PIEROBON SCHOOL AGAINST BULLYING AND CYBERBULLYING

Tough Kid Bully Blocker

Make your school bully-free!

To block bullying at our school, we need to recognize bullying and learn what to do to prevent it.

What is bullying?

· Bullying is one-sided. That means it only gets one way.

  Teasing back and forth is not bullying. Two-sided arguments are not bullying.

  Bullying goes one way.

· Bullying is intentional. That means it’s on purpose.

  Accidentally hurting someone is not bullying. Bullying is on purpose.

· Bullying is repeated. That means they’ll do it over and over again.

· Remember: bullying goes one way, it’s on purpose and it’s repeated.

· Bullying is hurtful and can make you or someone else very, very sad.



How are people bullied?

· Bullying can be physical.

  The bully might use his body or hands to hurt someone.

· Bullying can be verbal.

  The bully might use mean words, ridicule or spread rumors about someone.

· Bullying can also happen when someone is left out or excluded on purpose, or when       someone tries to damage friendships. 

  When a bully or bullies use friendships to hurt someone, that is called relationship bullying.

Who is a bully?

· A bully can be a boy or a girl, or even a group of kids.

· Some kids watch other kids get bullied, or even laugh when someone is bullied.

To have a safe and bully-free school, we all must remember and use the bully blocker pledge.

· I agree not to bully other students.

· I will help students who are bullied by speaking out, and getting adult help.

· I will include students who are left out.

  Remember: bullying is on purpose and hurts othe people. No one likes to be bullied.

  Let’s all say the pledge.

Youtube: Learning About Bullying - Pt 1, The Tough Kid Bully Blocker Shorts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcFICCVWliY



Safe Web Surfing: Top Tips for Kids and Teens Online

Top 4 things you absolutely need to know about Internet safety:

1. The Internet is forever. Anything you put on the Internet will be there for a long time. So, what to do? Start by googling your name, your phone number, your address, just to find out what’s really online. If you are on social media, use the strictest privacy settings.

2. Don’t put personal information online. If you do, it leaves you open for attacks fron either cyberbullies or just someone who wants to take advantage of you. Ask a friend what private information thay can see on your sites. If you’re not happy with the answer, remove it.

3. Don’t forget about smartphone safety. Don’t accept phone calls or texts from strangers. Only answer tests and phone calls from your contact list.

4. Handle hacking intelligently. No matter how careful you are, your account may get hacked. There are a few important things to do when you get hacked to ensure your safety:

· Change your password, and make the new one secure. Check if your email service provide a 2-step verification.

· Check your sent-box and let any affected people know that you were spammed, especially if your account sent out a phishing link.

· Do a sweep of your computer with antivirus software. Odds are not only did you send something nasty to your friends - you might have something nasty in your hard drive!

· Backup your files. If there’s a virus your computer doesn’t catch, you don’t want to lose everything. Invest in a cheap portable drive and keep it somewhere safe.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrln8nyVBLU

How to beat cyberbullies 

1. Privacy is prevention. Take a second to go through any place you store data about yourself online and make sure the privacy settings are air tight. 

Make sure your Facebook settings don’t give out your email address or phone number.

2. When bullied, don’t respond and don’t retailate. Retaliating to a cyberbully just encourages the bully because you’re giving him what he wants.

3. Block the bully if possible. What’s better than ignoring a bully? Making it impossible for him to contact you! Try the following methods to make it harder for your bully to reach you:

· if you’re on a messaging system, set it up so that only contacts on your buddy list can contact you – if this doesn’t work, try going invisible or blocking the individual screen names that you know to be dangerous.

· Screen all incoming phone calls and text messages. If necessary, temporarily suspend your social media pages.

4. Save the information and tell someone. First and foremost, report the bullying to the service provider, because cyberbullying is outlawed on most sites and messenger services and it is illegal in most states – bullies might think nobody knows who they are, but they leave an electronic trail. 

