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Today we continued our ongoing
discussion on the topic of bullying. Our
Beacon students have been working all year in ELA 2 to examine bullying in our schools
and society, and discovering ways to use their voices to become change agents
in schools as well as society. In the
coming weeks, I will be posting their editorials on bullying.
Our topic today focused on whether
students felt that popular kids could be bullied just as much as outcasts. Students read an article, watched a video and
wrote a journal response on the aforementioned topic.
The
following are excerpts from student journal entries:
“I think that the worst kind of
bullying is one of my friends going behind my back and saying something, then
someone else telling me what they said.”
“I think, yes because the popular
kids are popular for a reason or something they do and others might talk about
you behind your back.”
“Yes, anyone can be bullied. Also, the popular people aren’t any stronger
than the people that get bullied. It is
just that they have more friends to keep them strong.”
“I don’t think popular kids get
bullied, that’s just my opinion. They
have more backup and friends to stick up for them.”
Here is a link to the article we read in class today.
(To read
article, click “close” on the pop up login prompt)
http://newsela.com/articles/bullying-popular/id/3278/#articles/bullying-popular/id/3273/
It is my
hope that you will continue this discussion at home with your child. The more we work together to ask questions,
discuss and offer social responses to the problem, the better we can empower
our children to use their voices to advocate for the type of society they wish
to create.
