3. Teaching goals:
• Developing creative writing skills.
• Critically analyzing and discussing key aspects
of difference and bullying.
• Understanding the vastness of difference.
• Understanding the origin, the structures and
the long-tern results of violence.
• Developing empathy and solidarity.
• Preventing violence in schools.
• Delivering a lesson via examples that incite
personal experience and thus overcome the
problem of non-transferable experience.
6. Brief description:
• Students watch a few minutes of a silent film
and document the events of the story. Then they
write their own imaginary ending before they see
the actual end. As they read their short essays
they experience their individual differences
although they have used the same language and
have watched the same film. Through the
powerpoint presentation students are provided
with the basic notions of difference in relation to
bullying in school. A performance is carried out
that compares the human soul with a crumpled
paper that does not return to its original
condition. Relevant exercises follow.
7. Webography:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=m3JuhxwsVYY
(accessed March 2012)
• http://www.browardprevention.org/reality-
avenue/reality-avenue-grades-6-
12/bullying/bullying-classroom-exercises/
(accessed March 2012)
• http://tomrimington.blogspot.com/2011/11
/crumpled-paper-and-bullying-revisited.html
(accessed March 2012)