Save any threatening correspondence, email, Facebook, phones, etc, and show it to somebody you trust. This could be a parent, teacher or friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAjGnivJEBs

NATIVE AMERICANS' FIGHT FOR THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS

Civil Rights - Native American Rights 

The Native American tribes of the United States have fought for their rights since the arrival of the Europeans. Today they are still fighting for their civil rights.

Early History 

Before the arrival of the settlers, many different Native American groups lived on the East Coast of today’s United States. They spoke different languages. Some were farmers, some were hunters. 

These groups are called tribes. They had their own cultures, their religion, a system of trade.

The first meetings between Europeans and the natives of the East Coast took place after Columbus discovered America. French fishermen looking for whales often traded with the local Indians and paid them for their work.

The first settlers in New England arrived in 1620. They wanted to live in peace with the Indians. They needed to trade with them for food. 

Land was very important to the Europeans: possessing land meant that a person was rich. American Indians believed no person could own land, they believed that anyone could use it. 

At first, the Indians helped the settlers by teaching them how to survive in their territories. But the Indians did not understand that the settlers wanted to keep the land. This idea was foreign to the Indians, it was like trying to own the air, or the clouds.

As the years passed, more and more settlers arrived, and took more and more land. They cut down trees. They built fences. They demanded the Indians to stay off their land. Settlers began to think that the Indians were evil because they weren’t Christians. 

But they didn’t understand that the Native Americans were extremely religious: they believed that all things in the universe depend on each other. All native tribes had ceremonies that honored a creator of nature. 

Other events also led to serious problems between the Native Americans and the settlers. One problem was disease. The settlers brought sickness with them from Europe, for example smallpox. Some people carried the bacteria that caused it, and unintentionally killed whole tribes. And, smallpox was only one such disease. There were many others.



The Indians are Forced Out 

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act: five Tribes (the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole and Choctaw) had to move from the south-east of the United States to Oklahoma. 

Most of them were forced to travel on foot. If they refused to go, they were killed. This march is called the Trail of Tears. Thousands of people died during the march.

No Longer Considered Nations 

From the beginning, the United States made treaties with different Native American tribes. The tribes were recognized as independent nations. 

In 1871, a law said that the tribes were no longer considered nations and that the previous treaties with the tribes were not valid anymore.

Getting Worse 

Then, Native Americans were forced to live on reservations and they also continued to lose land because of new laws made by the U.S. government. Native Americans often lived in poverty, had low employment and poor education.

Indian Citizenship Act 

As Indians were moved from their tribal lands and saw their traditional cultures destroyed, a movement to protect their rights began to grow.

The American Constitution says that all persons born in the United States are US citizens. But this wasn’t valid for Native Americans. They could not vote in elections even if they were born in the country. 

In 1924, a new law gave Native Americans full citizenship including the right to vote, but only in 1948 they could vote in every state of the USA.

Making Things Better

In 1934, Congress passed the Indian Reorganization Act. Native American tribes had the right to govern themselves on their reservations, write constitutions and manage their lands and resources. It also gave some money for Native Americans to start their own businesses and get a college education.

But conditions on the reservations did not improve. Most tribes remained poor.

Only thirty years later, Native Americans got the right to freedom of religion and the right to a trial by jury. 

Moving Forward 

There are many problems with Native American civil rights. This is also because people who live on reservations are dual citizens: they are citizens of the United States, but also of a tribal nation.

From 1975, tribes can have control of programs about education and resource management. Many tribes have also used their new freedom to legalize gambling and to open casinos on their reservations.

Now the tribes have the right to conduct traditional ceremonies and rituals, including those that use otherwise prohibited substances like peyote cactus and eagle bones.

The tribes of today try to maintain their old traditions. They practice their religion, they gather at pow-wows, pass on dances and songs. 

But conditions on the reservations can be comparable to Third World. 

Half of the adults haven’t got a job and live in poverty. In families, fathers often must leave the reservation to seek work, and grandparents have to take care of their grandchildren.

