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The Anger Cycle transparencyToolboxInvitationsPainting the Fire/Emotional Literacy
SeriesBalloonWorksheet -- What do you think anger looks
like?
Objectives
To understand how anger hurts others
To understand that anger has a cycle it goes
through
To understand that anger is a normal
feeling
To understand that the anger cycle can be
broken
Anticipatory Set
Draw a picture of what you think anger would
look like if it had a shape (5 min)
Tell about your picture. What did you draw and
what were you thinking about when you drew your picture (7-10
min)
Show a transparency of the Anger Cycle and
explain it (2 min)
Group Activity
Begin reading Painting the Fire. While
reading:
Discuss what some of the invitations for anger
were in the story. Blow up the balloon for each invitation that could
make you feel bad.
What were some physical warning signs?
What were some emotional warning signs?
What were the consequences for using anger?
Closure
Tell your neighbor about the anger cycle for 30
seconds
Have your neighbor tell you about the cycle for
30 seconds
Watch to see what kinds of invitations people
around you are using that bug or irritate you. Be able to share one
next time we meet.
Anger Cycle worksheetsToolboxInvitations and UnhooksAnger pretest (p. 6 of anger management
packet)Gingerbread person for physical warning signs
(p. 34 of anger management packet)Crayons or markersGroup rules
Objectives
To understand everyone processes anger
differently
To understand how the student processes
anger
To see how anger may be hurtful in their lives
if it is destructive
Anticipatory Set
Discuss the Anger Cycle as a large group (3-5
min)
Have students share the types of invitations
that they received this week that irritated them
Think of ways to "unhook" the invitations
received
Draw a picture that shows a time when you were
angry (5 min)
Group Sharing
Make a word web around the word anger to show
how everyone processes anger differently
Share with the group what you drew
What was your invitation for becoming
angry?
What were some of your physical warning
signs?
What were some of the feelings you were feeling
when you were in this situation? Make a negative feeling chart with
different feeling words they can identify.
Individual Practice
Fill in the gingerbread person to show where
you feel your anger/frustration
Think about how anger can hurt others and be
destructive
Closure
People process anger in many different ways.
What were some of the ways students in this room have processed anger
Anger Management VisualToolboxInvitations, Unhooks, Courage, and
ExpressionsSponge - cut out like a personFood coloring and colored waterAnger Bin
Objective
The child will be able to understand that
people "absorb" invitations and how we need to use expressions to not
let emotional build up
Anticipatory Set
Take a sponge (the shape of a person) and
explain that it is like a person and the colored water is like the
feelings that come from the invitations that people send out. Each
time a person is given an invitation, dip the sponge in the water a
little way. Talk about how feelings can be stored up just like with
the sponge. Eventually, the sponge will not be able to absorb any
more water -- just like a person can't absorb invitations
forever.
What do people do when they are full of
invitations?
Group Practice
Teach that four types of expressions keep
emotions from building up and looking like anger
Hard -- jogging, biking, punching a pillow
Soft -- journal writing, drawing, coloring,
poetry
Direct -- I feel -- when -- because
Indirect -- talking to a friend in a
confidential manner
Talk about how it will take courage to use the
expressions tool. Ask why it will take courage.
Individual Practice
For homework, challenge the students too use at
least one type of expression to "saw" up anger before they get upset.
Report back to the group a situation that could have gotten you angry
but didn't because the expression tool was used.
Make an Anger Bin for students to write down
what made them angry and then deposit it inside.
Closure
Talk to a partner for 30 seconds about
expressions. One person talks for thirty seconds and then the
other.
Make teachers aware of the Anger Bin.
Anger Management VisualToolboxInvitations, Unhooks, Courage, Expressions and
ChoicesChoices Flower worksheets (p. 25 from Anger
Management Packet)Anger Bin
Objectives
To identify a situation filled with invitations
that has caused anger or frustration to surface, and to look at the
possible choices a person would have in that situation.
To identify the choices that would allow the
situation to be solved in a healthy way.
Anticipatory Set
Check the Anger Bin for situations that has
caused people to be angry this week. Read them aloud.
Group Practice
Students share first when they used the
expressions tool last week or what took courage this last week
Choose situations from the Anger Bin and
identify the invitations that could have made anger surface
Brainstorm choices the individual has in that
situation
Identify the choices that would allow for the
situation to be solved in a healthy way
Stress that accepting a person's invitations is
a choice. It is each person's job to manage their behavior in the
right way.
Individual Practice
Give each student a flower as homework and
instruct them to have it filled out for the next class time and put
it in the Anger Bin.
Closure
How is managing your anger/frustration or your
thinking about things starting to change?
Anger Management VisualToolboxInvitations, Unhooks, Courage, Expressions and
ChoicesAnger Bin (contains homework from session
five)Role play situations if none are in Anger Bin
Objectives
The student will be able to use real life
situations that previously led them to become angry and use the tools
taught in class to unhook the invitations
The student will be able to take space from a
situation to think when the invitations are standing in the way of
thinking
Anticipatory Set
Facilitators act out a situation in which
invitations are dealt out but unhooked by the other facilitator
Group Practice
Use situations in the Anger Bin as role plays
where students practice unhooking invitations
Individual Practice
Watch to see what invitations you receive this
next week and be prepared to tell the group how you unhooked them
Closure
What did you learn from today's activities?
Anger Management VisualToolboxInvitations, Unhooks, Courage, Expressions,
Choices and AffirmationsPaperMarkers and crayons
Objective
To help students see how other perceive them in
a positive light
Anticipatory Set
As each student enters the room for group, say
something positive about them as a person
How did it feel receiving an affirmation when
you came through the door?
Group Practice
Create a poster for each student in the room
using their name. Have each letter in their name be written as an
acrostic poem. Then, have the students say something positive and
true about that person that starts with one of the letters in their
name.
Decorate the poster in the time that is left
with things you can do well.
Individual Practice
While decorating the poster, share how
you unhooked invitations last week, or share how you were courageous
Closure
How does it feel reading the affirmations on
your posters?
How can these affirmations be used in unhooking
anger?
Anger Management VisualToolboxInvitations, Unhooks, Courage, Expressions,
Choices, and AffirmationsPaperMarkers, crayons
Objective
The student will be able to recreate the Anger
Cycle and understand how to prevent anger from building up inside of
a person
Individual Practice
The students will recreate the Anger Cycle on a
piece of white paper and discuss it with one of the facilitators
Closure
Staple together each student's booklets so that
they have them for a reminder when needing to review how to unhook
invitations that create anger
Have each child met with the facilitator
individually to explain the anger cycle and how to use tools to deal
with feelings in a healthy way
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