Master's Reading and Writing, A Letter about Bullying

 Dear Students at ELS,

Let me introduce myself.  I am the parent of an albino child.  We are new in the area, and we recently put our daughter in the local school system.  Sadly, every day the other children are ridiculing and taunting her unrelentingly.  They even pluck her hair and physically abuse her.  I have tried to talk to the teachers, but it seems like they will not intervene.  What should I do????   I need your help!

Sincerely,

A desperate parent

Assignment: Respond to this parent's request with a return letter.  Write the letter using process styled language, such as first, next, after that, finally etc.  

Thursday: Reading Quiz 1

>>Read “Designate a place for Each Thing” P.413-415 by Marie Kondo

>>White Lies, P.208-209

 

Bullying

Why do people bully?

1.      People are mean; selfish

2.      People are insecure

3.      People don’t like those who are different

 

Vocabulary:

Ridicule: to laugh at another person 

Unrelenting: something bad that won’t stop

Hunched: bending down

*The rain last week was unrelenting. 

*The ridicule in class was unrelenting. 

Taunting: making fun of someone in an aggressive way

Intervene: to get involved with something to stop it

To tote: means to carry something heavy

The center of attention: the most important person

 

Writing Activity. Writing a letter.

Dear parent,

First of all, let me apologize for the terrible ordeal your child is going through.  No child deserves to be bullied in such a way.  You asked for my advice, and here are steps I have for dealing with this. 

First, I think you should contact the children’s parents.  Maybe, if you tell them that their child is behaving badly, it will influence them to stop this behavior. 

 

 

If you talk to the parents, it will help a lot.

You should go to the school and talk with the principal.  If you do that, the administration will understand the situation better.

I recommend you speak to the parents of the bullies.  Perhaps they don’t know that their children are bullying another child.  If you talk to them, they will be aware of the situation, and perhaps they will stop it.

If you talk to the parents, it would help a lot.

 

Conditionals.

If I were from Japan, I would understand the Japanese language. 

If I were one foot taller, I could play basketball a lot better. 

If I have a million dollars someday, I will buy a yacht. 

If I had a million dollars right now, I would buy a yacht.