It is common for 3 or more generations to live in a two-bedroom home with inadequate kitchen facilities, cooling, heating, running water. All these problems cause health risks. Hospitals and doctors are far from the reservations.

There is a high percentage of alcohol and drug use, suicide attempts, vandalism, stealing, violence, mental health problems. Most of the children and teenagers aren’t good students and don’t go to high school or university. 

All this is the result of a cultural trauma after centuries of dispossession and practices intentionally designed to break apart culture, communities, families and identities. They need help in order to survive.




YouTube videos:

The "Indian Problem": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if-BOZgWZPE

Trail of Tears Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rJr4kgDdqU

Trail of Tears for Kids Documentary (cartoon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q5Z4UUitdU

Reservation | Native Americans | One Word | Cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOWUDM1GBhk

How Independent Are Native American Reservations?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcivYX3IUGA



QUESTIONNAIRE

1. How were the tribes on the East Coast before the arrival of the Europeans?

2. Who were the first Europeans to contact Native Americans?

3. When did the first settlers arrive in New England?

4. Why was it important for the Europeans to possess land?

5. What did American Indians think about land?

6. How were the first contacts between Europeans and Natives?

7. What did the Indians not understand about the settlers?

8. How did the settlers change land as the years passed?

9. Why did the settlers think the Indians were evil?

10. How were Indian religious?

11. What were the consequences of new diseases brought by the Europeans?

12. What did the Indian Removal Act say?

13. Where did the tribes have to go?

14. Was it possible for the tribes to remain on their land?

15. How did they travel to Oklahoma?

16. How is this sad historical event called?

17. What happened in 1871?

18. How did things get worse?

19. What changed with the Indian Citizenship Act?

20. What was the Indian Reorganization Act?

21. Did things change on the reservations after this law?

22. Why are people living on reservations dual citizen?

23. What are the Native Americans’ right today?

24. How are living conditions on a reservation?

25. How are the houses on a reservation?

26. What problems are there?

27. Why can we talk of a cultural trauma?

28. What is your opinion about what you have learned about Native Americans?

29. How would it be possible to help them in your opinion?

30. Do you know any other ethnic group whose civil rights are denied? Talk about it.

WATER SCARCITY IN AFRICA: STUDENTS' ARTIFACTS

HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE

Harry Potter

and the philosopher's stone

This film is a fantasy film.

It was shot in 2001 in the U.K.; the film director was Chris Columbus.

The main actors were Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger).

It is adapted from the book “Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone” by J.K. Rowling.

PLOT

Harry was a boy, he was 11 years old and he lived with his uncle Vernon, his aunt Petunia and his cousin Dudley. He thought he was a normal boy, but one day of September a strange man came to their home: he was very big and his name was Hagrid. 

Hagrid told Harry he was a wizard and that year he would go to the magic and witchcraft school of Hogwarts.

Harry went with Hagrid to Diagon Alley, which was a magical street with a lot of shops, 
and there they bought the material that was necessary for that school year.

During the travel on a magic train, he met Ron and Hermione.

In Hogwarts, the students were sorted in four houses: Slytherin, Ravenclaw, 

Hufflepuff and Gryffindor; Harry was put in the last one.

From that moment, Harry and his friends had a lot of adventures, for example 

the young guys fought and won Voldemort, an evil wizard. 

Harry Potter found a magical stone with super powers and killed one of his teachers 

who was a supporter of Lord Voldemort. Obviously, he did all this with the help of his 

friends.

The first time I watched this film was one year ago and I was at home with my 

sister that made pop-corns.

I like it because I love fantasy films.

I suggest everybody to see it because it was well shot and it has got a wonderful 

plot.  

                                                            FILIPPO CASADO MORENO, 2B

THE INVISIBLE BOY

The Invisible Boy is a fantasy film.

It was shot in 2014 in Italy and France.

The film director was Gabriele Salvatores.

The main actor was Ludovico Giraldello, Gabriele Silenzi in the film.

The film was adapted from the book “Il ragazzo invisibile” by Alessandro Fabbri, Stefano Sardo and Ludovico Rampoldi.

