Take out your list from yesterday

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Take out your list from yesterday

• Objectives
• Students will be able to give examples of abusing
  power and not abusing power.
• Students will be able to explain how destructive
  humor and teasing can be an abuse of power.

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Review

• Power can be disproportionate or unequal between
  people.
• Ask students or list some of the ways some one
  can be more powerful
• Knowledge, skill, experience, physical ability,
  income
• Power can be abused through violence or
  harassment
• Power can be abused through using insults,
  exclusive vocabulary, bragging, patronizing, or
  sarcasm
• No one has the right to interfere with anyone
  elses success in any way including jeopardizing
  his or her personal safety.

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What are some situations where one person has
more power over another?

• when you find yourself in these positions you
  should handle them with respect for others and
  gracefully.
• O This means that students in a power position do
  not make other students feel bad.

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Example a family with more income
Handling a power position with respect and grace Not handling a power position with respect and grace

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Handling a power position with respect and grace Not handling a power position with respect and grace
Wearing nice designer clothes but not saying anything about them Complimenting some one elses clothing even though they are not designer Saying nothing when others are discussing the amount of allowance or the need to operate within a budget Gently changing the topic of conversation if they head towards money situations that may make someone feel uncomfortable. Bragging about how much an article of clothing costs Insulting some one elses clothing because it is not a cool brand Saying something sarcastic about the car someones family is driving. Being rude How nice your parents give you an allowance even though they dont make much money
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Productive and Destructive Humor

• When one is in a position of power you have the
  responsibility to use that power skillfully
  without bragging, showing off and being
  insulting.
• When one is in a position of power humor can be
  used positively or destructively.
• Humor can be fun, enjoyable and respectful or it
  can be hurtful and mean.
• Using humor in a hurtful and mean way is an abuse
  of power.

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Create a T-chart with examples of funny humor and
mean humor
Funny Nice Humor Mean Hurtful Humor

• Joking about something you and a friend both
  think is funny
• Joking about something with someone who has an
  equal position of power as you.
• Joking where everyone is laughing.

• Joking about something you know bothers someone
• Joking about something with someone who has less
  power than you
• Joking that causes people to laugh at someone else

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Discuss With a Partner

• When teasing and joking whose point of view
  decides whether humor is funny or mean- the
  person doing the teasing or the person being
  teased?

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Assignment

• As individuals, pairs, or small groups create
  your own T-chart for a situation from the list
  that has not been used.
• List ways to handle the power situation in a
  positive kind way vs. Not handling the situation
  in a positive kind way.
• There must be at least 4 items for each side