Lesson Script
Today we are going to talk about something hurtful that sometimes happens
between children or young people. We are going to talk about bullying.
Listen to the story about how it happened between Amanda and Emily.
Many grade two and three girls liked to play together on the playground.
Amanda, one of the older girls, started telling lies about Emily. She
said that Emily stole stickers from her teacher’s desk, then she
said that Emily smelled funny and started calling Emily “Stinky
Skunk.”
Next Amanda told the other girls that they shouldn’t even talk to
Emily or they would be stinky, too. For the next few days, when Emily
tried to play on the playground, Amanda and two other girls told her to
go away. They told Emily she couldn’t be part of their club and
she couldn’t play with them. But they told the aide they were just
playing a game.
Then Amanda and two other girls followed Emily iinto the wahsroom, calling
her names. They started pulling her hair and pushing her. They said if
Emily told a teacher they would never let her play on the playground again,
and they would do worse things to her.
Now no one will play with Emily. Whenever Amanda is near her, she pulls
Emilys hair and reminds her not to tell anyone or else! Emily doesn’t
go near the playground any more.
How do you think Emily is feeling?
When someone teases and bugs you or behaves in a mean way again and again,
you could get hurt or your feelings coould get hurt. You might feel sad,
angry, confused, left out and all alone or scared. You might feel like
ther is nothing you can do to make the person stop. But it is not your
fault that someone is doing mean things to you. The person who bullies
is often stronger or older, or as more power in some way.
Did Amanda bother Emily just once?
Amanda has been cruel to Emily again and again. That’s one reason
we know that Amanda’s behavior is bullying, it’s notjust students
who are usuallly friends having a problem getting along once in a while.
Bullying is mean behavior that happens again and again. In fact,often
the person who bullies does even meaner things each time, just as Amanda
does to Emily.
Write under the heading “Bullying”:saying things to hurt someone-teasing,
name calling.
What is the next mean thing Amanda did?
Amanda tried to make sure Emily would be left all alone, that Emily would
have no friends, no one to play with. This is anbother kind of bullying,
being mean by making sure someone is all alone is left out, This kind
of bullying tries to make sure that someone no longer has friends and
that other kids don’t like that person any more. It’s not
just that your friends says they won’t play with you one day, but
the next day they play with you again. It’s more Serious-its when
one studentis left out many times and loses their friends.
This kind of bullying excludes someone. Exclude is the opposite of include.
When we include someone, we want them to be with us. When we exclude someone,
we leave them out. This kind of bullying is called social bullying.
Write on the chart titled “Bullying”: leaving someone out,
taking friends away, excluding.
What else did Amanda do to be mean?
Amanda and other pused Emily and pulled her hair. They did things to hurt
her. This is another kind of bullying behavior, hurting someone physically.
It includes kicking, punching, hitting, or other ways of hurting someone’s
body. It is called physical bullying.
Write on the chart titled “Bullying”:pushing, kicking, hitting,
hurting someone.
If Emily told an adult would she be tattling or asking for help?
Yes, it would be asking for help, not tattling. Emily is being hurt. The
situation is unsafe and against the rules.
Why might Emily not want to tell a teacher or other adult about Amanda’s
behavior?
Amanda doesn’t want any adults to know about her behavior, so she
threatens Emily. She said Emily could never play on the playground again
and that even worse things could happpen.
This is a fourth kind of bullying behavior, threatening soemone by saying
that bad things might happen, threatening.
Students who bully others usually don’t want adults to know about
it, they don’t want to get in trouble. They might be very careful
to do mean things only when adults are not avle to see what they are doing.
If an adult does ask them about their behavior, they often have an excuse
like, “it’s only a game” or “it was an accident”
What do you think Emily should do about this bullying?
Sometimes you might feel embarrassed that such awful things are happening
to you, or you might feel afraid to tell. But it is important to ask an
adult for help so that the bullying can be stopped. It’s not tattling
Day 2- Student will be given posterboard to create a poster of the four
types of bullying: Verbal, Social, Threaten, Physical. The poster will
have a self portrait of themselves and and all four types of bullying.
The poster will tell how they will feel after each type of bullying. Example,
Threaten- If you threaten me I will feel afraid. Verbal- If you call me
names you will hurt my feelings. Physical- If you pinch me you will make
a bruise on my body. Social- If you don’t include me I will feel
left out.
Day 3- Continue working on posters. For those children who have finished
posters they will begin working on Appleworks. They will write about a
time they were bullied. They will need to include in the paper a time
when they were bullied, where it happened, how it made them feel, what
they did to solve the bullying. If they have not been bullied they may
write about what they would do if they were being bullied. They will type
this using the Appleworks program. The stories will be printed out and
included in a class book.
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