Michele Silenzi was a shy, adopted, thirteen years old boy and he lived with his single mum – because his dad was dead.

School bullies played tricks on him. He bought a cool costume for a Halloween party for 50 euros, but the bullies stole it. So he went to buy a costume in an obscure Chinese store. 

Bullies made him ashamed at the party showing his friend Stella that he secretly filmed her on his phone. Michele wanted to become invisible and when, the next morning, he didn’t see himself in the mirror, he achieved his dream. He was really invisible! 

After Stella’s artistic gymnastics training ended, he went to the women’s dressing room but the girls surprised him.

Three children of the school disappeared and one of them was Stella. In the meantime, a mysterious mand told Michele he was his real dad and he also told him that he and Michele were members of a secret Russian group called the Specials. All members of this group had superpowers.

The organization tried to identify Michele by kidnapping children from his school.  At this point of the story, Michele learnt to control his invisibility. After he won the leader of the Specials, he saved the children. And then his father wiped everybody’s memory.

The film ended with a big revelation: the leader of the Specials was Michele’s real mum!

The final scene shows Michele’s real mum informed by other Specials that they didn’t catch Michele but they located his sister in Morocco.

I saw this film with my brother and my mum at the cinema.

I liked it because I love superhero films and because it has got an open ending.

I suggest everybody to see it because it is for every age.

Angelo Consoli, 2B

WATER SCARCITY IN AFRICA

WATER SCARCITY IN AFRICA - Plastic caps can save lives!

Nearly 400 million people in Africa don’t have access to clean water. 

 

Most Africans live with less than a litre of water a day. Every day, thousands of people walk many hours to get water, and it isn’t always clean. Dirty water makes children sick, causes diseases and death.

But you can find clean water underground in Africa. It is sufficient to have a pump to get it.

 

An example is the playpump. It is a merry-go-round – attached to a pump. Every spin sends clean water into a storage tank.

This system uses the power of children playing. The water comes out of a tap.

The pump takes only a few days to assemble. The water tastes good.

 

Clean water means less disease and less carrying time, especially for young girls. That leaves more time for school and for playing.

Easy to build, easy to maintain, playpumps are a low-cost solution to a great problem.

 

Incontro fra i Popoli helps people in Congo, Kenya, Camerun and in other central African Nations.

This organisation builds playpumps in schools. It also helps children in many other ways.

How can we help? It’s easy! We can bring our plastic caps to school and put them into the blue bins outside the school’s front door. Operators from Incontro fra i Popoli sell them to recycling companies. With the money they get, they build playpumps in Africa.

Don’t throw your plastic caps away: you can give your contribution to a solidarity project and save lives… for free!

Youtube videos:

Water scarcity in Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csCfoQd4vxI

Short film for save water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paVt_WZJ0B8

Water doesn’t come out of a tap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teX2l_E40mw

Playpumps International – National Geographic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjgcHOWcWGE

Playpump BBC2 July ‘09: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg_vWWqj-2M

Playpumps roundabout water solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5mPKOCpLow

Pozzo a giostra – in viaggio con Leopoldo Rebellato: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnwlckauyE4

Stappa la solidarietà: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPbIGOPmetI

GUGGENHEIM 2018 - PRIMITIVE ART AND MODERN ART

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM VENICE - 2018

PRIMITIVE ART AND MODERN ART

At the beginning of the 20^th Century, artists thought that the European culture was corrupt, artificial and superficial. Some of them visited Ethnographic Museums and discovered cultures and arts made of power and magic, even if they were considered primitive.

They found them essential, abstract and irrational, but capable of freedom, full of emotions. They loved the cultures of Africa, the Orient, the Americas and Oceania, they wanted to celebrate cultural diversity, universal art.

For them, Primitivism represented the simplification of form, it showed the truth of life. A lot of artists were influenced by Primitivism: Picasso, Braque, Gauguin, Derain, Giacometti, Brancusi and many more, but we will focus on three artists: Jackson Pollock, Max Ernst and Henry Moore.

