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Objective: The student will exercise self-control and reservation
during a tense situation.
Language Arts Standard: Listening and Speaking
Materials Needed:
The Prop Box with Costumes
Colored Pencils and 8" x 11" sheets of paper (for
making a get well card)
Brainstorm Form
Appropriate Rubric: One for each student to complete during
each role play 
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The Lesson:
• Identify Need
• Introductory Activity: Brainstorming situations that have
been difficult in the past
• Define Steps and Sequences of Skill
1. Look at the other person and always use their name.
2. If someone is talking to you, keep listening.
3. Monitor your body's feelings.
4. Breathe deeply.
5. Tell yourself to keep calm.
6. If you need to, ask the other person for some time away to collect
yourself.
7. Consider some of the outcomes of this situation.
8. Try to prioritize the out comes..."so what if?"
9. Reflect on past situations like this that have had a positive
ending.
10. Reassure yourself that you have overcome difficult moments like
this in the past.
• Model the Skill
• Role Plays/Classroom Discussion
• Applications
• Independent Uses
Rubric
for Role Play
Student
(Speaker)____________________________ Student (Subject)____________________________
Date: _____________________ Observer's Name:___________________________________________
Social
Skill Being Practiced: _____________________________
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of Speaker: (Dramatic asides are necessary) |
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Yes |
| Did
the speaker look at the other person and always use their name? |
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| If
someone is talking, did the speaker keep listening? |
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the speaker monitor your body's feelings? |
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the speaker breathe deeply and slowly? |
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the speaker tell himself to keep calm. |
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the speaker ask the other person for some time away to collect
himself? |
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Did the speaker consider some of the outcomes of this situation? |
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the speaker try
to prioritize the out comes..."so what if? |
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Did
the speaker reflect on past situations like this that have
had a positive ending? |
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| Did
the speaker reassure himself that he has overcome difficult
moments like this in the past? |
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Score |
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Other Comments: ___________________________________________________________
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Other Standards
Address in Lesson: Situation in written form. Respond to a controversial
editorial in the newspaper.
6th
Grade
Reading
Standards
1.2 Identify and interpret figurative language and words with multiple
meanings.
1.5 Understand shades of meanings in related words.
2.7 Make reasonable assertions about a text through accurate, supporting
citations
Writing Strategies
1.1 Choose the form of writing (e.g. personal letter, poem or narrative)
that best suits the intended purpose.
1.6 Revise writing to improve the organization and consistency of
ideas.
Speaking Applications:
2.4 Offer a logical sequence of information and engage the listener,
foster an acceptance of an idea.
7th
Grade
Reading
Standards
2.1 Understand and analyze the differences in structure and purpose
between various categories of informational materials.
3.3 Analyze characterization as delineated through thoughts, words
and speech patterns.
Writing Strategies
1.4 Demonstrate the mechanics of writing (e.g., quotation marks,
commas at the end of dependent clauses) and appropriate English
usage.
Speaking Applications:
1.2 Determine a speaker’s attitude toward a subject.
1.6 Use speaking techniques, including voice modulation , inflection,
tempo, enunciation and eye contact for effective communication.
8th
Grade
Reading
Standards
1.1 Analyze idioms, analogies, metaphors and similes to infer the
literal and figurative meanings of phrases.
3.4 Analyze the relevance of the setting (e.g. place, time, customs)
to the mood, tone and meaning of text.
Writing Strategies
2.1 Write a clear, coherent incident, event or situation by using
well chosen details.
2.5 Present information purposely and succinctly and meet the needs
of the intended audience.
Speaking Applications:
1.2 Paraphrase a speaker’s purpose and point of view and ask relevant
questions concerning the speaker’s content, delivery and purpose.
1.3 Organize information to achieve particular purposes by matching
the message, vocabulary, voice modulation, expression and tone to
the audience and purpose.
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