The teacher said that she was also following a course, where she is learning this kind of things, and
students could relate to her. The teacher selected the story based on the class needs, as it is a class with
some behavioral and relational issues.
First, the students watched it with no ending and then invented it. In the following lesson, the students were asked to re-write the story changing the characters and/or the location where the story takes place. They told the story set in other settings, such as the soccer field. This helped them understand bullying dynamics that can happen also outside of the school and that change is possible.
Lastly, to work on the deeper message of the story, the teacher asked them to write or draw the scene of
the story that touched them the most, a memory that stuck with them.
Students were very active, and even a student that is not usually very engaged, took the initiative to record a message for the classmates that were absent that day, to tell them the story, making sure that they could also invent their final ending of the story. Students liked the activity very much and asked to use more videos like that one. They understood the main messages of the story and elaborated on them with a discussion:
