumed power in the story–it shapes both characters and events. Ignatia rules through sorrow, and the characters find their freedom by piercing the fog that sorrow has created around them. This reminded me of the activities I made for my Labeling Emotions unit (part of my RULER bundle). These activities ask students…
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Labeling Emotions, Social-Emotional Activities, RULER
Last month I completed a series of social emotional activities built around the RULER method for social emotional learning. Over the next few weeks I’d like to share them with you! You can purchase the activities in my TpT store, or use them as inspiration for your own activities. This post will focus on labeling emotions. This unit is my favorite in the RULER bundle because it’s all about building an emotional vocabulary, and it lends itself well to some of your usual vocabulary activities. Here’s a peek at some of them: Here’s another feelings journal that expands on the ones in the recognizing and understanding units. Now students find themselves on the mood meter,…
