Purpose
Understand how anger builds, peaks, and creates consequences so students can interrupt the cycle earlier.
Lesson 3 - 30 minutes
The Anger Cycle
Escalation, peak, aftermath, and repair
Key ideas
Most anger episodes have a build-up, a peak, an aftermath, and a story people tell afterward.
The earlier the interruption, the easier the change.
Repair matters, but repair is not a substitute for preventing repeated harm.
Written practice
Draw your anger cycle from one recent situation. Mark the moment where a time-out or different wording would have changed the outcome.
Quick check
When is anger easiest to interrupt?
Expected answer
Early in the build-up, before the peak of the anger cycle.