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Get out: Assignment #3: Bullying Wrap up Write about a time you witnessed bullying (elementary, middle, high school) Was it physical? Verbal? Cyber? What role did you play?. Bullying wrap up discussion. Choose 2 of the discussion questions to respond/reflect. Be prepared to share.
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Get out: Assignment #3: Bullying Wrap up • Write about a time you witnessed bullying (elementary, middle, high school) Was it physical? Verbal? Cyber? What role did you play?
Bullying wrap up discussion Choose 2 of the discussion questions to respond/reflect. Be prepared to share.
Look back at the “cycle of bullying” • Think about a time when you have fulfilled one of the roles on the spectrum. • Think about another time where you have fulfilled a different role. • Write about both of those times. How did it feel to be in that role?
Respond to this quote – how is it related to bullying? Is it realistic advice for bullying? Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular – but one must take it because it’s right. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Respond to the following: • Why might it be hard for bystanders to act? • How can “bystanders” become “upstanders”? What can they do to combat bullying?
AN EXAMPLE OF STANDING UP TO ONE OF HISTORY’S BIGGEST BULLIES: When the Nazis invaded Denmark in 1940, the citizens united to form a strong resistance movement. Refusing to cooperate with the planned deporatino of Danish Jews, the Danes began spiriting their (jewish) neighbors and relatives across the channel to Sweden in small fishing boats. Scientist and fisherman worked together to come up with ways to numb the noses of the dogs used by the Nazis to search these vessels for stowaways. The small boats, with their undetected human cargo, met with larger Swedish ships in the channel. In all, 7,200 of the 7,800 Danish Jews and 700 of their non-Jewish relatives were smuggled safely out of Denmark. What might have been the reasons the Danes were able to stand up?
Read Article 1. Write a paragraph reaction/reflection on the article. To consider: Do you think cyberbullying is an epidemic? 2. What might have gotten Audrie support after she was cyberbullied? Why do you think she didn’t seek this help? 3. What is “dissociative anonymity”? 4. How does the “rape culture” described by Palo Alto high school magazine relate to cyberbullying?