Nude with Raised Arms the Avignon Dancer, Pablo Picasso, 1907

Head of a Woman, Georges Braque, 1909

The Couple, Alberto Giacometti, 1927

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9RrO0dtu5M

MAX ERNST

Max Ernst was born in Germany in 1891.

He began painting when he was 20. During the First World War, Ernst had to serve in the army. War was a trauma for him. He started to consider the world as irrational. He hated Nazism. 

During the Second World War, Ernst was sent twice to a concentration camp. The first time he was freed, the second time he had to escape.

Peggy Guggenheim helped him to reach the USA.  He and Peggy got married but their relationship didn’t last long. 

He moved to Arizona and was fascinated by the Zumi and Hopi Indian art and culture. He studied them also in the New York Museum of American Indians and had a collection of Hopi and Zumi Kachina Dolls. He liked the tenacity of the Native American tribes who struggled for their individuality.

In New York, Ernst helped to bring about Abstract Expressionism. This movement had an emotional intensity and was against figurative painting. It was art about the process of making art.

The Forest (La Forêt), 1927–28

The Entire City (La Ville entière), 1936–37

Painters experimented with new techniques like dripping, spraying, staining, pouring and working on the floor.

Ernst died in France in 1976.

Zoomorphic Couple (Couple zoomorphe), 1933 - Oil on canvas

Under the influence of Surrealism, Ernst developed his “frottage” or rubbing technique. In his first frottages, he dropped pieces of paper at random on floor boards and rubbed them with pencil or chalk, transferring the design of the wood to the paper. He next adapted this technique to oil painting, scraping paint from prepared canvases laid over materials such as wire mesh, leaves, buttons, or twine.

In this painting, he put a string of rope full of paint on a canvas and then sprayed paint on it. He combined layers of pastel colour under blown, spattered and dripped paint. You can see the image of a bird and a humanoid form in the painting. A zoomorphic figure is the image of a deity having the form of an animal. Both the figures here have much of animals. This painting was composed under the Nazi Socialism, before Ernst’s arrival into the US, but it shows his interest in the mysterious and powerful elements of nature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERfB9gl8ZtM

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoycsuRUA2A

JACKSON POLLOCK

Jackson Pollock was born in 1912 in Wyoming, USA. He began to study painting in Los Angeles, then he moved to New York and studied art there. He never had enough money, so Peggy Guggenheim paid him for four years and he could spend all his time painting.

The Moon Woman, 1942

When he was 25, he started painting in an abstract way. He laid his canvas on the floor and dripped and splattered paint across it. 

He didn’t want to paint a landscape or a portrait: Pollock wanted to paint action. When you look at one of his drip paintings, your eyes wander across the entire canvas in constant motion. In this way, Pollock achieved his goal; the creation of the painting is active and so is the viewing of the painting.

Alchemy, 1947

To do his drip paintings, Pollock used big cans of paint to cover the canvas. He used sticks, trowels, or knives to drip and splatter paint, or poured paint directly from the can. He put into action the notions of the subconscious and automatic painting. Pollock’s drips were called “action paintings,” and contributed to the development of Abstract Expressionism.

Pollock valued Native American art. He grew up in Arizona and knew the culture od the Navajo tribe. When he was in New York, he saw Indian sand painting demonstrations at the Museum of Modern Art, and he was inspired by them for the development of his technique. He learnt that Indian medicine men sprinkled coloured sands on surface in a trance dance. That’s where he had the idea of the dripping method. He poured paint moving around the canvas with dance-like movements. The dance was never complete until the painting had revealed itself, then the artist stopped. Pollock was interested in the unconscious, and shamanism is deeply related to it.

Jackson Pollock died in a car accident when he was 42 years old.

  Enchanted Forest, 1947.

