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Dealing
with Fear |
Objective:
Student will handle a threatening situation appropriately.
Language Arts Standard: Reading, Writing, Listening & Speaking
Materials
Needed: |
The Lesson:
Identify Need
Introductory Activity: Brainstorm- situations when students have been
afraid 
Define Steps and Sequences of Skill
1.
Identify what is making you afraid.
2. Get in touch with your physical feelings? How do you feel fear?
3. Decide if you are in physical danger right now? Do you need to move
away now?
4. Are you feeling a milder form of fear, such as anxiety or intimidation?
5. Breathe deeply and try to remain calm.
6. Seek out a caring adult. Share your concerns with him or her.
7. Think of ways you can avoid this danger (flight) or overcome your
doubts (fight).
Model the Skill
Role Plays/Classroom Discussion: Trying out for a school talent show
or standing before the class to deliver a report
Applications: Classroom presentations, try out for school team
Independent Uses
Rubric for
the Role Plays
Student
(Speaker)____________________________ Student (Subject)____________________________
Date: _____________________ Observer's Name:___________________________________________
Social Skill: ___________________________________
| Observations: (Use of dramatic asides) | No | Yes |
| Did
the student identify what is making him afraid? |
||
| Did the student get in touch with his physical feelings? | ||
| Did the student decide if he was in physical danger right now? | ||
| Did he feel a milder form of fear, such as anxiety or intimidation? | ||
| Did he breathe deeply and try to remain calm? | ||
| Did he seek out a caring adult? | ||
Did
he think of ways he could avoid this danger? |
||
Score or Points |
Additional Comments: _______________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
6th
Grade
Listening and Speaking
1.1 Determine a speaker's point of view.
7th Grade
Speaking Applications:
1.2 Determine a speaker’s attitude toward a subject.
8th Grade
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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