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Skit About Blondes and Respect

Skit on Respect or Compassion

Purpose

To help students understand that verbal cuts can hurt people, even when they act like it doesn?t bother them.

Setting

Four students, only one of whom is blonde, are eating at a lunch table. Other students can be used in the background on other tables.

Dialogue

Kara (Blonde) (Spills her drink and stands up suddenly, to avoid getting wet): "Shoot!" (Make sure to use local lingo - "Oh no!," etc.)
Embarrassingly: "That was a smooth move!"

Todd:  "Be careful guys! In case you didn't notice, we've got a blonde among us."

Kara: (Sitting back down.) "I may be blonde, but I can tell the future. (Closing her eyes in deep thought.) Let's see, I feel the blonde jokes starting up again."

Ben: (Laughing) "I think anybody could have predicted that!"

Paul: "Hey, did you hear about the blonde who wrote the initials TGIF on the top of her shoes?"

Ben: "Why did she do that?"

Paul: "To remind her that TGIF - Toes Go In First"

All Laugh (Including Kara, who acts like she's having fun too.)

Paul: "Do you know how to make a blonde laugh on Friday?"

Kara: "No. How do you make a blonde laugh on Friday?"

Paul: "Tell her a joke on Monday!"

Kara: "Takes her that long to get the punch line?"

Todd: "But not all blondes are dumb?some are into Science."

Ben: "Really? You mean, like inventors?"

Todd: "Right! Have you heard of some of the latest inventions by blondes?"

Ben: "Like the screen door for a submarine!"

Kara: "Or the water proof towel!"

Todd (To Ben and Paul): We'd better get to P.E.!

Paul: "Later Kara!"

Kara: "Later guys!"

(Camera follows the guys just long enough to not see Kara for a moment, allowing her to secretly put a dab of water beneath her eye, making a tear.)

Kara (After the others leave, she dials a number on her cell, while looking around to make sure nobody is close enough to hear): "Hey mom."  (Pause) "Okay." "Hey, could you pick me up some hair color on the way home?" (Pause. Camera zooms in close enough to reveal her tear.) "It doesn't really matter what color, just as long as it's not blonde."

Narrator: Sometimes we don?t realize how much our words can hurt others. Today, let?s think before we speak, realizing how our negative words can hurt and positive words can help.

Discussion

1 ? Why do you think Kara got upset?
2 ? Do you think the boys meant to be mean to Kara?
3 ? Why didn?t Kara let them know that the blonde jokes hurt her?
4 ? What are some of the things you hear students say that hurt people?
5 ? When we see a student getting hurt by someone?s words, what can we do to help?

Skit: Power of Encouragement

The Power of Encouragement
Caring, Respect, Kindness

Purpose

To help students realize the power of their words - to heal or to harm.

Setting

Lunch Room Table

Drama

Scene 1

Ted (Sitting at the lunch table by himself, with his meal to the side, doodling on a paper)

Sean (walking up to the table with a couple of girls and guys): ?So Ted, got your head in the clouds, drawing your crappy pictures? What do you think? (grabbing the papers and passing them to his friends) Are these Picasso?s or DaVinci?s?? (All laugh and throw them back, some papers landing on the floor.)

Tina (walking over with her lunch, helping him pick up his papers): So, got a friendly visit from the ?Loser League??

Ted (trying to keep her from seeing the drawings): ?They?re probably right, you know. Everybody who?s anybody plays soccer or baseball. For some reason, all I want to do is draw. At least I?m good for a laugh...?

Tina (keeping one of the drawings to herself, laughing out loud): ?You?re right!?

Ted: ?That I?m a Geek??

Tina: ?No, that these drawings are hilarious! They?re as good as any comics I?ve read. Let me see some more!?

Ted: (Reluctantly handing them over.)

Tina: (Laughing at each one): ?These are great! Have you thought of entering them in the art competition next week??

Ted: I was afraid people would just laugh at me again.

Tina: ?You?ve got to enter the contest!?

Sign that reads: One month later.

Scene Two

Setting

Ted sits at a table with Tina, where a sign on the front of the table reads, ?Signed Prints of Ted?s Award-Winning Comics.?

Drama

Sean (walking sheepishly up to the table, with his gang, stammering): Hey ya...Ted...I was wondering...ya know...I hope you never took any of that kidding seriously...(gang shaking their heads)...but...seeing that your comics are pretty famous now...we were wondering if we could buy a copy and have you sign it...(gang nodding heads hopefully)?

Ted: (hesitating) Why not? (Tina hands Ted a copy. Ted speaks as he signs it). And sorry to hear you got cut from the baseball team. I know how stuff like that hurts.

Sean: ?Maybe you could give me a drawing lesson sometime??

Ted: ?Why not??

Narrator

Sean?s words in the lunchroom hurt, even if he was just kidding. Tina?s words changed Ted?s life, because she encouraged him. Words can hurt; words can heal. Today, rather than catching someone doing something dumb and laughing at him for it, let?s catch someone doing something right and encourage him for it. We just might change someone?s life.

Discussion

1)	Why do you think Sean laughed at Ted?
2)	How do you think this made Ted feel?
3)	Why do you think Ted didn?t want Tina to see his drawings?
4)	Do you think it took courage for Tina to talk to Ted?
5)	How did Tina?s words change Ted?s life?
6)	How can we change people?s lives with our words?

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