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    Is It Joking or Bullying?

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    Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)

    Lesson Length: 30 - 40 mins

    Topic: Bullying

    Grade Level: 4, 5, 6

    Standards / Framework:

    Brief Description: Students will learn the difference between joking and bullying.

    Know Before You Start: Students should be made aware of school policies on bullying.

    Hook:

    • Share and discuss the sample comic.

    • In small groups, have students discuss each scenario:

      • Is it joking or bullying? 
      • How do they know? 
      • Have they ever seen something like this happen? Has it happened to them? 
      • How do you cope or support the victim in this situation?

    Activity:

    • Create a three-panel comic describing a bullying scenario where the bully thought they were joking, but another person felt bullied

    Closure:

    • Have students discuss their comics.
      • Was it easy telling which was playful joking and which was bullying?
      • Why or why not?
      • How might today’s comic scenarios make an impact on how we interact with friends and peers? 

    Differentiation:

    • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.

    • Provide questions for small group discussion.

    • Provide sentence frames as needed.

    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

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