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Melora presented Say Something as a felt
board puppet play to a Fourth grade class.The book
is written in the voice of a grade school girl. The school she attends
is diverse and the story centers on a series of incidents that the protagonist
witnesses as a bystander. She is a sensitive girl - nonetheless, although she
sees other kids being victimized, she doesn't say or do anything. Finally she herself
is the target of some bullying in the cafeteria. Later she relates the scene to
her brother after school. She complains about the other kids in the lunchroom
who watched but did not help. "Why are you complaining?" he said,
"they didn't do anything." The light dawns, and in the last scene we
see our heroine sitting beside the girl on the bus no one ever sits next
to, laughing and joking. The bystander has become an "upstander".
Activity: The children broke into groups of four or five and
practiced a script of a scenario where a young person is the target of bullying
based on her skin color. After practicing, the children came together and
performed for each other.
Discussion: After the high energy activity we had some time
to pull out some key ideas focusing especially on how bystanders can help when they see a problem.
First you can support the targeted child similar to what the girl in Say
Something did when she sat beside the girl on the bus. Second you can intervene
by speaking directly to the bullying child. Finally, you can tell someone about
the problem and get some outside help, especially from adults.
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