Extension Activities

Self-Awareness  |  Grades 9-12

Learning Goal 1: Demonstrates an awareness and understanding of own emotions.

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Benchmark 1: Distinguish emotions one holds from how others expect them to feel.

Benchmark 2: Describe how external events or internal thoughts can trigger multiple emotions.

Benchmark 3: Describe how changing their interpretation of an event, for example through self-talk, can change how they feel about it.

Benchmark 4: Self-reflect to assess whether the intensity of their emotions “fit” a given situation.

Benchmark 5: Understand that identities and heritage practices shape the way one views, understands, and interprets emotions.

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