Friend or Bully

A WebQuest based on “The Hundred Dresses”, by Eleanor Estes

Designed by

Sandra Southerland

sandra.southerland@mnps.org

Introduction

Eleanor Estes was born on May 9, 1906 in New Haven, Connecticut. She was a children's librarian at the Free Public Library in New Haven and attended the Pratt Institute Library School. Eleanor Ruth Rosenfeld (Estes) loved to tell stories to children. She began by working as a children's assistant in her hometown library, but when she became sick with tuberculosis, she spent the quiet days of her recovery writing down her childhood memories as a series of stories for young readers.

Her first book, The Moffats was written in 1941.

Three of her books were chosen as Newbery Honor Books from 1943 to 1945, The Middle Moffet (1942), Rufus M. (1943), and The Hundred Dresses (1944).

Eleanor Estes

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The Task

Have you ever been teased or bullied? How does it feel to be teased? What does it make you want to do? How do you stand up to a bully? Have you ever hurt someone’s feelings and gotten in trouble for it? The Hundred Dresses is a book about a girl named Wanda who is different from everyone else. She always wears the same faded blue dress, and is laughed at until her classmates learn a lesson.

Your tasks will be to:

1. Answer the multiple choice questions.

2. Write a persuasive paragraph asking Wanda to come back.

3. Cause and effect – List the reasons why Wanda’s family left.

4. Create a list of ways to stand up to a bully.

5. Learn more about bullying and teasing

6. Create a New Student Welcoming Plan.

Some of the above activities will be completed with your teacher in class. Others will be completed online in the computer lab with Mrs. Southerland.

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The Process

Step 1. After reading and discussing the book, answer the multiple choice questions online. For each chapter write down your score on your worksheet.

(Note: Click on the letter of your answer choice.)

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Step 2. Click on this link to learn more about bullying. List 3 ways to deal with bullying on your WebQuest note page.

Step 3. Click here to read how not to be a bully. List 3 ways on your worksheet.

Step 4. Visit this website and read about friendship. List 3 ways to be a friend on your worksheet.

Step 5.When you have complete ALL of the above – Click on this link to play some spelling games about The Hundred Dresses

Step 6.Click on this link to see how differences are good.

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Resources

http://www.quia.com/jg/263027.html Spelling Games

http://www.student.city.ac.uk/~rc313/bullying.html Bullying

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/classroomideas.html?tqskip1=1Ideas for 100 Dresses and studying differences

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/differentisgood_files/frame.htmDifferent is Good PowerPoint

http://www.bullying.co.uk/pupils.php Dealing With Bullies

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Evaluation

Your performance on the online activities will be evaluated according to the following rubric. Additional classroom activities will be evaluated according to your teachers grading standards. All grades are for individual work unless otherwise stated.

	Beginning 1	Developing 2	Accomplished 3	Exemplary 4	Score
Multiple Choice Online Questions	Scored at least 70% on 5 of the chapters.	Scored 70% or higher on all of the chapters.	Scored 100% on at least HALF on the chapters.	Scored 100% on ALL of the chapters.
Ways to Deal With a Bully List	Only 1 entry.	At least 2 entries.	At least 3 entries.	More than 3 entries.
How Not to Be a Bully List	Only 1 entry.	At least 2 entries.	At least 3 entries.	More than 3 entries.
How to Be a Friend List	Only 1 entry.	At least 2 entries.	At least 3 entries.	More than 3 entries.

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Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully completed the “Friend or Bully” WebQuest. Through this WebQuest you have learned how to be a friend and not a bully, how to stand up to bullies and how to use the Internet as a learning tool. I hope you will use this information to be a better student and citizen.