Writing in groups
Please post your different tasks here, we will discuss them together in plenum. Your task is described on the handout, distributed in class:-)
Please write the number and heading of the task that you are doing (eg. 1. Psychologist's report etc...)
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Dear Joan,
SvarSleti write to you because my daughter is acting weird lately.
Yesterday she took all her clothes of while she was in school, and walked around naked. I got a letter from the headmaster of her school. The letter said; that my daughter was walking around naked, and didn’t care about who saw her. It was like she provoked the whole school and needed attention. The headmaster talked to her about the incident, and surprised by my daughter’s reactions and answers, to why she did it. It seemed like she didn’t cared at all.
So now I’m asking you how to handle the situation. I tried to talk to her, but she didn’t open up to me. My reaction to the letter was probably not the correct way to handle it. First I didn’t see the problem, so I laughed and though that the problem was solved now that she had talked to the headmaster. But after some thinking and her behavior, after this incident I wonder what to do to see my daughter happy again. I really don’t know what to do.
I hope for and answer
The concerned mother.
Dear Concerned mother
I think your daughter needs attention especially from you. If you don’t do something to handle the problem now, she will properly do something like that, or even more provoking things again, to get your attention. So my advice for you is to talk with her, and let her know that it’s not okay to do things like that. You need to confront her with the situation, and get her to open up to you. Maybe she has problems you do not know about. It’s normal to be confused when you are a teenager, so try talk to her right away. The longer you wait the harder it gets to solve the problem.
Good luck
Joan
Mia og Mette
Task 1 (Joy and Frank)
SvarSletClara’s inability to explain why she took off her clothes and walked naked around the school, point to some problems out of the school, maybe in her home. This could be Clara’s own way of telling that something is wrong. She obviously doesn’t know how else to get the attention she is hoping for. But when she is asked about why she did what she did, she can’t really explain it. When she is asked about her mother’s boyfriend, she seems a little awkward. All this put together could point to problems at home, maybe with a man.
Task 5. Summary and comment.
SvarSletWritten by: Trine, AK, Meyem and Maria.
This short story is about a girl, named Clara Tilling. One morning in school, she walks naked into the assembly and into her classroom, where she takes science overalls on, from the cupboard. The teacher Mrs. Mayhew comes into the classroom, with her clothes. Throughout all morning, people keep coming up to her to say well done, this lasted to dinner timer. The perfect comes to her, and tells her that the head would like to talk with her. The heads asks her why she did it, and this Clara does not know. The head asks her also, if she has any problems at home, Clara tells her that everything is fine. Clara goes home, and her mother asks if anything new has happened, and Clara says nothing new has happened. A couple of days went by, and then a letter from the school comes. Her mother reads the letter and begins to laugh, because she thinks it is well done of Clara, and she never imagined her daughter doing a thing like that, and shows the letter to her boyfriend Stan. Her mother and Stan go to work. Clara is sitting in the kitchen and starts to cry.
Comments on the end: When her mother gets the letter, she reacts with laughing about the situation and tells it to Stan, and also tells him how Clara always has been so shy about her body. It seems like the mother is mocking her about it. We think that Clara took off her clothes because she wants some attention from her mother, but the mother just laughs and that hurts Clara.
Dear diary
SvarSletToday is the day. I’m afraid. I’m wondering how they’re gonna react? Why does my mom not give me the attention that I deserve? Why don’t people see me? I wish Stan would stay away from me! I do not feel safe when he’s around. Why can’t mom see it? I feel exposed when I’m alone with him. I wish mom would be more responsible and take way more care of me! I really need you mom! Why can’t you just be… my mom?..
But as I said before, today is the day! I really need some help, people don’t see it, so I’ll have to do this so they take notice of me.
I’ll have to make them see!
Task 4:
SvarSletClara is intelligent – “Your mocks were fine,” said the Head “physics and chemistry could have been a bit better. But there shouldn’t be any great problems there.”
Clara is shy – don’t want to show her body at home.
Stan: She’s uncomfortable around him, she don’t like his appearance, hiding her body and don’t have long conversations with him.
Mom: It’s like Clara can’t talk with her mother emotionally.
Kia og Alexander
Task 1: The psychologist's report.
SvarSletReport on Clara.
It is clear to me by now that Clara is not feelling well and that she needs to be reached out to, mentally.
It is unclear to know how Clara really feels because she tries to abstain from whatever questions i try to ask her.
But considering her age what usually would seem incomprehensible now seems to make sense.
The fact that she is going through puberty also means that she is starting to think about what all the other girls say about her. It is also very possible that she wants to get noticed by the boys, especially
now that all the other girls in her class have boyfriends and that makes her feel left out of the bunch.
I asked her if she were good at talking with the other sex, and she answered, “no, I think it's embarrassing, because I'm afraid of what they may think about me.”
Morten B. og Pedro
Clara’s Day
SvarSletThe story is about a girl called Clara Tilling who is 15½. One morning she walks to school assembly all naked. The school talked all about her little “stunt” through the afternoon. Halfway through the morning one of the prefects comes up to Clara and tells her the head wants to see her straight after school. They have a chat and the head says she will send a letter to Clara’s mom. After school Clara hang around at the bus station with all those in Clara’s form just to be sociable. After a while she takes her bus home. A few days later the letter shows up. Clara’s mother and Stan have breakfast. Her mother opens the letter from the head, she reads the letter and being to laugh, and then she hands it over to Stan who also laughs at it. Her mother starts to tell Stan stories from Clara’s childhood. When her mother is done with telling stories, she leaves with Stan, and Clara starts to cry.
Comment:
We think that Clara is trying to get more attention from her mom, and when she sees that she don’t care about she had been walking naked at the assembly, she starts to cry.
Line S, Cathrine Kjær og Morten Fogh
Claras mother;
SvarSletClara’s mother is working part-time as a dentist’s receptionist. She is always with her boyfriend who is a acter, and he is only free in the afternoons. She is not a good mother, dosent take care of Clara.
Clara;
Clara is brave, because she walks naked trough school. She wants attention from her mother. She is lonely, but trying to be social with some girls from her school. The relationship between mom and daughter isnt good. They dont speak enough with eachother.
Pernille, Sofie, Anders, Saranda og Cecilie.