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Summary and Objective
Students will understand that bullying continues to be a problem in schools. They will compare and contrast a present-day anti-bullying lesson with a 19th century lesson. Students will understand that bullying continues to be a problem in schools. Some elements of anti-bullying lessons have stayed the same and some have changed over time.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
Reading a Visual Image. "One Room School in Wapping" and "On the Way to School." Project a photo in quadrants, covering 3/4 of the photo and revealing 1/4. Do not reveal the title, description, and date of the photo until after questioning the class. Questions; What do you see in the foreground, what do you see in the background? What are people wearing? What are people doing? What can we learn about schools in this time period based on the photographs? Sample answers: The school is very small (one room). There are three teachers. There is a mix of older and younger children.
Step 2.
Use the PBS site to explore changes in public schools beginning in the Common School era. Explore the Then and Now photo archive in the Evolving Classroom which describes the McGuffey Reader. Read aloud the section on the Evolving Classroom and one or two sentences at the top of each page in the Then and Now photo archive. After sharing each web page, make a list of ideas about nineteenth century schools on a class chart.
Step 3.
Read "Cross Boy" from the McGuffey Reader. Discuss the story elements and the central message.
Step 4.
Using your school's Anti-bullying Curriculum locate a scenerio similar to "Cross Boy."
Step 5.
As a group, generate a comparison chart of "Cross Boy" and a contemporary scenerio from your Anti-Bullying Curriculum. Revisit the class chart on ninetenth century schools. Explore and discuss how the school / classroom setup might have encouraged or discouraged bullying. For example, siblings in the same class, large class size, no supervision at recess, no paraprofessionals, etc.
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