Feelings, Identity & Purpose
Objectives
- D01.S1.10.01 Explain how personal history and culture shape the way a person experiences and names emotion.
- D01.S1.10.02 Evaluate how technology and media influence emotional life, such as online comparison, empathy, and emotional contagion.
- D01.S2.10.01 Examine how identity is socially and historically constructed, comparing examples across cultures.
- D01.S2.10.02 Develop a considered position on what defines them, independent of external labels and expectations.
- D01.S3.10.01 Direct their own learning by choosing goals, resources, and ways to check their own progress.
- D01.S3.10.02 Balance independence with knowing when and how to seek help, and act on that judgment.
Essential questions
- How do my personal history and culture shape the way I experience and name emotion, and how does technology shape my emotional life?
- How is identity socially and historically constructed, and what defines me independent of external labels and expectations?
- How do I direct my own learning while balancing independence with knowing when and how to seek help?
Big ideas
- Emotion is experienced and named through personal and cultural history, and technology shapes emotional life through online comparison, empathy, and emotional contagion.
- Identity is socially and historically constructed, and a considered position on what defines me stands independent of external labels.
- Directing my own learning — and knowing when to seek help — is how I author my own life.
Lessons
- 1 The History Under My Feelings 55 minutes
- 2 The Words My Culture Gave Me 55 minutes
- 3 The Mirror in My Pocket 55 minutes
- 4 Feeling With Others, Through a Screen 55 minutes
- 5 When Feelings Go Viral 55 minutes
- 6 Who Told Me Who I Am? 55 minutes
- 7 Identity Across Time and Place 55 minutes
- 8 Beyond the Labels 55 minutes
- 9 My Considered Position 55 minutes
- 10 Authoring My Own Learning 55 minutes
- 11 Independent and Connected 55 minutes
- 12 Acting on My Judgment 55 minutes
Assessment plan
Observation of a learner explaining how their history and culture shape their emotional experience and evaluating technology's influence on it; a social-and-historical construction-of-identity analysis across cultures; a written "considered position" on what defines them; a self-directed learning plan with goals, resources, and self-checks; and a reflection on balancing independence with seeking help, gathered as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 1 — Feelings, Identity & Purpose
Overview
This unit opens the year inward, building on Grade 9’s consolidation of identity, purpose, and values. Learners now examine and defend them: they explain how personal history and culture shape the way a person experiences and names emotion, and evaluate how technology and media influence emotional life — online comparison, empathy, and emotional contagion. They examine how identity is socially and historically constructed, comparing examples across cultures, and develop a considered position on what defines them independent of external labels and expectations. They direct their own learning by choosing goals, resources, and ways to check their progress, and balance independence with knowing when and how to seek help. Every self is honored as a whole in the making, never a label, and every question is held as a question.
Essential questions
- How do my personal history and culture shape the way I experience and name emotion, and how does technology shape my emotional life?
- How is identity socially and historically constructed, and what defines me independent of external labels and expectations?
- How do I direct my own learning while balancing independence with knowing when and how to seek help?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The History Under My Feelings | D01.S1.10.01 |
| 2 | The Words My Culture Gave Me | D01.S1.10.01 |
| 3 | The Mirror in My Pocket | D01.S1.10.02 |
| 4 | Feeling With Others, Through a Screen | D01.S1.10.02 |
| 5 | When Feelings Go Viral | D01.S1.10.02 |
| 6 | Who Told Me Who I Am? | D01.S2.10.01 |
| 7 | Identity Across Time and Place | D01.S2.10.01 |
| 8 | Beyond the Labels | D01.S2.10.02 |
| 9 | My Considered Position | D01.S2.10.02 |
| 10 | Authoring My Own Learning | D01.S3.10.01 |
| 11 | Independent and Connected | D01.S3.10.02 |
| 12 | Acting on My Judgment | D01.S3.10.01, D01.S3.10.02 |