This week we added stories and are combining the elements of the website together. This week we got a lot of work done and are on schedule. We worked hard and did a good job catching up to the workload this week and this week was a huge turning point in our project. We are on the home stretch and we are feeling confident about finishing on time and getting a good grade on our final product. We have also realized throughout this project on how to be better people because of the stuff we have learned about the bullies. A lot of the stories we heard ended with the bully getting beat up, the stories we heard were sort of storybook. This means that most ended with a happy ending for the victim. Some were not so lucky, a lot of people that we read about ended up going into depression and some ended their lives. We have learned that we don't want that to happen to anyone, so we are going to start trying to be better people and try to help reduce the amount of bullying that we see go on.
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This week is going to be the week where we are probably going to get a pretty good amount of work done. We have got some pretty good stories and are figuring out how to do some stuff on our website and it has made life a lot easier. We have also found that this project might make us better people because we have now realized that it is better if we are just nicer to people. We looked up some stories just to see how bullying has affected some people and how they tried to overcome it. Some stories ended with that person overcoming their bully and using that to fuel their work effort and become the bigger person. They made something out of their lives and are proud of the person they are today. There are also some people who didn't escape and ended up taking their own lives. This is horrible, no one should ever have to go through what some people have had to go through with bullies. They can be used for a more positive outlook though, they set the example and should make people realize that what you say can really hurt someone. It would be hard to deal with yourself if you were the one who made the person do this, because it is your fault. The way to prevent this from happening is that be nice to people, or just if you are the person bullying someone, try to change your ways and be nice to the person, don't put them down, bring them up. It makes life easier for everyone else to if you aren't just some ignorant jerk.
This week we have passed the halfway point of our project and are now in the closing weeks of genius hour. Most people probably think that this task is quite daunting, and it is to a certain degree, but I think we can overcome it. We have started to up our pace little by little and I think it will be enough to be a pretty good and solid result. We need to keep each other in check and set points like we have done recently on the masks and the writing of our plays. We have also started to ask people about them being bullied and we have learned that even some of the most popular kids in our grade and some of the toughest, have been bullied. This made me realize it is true that literally anyone can be bullied, and that alone is terrifying. The even scarier part is that anyone can become the bully, and that is very easy to do and is definitely easier than being one to stand up against the bully. It also needs to be said that bullying in my opinion is when that person is offended, because if you are at lunch and you and your friends are all making fun of each other, you're probably just enjoying yourselves and no bullying is really going on. If it gets out of hand and someone gets made fun of and is hurt by it, then everyone else joins in, that is bullying. Believe it or not, this is the root of where it starts to a certain extent.
This week marks the halfway point of our project and we have kept a decent pace but we may need to work a tad bit harder and add more elements to the website. The good news is we have a whole lot of information and we can use that on our website to good use. As mentioned in past weeks, we have learned some of the ways to prevent bullying and ways to intervene if someone is being bullied, even if it means some harm may already be done. The other part of the website that is giving us a little difficulty is that though we have all the information, we have to be able to put it on the website. This may sound easy and it is to a certain extent, meaning that we have to find out where to put the information and we have to figure out how to put it in the which it a lot more than just hitting control + c then control + v. In the end I feel like we will finish and it will be a pretty good website and if people look at it they can benefit. This is because we have some good information and have some good tips on how to prevent it. We also will have people's stories and that will also help because it will make people realize it could happen to anyone, even if you were the bully, things can flip and you are the one being bullied.
This week Ryan and I worked more on our website and have started to add our stories to it. We have both either seen people being bullied and we've been bullied. Our next move will be to transition to asking and then adding other peoples stories to the website. We may even ask people who have been the bully and ask them how it made them feel, if they regret doing it, and maybe try and help them change what they have done, even if it just a slight change. Even though we are doing the website about anti bullying, I for one will admit I have been the bully, and looking back on it makes me feel awful. The good news is though that a lot of those people are still my friends today and I have tried hard and worked to build back up friendships. Being a bully is sometimes worse than being the one bullied. This is because no one likes a bully, and until you realize it, you will rarely have friends and someone to even just talk to. So to change that, once you realize what you've done, depending on how bad it is, apologize regardless. Then start to be nice and just try to be friends with the person. A big reason bullies have no friends is sometimes they don't realize what they are doing and they don't know what it is like to have friends.
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