Control your anger with SPAM - Anger Management lesson plan

Control your anger with SPAM

Control your anger with SPAM

© 1999 by Debbie Dunn

Here is a lesson plan you can use to help teach about Anger Triggers, Anger Cues, our Fight or Flight Instinct, and Self-Mentoring techniques. The story is called “Control your anger with SPAM.”

Story and Role-play #1 Description for ‘Control your anger with SPAM’: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about a unique Anger Management method. The story is called “Control Your Anger With SPAM.” Emily and Mike have a great deal of trouble keeping control of their temper. A guidance counselor teaches them a method of Anger Management that works called SPAM, like the meat, only it is not something to eat. (S.P.A.M. = Stop-Ponder-Appreciate-Moment)

Story and Role-play #2 Description for ‘A story/role-play that demonstrates the SPAM method’: Brian, Melanie, Mark, and Austin are really angry. They visit with the school guidance counselor to get help in using the SPAM method so they can get control of their temper. (S.P.A.M. = Stop-Ponder-Appreciate-Moment)

In this anti-bullying tale about Emily and Mike, both students need to learn to control their anger and to modify their bullying-type behavior.

Lesson Plan link:
Middle school lesson plan: Control your anger with SPAM

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Step 1: Anger Management Lesson Objectives
Lesson objectives: Anger management

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Step 2: K & W questions for KWL Model discussion
K & W questions for KWL Model discussion

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Step 3: Vocabulary discussion: Anger Management terminology
Vocabulary discussion: Anger Management terminology

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Step 4A: Anger management story #1
Anger management story #1

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Step 4B: Anger management story #2
Anger management story #2

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Step 5: Popcorn Review
Popcorn Review

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Step 6A: Anger management role-play #1
Anger management role-play #1

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Step 6B: Anger management role-play #2
Anger management role-play #2

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Bonus: Role-play slideshow #1
Role-play slideshow #1

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Bonus: Role-play slideshow #2
Role-play slideshow #2

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Step 7: Bloom’s Taxonomy discussion questions
Bloom’s Taxonomy discussion questions

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Step 8: Writing Assignment
Writing Assignment

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Bonus: Printable Writing worksheet
Printable Writing worksheet

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Step 9: L questions for KWL Model discussion
L questions for KWL Model discussion

Debbie Dunn is a professional storyteller, a former school teacher, a published author of two books, a freelance writer, and an anti-bullying and conflict resolution specialist. She taught anti-bullying and conflict resolution to over 500 middle school students a year for five years until a budget-cut eliminated most of the school’s special programs. Since September of 2009, she has been serving as the School Conflict Resolution Examiner for Examiner.com. You will find all the above links on her Examiner.com website. To see more, please click on SCHOOL CONFLICT RESOLUTION at Examiner.com.