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=**Transdisciplinary Themes**= An inquiry into the ways in which we discover and express ideas, feelings, nature, culture, beliefs and values; the ways in which we reflect on, extend and enjoy our creativity; our appreciation of the aesthetic.
 * How we express ourselves**

=**Essential Agreement**= =**Group Name and Members**= Musical: **Olivia**, Anitra, David and Matthew =**Central Idea**= Musicals can reach out to people to help them understand bullying and how we can help someone that is a victim of bullying.
 * Listen to the ideas of others
 * Be honest in our work (includes citing resources)
 * Be inclusive
 * Share thinking with group members so everyone agrees
 * Work to the best of our abilities – put in a good effort
 * Share the workload evenly
 * Stay focused on our work when it’s time to work
 * Set deadlines and meet deadlines

=**Formulating questions**= =**Lines of Inquiry**=
 * Why do people bully?- causation
 * What should you do if you see someone being bullied?- responsibility
 * How does bullying affect other people?- connection
 * How will our musical raise awareness to stop bullying?
 * Reasons why people bully
 * What can you do to help someone being bullied
 * How bullying affects other people
 * How our musical will raise awareness to stop bullying

=**Key Concepts**= Causation Responsibility Connection Change

=**Research**=

Using the resources provided and your own experience, define what bullying means to you.
Bullying to me is when a person or a group gangs up on someone on a regular basis physically, verbally, socially or bullies someone over the internet (cyber). **__Physical Bullying__** which most boys do is punching, pinching, strangling, kicking, poking, shoving and hurting someone with you body. **__Verbal and Social bullying__** which most girls do is teasing, sarcasm, spreading false rumors about someone, excluding people from a group, mobbing and hurting people with your words. __**Cyber bullying**__ is posting lies about someone on the internet. Making fun of someone by texting or e-mail and hurting people using the world wide web. Bullying can make people feel afraid, shy, embarrassed, battered, ashamed, afraid to go to school and left out. There are people that are called **__Bystanders__**. Bystanders stand and watch someone being bullied so they are exactly like the bully because they are not doing anything to help.

__**What can you do to help someone being bullied**__ __**How bullying affects other people**__ Bullying can affect people in many different ways. If someone is being bullied by a sibling they can get the feel of bullying and bully someone else. If you are being bullied you will feel nervous and insecure and find it difficult to concentrate which effect your marks and abilities to work as a group or team member with your peers. Also, If someone is being bullied it can effect their family because who would want their kids to be so upset over bullying or have them thinking to end there life. __**How our musical will raise awareness to stop bullying**__ Our musical will raise awareness to stop bullying because our finale song is about this boy who killed himself because he was being bullied. This boy was in the paper, on tv etc. Our song is about his whole life from the day he was born till he killed himself because of bullying. We think that if we show our school and different schools our musical with this song in it, it will definitely tell people not to bully and to stand up. We hope other children will realize their not alone and just because they are being bullied doesn't mean there is something wrong with them
 * __Reasons why people bully__**
 * Having an older sibling or someone else that is bullying them
 * Being jealous
 * Watching fighting at home
 * Getting attention, to be popular, cool
 * Being scared
 * They feel the need to bully
 * Full of anger
 * Don't join in
 * Don't fight the bully in any way it will lead to worse situations
 * Believe the kid being bullied. Listen to what they say
 * Don't listen to the bully or they will think that they're in power
 * Make sure the kid tells an adult
 * Stand up
 * Refuse to join in and don't sit down and watch
 * Be a friend and give empathy
 * Don't be a bystander and do nothing. Take action and get help if necessary

=**Discussion Question**=

How have you researched your exhibition project? Discuss areas of success and areas that have been a challenge for you.
I've been using websites and books. One of the websites that helped me explain my lines of inquiry was **__Bullying.org__** because one of the columns was frequently asked questions and there were questions that were our formulating questions that related to our lines of inquiry so that was an area of success. Another area of success was **__Bully Canada__** because they talked about the different kinds of bullying and how victims feel when there being bullied. Some websites that we printed off to find info about Mitchell Wilson was **__Huffington Post__** and **__Toronto Sun__**. One of the books that helped me was **__Take a Stand!__** and it gave me a lot of info on **__Bystanders.__**

What have you learned about bullying through the course of the exhibition process?
I learned about **__Social bullying__**. Social bullying is like verbal bullying except verbal is like calling people names and social bullying is mobbing or embarrassment. I also learned about **__Bully victims__**. Bully victims are people that are being bullied and when they are being bullied they become a bully. Another thing I learned about was **__Cliques__**. Cliques is when a group of people gang up on someone and bullies them. A clique can happen if someone is a bully and their friends bully people with them and make the bully think that it is okay to bully someone when it's not. Also, I learned what a **__Friend to a Target__** is. A friend to a target is when someone is friends and one of the friends bully the other friend. A friend to a target can happen if you have a friend that has a lot in common with you so you can get competitive and see them as a threat.

===Has working on the exhibition changed your outlook on bullying, bullies or those that are bullied? Discuss.=== It changed my outlook on bullying because I learned that not a lot of kids deal with bullying in the right ways. It made me think that **__why do kids do this?__** It's pretty devastating to think that kids commit suicide because they don't have skills, confidence, support and information on dealing with bullies.

===What skills have you developed over the course of the exhibition //(research, communication, organization, etc.)//=== My research skills have improved because on our wikis we had a research column and if we had a 2 or 4 periods to work on our exhibition we would cut the time in half and work on our research skills then work on our filming which really helped. Also, I improved on my organization because I had to organize all of the scripts and make sure that everyone knew their lines.

Explain the making of your film, from pre-production to post-production.
=**Film Making**=
 * First, we got a piece of paper and wrote our ideas for our musical and wrote facts about bullying
 * Then, we got all of our ideas and came up with the characters and the plot
 * When we were finished that we started writing our scripts
 * After, we stared working on the songs
 * When the songs and the dialogue was done we made 6 good copies
 * Then, we picked the roles and rehearsed the scenes and songs
 * We filmed scene 2-5 at the upper school and filmed scenes 1-6 and the songs at the lower school
 * Then we edited on the macs
 * We got our powerpoint presentation finished
 * And lastly, we rehearsed our presentation and watch our video when it was done

What is your project?
Musical

How is your project connected to your central idea?
Our project is connected to our central idea because our central idea is about people understanding bullying and helping someone that is being bullied and our musical reflects people becoming bullies and helping a friend or a classmate that is being bullied

What are your responsibilities for your project?

 * Editing
 * Songs
 * Photocopying the script
 * i pad

What resources will you need?
=Bibliography=
 * Camera
 * Tri-pod
 * i pad
 * mac
 * cast
 * songs and scripts rehearsed
 * green screen

BOOKS Last Name, First Name || Copyright Date © || Title || Publisher ||
 * Author/s or Editor/s
 * Golus, Carrie || 2009 || Take a Stand! || lerner publications company ||

ONLINE DATABASES / ENCYCLOPEDIAS Last Name, First Name || Title of Database / Encyclopedia || Date website visited Day/Month/Year ||
 * Title of article || Author

WEBSITES Last Name, First Name || Date website visited Day/Month/Year ||
 * Title of web page || URL || Author
 * Bullying Canada || http://www.bullyingcanada.ca/content/239900 ||  || 30/4/12 ||
 * Bullying.org || http://www.bullying.org/htm/main.cfm?content=1059#q15 ||  || 3/5/12 ||

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE Day/Month/Year || Pages ||
 * Author - Last Name, First Name || Title of Article || Title of Newspaper || Date of Article