BULLYING,
STOP IT!
BULLYING,
STOP IT!
Carla was mad at her friend Joy. Carla sent a
modified picture of Joy to many boys and
girls of the school via internet.
As Rita made her way to her desk, she fell on
her face when John tripped her. Everybody in
the class laughed.
Steven was new at school. When he tried to
hang out with other boys at the playground,
Greg said that Steven was a “loser” and
punched him in the nose. All the other boys
stood there and watched.
Joan got a new outfit over the weekend. When
she arrived at school, Shelley started to call her
names because Joan’s outfit was different.
Eventually, all the other girls were laughing at her
too.
Do you identify with Joy, Rita, Steven or Joan from these scenarios? If so,
you have been a victim of bullying. Bullying comes in many forms. It can
happen in the school, on the playground and even in the classroom. Our
aim is to find solutions to prevent bullying!
Discussion Questions
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What have you seen in these videos?
What is bullying?
Who is more likely to bully? (Children or teens?)
If you were a bystander (another student in the
playground who saw some students bullying another
student), what would you do?
Have you ever witnessed or heard of a situation
where someone has been bullied?
Video Questions
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How many times was Milton bullied?
What types of bullying did Milton experience?
How does Milton’s teacher react to him saying that he
was bullied?
Why do you think KB didn't want to go to school?
Why didn't KB just refuse to wear the new clothes
that her mother had bought for her?
Why do you think Cassandra called KB a "freak"?
How do you think KB could have handled
Cassandra's rude comments?
What constitutes
bullying?
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Bully = One who is habitually cruel to others who are
weaker.
Bullying = an intentional aggressive behaviour which
involves an imbalance of power and strength.
There are four forms of bullying.
Types of Bullying
• 1) Verbal bullying: refers to actions such as
• insults
• name-calling
• making racist, sexist or homophobic jokes
• remarks or teasing
• using sexually suggestive or abusive
language, offensive remarks.
Types of Bullying
• 2) Physical bullying: implies actions such as
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hitting
kicking
pinching
punching
scratching
spitting
shoving
choking
or any other form of physical attack.
Damage to or taking someone else’s belongings may also
constitute as physical bullying.
Types of Bullying
• 3) Social bullying: refers to actions like
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gossiping
ignoring
intimidating or excluding
spreading rumours
giving the cold shoulder.
social bullying may be verbal or nonverbal.
Types of Bullying
• 4) Cyber bullying: any type of bullying that is
carried out by electronic medium such as :
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Text message
Picture/video clip
Phone call
E-mail
Chat-room and Instant Messaging (IM)
Websites
PATCHWORK
POEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoaabeNSbnE
Poem Writing
• 1) Diamond poem: Choose two nouns – opposites or contrasts
work particularly well. Arrange the poem as follow, or in a similar
manner:
(article) noun
adjective (and) adjective
gerund, gerund, gerund
noun, noun, noun, (and) noun
gerund, gerund, gerund
adjective (and) adjective
(article) noun
Examples
• Diamond poem:
fall
misty and sad
falling, blustering, freezing
cold, darkness, blizzards and thaws
melting, dripping, blossoming
misty and happy
spring
Examples
• Diamond poem:
a stranger
lonely and afraid
studying, waiting, counting
hours, days, months, years
imagining, remembering, dreaming
love and peace
homeland
Poem Writing
• 2) Comparison poem: Compare your
subject to another object, emotion, color, etc.
Examples
• Comparison poem:
My love is like a red, red rose...
You are the sunshine of my life...
The shark is the torpedo of the sea...
Poem Writing
• 3) Acrostic poem: Write your poem word
vertically. You can use, for example, a word
from a topic you are studying, or the name of
a person. Use each letter as the first letter of a
word or phrase describing your poem word.
Examples
• Acrostic poem:
Red
Odor
Sensuous
Ephemeral
Examples
• Acrostic poem:
• You can also write the word vertically, in big
letters, and place the horizontal words
anywhere along the word where they fit.
floweR
thOrny
Silky
rEd
Poem Writing
• 4) List poem: Make a list of words or phrases
on one general subject (bullying). Group the
words into short verses, and add some “glue”
(e.g. make a sentence, add possessives).
• List poem:
Examples
“My Dog”
black, white,
thin, shiny fur,
cold nose
long, rubber ball,
stuffed animals,
bones, ropes,
plastic hamburger –
throw it again!
chow, biscuits,
pizza, chicken,
my food, your food,
cat food, baby food,
any food, anything –
watch out!
protecting,
barking, growling,
He’s a good watchdog.
walking, running,
jumping, pulling,
rolling, begging, pouncing,
biting, nipping,
all these are
my dog,
Poem Writing
• 5) Limerick poem: a whimsical poem with only five lines. This
type of poem depends on rhythm and rhyme. It follows a AABBA
rhyme scheme. In other words, the first, second and fifth lines all
rhyme with one another; the third and fourth lines rhyme with
each other.
** Websites to find rhyming words:
rhymer.com
rhymezone.com
Examples
• Limerick poem: You can follow one of these templates to help you.
A.
There one was a ___________ from ___________.
All the while she/he hoped _____________________.
So she/he ______________________.
And ___________________.
That ____________________ from ________________________.
B.
I once met a ___________________ from ___________
Every day s/he ____________________.
But whenever she/he ____________________.
The _________________________
That strange _________________ from _____________.
Examples
• Limerick poems:
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
There once was a girl named Meg
Who accidentally broke her leg.
She slipped on the dice
Not once, but thrice
Take no pity on her, I told her to watch out for that egg!
Poem Writing
• 6) Haiku poem: a Japanese poem with no rhyme.
Haiku poems have only three lines, each with a certain
number of syllables. Here is the pattern:
Line 1 = 5 syllables
Line 2 = 7 syllables
Line 3 = 5 syllables
Examples
• Haiku poems:
“The Rose”
The red blossom bends
and drips its dew to the ground.
Like a tear it falls
“The Rainbow”
Curving up, then down.
Meeting blue sky and green earth
Melding sun and rain.