Enchanted Forest is an example of Jackson Pollock’s abstract compositions created by the pouring, dripping, and splattering of paint on large canvases. In this painting, Pollock leaves large areas of white in the network of moving, expanding lines. He also decides to use only gold, black, red, and white. He creates a delicate balance of form and colour through rhythms of lines that move into continuous, lyrical motion. One’s eye follows the lines of colour without being arrested by any dominant focus. Rather than describing a form, Pollock’s line becomes continuous form. In Pollock’s drip paintings, his lines show the freedom from contours and shapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdlZvu5dTpU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMl62DE2Qiw

HENRY MOORE

 Henry Moore was born in England in 1898. He was a teacher and was in the army in the First World War. Then he went to Leeds School of Art to learn to become a sculptor. He was inspired by nature, by the hills of his area, he collected interesting stones, animal bones and tree roots on his walks in the countryside.

During the Second World War, he became famous for his drawings of people when they were in the London Underground used as bomb shelters. These drawings show all the feeling of fear and anxiety of these people.

Tube Shelter Perspective, 1941

Three Fates, 1941

Today, he is more is famous for his sculptures of people with bumpy forms and hollow spaces in their bodies. His first sculptures showed one person at a time, but then he focused on groups of people. He studied their movements, their interactions, he found out abstract, pure forms which transformed bodies into totems, more alien than human.

Family Group, 1949

Three standing figures, 1947

Moore had a deep admiration for Mexican sculpture. His interest in primitive art made him consider new forms in sculpture. From the end of the 19^th Century, Anthropology and Ethnography began to study primitive ethnic groups. After a visit at the Ethnographic Room at the British Museum of London, Moore started to look to Aztec and Maya sculpture for inspiration. He saw much more energy in this art than in any other, even if he loved African primitive art as well.

Henry Moore died in 1986 in England.

Three Standing Figures, 1953 

This sculpture is related to the African influence on Henry Moore and to the “shelter” drawings. There is a variety of gestures, and Moore adds forms of bones and rocks to the human figures. The perforations suggest a process of erosion by water and wind. The bodies are abstract and some anatomical parts are exaggerated. They may give the idea of disorder, even if they are ordered in a row. They are fixed on a pedestal and they don’t touch or watch each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Vx6Q3zZSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O4R90nA8sc

Questionnaire

1.    What did artists think at the beginning of the 20th Century? 2.    How did they discover primitive art? 3.    How did they consider it? 4.    What cultures did they like? 5.    What was Primitivism for them? 6.    Who were interested in Primitivism? 7.    When and where was Max Ernst born? 8.    What did he do during World War I? 9.    What was his opinion about Nazism? 10.  What happened to him during World War II? 11.  What was Abstract Expressionism? 12.  Where did he go after the war? 13.  What did he discover when he was in Arizona? 14.  Where did he study Native Americans? 15.  What did he like about them? 16.  What is abstract Expressionism? 17.  What were the new techniques experimented? 18.  How did he do his “frottages”? 19.  How did he compose the painting Zoomorphic couple? 20.  What can you see in the painting? 21.  What is a zoomorphic figure? 22.  When was the painting composed? 23.  When and where was Jackson Pollock born? 24.  Where did he study art?

25.  How did Peggy Guggenheim help him? 26.  How did his style change when he was 25? 27.  How did he paint? 28.  What did he want to paint? 29.  What is “action painting”? 30.  Why did he know the Navajo culture? 31.  What did he see at the Museum of Modern Art? 32.  What did he learn about medicine men? 33.  How did he move when he painted? 34.  What can you see in the painting Enchanted Forest? 35.  What does the eye do while watching it? 36.  What are Pollocks’s painting free from? 37.  Where and when was Henry Moore born? 38.  What was he inspired by? 39.  Why was he famous in the Second World War? 40.  What is he famous today for? 41.  How are his sculptures? 42.  How did he study groups of people for his sculptures? 43.  What kind of primitive art did he like? 44.  Why did he like it? 45.  How did he discover it? 46.  How is the sculpture Three Standing Figures made? 47.  How are the bodies represented? 48.  Do you like them? Why?