Scenarios
International Database of School conflict scenarios
Abused Hamid
Author: Actionwork
Summary:
Hamid is neither popular nor unpopular and has a few friends at school. An older boy, Jake, has been spreading rumours about Hamid; how he lived in the jungle and how he was descended from monkeys. He calls Hamid “Jungle Bunny” every day. Hamid’s father says it is racism. Hamid is complaining he is being bullied.
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- Abused Hamid (Full scenario)
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Isolated Kate
Author: Actionwork
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Kate is 15-years old and attends King Henry’s secondary school. She is currently very depressed and lonely. Kate has recently been isolated from her normal friendship group by one of her classmates, Jenny. In addition Jenny has been taunting Kate and calling her names in front of the rest of her friendship group. Kate has not talked about the issue to anyone. None of the other friends have helped, either they are too scared of Jenny, don’t know what to do or they don’t appear to care.
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- Isolated Kate (Full scenario)
Loud Gheorghe
Author: Actionwork
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George is a loud, clumsy and rather insensitive boy. His friends are a little wary of him and often get into arguments with George about his behaviour. George does not really understand this as he just wants to have fun. George has had many warnings about his bullying behaviour and is on the verge of being excluded from school.
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- Loud Gheorghe (Full scenario)
Fat Fiona
Author: Actionwork
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Fiona likes her food and her parents encourage her to eat. Fiona is a very large girl, who is always, it seems, eating something whether it be sweets, crisps or chocolate. Fiona thinks she is naturally fat and is big boned. many of her school mates make fun of her because of her size.
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- Fat Fiona (Full scenario)
Lonely Lisa
Author: Actionwork
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Lisa is 15 years old, and has a sister who is much younger than her. Lisa finds it difficult to make friends. She is a very pushy person, likes to speak but is not good at listening to others. people generally find Lisa very demanding and high maintenance.
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- Lonely Lisa (Full scenario)
Leading Les
Author: Actionwork
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Les is a 14 year old boy who lacks confidence and is easily led by others. Dan is always getting Les in to trouble by getting him to do naughty things. Les usually laughs it off and everyone else laughs at Les.
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- Leading Les (Full scenario)
Gunsmoke
Author: Actionwork
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- Gunsmoke (Full scenario)
Cyber Sue
Author: Actionwork
Summary:
Sue is 16 years old. Sue had her mobile phone stolen and the thief used Sue’s phone to send nasty sms text messages to other students in the school. Sue now has a new mobile phone but is unhappy as she receives anonymous nasty sms text messages from someone everyday
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- Cyber Sue (Full scenario)
Blackmail
Author: Zepf
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Martin, a 15-year old boy attending a secondary school in Berlin-Neuköln, gets blackmailed by Achim, a 17-year old boy, member of a gang attending the same school. Once a week he has to give him money or other things that Richard claims such as mobile phones. As he doesn’t get together what Achim wants otherwise, Martin starts to steal things from classmates. On a Friday afternoon Martin hands over Richard’s mobile phone to Achim who is accompanied by two members of his gang. Two teachers are standing nearby and notice what is going on …
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- Blackmail (Full scenario)
Chase away
Author: Zepf
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Tim and Tom, both 12-year old boys, are friends. They attend the first class of a secondary school in a small town. One afternoon they are playing basketball in the schoolyard. After a while Peter and Michael, both 15-year old boys attending the same school as Tim and Tom, are approaching. They start to interfere with the ongoing play of Tim and Tom. Eventually they take away the basketball and begin to play on their own, chasing away Tim and Tom.
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- Chase away (Full scenario)
Taking drugs
Author: Zepf
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Three girls are planning to go out to the disco. The girls are 15 years old, going in the same class. Linda is the most popular girl in the class, because she is dating Chris, the most wanted guy at school (he is very handsome and best in soccer). Chris is two years older and deals with drugs. Of cause, he wants Linda to take them too, and she does. For that evening at the disco, Linda wants the two other girls to take drugs as well. Tiffany has no Problem with that – she did it before, but Mandy hasn’t. Mandy is doubtful about it; probably wants to tell it the teacher. The other girls trying to bias her and going so far to blackmail her, either she holds her tongue or they will cut her of in the classroom and bash her.
