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Roy Joyner: Bust A Mood

This is an intervention I use to help students perceive emotions from facial cues. Sometimes they have to learn how to read faces and watch for key features such as the eyes or mouth.  This can help them to understand when a person is happy, bored, angry or silly and so on. Often times I use this in conjunction with an app called “Emotions” by Innovative Mobile Apps.  It shows four faces and an emotional word in the center.  The student can then choose the face they think matches the emotion. As an extension we use a mirror or a mirror app to practice these faces ourselves.  The rap is written to an instrumental track of “Bust a Move.”

Materials:

Ipad with “Emotion” app, Speakers and MP3 player

Procedure:

1.      Demonstrate how to use the app beforehand. 

2.     You can perform the first verse while showing another example.

3.     There are some spaces in the track that allow for turn taking on the app.

4.     Listen or perform the rest of the rap making sure to give students or clients an opportunity to match the face with emotion.


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Let me talk to you 

About different places

The way you feel

Written on your faces

Many emotions

With many views

How do we feel?

Use facial cues

Look at the mouth

Check the eyes

Take a guess

How they feel inside.

The face will show 

No matter what they choose

Don’t just stand there 

Bust a mood

When you’re crying

Eyes are wet

It’s a good bet

I know you’re upset

Or when you’re tired

A little weepy

Mouth is yawning

I know you’re sleepy

There are 4 faces

On the screen

If you get it right

The check is green

Your face will show

No matter what you choose

Don’t just stand there

Bust a mood

What can you do?

You try to control it

You have these feelings

Now we all know it

You might be happy

You might be sad

If your face is red

You might be mad.

Your face will show

No matter what you choose

Don’t just stand there

Bust a mood
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    • Observation Videos
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