Students will learn about the Big 7* emotions and how the media uses emotions to influence them. They will do a deep dive on each emotion and ultimately create a social media post focusing on a specific emotion as a final assessment that will demonstrate their ability to utilize the emotion and reflect on how they are emotionally influenced by their media.

This unit was built for high school students, specifically in AP language arts classes, but could work forhigh school students in other English classes or middle school students.

This lesson is flexible in a few ways:

1.  Timing: The whole unit can be done in 4–5 class periods or take up to 7–8 class periods with the optional extension activities.
2. Culminating assignment: The assignment listed asks students to create a social media post appealing to their assigned emotion to "Save the Sasquatch," but the topic is flexible. For example, one of the teachers who designed this unit used it in her class in October, so had students create a social media post to convince their peers to go to homecoming.

Resources include:
Save Our Sasquatch Unit Overview - https://docs.google.com/document/d/17cHnPG-t4vUbfFrgLJkVwkHBBrZ_LA-cuDc…
Save Our Sasquatch Presentation Materials - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/173hs3aypHOBBGN0v5bazwjzcWkJgBou…