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- Taking drugs (Full scenario)
Interrelation problems
Author: Zepf
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There is Martin. He has two girlfriends. Both girls do not know about each other. Especially Katrina and Sandy are going to the same school (also the boys school), but they both doesn’t like each other and would never talk to each other … except of that party in June. The girls found out about Martin playing with them and decided to act. They devised a plan, how to revenge him. The plan: Both girls won’t tell Martin that they met and that they know about his relationship to the other girl. Instead they both planed on telling him, that they are pregnant and that they both are so happy, that they want to keep the baby; but they insist on a marriage. Now Martin is totally helpless, confused and stressed and talks to his friends Antoni and Bob. Both boys are involved about his two relationships at the same time, but with different belief. Antoni thinks until that point of inflexion, that Martin was the coolest guy ever. By now he has the same feelings of helplessness than Martin. Bob is the more realistic guy and it was him who told from the beginning, that martin should play with open cards and plead honesty.
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- Interrelation problems (Full scenario)
School absenteeism
Author: Zepf
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Adam lives in England. He hates school and sees no need for his life to go to school at all. He never saw his father - his mother does not know him. His mother is all day long drunken, does not care and she is unemployed. Mrs Beaver is the woman from the youth welfare office. She has now talent to handle complicated kids like Adam. Mr Sprout is Adams classteacher and is dedicated to get Adam back to school. Elfi is a girl, who was two years absent from school, but now back.
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- School absenteeism (Full scenario)
School racism
Author: Zepf
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There is Hamed, he is new in school and in Germany. His parents fled from Kasastan. Hameds father is a political journalist and he obtained death threats, so that the whole family couldn’t stay any longer in their land. Hamed can speak German, but not too well. He feels homesick and not comfortable at all with this new situation. The teachers at his new school want to help him to get integrate, but this isn’t easy. In his class, Tom is the leader and doesn’t welcome Hamed. His buddy is Oliver. Tina and Freddy are in his class, too. They both want to be friends to Hamed, but they have problems with the rest of the classmates who are influenced by Tom.
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- School racism (Full scenario)
Social exclusion
Author: Zepf
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Bonny is not a girl that everyone would characterise to be cool. Her family is very poor and so she can’t afford to by cool clothes, a mobile phone or an mp3 – player like most of her classmates. Her look is unimposing and she is wearing the old clothes from her three older sisters. Jenifer is completely different to Bonny and thinks that she is a joke. Jenifer’s peer group behaves like a fan – group. They exclude Bonny as much as they can. Mrs Fullon is the class teacher. She has already recognized that Bonny is a case of social exclusion and she asked the school psychologist for advice. He told her that she should try to give lots of duties with partner work and to purport the allocation. Further, to have a close watch over the behaviour of the girls, because he thinks that Bonny is a candidate for bullying if the situation remains constant. The school psychologist also counsels Mrs Fullon to have a conversation with the involved girls. For that conversation, Mrs Fullon should include a neutral classmate to assist her, like the class representative (that is Eva).
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- Social exclusion (Full scenario)
Mike and Nic
Author: Ass.Equilibrio
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Two students, Mike and Nic, have a “difficult” relationship, that lasts since the beginning of the lower secondary school. During the last year the relationship has gotten worse, so that the intervention of somebody who could help them in managing such a situation is needed.
One day Mike insults Nic’s mother and he replies him, in presence of other schoolmates: - Mike, the one who is to be insulted, is not my mother, who is not at fault, but yours, because she abandoned you! Bastard! - Mike’s face gets red, he takes Nic by his neck and he pushes him against the wall, then he shouts: look around you, idiot! When coming out of school me and my friends of the Secondary……… we will cover you with mud!!!!
None of the people present intervenes, Mike goes away and Nic feels very bad because of what has just happened and because of the things he has said to Mike.
It’s two days that Mike doesn’t say a word to anybody, he goes out of the classroom so many times that two teachers rebuke him in presence of the Director.
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- Mike and Nic (Full scenario)
Dr. Jeckill or Mr. Hyde?
Author: Ass.Equilibrio
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Pietro and Francesco are schoolmates, both 15 years old.
Francesco is a new schoolmate of Pietro, he arrived in the school at the beginning of the last scholastic year from a “risky district”.
In the last weeks something odd has happened: some students have lost their belongings - mobiles, sunglasses and watches - some people think to have simply forgotten them elsewhere, while others think that they were stolen out of school. As soon as these events start to increase, they convince themselves that there’s a thief among them and little by little their suspects focus on Francesco’s class.
Due to the fact that, on one hand, Francesco comes from a risky quarter and, on the other hand, he’s an odd guy, who prefers to stay on his own, avoiding the relationships with other people, his schoolmates convince themselves that he is a thief and they talk about that with their teachers.
Being accused by his schoolmates, he defends himself saying that he’s not at fault, because the thief is Pietro, but nobody believes him.
