The students will recognize their feelings. 3.The students will learn how to express these feelings in positive ways. Introduce the three different musical selections and tell the students that they are going to discuss the different feelings that each piece of music produces and then write a story about their feelings and the images they saw while listening. Place students in groups of three and give them one of the pieces of music to listen to. Students then discuss what they were feeling when the music was played.
Teacher speaks to each group giving feedback or probing questions to get ideas started.
After small group discussions, the class as a whole discusses each piece of music and the feelings that were produced. Ask students to write a story about what the music meant to them. Each story should deal with the emotions that they felt during the music. Students will read their stories to the background music and discuss why they wrote what they did. They will describe what they felt and give examples of situations that make them feel the same way.