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“MEAN TEENS” Worksheet for comics

What do you think the point of this comic is?

Give this comic a title.

What is mean about this comic?

Make up your own comic showing more social bullying or show a positive way of dealing with the situation:

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Creating a Peaceful SchoolCreating a Peaceful School

Middle and High SchoolComics Workbook

Prevention of SocialAggression at School

MEAN TEENS

Stuart W. Twemlow, Ph.D. & Frank C. Sacco, M.D.






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Creating a Peaceful School

SOCIAL BULLYING

When you arrive at Middle, Junior, or High School you will haveto face the MEAN TEENS that are your peers at school. Thisproblem can seem worse when you first get to a new school.

Making people hurt is sick! Shame and humiliation is notnecessary. Everybody should be able to come to school and nothave to worry about being teased, picked on, left out, tricked, orthreatened.

The first step in making your school free from social bullying isto start thinking and talking about it. Most students handle theseissues among themselves. Adults usually are around, but not in-volved in the day-to-day bullying.

This workbook is designed to stimulate thinking, writing, andtalking about social bullying. Stand up for safe and creativeschools for yourself and your friends. Try to become aware ofsocial or relational aggression IN YOUR SCHOOL. When yousee a peer being bullied, notice it, think about it, and somehowget involved. Do not just watch, the next victim may be YOU orsomeone you care about.

Teachers are trying to be helpful. Students have to start theprocess and use the teachers as helpers in creating a safe school.






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What is Social Aggression?

It is humiliating and shaming a peer.

• Teasing- Public verbal put-downs that make a peer feel shame in front ofother peers.

• Rumors- Targeting someone with mean and untrue stories that make apeer feel humiliated behind their back.

• Ostracism- Knowingly leaving a peer out of group activities.

• Harassment- Reheated, unwanted social and/or physical contactbetween peers.

• Mean Tricks- Planned public humiliations causing a peer to be publiclyshamed or made fun of.

• Physical Bullying- Pushing, tripping, grabbing, poking, holding, pinch-ing, sex grabs.

• Threatening or Hate Speech- Targeting an individual or group withthreats of violence or physical harm.

• Intimidation- Face to face threat that causes fear or public humiliation.

• Exploitation- Taking advantage of a weaker peer and taking money, ser-vices, or favors in exchange for a fake friendship.

• Intolerance and Hate- Peers who express and condone racist, sexist, orother intolerant ideas that target specific groups.






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CYCLE OF REVENGE & RETALIATION

Bullying focused ona person or group

Ongoing public shameand humiliation

Isolation oftarget

Victim group plansto get even

Victim’s plan istalked about seriously

How violence builds up at school.

Step One: Targeting

Step Two: Fueling

Step Three: FringeGroup Forms

Step Four: Researchand Recruitment

Step Five: Leakage andPleas for Help

EXPLOSION