How to Identify and Manage Emotions

PART A: What is the central idea of the text?

• Emotional awareness, which can be learned and

  practiced, can help people navigate multiple areas of life.

• Babies learn to manage emotions, and as they grow, they

  use the same skills in new situations.

• Emotional awareness involves learning to accept positive

  emotions and reject negative ones.

• Because learning to manage emotions is so difficult, it is

  best left to adults.

PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to

Part A?

• 
  "As we grow up we begin to recognize that the way we

  express our feelings has an impact on other people."

  (Paragraph 2)

• "There are many different emotions you can experience

  from day to day and even hour to hour." (Paragraph 4)

• "We are better equipped to navigate our friendships and

  other relationships, successes, disappointments, conflicts

  with others, and much more, when we understand our

  feelings." (Paragraph 4)

• 
  "It's important to know that the more we avoid our

  emotions, the more intense they can become. This often

  leads to situations when our emotions overwhelm us and

  we have difficulty managing them." (Paragraph 9)

Why does the author compare emotional awareness to a muscle?

• One cannot acknowledge any weaknesses when building

  strong emotional awareness and strong muscles.

• Developing habits of noticing one's own feelings can

  make emotional awareness stronger.

• It is something that some people have and other people

  don't have.

• A good diet and sleep can help make it stronger.

How does paragraph 5 contribute to the development of ideas in

the text?

• It suggests that the ability to manage emotions is genetic;

  some people are better at it than others.

• It suggests that scientists don't know a lot about

  emotions, so managing them helps battle the unknown.

• It emphasizes how varied and complicated emotions can

  be and shows the importance of identifying them.

• It shows strong evidence supporting the history of certain

  emotions and why some people seem to feel them so

  intensely.

What is the possible text structure of this particular article?

• Sequence/Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution/Description

• Cause & Effect/Compare & Contrast

• Cause and Effect/Chronological

In paragraph 1, the word overt means -

• quietly done; secretive .

• bashful and shy; introverted.

• openly done; obvious.

• does not like vegetables.

The article was written in ___________ point of view.

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

• 3rd person omniscient