Bullying

        

  Bullying has become a world wide issue.  In the United States each day a child faces bullying either at school or over the internet.  Bullying can be seen in verbal, physical, or transmitted actions through cyber space.  The victim of the bullying is labeled as a target.  There are three basic kinds of bullying - emotional, verbal, and physical.  It typically involves subtle actions that are meant to intimidate the "target".  Bullying has been characterized as a way for a person to gain power through the fear and intimidation of others.  I recently came upon the book One by Kathryn Otoshi.  This book had a powerful message about bullying.  One is a book in which all the characters are different colors, red, blue, green, yellow, purple, green and orange.  The problem of the book was that blue was getting picked on by red.  Red was the proclaimed bully in the story.

The problem was that blue had many friends but none of blue's friends would stand up to red.  That is until one came along.  The concept of this book was that it only takes one person to make a difference. Kathryn Otoshi made such a great example of bullying without using people and nationalities.  She stuck to the basic's colors and numbers.  An easy concept to understand but had a very deep and powerful message.  A quote that I think sums up this whole book is " If someone is mean and picks on me, I, for One, stand up and say, No".  After that one number came along and stood up to red, the other colors joined and made the bully feel very small.  I think the significance of this story is that you should always say no to bullying. Bullying is a very important conversation that we have to have with many children and adults.  This book contains the simple message that it only takes one person to make a difference and put an end to bullying.

If you want to read the book One by Kathryn Otoshi check out the link below for the full online version of the book.  (It contain audio as well)
One by Kathryn Otoshi Online Edition



Vocabulary:

bullying: someone keeps doing or saying something to have power over another person
transmitted : to pass from one to another
cyber space: internet
target: someone picked on
emotional : emotions like happy, sad, fear , hate
verbal : use of language when speaking to another person
physical : when put your hands on another person
intimidation : fear , to be scared of someone
proclaimed : to say something out loud


What are some ways you can prevent bullying? If you saw someone bullying someone, what would you do?



Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word.

1.  _______________ bullying occurs when another person touches another person.

2.  Many bullies use _______________ tactics to try and scare other people.

3. A person who is being bullied is known as the _________________.

4. Many teens are bullied through the ___________________ because often the bully type whatever he or she would like without being face to face with the victim.

5.  The most known form of bullying is _________________ bullying because something say what they think without realizing it might hurt another person.

6.  The messages in the book One, ________________ that bullying is wrong.

Grammar Point 
Parts of Speech - Conjunctions

A conjunction is a word that joins other words, phrases (groups of words), or clauses (groups of words with a subject and verb). Conjunctions are words used as joiners. Different kinds of conjunctions join different kinds of grammatical structures. Today we will be taking a look at Co-ordinate conjunctions and subordinate conjunctions.  

Co-ordinate conjunctions join words, phrases, or clauses of equal rank. The co-ordinate conjunctions are the following: and, but, or, nor, for, and yet. An easy way to remember them is FANBOY.

Subordinate conjunctions join dependent clauses to independent clauses. Some common subordinate conjunctions are after, although, as, as if, because, before, if, since, so that, than, unless, until, when, where, while.

Example:  
Co-ordinate conjunctions
                     Mary likes Christmas, but Erin likes Halloween.
                     They tried but did not succeed.
                     
Subordinate conjunctions 
                     We watched as the plane took off. 
                      I arrived before the stores were open.
                     Since you are here, you can help me.  
                     He is taller than you are. 
                     After the movie was over, we went home.


Look at the examples below.  The co-ordinate conjunctions are joining words in the following sentences.


1. Joan and I cleaned all the dishes.
2. Grandma is a slow but strong person.
3. Our guest will be Jen or Bobby.
4. I did not like nor appreciate your actions.
5. You or I must do the dishes.




Instructions: Find the co-ordinate conjunctions which are joining phrases in these sentences and the phrases that are joined.
1. The girls ran up the stairs and into the room.
2. I became ill by eating the food and getting a stomach ache.
3. Meet me by the statue or near the park.
4. He should have arrived or will be here soon.
5. Jane had promised to come but did not keep her promise.

Instructions: Find the subordinate conjunctions in these sentences.
1. If you don't mind, I will return in a few days.
2. I am working hard because I want to succeed.
3. I will not be going south until the weather changes.
4. Unless you are correct about the bus, we will be lost in these streets.
5. She can do this work better than I can.





Extra Practice:  See if you can write 5 sentences using different conjunctions.

For more information on conjunctions, check out these sites below.
BrainPop Conjunctions
YouTube : School House Rock Conjunction