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What’s Your Character?What’s Your Character?
What’s Your Character?
What’s Your Character?What’s Your Character?
What's Your Character?What's Your Character?
What’s Your Character?
A character is……somebody in a book, play, or movie.
Character is also……the set of qualities that make
somebody distinctive (especially qualities of mind or feeling).
(from http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861695812/character.html)
This week’s character trait is
Empathy• Definition: The ability to feel another
person’s emotions as your own (from Webster’s
School Dictionary, 1986)
• How do you treat people when you understand how they feel? (Pair & Share)
• Think of a time when you were empathetic to someone else’s feelings.
Do you have empathy???
Take a look at“Don’t Laugh at Me” by Mark Willis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVjbo8dW9c8&feature=avmsc2
Do you “see yourself” in this video?
The facts about bullying…• U.S. public school students (12-18 yrs.)
reported that 32.0% were bullied at school (2009).
• Let’s break it down!21% were made fun of, called names, or insulted. 18.3% were the subject of rumors.11.4% were pushed, shoved, tripped, spit on.6.2% were threatened with harm.
Every number was higher in middle school!!!! (Some were doubled!)
(U.S. Dept. of Ed. Institution of Ed. Sciences http://nces.ed.gov/programs/crimeindicators/crimeindicators2009/tables/table_11_1.asp)
Using what you have learned about empathy and yourself,
create a product that celebrates our diversity and discourages
bullying.
Ideas: t-shirt design, poster/flyer/sign, bumper sticker video/commercial, song or rap,
button, hat design
Your Challenge:Your Challenge:
Be a GRIZZLY HERO! The next time
someone is being bullied, you have the power.
Will you laugh at them, or show your empathy and TAKE A STAND,
LEND A HAND?
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