Yesterday Matteo, one of the most rough boys of the class, during a break, realizes that somebody stole him the mobile his parents bought him for his birthday, just a week before. Suddenly he runs towards Francesco, pushes him against the wall and shouts: thief! Francesco, really angry, tells him that it has got nothing to do with him, because it was Pietro who stole the mobile. In that moment Pietro enters the classroom: as soon as Francesco notices him, runs towards him and then starts pushing him and shouting to give back Matteo’s mobile and all the other things he stole to his schoolmates.
As soon as they heard the shouting, Paolo, Marco and Giorgio arrive: what would you do if you were in their shoes?
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- Dr. Jeckill or Mr. Hyde? (Full scenario)
Passion and suffering
Author: Ass.Equilibrio
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In a hot summer day, the sun is shining….
Luca is walking along the pavement of the street, while coming back at home. By chance, he meets his schoolmate and friend, Francesco. Hi! What are you doing? – Francesco asks.
I went out because I didn’t want to do my homework and I wanted to take my mind off my fixed idea! By chance, it’s always the same? Luca, a little bit ill at ease, thinks a little while over it and soon after, blushing, he reveals to his friend that his fixed idea is a girl.
Luca says goodbye to his friend and goes back home fast.
10 days after, at the very beginning of the school year, Luca crosses the threshold of the classroom and notices that there are four boys, among which Simeone, who are looking badly at him, thus getting him scared. He also meets Chiara, the girl he loves. At the end of the day, when he’s going back home, the four boys surround him and order him not to address even a greeting to “her”, Chiara, because she would soon become Simeone’s girlfriend.
Luca feels more and more depressed, day by day, and when going back home he always receives insults and menaces. From time to time he must also give some money to those boys. The climax is reached a day, when Luca, during the break, notices Simeone looking straight at him, in his eyes, and then clasping Chiara in his arms and kissing her forcedly on her lips.
Francesco, who assists to the scene, decides to intervene in order to help them solving the question.
What do you think you would say to Simeone if you were in Francesco’s shoes?
In your opinion, how could it be possible to make Simeone understand Luca and Chiara’s exigencies without hurting him and make him explain his own?
How would you set out the meeting? How many people should meet him? Should Luca take part to the meeting?
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- Passion and suffering (Full scenario)
The difficult guy
Author: Ass.Equilibrio
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Gianni and Andrea, two schoolmates, are in the classroom, during the break. Gianni is sat in front of Francesca, another schoolmate, who’s helping him in reading and making some French grammar exercises, while Andrea is standing next to the door, looking at them. Gianni pronounces very badly while reading, so Francesca interrupts him from time to time, correcting his pronunciation. Andrea, who’s looking at them, starts mocking Gianni because of his pronunciation, thus making him get angry. Francesca tries to intervene.
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- The difficult guy (Full scenario)
The beautiful girl
Author: Ass.Equilibrio
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Lucia is talking with Sara in the classroom, during the break; Marta and Laura are close to her, looking at their mobile and laughing. Lucia is made curios and she asks them what they are doing. They answer they’re only watching a video they’ve done during the last school trip, but Lucia is not convinced by such an explanation. She comes closer to them and she sees they’re watching a video of her, while changing her clothes in the changing room of the school gym. Lucia tries to take the phone, but they resist. They say the video will be published on YouTube, so that everybody could admire her beauty. Lucia shouts at them that they can’t do such a thing, and they start quarrelling. Sara decides to intervene.
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- The beautiful girl (Full scenario)
Giovanni, the fool
Author: Ass.Equilibrio
Summary:
The scene takes place during the second half of the scholastic year. Giovanni attends the first year of the scuola media (secondary school of primary level) and since the very beginning of the year he has been considered by everybody like a funny guy, who always jokes, even when it is not proper, and who answers to other people through strange facial expression. Thus his schoolmates present Giovanni to the students of the other classes as the “fool” of the class; he’s not happy with that, but he doesn’t say anything. The more the time passes, the more the label of “fool” remains on Giovanni: he feels not at ease with that anymore; he began behaving like a fool only just to be funny and accepted by his schoolmates, not to become the fool of the school. In the second half of the scholastic year, some teachers begin to be worried when, during the oral tests, he refuses to answer to their questions, and justifies such a behaviour by saying that he is fool. His mates always laugh with him and ask Giovanni to make his foolish facial expression, thus, little by little, the anger grows in him, but he doesn’t know how to communicate that to his mates. Only one of his schoolmates, Filippo, understands the situation and asks for a class meeting to talk about this question and try to solve it through a mediation.
