No Bullying in Our School , 7-9

Photo: Tal Peleg/Instagram, Model/Arielle Sharvit

Related topics: Tolerance 7-9, Beauty and Physical Appearance, 8-9

Background

Bullying Experts Psychiatric Effects Into Adulthood for the teacher to understand the severity
Respond to Bullying Steps to take when encountering bullying
Key & Peele: School Bully (2:05) A video clip that shows the underlining reasons for bullying. For teachers and advanced students (year 9)

Warm-up

Anti-Bullying Awareness (2:22) Animation with text
The Price of Silence (1:58) A strong message in silence
Bars and Melody – Hopeful
Bars and Melody – Hopeful (Lyrics)
The Most Beautiful Way To Stop A Bully (12 min) Spoken Word
Not in Our School (1:10) Adults showing a scene that happened to a middle-school student

Music

LOVE YOURSELF by KHARI A great song especially for girls
Bars and Melody – Hopeful A great song by two kids and the same again with Lyrics

Vocabulary

Bullying Vocabulary Downloadable 2-page word list
Bully vocab Quizlet Words to practise 1:1

Lesson Plans

Stop Bullying Comic Challenge Download the comic on your desktop and use on IWB in class to read the comic strips and discuss (year 7)
A magazine article An article and activities both for 1:1 and for downloading below (year 7)
Eminem wins bully lyrics case Listening/reading text with various activities (year 7-8)
NEW BOY Students watch a short film, speak about bullying, and listen to and complete a poem about bullying (year 8-9)
English Lesson Plan on Anti-Bullying Day Listening/reading text with various activities (year 8-9)

Reading

This Is What It Really Feels Like to Be Bullied Copy, read and listen to the song Shake it Off, mentioned in the text

Watching

STRAIN (Anti-bullying Silent Short Film) (11:02) School bullying between girls with a tragic end.
Ways to Stop Bullying (5:30) A video with a hand-out
A BULLY STORY (5:31) A middle school student’s own story, which could trigger students to make their own films
Girl With Down Syndrome (1:56) She gets bullied. Who comes to her rescue? Just amazing.
Read more at http://www.thisblewmymind.com/girl-with-down-syndrome-gets-bullied-who-comes-to-her-rescue-just-amazing/#ebHzigVC7frcA43l.99
Cyberbullies are No Fun! (2:19) Animated story (year 7-8)
Cyberbullying: there is a way out! (2:25) Video showing 10 steps out of cyberbullying (year 8-9)
The Most Beautiful Way To Stop A Bully (12 min) Spoken Word TEDtalk (year 9)
THE BULLYING EXPERIMENT! (5:01) The camera follows a bullying situation that passers-by rarely react to (year 9)
Selected movies with the theme ‘Bullies’ This list helps you find a suitable film to watch

Speaking

Conversation Questions on Bullying for pairs or small groups (year 8-9)

Final Words

You are not alone – assembly version (4:17) Music while showing pictures of celebrities who were bullied at school

More Materials

The Bully Project is inspired by a documentary Bully from 2011 (1:32:30) (This version has Swedish subtitles)
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