Lesson Plan : Teasing and Bullying
Teacher Name: | Emily Zuber |
Grade: | Grade 2 |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | Proficiency Level: Intermediate Teasing/Bullying |
Content: | Big Question: What challenges to people with speech impediments face? How do others react to their disability? Concepts: Teasing, Bullying, Acceptance, embarrassment Vocab: teasing, bullying, embarrassment, acceptance |
Goals: | Goals: The students will explore and learn ways that others may react to people with speech impediments. |
Objectives: | Content objective: The student will role play teasing/bullying scenarios and discuss feelings they experienced during the activity. The student will brainstorm solutions to stop teasing and bullying. Language objective: The student will communicate feelings using basic vocabulary and participating in short conversations with others. |
Materials: | Hooway For Wodney Wat by Helen Lester Strips of paper for scenario Bucket or hat to hold strips of paper |
Introduction: | Introduce the concepts of teasing and bullying with the students. Invite students to share their thoughts on the meaning of these concepts. Discuss and explain the concepts, teasing and bullying. Provide examples for the students to help them understand what teasing and bullying is. Invite students to share experiences they have had with these concepts. |
Development: | Introduce the book, Hooway for Wodney Wat. Guide the students in identifying parts in the story where teasing/bullying takes place. Discuss feelings that the characters in the story may be experiencing about teasing/bullying. Introduce the concept of embarrassment and encourage students to think of times when they have been embarrassed. Here are examples of questions to ask students as you are reading the story. Have students share their responses to these questions with a Think, Pair, Share partner. (How do you think Wodney Wat feels when he is being teased? Why are the other rodents teasing Wodney?) After reading the story, have a discussion with students about why the other rodents were teasing Wodney Wat. Explain that Wodney Wat had trouble saying his r�s and the other rodents thought it would be funny to tease him about the way he talked. Focus on how Wodney�s classmates changed the way they acted throughout the story and why they stopped teasing him at the end of the story. |
Practice: | Write teasing/bullying scenarios on strips of paper and place them in a bucket or a hat. Place students in groups and have them choose a scenario to role play together. Model different scenarios with the students before they begin so they can see how to participate in role play. Demonstrate gestures and facial expressions to show the emotions you are feeling in a teasing situation. As you are modeling role play for the students, practice using basic vocabulary and simple sentences to accommodate the needs of intermediate ELL�s. By modeling role play for the students, they can also see what teasing/bullying looks like in case they are not familiar with these concepts. |
Accommodations: | One of the strategies I will be using to aid understanding of the concepts, teasing and bullying is through role play. Intermediate ELL students will be able to engage in short conversations during role play and they will have an opportunity to express themselves in a more creative way then just stating their thoughts. Students will also have the opportunity to use props to help express themselves during role play. If the ELL students have trouble communicating some of their ideas, the use of props will assist these students when they are expressing thoughts or feelings. Some students may have trouble relating to teasing and bullying because they may never have experienced these concepts in the past. By modeling these concepts for the students, they will be able to see what teasing and bullying looks like. Having the students role play in small groups will be great for intermediate ELL�s because they will feel more comfortable engaging in short conversations with other students. |
Checking For Understanding: | Engage students in a conversation about teasing and bullying and what these concepts mean. Have students share examples of these concepts with each other and feelings that are involved in situations where teasing is present. Refer students back to the story Hooway for Wodney Wat to discuss situations in the story where teasing and bullying was taking place. Review feelings that Wodney experienced when he was teased and bullied. Have students identify feelings they experienced during the role play activity that were similar or different from feelings that Wodney experienced in the story. |
Closure: | Invite students to share in small groups, feelings they experienced as they were role playing teasing/bullying scenarios. Help students connect these feelings to feelings that Wodney Wat experienced in the story. Invite students to think of solutions to stop teasing/bullying. Record students� responses on a chart and hang it somewhere in the room so it is visible to the students. Have students create illustrations and pictures to go with each solution. Display the students� illustrations with the chart somewhere in the room. The students can refer to this chart if they are ever in a situation where teasing/bullying is present. |
Evaluation: | As students are role playing their scenarios, monitor each group and listen to interactions students are making with each other. Have students perform their scenarios for other groups and video tape each group so you will have a documentation of the activity. Ask students what feelings they experienced during the role play activity and how it felt to be teased/bullied. Have students share their responses with a partner or do a one on one interview with each student if time permits. Work with students to create a solution chart for teasing/bullying situations. In addition, have each students create an illustration to accompany one of the solutions on the chart. |
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