Grade 9 Curriculum
Emotional Awareness & Understanding
Living Life in Color
Understanding Emotions Theory
🎯 CASEL Focus Areas
Self-AwarenessSelf-Management
✝️ Catholic Social Teaching Lens
Dignity of the Human Person
Key Learning Points
- ▸Introduces the foundational concept that emotions are non-judgmental signals that lead to adaptive actions
- ▸Students learn to identify core emotions (anger, sadness, fear, joy)
- ▸Understanding emotional signals and their functions
- ▸Introduction to the Zones of Regulation framework
Course Materials
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The Time-Traveling Emotional Brain
How emotional triggers connect present experiences to past memories
🎯 CASEL Focus Areas
Self-AwarenessSocial Awareness
✝️ Catholic Social Teaching Lens
Healing Community
Key Learning Points
- ▸Explains how the emotional brain connects present sensory experiences to the past
- ▸Understanding emotional 'triggers' and being 'flooded' by past emotions
- ▸Exploring how unresolved 'core memories' impact present behavior
- ▸Developing awareness of past-present emotional connections