Action+letter+to+Ms+Diane

Friday, 25 May 2012

Dear Mrs Carcello, , We are the group of popularity from 6B ( Elena Arango, Maria Paula Tafur, Sofia Rincon and Barbara Henry ). The purpose of this letter is to aks you for permission to do our action. Our objective is to raise awareness in the students about a better concept of what popularity is. Therefore, we want to describe how we think this action could be done.

1. First, we could make an activity with fifth graders from 5B classroom. 2. We take those kids to the triangle, where we usually have the assemblies. We just ask them to get together satanding up. 3. We give them a mask/band and we ask them to put it on. 4. They are asked some basic questions about their likes and dislikes. 5. In every question there will be two diffrent options to choose as an answer and the children will choose in every question the answer they like the most. (We are doing this because we think that kids follow popular children, but in this case the won't see what their popular friend will choose 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 yhis because we think thath kids follow popular children, but in this case the won´t see what their popular friend is going to choose, so in that case they will go whatever they want to go because of their preferences and not because of their friends choice. 6. According to their choice the kids go to the left or right side of the triangle. 7. Once they go to the side the have choosen, they take out their masks and see who they are with. They are told told that they have things in common with people that are next to them. It does not matter if they have social and economic differences that have made them be disant form each other. 8. We ask the children to socialize and talk about their likes saying why they have preferences. 9. We ask the kids to get together again in order to do the same with the following question. 10. We do the same with about seven questions. 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.

We hope that with this action we can help the students 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 change. So we consider this action would a good initiative for achieving our goals in our exhibition.

Thanks ahead of time for facilitating the achievement of our work.

Popularity Exhbition group (6B)