Bullied to death:

To begin with Sarah gave us an introduction to the stimuli. These included:

• Video clips
• Poem
•  Newspaper story 

Video;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE5yINOn4N4

• Simple - Not a lot of info (Dates / name)
• Makes you think of the family
• Children why they die
• Unbelievable
• Song was happy but the words were dark
• Some were same age as us

Poem:

'I am'
I am the person you bullied in school
I am the one who didn't know how to be cool
I am the person you alienated
I am the person you ridiculed and hated

I am the person who sat on their own
I am the person who walked home alone
I am the person you scared every day
I am the person who had nothing to say

I am the person with hurt in their eyes
I am the person you never saw cry
I am the person living alone with their fears
I am the person destroyed by their peers

I am the person who drowned in your scorn
I am the person who wished they hadn't been born
I am the person whose name you don't know
I am the person who just can't let go

I am the person destroyed for 'fun'
I am the person, but not the only one
I am the person who had feelings too
..and I am a person, JUST LIKE YOU!!!

• Strong words - not to be taken lightly
• Bullied over and over - showed by repeating the 'I am the person…' Bit
• Swapping levels during the poem
• Metaphorical - "drown in your scorn"
• Being treated as an object - "Destroyed for fun"
• Suffering in silence
• The feelings leading up to suicide
• Courage to fight back

we then read an article and discussed our thoughts on the article:

Newspaper story

• Pushing the blame her - draw attention to her
• She bullied herself
• She died and they are still taking a stab at her
• Annoying how they say it was her fault- she brought it on herself
• Possible she had a disability - Partly her fault and partly the schools
• Friends say he is doing it for attention when they really don’t know - "Cry for attention"