When We Fall, We Rise

Unit Objectives

• Recognise and describe a range of emotions and strategies to manage them.

• Understand how empathy and respect influence relationships.

• Explore resilience and persistence through literary characters.

• Express emotional experiences through speech, visual interpretation, and narrative writing.

• Use visual and written texts to interpret and create meaning.

Learning Intentions

• Identify and describe emotions experienced by a character.

• Make predictions and visualise events in a story.

Success Criteria

• Name and describe at least three emotions Humpty Dumpty feels in the story.

• Explain why a character might feel a certain way.

• Make predictions based on clues in the story.

• Draw and label a scene showing a character's emotions.

• Share strategies I use when I feel scared or anxious.

What do you think happened to Humpty Dumpty
after the fall, before he got back up again?

Turn and Talk

Read without stopping

Were your predictions correct?

On your whiteboards, write down any emotions
Humpty is feeling throughout the story.

🎯 Write a quick note about what is making him feel that way.

-Be ready to share-

Let's put them on a class vocabulary chart.

On your whiteboards, brainstorm strategies you have used when you feel negative or challenging emotions.

-Be ready to share after 5 minutes-

Learning Intentions

• Describe how fear affects behaviour.

• Identify ways to show courage and persistence.

Success Criteria

• Explain how fear can stop someone from doing something.

• Describe what helped Humpty Dumpty show courage.

• Name and share strategies that help me bounce back from challenges.

What is something you were once afraid of? 

How did you overcome it?

Would anyone like to share?

The Branches

What are your personal strengths?

🎯 On your tree branch, write down what your strengths are.

The Leaves

What are three strategies you use to bounce back? Think about your emotions toolbox.

🎯 Write your three favourite strategies, one on each leaf. 

🎯 Colour in the leaves.

Learning Intentions

• Explore how images show emotion and meaning.

• Describe how placement and colour affect a story.

Success Criteria

• Identify visual elements like colour, size, and placement in an image.

• Explain how these elements show emotions like fear, isolation, or hope.

• Use words like salience, framing, and symbolism to describe images.

• Work with a partner to analyse an illustration and share my ideas.

Class Discussion

How do the images show fear, isolation, or hope?

What do the colours and background tell us?

How does Humpty’s position change throughout the story?

Student/s from each illustration to share.

🎯 Can images show feelings even without words?

🎯 How do pictures help us understand the story better?

Learning Intentions

• Describe how a character changes over time.

• Connect a character's journey to my own experiences.

Success Criteria

• Retell the key moments in Humpty Dumpty’s journey.

• Describe how Humpty’s emotions and actions change throughout the story.

• Write about a time I showed courage or resilience.

• Reflect on what helps me grow and bounce back from challenges.

As a class, retell After the Fall in 5 key moments.

🎯 What happened before the fall?

🎯 How did Humpty feel after the fall?

🎯 What changed at the end?

If we were to write chapter titles for the 5 key moments, what would their titles be?

4 words or less! 

Let's create a character map showing Humpty’s emotional journey in those 5 moments.

If you finish early, add some more strategies to your 

Emotions Tool Box

What did Humpty teach us about resilience?
How can we use what we learned in our own lives?

Learning Intentions

• Identify grief as an emotion and describe how it feels.

• Interpret metaphors in a story to understand emotional experiences.

• Use emotional vocabulary to express feelings and responses to grief.

• Discuss how authors use figurative language to explore difficult emotions.

Success Criteria

• Explain what grief is and give examples of when someone might feel it.

• Identify and explain metaphors used in A Leaf Called Greaf.

• Describe how the leaf represents grief in the story.

• Share my thoughts and feelings respectfully during class discussions.

What are some emotions we feel when something sad happens?

Can we add any to the words we brainstormed for After the Fall?

Discussion

What do you think the leaf represents?

What is “greaf/grief”? 

How does the leaf help the character understand grief?

Let's search

Let's read the story again. 

Can we find any metaphors? Focus on the leaf.

Jot Pad Journal

When was a time you felt grief? 

What metaphor leaf represents your feelings to that time?

Learning Intentions

• Explain what a metaphor is and how it helps us understand feelings.

• Identify metaphors in a story and connect them to emotions.

• Use a metaphor to describe a feeling in my own writing.

• Share and reflect on my ideas with others.

Success Criteria

• Describe what a metaphor is in simple words.

• Find and explain at least one metaphor from A Leaf Called Greaf.

• Write about a leaf that represents a feeling, using descriptive language.

• Explain what emotion my leaf shows and how it feels to carry it.

• Listen respectfully and share my ideas during class reflection.

What are metaphors?

turn and talk

My Own Leaf of Emotion

Imagine you have a leaf that represents a feeling. 

What emotion does your leaf represent?
(e.g., sadness, joy, anger, worry)

What does it look like?
What does it feel like to carry it?

If your leaf could talk, what would it say to you? 

Step One

Draw a large leaf which takes up almost all of an A4 sheet of paper.

Cut the leaf out.

Trace around the leaf onto lined paper.

Cut out the lined paper.

Write your name on both pieces.

Step Two

In your writing book, write a short story or poem based on an emotion.
-It should be no longer than two pages. It has to fit on your leaf.-

What emotion does your leaf represent?
(e.g., sadness, joy, anger, worry)

What does it look like?
What does it feel like to carry it?

If your leaf could talk, what would it say to you? 

Step Three

Write your story onto the lined leaf paper.
You have the rest of the lesson to complete the story.

Step Four

Glue your lined paper to your leaf.

Illustrate your story on the back.

Share

Share your story to a friend. Give each other feedback.

🎯 Tell them one thing they have done well.

 🛠️ Give them one thing they can work on.
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