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=**Transdisciplinary Themes**=

=**How we express ourselves**= 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. =**Essential Agreement**= =**Group Name and Members**= Musical: **David**,Olivia,Anitra,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. =**Formulating questions**= The reasons why people bully? What can do to help if you see someone being bullied? How dose bullying affect other people? How will are musical raise awareness to stop bullying? =**Lines of Inquiry**= The reasons why people bully. What you can do to help if you see someone being bullied. How bullying affects other people. Our musical will raise awareness to stop bullying. =**Key Concepts**= Causation Responsibility Connection Change =**Research**=
 * 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

Using the resources provided and your own experience, define what bullying means to you.
Bullying is when a "boss'' or a group of people (bullies) either do mean things to a person (victim) physically, mentally, social and online bullying (cyber-bullying). These are the main 4 types of bullying. Physical bullying means that the bully/bullies hurts you with punches, kicks and other actions they do to make you feel pain on the outside. mentally bullying means that people call you names that make you feel bad about yourself and cyber-bullying is when a bully emails or texts you something mean and insulting. Social bullying is: mobbing, scapegoating, excluding others from a group or humiliating others with public gesture or graffiti intended to put others down. Cyber-bullying is sending a mean e-mail or comment to someone.The victim feels shyness, stomachaches, headaches, panic attacks, not being able to sleep, sleeping to much and/or having nightmares. If one of these only happens once it's just being mean but if it happens everyday it is bullying.

What are some reasons people bully?
Bulling is a behavior people learn Bullies could have been bullied once in their life People bully to make them seem superior to others They think it makes them popular or able to 'fit in' They think that they can get power and strength They are scared about something about themselves so they pick on other people so they don't get picked on first They feel unhappy so they let it out on others They feel little or no responsibility for their actions and often feel the need to control others and often feel the need to win They feel jealous of the person they're bullying They're unable to understand and appreciate feelings of others They bully people they know they can win against

What you can do if you see someone being bullied
You can tell somebody else like a teacher, or a parent of the kid who is being bullied 'Once my friends knew about it, it wasn't long for them to stick up for me' quotes Brad Perry from his experience in middle/high school of getting bullied, telling his close friends and having them stick up for him (If you see someone being bullied stand up for them) Don't be a by-stander because bullies usually like to have an audience to watch and that makes them feel cool,as though they have the right to do what they're doing and powerful. If you see someone being bullied and not tell anyone that makes you no better then the bully Don't join in on the bullying Stop the rumors When the bully is gone, try and help the person who's being bulled by making sure they're okay and encourage them to tell an adult

How bullying affects other people

 * victims can become bullies to others
 * victims can kill themselves because they feels to afraid to go to school or really wants to like Jacob White a 11 year old boy wanted because he was bullied. It started when the bullies disrespected him and called him names so he tries to avoid the group but encounters them several times a week and gets attacked by them by having rocks thrown at him and is thrown to the ground and gets punched and kicked. He quotes: 'sometimes I fight back because they won't stop or I just let them beat me up because it's getting to a point where it just doesn't hurt anymore'.
 * victims can feel shyness, stomachaches, headaches, panic-attacks, not being able to sleep, sleeping to much and/or having nightmares (Jacob White started having nightmares when he moved into an apartment with bully in it.)
 * other kids can think of the victim as someone who's not powerful

Our musical will raise awareness to stop bullying
Our musical will raise awareness to stop bullying because at the end of our musical me, Matthew, Anitra and Olivia sing a sing about a 10-11 year old boy who killed himself because he was getting bullied at school. I think that it will make the audience more aware of how strongly bullying can affect the victim because we used a real life example in the song about bullying. It will show kids not to stand by when they see bullying but to stand up. Discussion Questions

How have you researched your exhibition project? Discuss areas of success and areas that have been a challenge for you.
I researched my exhibition with websites and newspaper articles. I had trouble finding information for my wiki because I only used one website but then I looked at allot more websites and articles and got way more information.

Explain the making of your film, from pre-production to post-production.
It all started with me and my group thinking of ideas in music class. We had a bit of trouble thinking of ideas but we came up with some. Some we used, some we changed a bit but used and some we scraped. About a week or two later we started our wikis. After that we got started doing the storyboard and then the script. Soon we had our script and we were practicing our lines and songs but during that time Ms.Hord helped us write the music for the finally. We did our filming in front of a green screen sort-of memorized and we finished last in our class. We have also done are editing which was hard but it all paid off in the end.

What have you learned about bullying through the course of the exhibition progress
I have learned allot about bullying from physical bullying to verbal bullying to cyber bullying. I also learned a sad story of an eleven year old boy who killed himself because he was being bullied. I have also learned lot's of reasons why people bully.

Has working on the exhibition changed your outlook on bullying, bullies or those that are bullied? Discuss.
Yes, now I feel even worse for the victim because I found out allot of victims commit suicide.I also feel bullying is a delikit situatoin to deal with if your an adult.

What skills have you developed over the course of the exhibition //(research, communication, organization, etc.)//
I have developed over the course of the exhibition was my research skill because I worked on my wiki using websites. I had to read the infomation and think if it was related. =**Film making**=

What is your project?
To write a musical to hopefully raise awareness to stop bullying in the future because bullying is bad.

How is your project connected to your central idea?
My central idea is how are musical can reach out to people and help them understand bullying and how we can help someone who is a victum of bullying. Our musical relates to the central idea because our musical is about bullying and it shows allot of examples. I don't think it shows how we can help a victum of bullying though.

What are your responsibilities for your project?

 * song learning
 * my own costumes
 * lines memorized (mine)
 * to help edit
 * to learn what to act

What resources will you need?
=Bibliography=
 * camera
 * costumes
 * green screen
 * extras
 * actors
 * scrips memorized

BOOKS

Last Name, First Name || Copyright Date © || Title || Publisher ||
 * Author/s or Editor/s

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
 * What is Bullying || http://www.bullyingcanada.ca/content/239900 ||  || 29/April/2012 ||
 * Why do people bully || http://www.bullying.org/htm/main.cmf?content=1059 ||  || 3/May/2012 ||
 * Bullying, it affects everyone || http://www.bullyingcanada.ca/content/249316 || Brad Perry || 7/May/2012 ||

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Day/Month/Year || Pages ||
 * Author - Last Name, First Name || Title of Article || Title of Newspaper || Date of Article
 * Doucette Chris || Just give me a knife || The Toronto Sun || Friday/September/30/2011 || 3 ||