Emotion

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Is Emotion REALLY a Way of Gaining Knowledge???
WHAT THE TOK GUIDE HAS TO SAY ABOUT EMOTION Formative assessment task for this unit: INTUITION - A WAY OF KNOWING? - a wikipage with the task and assessment criteria Is your life ruled by your emotions? How do you feel right now? What makes you happy? Sad? Angry? Bored? Laugh? Scared?
 * Passions, feelings and moods**

List the emotions that the writer experiences in the story With your group, write the emotions in a list or a cloud. Now add other emotions (some people think there are more than 400). Can you put the emotions into groups? [|EMO COLLAGES] - link to external website
 * Read the [|short story by Lu Xun] (written in 1920)**

**ACTIVITY 1 - EMOTIONAL COLLAGE**

 * 1) **Choose an emotion which means something to you and make a collage which expresses how you feel.**
 * 2) **Include images of someone (you?) experiencing the emotion and also things which may cause the emotion.**
 * 3) **Write a //definition// and give an //example// of when you have experienced the emotion.**
 * 4) **Place the collage on your own page at the wikipage created for you.**

You may use any visual medium you wish, but consider using www.glogster.com. But the result must be visible on the wikipage (you can upload a photo if you make a physical object).

You will rate the collages of other members of the class using the following criteria.
 * ASSESSMENT (12 marks max.) **
 * 1 = poor; 2 = OK; 3 = good; 4 = awesome **
 * **// Choice of images depicting the emotion (mark out of 4) //**
 * // Creative skill in making the collage //**// (mark out of 4) //**
 * // Definition and example of the emotion //**// (mark out of 4) //**
 * TOTAL = 12 **

Y12 2011-12 EMOTIONAL COLLAGES - **link to the collages made by the class**

**ACTIVITY 2 - EMOTIONS, MIND AND BODY** **Consider the emotion that you chose and answer the following questions:** ADD TO THE MINDMAP YOUR THOUGHTS ON EMOTION, REASON, THE MIND AND THE BODY media type="custom" key="12387060"
 * How does it make you feel? **
 * What does it make you think? **
 * What does it make you do? **
 * What are the motivations for what you do (physical or mental)? **
 * Are your actions justified? **
 * What kind of knowledge does your chosen emotion give you? **
 * Does emotion as a way of knowing originate from the mind or the body? **

**ACTIVITY 3 - EMOTION AND THE OTHER TOK WAYS OF KNOWING**
 * 1) Your group will be given a poster with one of the following titles on it: ‘Emotion & Reason’, Emotion & Perception’ or ‘Emotion & Language’.
 * 2) In your group provide a concrete example of how emotion has hindered understanding in the other WoK in the title - write this example on the poster. Choose a **real example**.
 * 3) Rotate the poster between each group until there are three examples for each poster.
 * 4) Repeat steps 1 to 3 above only this time provide a **real example** of how emotion assists understanding in the WoK in each title.


 * ACTIVITY 4 - EMOTIONS IN THE HEXAGON **

WHAT IS INTUITION? 12 ANGRY MEN MOVIE ACTIVITY

[|ARE EMOTIONS PROPHETIC?] - Jonah Lehrer's blog on how rational people predict less well [|THE HEART HAS ITS REASONS] - Audio which covers many areas of the ToK diagram Considers descriptions of the heart in all of these areas: science, art, emotion, reason, sense perception, history. [|RADIOLAB CHOICE PODCAST - OVERCOME BY EMOTION] - link if the widget doesn't load media type="custom" key="11221232"
 * RESOURCES**

A GUIDE TO HAPPINESS - LOVE media type="custom" key="10732938" media type="custom" key="11310096"
 * THE DIVIDED BRAIN** (11 minutes) - on youku.com, only in mainland China