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- Giovanni, the fool (Full scenario)
Francesca, the boy
Author: Ass.Equilibrio
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Francesca is a 15 years old girl, who attends the first year of the high school, where she studies business. Her “fault” consists in having a deep voice and a masculine aspect. That’s the reason why a group of her mates, leaded by Serena - one of the most female girls of the school, whom the boys appreciate really much - have started to pick on Francesca. They make fun of her and offend her to such an extent that her life becomes an hell and she hates more and more to step in the class every morning. The last episode is when Serena and her mates write a false note and send it to Francesca; the note is signed by a girl of another class, who confesses she has fallen in love with “him”. The story of the note suddenly spreads in a while among all the students of the school and everybody laughs at her: this is too humiliating for Francesca. She reacts bursting into tears and wants to hurt Serena, in order to revenge the bad action she made against her. As soon she’s attacked, Serena cries and offends Francesca and says she shouldn’t even skim her; in that moment Alberto - a guy who has never wished to treat Francesca in such a cruel way – intervenes, trying to stop and calm her. Then he proposes to his mates to go trough a mediation session.
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- Francesca, the boy (Full scenario)
Alessandra wants to change school
Author: Ass.Equilibrio
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Alessandra attends the 2nd year of the “scuola media” (secondary school of primary level), in a school where most of the students belong to upper classes. Alessandra is excluded by her (girl) schoolmates, who menace her by sending notes and sms: she shouldn’t join the school trips and she won’t be accepted by them. They also tease her in every possible manner, thus making the teacher accuse her, for actions she has never committed.
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- Alessandra wants to change school (Full scenario)
Why can't we sleep over?
Author: Project Wolf
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Cristina is caring for her mother with mental ill-health – she is often late for school because of this – she feels she cannot have people to come over her house, because then they would ‘know’. She is being increasingly confronted by her teacher because she is late and work is incomplete; and her two friends are pleading and then sarcastic that they cannot visit her house and do not understand what happens to her.
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- Why can't we sleep over? (Full scenario)
She stinks!
Author: Project Wolf
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Maria is 15 years old and has been bullied ever since she was in secondary school; her class mates think she is dirty and that her family do not care about her; the teachers stay out of the situation because they find Maria’s body odour offensive, and gossip about her in the staff room. Maria is getting increasingly depressed and tries to stay away from school when possible. She stays away from her peers and reads or just stares into space. Eventually she is referred for the depression.
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- She stinks! (Full scenario)
Religious Madeline
Author: Project Wolf
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Madeline is tall and beautiful, well developed physically. She always wears large clothes, long skirts and covers her hair with a scarf. During breaks she listens religious music on her MP4 player.
Today, Grace and Helen took her player and put the music on the school radio network. As the break comes, the music sounds in the entire school, and Grace and Helen laugh at Sarah and at her "stupid" music and clothes.
When Dan, another classmate, joins the 2 girls, Madeline gets angry.
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- Religious Madeline (Full scenario)
Boring Sarah
Author: Project Wolf
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Sarah is an quiet, unpopular girl, who has very few friends at school. Her schoolmates, Meg and Alice, always mock her because she does her homeworks and likes to study. They enjoy to party and go out with their friends and don't understand why Sarah refuses to do the same.
They talk about a party tonight, about drinking and smoking. They push Sarah to come with them and call her stupid, whimpy and a lot of other insults, as she doesn't want to agree with them
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- Boring Sarah (Full scenario)
Fair Gabriel
Author: Project Wolf
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Gabriel is an quiet, shy boy, physically under developed for his age. While all his classmates are teenagers on their way to becoming men, he still looks more like a boy, with blond hair, blue eyes and very fair skin. He is small and thin and has a very good singing voice. At school he gets along with the girls, but the boys always make fun of him, telling him he's gay and calling him "girlie", "fairie" and so on. Today after classes he has a rehearsal for the school play – he's playing the role of an angel. Together with him on the improvised stage, there are Lizzie and Michael – they are not in the same class, but know Gabriel very well, as they share an interest in theatre. In the auditorium there are 2 of his classmates, Victor and Stan, who purposely came to the rehearsal to laugh at him.
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- Fair Gabriel (Full scenario)
Who will believe Dorel?
Author: Project Wolf
Summary:
Dorel comes from a small Gipsy village and is bright and good at sports. As usual he finds that some people will discriminate against him. However Mr Ursus the history teacher picks on him and punishes him for minor faults. Dan is Mr Ursus favourite and tries to get Dorel into trouble. Laura sees what is going on and tries to intervene. Mr Ursus then turns on her so Dorel feels guilty.
