Bullying: Media Resources for 6th Grade

By Amanda Sellman

1 Documentary: Bully

Producer: Lee Hirsch

Year: 2011

Length: 1h 38min

Rating: PG-13

Description: This documentary focuses on five different students who are being bullied in the United States. Each student has their own unique story, their ages ranging from 11 to 16 years old, each of them being bullied for different reasons. During the film, the filmmakers catch events of bullying at school and on the bus that happens to these students. Some stories are worse than others and the documentary goes into the effects that bullying has on these victims. The documentary also has a significant portion where schools are interviewed about what they do to prevent bullying and how impactful those efforts really were in those schools. There is also much discussion about bullying prevention from the parents of the five students involved in the film. and what organizations they have formed to unite our country in bullying prevention. This movie is best because it covers real life examples that happen in our country about what bullying can look like in our public schools. This documentary contains facts with regards to how many students are bullied every year in this country and the effects it has on these specific set of 5 students. 

National Health Education Standards:

NHES 1: ”Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.”

• V1.12.10 Analyze negative consequences of violence to perpetrators, victims, and bystanders.
• V1.12.11 Explain how bystanders can help prevent violence by reporting dangerous situations or actions.
• V1.12.18 Describe characteristics of school or community that can increase or decrease the likelihood of violence.

NHES 2: “Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.”

• V2.8.1 Explain the influences of school rules and community have on violence prevention practices and behaviors.

NHES 3: “Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information, products, and services to enhance health.”

• V3.8.3 Describe situations that call for professional violence prevention or intervention services.
• V3.8.4 Access valid and reliable violence prevention information from home, school, or community.
• V3.8.5 Locate valid and reliable violence prevention or intervention services.

NHES 7: “Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.”

• V7.8.1 Explain this importance of being responsible for practicing violence prevention behaviors.
• V7.8.2 Analyze personal practices and behaviors that reduce or prevent violence.
• V7.8.4 Make commitment to practice violence prevention behaviors.

NHES 8: “Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.”

• V8.8.2 Persuade other to prevent violence.

Healthy Behavioral Objectives:

 

• HBO 7: “Get help to prevent or stop violence including harassment, abuse, bullying, hazing, fighting, and hate crimes.”

 

Learning Objective: Students will write about the effects of violence and bullying using the experience of one of the students shown in the documentary movie “Bully”.

Core Integration:

• Before the film begins, I would ask my students to take notes on important details on one of the students in the movie for their in class essay that they would need to write after the movie is over. I would use this movie as a prompt to create an essay regarding bullying on one of the students in the film. Using the information that the film gave about the student to use as supporting evidence as to why bullying is not an okay behavior to participate in.

Standards:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.B: Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.D: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.E: Establish and maintain a formal style.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2.F: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the information or explanation presented.

Embed Link – Bully Movie Trailer

Popular Film: 13 Going on 30

 

Producer: Gary Winick

Year: 2004

Length: 1h 38min

Rating: PG-13

Description & why it is BEST: This movie is about a young girl named Jenna at 13 years old who just wishes she could fit in with the ‘cool kids’ her age and wants to do anything to get there, including not being herself. Her best friend Matt gives her a toy playhouse with a bunch of wish dust on it for Jenna’s birthday. At her birthday party Jenna gets upset and wishes she was “30 flirty and thriving”. She wakes up at 30 years old finding out that she stuck with her initiative to stick with the ‘cool kids’. Over the next few days she realizes that these ‘cool kids’ were not fulfilling her, treated her with disrespect, and actually made her a worse of a person. Jenna finds the toy playhouse that Matt made for her and wishes to go back. Once she returns she makes the decisions to be and live for herself and to not give in to peer pressures of socialite statuses of people who are not kind. This movie is best because it addresses the health topic of bullying of the ‘cool kids’, which in the movie are bullies.  The movie makes the connection that someone should always stay true to who they are and that treating others with respect will always make you happier. 

National Health Education Standards:

 

• NHES 2: “Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.”

• V2.8.8 Analyze how relevant influences of media and technology affect personal violence practices and behaviors.

 

• NHES 4: “Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.”
  • V4.8.1 Demonstrate the use of effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to prevent violence.
  • V4.8.3 Demonstrate effective negotiation skills to avoid or reduce violence.
  • V4.8.4 Demonstrate healthy ways to manage or resolve conflict to prevent violence.

• NHES 5: “Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.”
  • V5.8.1 Identify circumstances that help or hinder making a decision to prevent violence.
• NHES 6: “Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.”
  • V6.8.1 Assess personal violence and nonviolent practices

Learning Objective: Students will compare and contrast the main character in a popular film regarding the main character’s perspective at the beginning of the film to the changes in perspective at the end of the film.

Core Integration:

• I would first tell my students that after the movie was over they would be writing a compare/contrast essay on the movie about how the main character felt at the beginning of the movie and how they felt at the end. I would also ask them to include a reflection within the essay about how the main characters feelings related to the people she surrounded herself with and how they treated her. I would advise my students to take notes while we watch the movie. Then afterward I would give the students the next class period to write an their essay. Compare&contract expections embed

Standards:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1.A: Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1.B: Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1.C: Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1.D: Establish and maintain a formal style.
  • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1.E: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.

Embed Link – 13 going on 30 intro.