First lesson

Task: Bullying Assembly for a high school
First Lesson:
In the first lesson Sarah showed us 3 things that would help us to create our piece.
First thing:
The first thing she showed the class was a youtube clip about children/teenagers who had commited suicide as a result of bullying. The clip is shown above.
Once we had watched the video we disscussed how our intial reactions to it. Here are some of the reactions:

• Makes you think about the families
• They are just children and makes them completly innocent
• Every action has a reaction
• Abuse
• The song had a happy beat but when you paid attention to the words it was sad.

Second thing:

The second thing we were given was a poem. Here is the poem:

'I am'

I am the person you bullied in school, I am the one who didn't know how to be cool I am the person you alienated I am the person you ridiculed and hated

I am the person who sat on their own I am the person who walked home alone I am the person you scared every day I am the person who had nothing to say

I am the person with hurt in their eyes I am the person you never saw cry I am the person living alone with their fears I am the person destroyed by their peers

I am the person who drowned in your scorn I am the person who wished they hadn't been born I am the person whose name you don't know I am the person who just can't let go

I am the person destroyed for 'fun' I am the person, but not the only one I am the person who had feelings too and I am a person, JUST LIKE YOU!!!

Disscussion

As a group we then disscussed the poem. Here are some of the points that were made:

• It uses strong words such as 'Alienated' and 'Destroyed'
• 'I AM' is repeated so that it sticks in the readers head
• Being treated like an object not a person

Third thing:

The third thing we looked at was a newspaper article that was about a 13 year old school girl who had hung herself with her school tie after incidents at school which had involved her being dragged down the stairs and locked in a cupboard and even being hospitalised by bully's.

Disscussed:

The points that we made as a group were:

• The newspaper made it look like she was to blame and that she was only trying to hang herself as a cry for help
• It also said that she had problems interacting with student so they were suggesting that she had a disablilty
• We thought it was horrible that they were trying to blame her for what had happened and not the bully's by saying that she brought it on herself.

Mind Map

Characters

• Best friend - Possible bully
• Boyfriend - Possible bully
• Victim
• Parent- Possible bully

Ways of telling story

• News report
• Letter
• Diary Entry
• Bully's point of view

Other

• If you laugh at it your part of it
• Alternate ending
• Self- harming
• Victim could remind the bully of someone horrible
• Bully doesn't realise there doing it
• Jealousy

The 3 freeze frames...

As a class we were told to create 3 freeze frames and turn them into a story. One of them had to show us happy. The second one had to show the bullying and the third one had to show the consequences of the bullying.

The first freeze frame we did was us all in a class photo, all happy and smiling. It had different levels and people in very different positions.

The second freeze frame showed everyone happy but Rachel was in the middle on the floor. Sad and excluded.

The third freeze frame showed us all pointing knives at Rachel. She is self- harming. This shows that we are the ones causing her to self-harm.

We were then told to add a story and a vocal collage to each one.

1. Were all laughing and joking
2. Rachel tells a 'not funny' joke and then walks around the semi circle as we hurl abuse at her and turn our backs
3. Rachel sits in the middle and we slowly walk towards her holding the knives at her.