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- Who will believe Dorel? (Full scenario)
Isabela won’t have fun
Author: Project Wolf
Summary:
Isabela 14 years comes from a religious family where drinking and smoking are forbidden – but she wants to with the ‘in crowd’. Lilia steals in order to buy drink and cigarettes and wants everyone to join her to have fun. Timi joins her because he wants to be liked and with the in crowd, but he is small and spotty and lacks confidence. Sara is 16 and sees what is going on but is unsure what to do if anything. Action has to be taken when in the end Isobela drinks a can of beer to stop Lilia’s taunts and she passes out.
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- Isabela won’t have fun (Full scenario)
Patti is Pathetic
Author: Project Wolf
Summary:
Patti is a 15 year old overweight girl. She is always getting teased by her peers and it is made worse by the fact that she comes from a poor family. Her teachers are not sympathetic because although she is intelligent, she is slow, compared with some of the other bright, pretty and fast pupils.
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- Patti is Pathetic (Full scenario)
No good Rroma(gipsy)
Author: Project Wolf
Summary:
Gheorghe is 14 years old, a Rroma teenager who has struggled to stay at school – he is the only Rroma in his class of 25; his sports skills are resented by the other boys who bully him about his slow progress in the classroom.
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- No good Rroma(gipsy) (Full scenario)
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The maths genious
Author: Sant Pere
Summary:
There’s a new student in the class: Daniel. In a short period of time, he has demonstrated how good is in mathematics, because he has participated and gained several maths interschool contests. Fernando and Sergio, two classmates of Daniel, want to “help” him to become a player of the school footballteam in return for his “support” on the next maths exams.
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- The maths genious (Full scenario)
The Photographs
Author: Sant Pere
Summary:
A new student has arrived to the school: Martin. He’s really handsome, tall and pleasant. A lot of girls are trying to be his girlfriend. Two close friends, Paula and Carla, have discussed, because some photos of Paula and Martin embraced have been published on the school site. One friend sent a text message to Carla advising her about these photos. Before this situation, Carla had confessed to Paula she was in love with Martin.
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- The Photographs (Full scenario)
The Teamwork
Author: Sant Pere
Summary:
The science teacher has decided that all the students have to do a teamwork on the excursion of next month. She also has decided the teams and their 4 members. In one group, the students don’t like the target and goals of the teamwork and they think is going to be really difficult to do it.
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- The Teamwork (Full scenario)
El nuevo
Author: Sant Pere
Summary:
Carlos is a 14 years teen that has moved with his parents to their home town. Carlos goes to the town high school, where everyone knows each other. On his first school day, at gym class, the boys decide to play football. They do teams, but they don’t include Carlos in anyone. Carlos walk towards Antonio, the team captain and one of the most fearsome boys at school, to ask to let him play. They start arguing mean the rest look at them.
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- El nuevo (Full scenario)
El insulto
Author: Sant Pere
Summary:
At the literature class, the teacher wants to prepare a play, so it’s necessary some volunteers to represent the characters. Amongst girls, Laura is interested on. The teacher makes a list with all the volunteers. In the middle of the excitement, it’s not easy to appreciate some laughs caused by Laura’s candidature, but she does. The comments were about her weight. Soon after, the action is developed in the playground, where some girls are going to tell Laura it’s better she rejects to performe the play because she’ll make the fool of herself.
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- El insulto (Full scenario)
Se cerró la banca
Author: Sant Pere
Summary:
It’s playground time and students are having breakfast. It seems there’s some problems at the school canteen. Carlos doesn’t want to lend Manuel some money to buy a soft drink, so Manuel decides to take Carlos’ hot chocolate drink away. Marc, Xavi and Andrea have come to see what’s going on.
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- Se cerró la banca (Full scenario)
Samara, ¿la gitana ladrona?
Author: Sant Pere
Summary:
Samara is a gypsy girl who has not been given a very warm welcome in the high school. She is the only gypsy student at school and her companions show a certain discriminatory behaviour towards her. She has difficulties to find pair for school works and somebody who lend her the notes. She does not have friends and she has to deal with some students discriminatory comments. Recently some student personal belongings have disappeared and it’s rumoured Samara did it.
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- Samara, ¿la gitana ladrona? (Full scenario)
La taquilla
Author: Sant Pere
Summary:
Yesterday, a student locker appeared broken and no one knows who did it. Today, the headteacher said to the class that if the responsible doesn’t appear, no student will go to the excursion to Montseny planned for this month. The students are getting nervous and complaining about it. No one knows what to do..
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- La taquilla (Full scenario)