Feelings, Identity & Purpose

Objectives

• D01.S1.08.01 Analyze a strong emotional reaction by separating the event, the thought, and the feeling.
• D01.S1.08.02 Explain how emotion can both inform and distort judgment, using a personal example.
• D01.S2.08.01 Explain how multiple and intersecting identities, such as culture, gender, ability, and language, shape a whole self.
• D01.S2.08.02 Analyze where self-esteem comes from and distinguish inner worth from outside approval.
• D01.S3.08.01 Manage impulses deliberately, choosing a response rather than reacting in emotionally charged moments.
• D01.S3.08.02 Explain the difference between short-term and long-term consequences and weigh them in a decision.

Essential questions

• How do I separate the event, the thought, and the feeling in a strong emotional reaction, and how can emotion both inform and distort my judgment?
• Who am I as multiple and intersecting identities shape a whole self, and where does my sense of worth truly come from?
• What does it mean to choose my response rather than react, and to weigh short-term against long-term consequences?

Big ideas

• A strong reaction can be analyzed into its parts — event, thought, and feeling — and emotion can inform judgment while also distorting it.
• Identity is made of multiple and intersecting parts, and self-esteem rooted in inner worth is steadier than self-esteem borrowed from outside approval.
• Deliberate impulse management and weighing short-term against long-term consequences are how I author my life rather than be swept along by it.

Lessons

1. 1 Steering, Not Sailing Blind: Recalling Grade 7, Previewing Grade 8 50 minutes
2. 2 Event, Thought, Feeling: Taking a Reaction Apart 55 minutes
3. 3 What the Feeling Tells Me: Emotion as Information 50 minutes
4. 4 When the Feeling Misleads: Checking the Thought 55 minutes
5. 5 Many Parts, One Me: Intersecting Identities 55 minutes
6. 6 Inner Worth and Outside Approval: Where Self-Esteem Comes From 55 minutes
7. 7 Pause Before You Pounce: Managing the Impulse 55 minutes
8. 8 Now and Later: Short-Term and Long-Term Consequences 50 minutes
9. 9 Weighing It: A Decision in Two Time Scales 55 minutes
10. 10 Capstone: My Map of Feelings, Identity & Purpose 55 minutes

Assessment plan

Observation of a learner separating event, thought, and feeling in a real reaction and naming how emotion helped or skewed their judgment; an intersecting-identities self-map, an inner-worth-versus-outside-approval analysis, an impulse-management journal entry, and a short-term-versus-long-term consequences decision note as portfolio artifacts.