An Anti-Bullying Speaker for Your School
Introduction
Your school needs your help with its students. They are looking for a way to talk to their students about being positive and standing up to bullies. They hope to get a powerful and influential person to come and speak to their students to get them to stop the bullying. Your mission is to choose one person from history to write a letter to convince them to come talk to your school.
Task
You must find out enough about your person from history to be able to write a letter to them, stating why you think they will be a good person to speak at your school and what you think they should talk about. In order to find out more about your person from history, complete the chart given below.
You need to pick someone from the following list:
You need to pick someone from the following list:
Oprah Winfrey
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Martin Luther King, Jr
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Mother Teresa
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Process
You will first research the internet to find an influential person in history that helped to stop bullying during their life. Click on the links next to the person's picture above to get more information about them. Ask a teacher to help you read about them, and point out the most important parts in the websites. You will then find out as much as you can about them and their culture and complete the chart given to you. You will need to search each of the websites about the person you chose in order to get all of the information to fill in the chart.
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What is your definition of bullying?
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What year was he/she born?
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What year did he/she die?
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What important thing did he/she do?
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Where was he/she born?
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Why is he/she a good influence on your age group?
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Why is he/she a good person to talk to your school?
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Why can he/she help stop bullying in your school?
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What can your age group learn from him/her?
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Then write a letter to the person from history stating what you think they should talk about. You should include
~why you think they are a good influence on people your age
~why they would be good to talk in your school
~why you think they can help you school
~what they did in history that you think helped people the most
~how people your age could learn from them
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What is your definition of bullying?
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What year was he/she born?
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What year did he/she die?
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What important thing did he/she do?
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Where was he/she born?
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Why is he/she a good influence on your age group?
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Why is he/she a good person to talk to your school?
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Why can he/she help stop bullying in your school?
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What can your age group learn from him/her?
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Then write a letter to the person from history stating what you think they should talk about. You should include
~why you think they are a good influence on people your age
~why they would be good to talk in your school
~why you think they can help you school
~what they did in history that you think helped people the most
~how people your age could learn from them
Evaluation
Picture
Letter to Person in History
Collaboration
Completion of Chart
Letter to Person in History
Collaboration
Completion of Chart
2 Points
Had no picture.
Had little facts about person in history and why he/she should come to school.
Did not work well with helper and did not take direction well.
Completed only part of chart about person in history.
Had little facts about person in history and why he/she should come to school.
Did not work well with helper and did not take direction well.
Completed only part of chart about person in history.
4 Points
Had picture that had little to do with person from history.
Had at least 4 facts about person in history and why he/she should come to school.
Worked well with helper sometimes or sometimes took direction well.
Completed at least 75% of chart about person in history.
Had at least 4 facts about person in history and why he/she should come to school.
Worked well with helper sometimes or sometimes took direction well.
Completed at least 75% of chart about person in history.
6 Points
had picture that was perfect and connected with letter to person in history.
Had at least 6 facts about person in history and why he/she should come to school and good imagination in writing.
Worked excellent with helper, listened and took direction when given.
Completed all of chart about person in history.
Had at least 6 facts about person in history and why he/she should come to school and good imagination in writing.
Worked excellent with helper, listened and took direction when given.
Completed all of chart about person in history.
Conclusion
You have now been able to have a conversation with a person from history. You have been able to find facts about someone that you haven’t been able to before. You have read someone, and learned things about them that other people don’t take the time to figure out.
You have also been an advocate for your school. You now understand why it is important to stop bullying and what kind of person it takes to stop bullying in schools and your community. Now try to be a person much like the person you have researched and brought to your principal. Maybe you could make this presentation to your school in place of your person in history.
You have also been an advocate for your school. You now understand why it is important to stop bullying and what kind of person it takes to stop bullying in schools and your community. Now try to be a person much like the person you have researched and brought to your principal. Maybe you could make this presentation to your school in place of your person in history.
Teacher Page
This WebQuest is created for students who are in elementary school. I am creating it for my 4th graders. I would recommend grades 4th-8th to complete this project. This is to help students who are having a hard time understanding bullying and/or emotions that they need to deal with in order to get along with their classmates. This WebQuest helps to complete requirements with research, writing, and filling out a table. It helps them to understand what bullying is and how they can prevent it in their school.
Michigan Curriculum Framework:
English Language Arts: Meaning and Communication
Content Standard 1: All students will read and comprehend general and technical material. Early Elementary: 1. Use reading for multiple purposes, such as enjoyment, gathering information, and learning new procedures.
Content Standard 2: All students will demonstrate the ability to write clear and correct sentences, paragraphs, and compositions. Early Elementary: 3. Begin to plan and draft texts, and revise and edit in response to the feelings and ideas expressed by others.
In order to use this WebQuest with students who are in special education, I would recommend having at least 2-3 adults per 6 students. In a special education classroom, this would be easy for the adults and students to work. In a general education setting (with grades 4-5), I would recommend having 2-3 adults per 15 students. The students have a lot to read in the WebQuests, and a lot to go through. An adult is essential in order to allow the students to know what is important about their person in history, and what to read.
You may need to work in groups with your students. This would be done for the completion of the chart and the research. I would still work individually on the letter to the person in history. It would work if you grouped the students and put a very good reader in each group. This will help with the abundance of reading in this WebQuest. Students could have different jobs such as having one do the reading, one do the writing, one look for pictures, and so on. Students could look at different websites inside each of their groups-this would create more jobs.
This WebQuest is used in a scaffold method. There is a lot to help the students with at the beginning, and toward the end, they will be completing the chart and writing their letter by themselves. I suggest helping the students fill in parts of the chart, and then letting them finish it by themselves. This will teach them how to use the chart and fill it in, and then they can do their work on their own.
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Michigan Curriculum Framework:
English Language Arts: Meaning and Communication
Content Standard 1: All students will read and comprehend general and technical material. Early Elementary: 1. Use reading for multiple purposes, such as enjoyment, gathering information, and learning new procedures.
Content Standard 2: All students will demonstrate the ability to write clear and correct sentences, paragraphs, and compositions. Early Elementary: 3. Begin to plan and draft texts, and revise and edit in response to the feelings and ideas expressed by others.
In order to use this WebQuest with students who are in special education, I would recommend having at least 2-3 adults per 6 students. In a special education classroom, this would be easy for the adults and students to work. In a general education setting (with grades 4-5), I would recommend having 2-3 adults per 15 students. The students have a lot to read in the WebQuests, and a lot to go through. An adult is essential in order to allow the students to know what is important about their person in history, and what to read.
You may need to work in groups with your students. This would be done for the completion of the chart and the research. I would still work individually on the letter to the person in history. It would work if you grouped the students and put a very good reader in each group. This will help with the abundance of reading in this WebQuest. Students could have different jobs such as having one do the reading, one do the writing, one look for pictures, and so on. Students could look at different websites inside each of their groups-this would create more jobs.
This WebQuest is used in a scaffold method. There is a lot to help the students with at the beginning, and toward the end, they will be completing the chart and writing their letter by themselves. I suggest helping the students fill in parts of the chart, and then letting them finish it by themselves. This will teach them how to use the chart and fill it in, and then they can do their work on their own.
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