Write a juicy story about a school yard bully who has come to resemble the infamous Pitbull dog.To get started, make a list of some of the qualities of a Pitbull.
Remember some of the bullies at your school and write short portraits, trying to include facial, physical and Pitbull characteristics.
Read some Dahl or Paul Jennings to get more ideas about creating a portrait.
Possible Responses
- Undertake a survey and investigate issues of bullying at school.
- Spend some time reflecting about times when you were bullied.
- Trace your hands and draw puppet figures on the top of each figure. Give these characters names and imagine they come from two gangs.
- Write a story or script.
- Design a page for a newspaper
- Publish your story using Microsoft Word.
- Present a short play to the class.
Discipline based learning domains that can make use of this activity.
- Arts
- English
- Humanities
- Languages
Dimensions Covered
- Creating and Making
- Exploring and Responding
- Reading
- Writing
- Speaking
- Communication in a LOTE subject
- Communication
- Design, creativity and technology
- Thinking
Inter-disciplinary Learning domains that become involved
- Communication
- Design,
- Creativity
- Technology
Dimensions Addressed
- Investigating and designing
- ICT for Creating
- I CT for Communicating
- Reasoning
- Processing
- Inquiry
- Reflection
- Evaluation
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