Personification Emotion Party

This week we read "Shame" by Nancy Casteneda and "Fear" by Tracy Waldman. The students and I discussed personification, and then made a list of some emotions we might want to explore. We talked about how, if the emotion was a person, it would look, act, etc. A few student volunteers had a good time acting this out and entering the room as their emotion. Then, they used their own powers to transform their emotion into a person via words:


Ms. Mitchell 5th grade


Confused
Thalia V.

Confused is a girl with 2 pigtails,
one higher that the other.
She doesn’t know whether to put
milk in the cereal box or cereal
in the milk. She is confused.
She doesn’t know whether to put
her homework on her book bag
or in it. She is a girl who is
confused. She doesn’t know
whether to use her hand to
open the door or use her
mouth. She uses her mouth.
She puts cereal in the milk
carton and pours it into
her book bag. Then she puts her
homework on top of her book bag
and heads to school. But
she doesn’t know whether to
run to school or use the bus.
She runs. She is confused.




Happiness
Cecilia F.

Happiness is a woman who
loves and smiles, eats an
egg, hot dog, and some bacon.
Happiness is a beach getting
a tan. Happiness is a just-
married woman with a white
dress. Happiness is a family
who still sticks together and never
be in a fight or get a divorce.



Livid
Delmar M.

Livid is an old man yelling: you
kids better get off my grass!

Livid is my dad when he
curses.

Livid is a lady chewing
gum out of a garbage
can.




Ms. Kennedy 5th grade


Nervous
Berenice T.

Nervous is a girl
who is pretty but doesn’t
speak a lot. She comes
out when you make
abundant mistakes.
She looks like a baby
just born, or a kid
who dropped his lunch.
Be careful, because
you can start being blissful
but end up nervous and shy.



Confused
Cody M.

Confused walks into
the room with a football helmet running
saying: I am going to get you, then runs
into the wall and screams in a circle and
then starts skipping saying: la, la, la, la, laaaaa.

Confused has a dog
in his pocket, and a shoe and a wig.
He smells like half apple, half
wet dog and he has potatoes
in his hair.

Confused punches people for no reason.
He eats a sandwich with cookies, hot dogs
old ice cream and juice.



SAD
Mireya G.

Sad is a boy who’s always
crying. He’s always shaking
because he doesn’t have any
friends. He has no money in his
pocket. He is poor. He eats grass
and drinks water from the
pond. He has a teddy bear. It’s
special to him. It’s his only toy.
He has one pair of sneakers. They
are ripped and black and only
his mother has 1 carrot. He smells
like rotten eggs, because he doesn’t
take baths, because they can’t pay
the water bills. He looks like a sad
kids who loves his family. Boy,
it will be okay!!!!!!




Ms. Schaeffer 5th grade


Nervous
Jeremiah D.

Nervous is scared
the teacher will fall. Nervous
is someone who thinks blue
is purple. Nervous
is: I hope my booger is not
showing. Nervous is: I hope
in the sky. Nervous is someone
who worries too much and has
a great imagination because
he watches too much T.V.



Anger
Cesar C.

Anger is a man who is running
around on fire shouting. His hair
is gone because he ripped it off. For
breakfast he eats a rock. He takes
a bath in a volcano. Now, at 27 he gets
F’s and can’t pass kindergarten. He punches
the walls and rips up paper. He lives
in a junk yard and sleeps
on spikes. He has an alien in his
pocket stabbing him with a nail.
He runs away from the police!
His eyes are red with rage.


Anger
Melissa Z.

Anger is like a man screaming,
like a lion really mad. Or anger is
when people scream and tell people:
get out of my way.

Anger is when people have their face
really red. Or are biting their nails.
Or holding the hand and pushing,
but their hands are red like a tomato.