Action+Plan

We are the group of Popularity from 6B //(Elena Arango, Maria Paula Tafur, Sofía Rincon, and Bárbara Henry)//. We want to do the action in the following way: We hope that with this action we can help the students to start changing the way they make decisions and understand that being popular can be assumed from a good point of view without discriminating others because of their social and economic differences. We want to make the change, but it is important to let everyone know we also must be the change. So we consider this action would a good initiative for achieving our goals in our exhibition.  Just do what you like!
 * 1) 1. First, we could make an activity with fifth graders in which we choose 5 students from each classroom.
 * 2) 2. We take those kids to the triangle, where we usually have the assemblies. We just ask them to get together standing up.
 * 3) 3. We give them a mask/band and we ask them to put it on.
 * 4) 4. They are asked some questions about their likes and dislikes.
 * 5) 5. In every question there will be two different options to choose as an answer and the children will choose the option they like the most. //(We are doing this because we think that kids follow popular children, but in this case they won’t see what their popular friend is going to choose, so in that case they will go wherever they want to go because of their preferences and not because of their friends’ choice).//
 * 6) 6. According to their choice the kids go to the left or right side of the triangle.
 * 7) 7. Once they go to the side they have chosen, they take out their masks and see who they are with. They are told that they have things in common with the people that are next to them. It does not matter if they have social and economic differences that have made them be distant from each other.
 * 8) 8. We ask the children to socialize and talk about their likes saying why they have those preferences.
 * 9) 9. We ask the kids to get together again in order to do the same with the following question.
 * 10) 10. We do the same with about seven questions.
 * 11) 11. To finish we discuss how they felt with this activity and we emphasize that the real popularity is based on our likes, talents and personality and not about rigid models imposed by our friends.

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