QUEST 6: the Ultimate Bad Guy INFLUENCES

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QUEST 6: The ultimate bad guy

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Curriculum links: PSHE, Citizenship, Literacy Key Stage: Key Stage 2 Zone Relevance: Influences

Aim: These activities will help pupils recognise the characteristics which make a bully. They will also understand actions which could be considered bullying. The activities will begin in the Star Wars realm and then extend into their own lives. These activities provide the opportunity to discuss your school’s behaviour policy for preventing bullying among pupils.

Background: There are many different definitions for bullying. This can be a hard subject to discuss with children but these activities enable you to use the Star Wars world as a starting point. Bullying can be defined as: ... repeated, aggressive behaviour intended to hurt another, physically or mentally. Bullying is characterised by an individual behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person. Severe bullying can lead to a feeling of terror on the part of the person being bullied*. It can be verbal (name- calling and threats), social (exclusion, gossip), physical (hitting, damaging property) or cyberbullying (using social media, text or email to harass). Bullying behaviours can range from: hitting, shoving, name-calling, threats, and mocking to extorting money and possessions. Some people bully by excluding others and spreading rumours about them. Others use email, chat rooms, instant messages, social media, and text messages to taunt others or hurt their feelings.

EDUCATOR’S RESOURCE GUIDE 14 Activity: a. From the list of characters below, ask pupils to choose the ones that they would put in the bully list on Pupil worksheet 1 and give reasons for their decisions.

• Chewbacca • Emperor Palpatine • Padmé Amidala • Yoda • Jar Jar Binks • Tusken Raiders • Jabba the Hutt • Boba Fett • Darth Vader • Leia Organa

b. Pupils should then complete the chart on bullying characteristics and actions on Pupil worksheet 2.

Adapted from an original document created by The Edmonton Telus Science Center.

EDUCATOR’S RESOURCE GUIDE 15 Pupil worksheet 1: Write the name of any Star Wars characters from the list below that you would consider to be a bully and give reasons for your decisions.

a. Emperor Palpatine b. Chewbacca c. Padmé Amidala d. Yoda e. Jar Jar Binks f. Tusken Raiders g. Jabba the Hutt h. Boba Fett i. Darth Vader j. Leia Organa

Bully list

Reasons you think this character Name is a bully

EDUCATOR’S RESOURCE GUIDE 16 Pupil worksheet 2:

1. What character traits do you think a bully has?

2. Place a tick next to any of the following you think are the actions of a bully.

a. Not allowing someone to join your game in the playground. b. Repeatedly phoning someone at home and hanging up the phone for a joke. c. Pushing someone over for no reason. d. Taking somebody’s lunch money. e. Asking to borrow a book from someone and forgetting to return it. f. Celebrating a goal against another team in a game of football. g. Sending an email to someone in your class saying how much you dislike them.

3. Make a list of some of the effects you think bullying has on the victim.

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