Using Feeling Words in Our Writing

Learning Context

Purpose/Rationale for Learning Experience:

 To assess the students ability to produce a strong, focused writing piece about one moment/event when they felt a specific emotion.

Enduring Understanding:

 Students should be able to recognize the importance of using their voice when writing. By using a singular moment in their life when they felt a strong emotion, this will allow for them to put more emotion into their writing, which will improve the overall quality of their piece. At the completion of this lesson, the students will be able to recognize and include feeling words in their writing to make their piece more personal.

Essential Question:

 Why is it important to write about moments when we feel different emotions?

Guiding Questions:

 What do we need to do as writers in order to improve our writing?

 Why is it important to include describing words/details in our writing?

 Why is it important to write about our emotions and feelings?

 What is our voice trait and what importance does it have in writing pieces?

Learning Objective:

 1.0 The learner will be able to describe, in writing, a single moment or event when they felt a certain emotion.

 2.0 The learner will be able to produce, both in writing and on the computer, a writing piece that uses their proper voice.
2.1 Uses details and describing words.
2.2 Uses proper spelling, grammar, and mechanics usage.

What Students will Learn during this Learning Experience:

The students will be able to produce a focused writing piece that uses proper grammar and spelling. This piece will have them writing about a singular, specific event/moment in their life where they were experiencing a particular emotion. The students will be able to incorporate specific details and descriptive words into their writing in order to bring this emotion or feeling to life. The students will be able to stay focused on this singular event in order to make the piece more unified. The writing piece will also incorporate the use of their strong voice, which will make their writing much more powerful.

The students will display their knowledge and talent of the content through a variety of assessments, with the final one being a typed writing piece about a moment when they felt a certain emotion.

The final product of this learning experience will require the students to:

 Follow oral directions
 Work in groups to create a uniformed story about a feeling word
 Create a list of different feeling words
 Write a detailed piece about a specific event using emotion and feeling words.
 Write a proper writing piece using correct grammar, spelling, and mechanics usage.

Key Subject-Specific Vocabulary:

 Voice Trait: The writing trait that allows the reader to know that you are the one who is actually writing the piece. It’s the distinctive style or technique that you use while writing that differs your writing from others.

 Descriptive Words: Words that clarify or describe something in order to make your writing more clear and concise.

 Feeling Words: Words that express emotions or feelings.