4V One of us is lying Cooper

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

PART ONE

SIMON SAYS

In which American state is the school located?

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What gossip could have been on the About That app but wasn't?

1. massively improved fast ball
2. girlfriend cheating
3. baseball cheating
4. school cheating

What information from Det.Chang is Cooper surprised about?

NATE

BRONWYN

ADDY

COOPER

SIMON

I'm the omniscient narrator

About That

EpiPens

Nonna

cell phones

Has been on gossip app

water bottle

has a little brother

the 'wrong' secret

Cooper's best friend's girlfriend

About That

baseball

Yale

Missouri

grandpa 

Bronwyn has not much information on Addy at this point. 

The two mysteries are important here:

- How did Simon know about her cheating?

- What did Bronwyn lie about to her parents?

Perhaps, as an additional assignment, have the Bronwyn's work together on a Bronwyn quiz. All in all, students should have relevant information on Bronwyn in their Instagram/ Pinterest and in their Coggle.

The title of part one alludes to ...

1. Simon Kelleher's app
2. a quote from Simon
3. a prank
4. a children's game

Make a book cover that is all about Cooper's career. Pretend he's a professional baseball player. Add a brief biography that could be on the back cover of the book.

part two

HIDE-AND-SEEK

What double standard does Cooper discover?

1. Boys can cheat and get away with it. Girls get ostracised.
2. Nate can get away with anything because he is already typecast as a criminal.
3. Cooper and Nate become more popular because of all the news and the girls do not.
4. Baseball players can cheat because they are usually worse at school.

There's a case to be made for C. 

Cooper and Nate have TWEEN fans. But whether it is a double standard ....

Cooper can either wait for the draft or a full scholarship. What is the difference?

What is Cooper worried about?

1. Keely finding out about Kris.
2. Colleges finding out about "the juice".
3. Nonna having a heart attack when she finds out about Kris.
4. Jake being to harsh on Addy and totally cutting her out.

It's the stuff on Simon's app he's worried about coming out.

How can you tell Cooper gets nervous?

Cooper knows full well he could quite literally get away with murder. How so?

1. He also saw on Dateline how you could murder someone and get away with it.
2. He's like the boy next door. Totally harmless.
3. If needed he knows Kris would back him and reveal the real secret.
4. People look at him and always think the best of him.

What action did Cooper undertake after a heart-to-heart with Nonna?

1. He informed coach Ruffalo about the steroids.
2. He informs Kris about the Simon situation.
3. He breaks up with Keely.
4. He calls Jake on his double standard towards Addy.

He does inform Kris about the Simon situation but that was not because of the conversation he had with his grandma. 

"Your face. You seriously could not care less." Who couldn't care less and why?

1. Cooper; finding out Keely kissed Nate.
2. Keely; hearing Addy's excuse for cheating on Jake.
3. Kris; learning about Keely.
4. Jake; Addy being ostracized by the entire school.

I cannot escape the taint entirely (about the steroid gossip). What saying goes with Cooper assumption People will think ...

1. the apple won't fall far from the tree.
2. there's no smoke without fire.
3. Captain America is too good to be true.
4. what goes around, comes around.

Cooper has his own Facebook page with thousands of likes. Create a fake one and post at least 10 comments that reveal details of his story so far. https://www.classtools.net/FB/home-page Upload a picture of your FB.

Here are some idioms that you came across in Cooper's part two. Can you match them?

Media

persons

be on the

full 

throw a(n)

frantic

of interest

scholarship

juice

circus

accusation

slider

Take a screenshot of your group coggle - part one and two.

What information new information did you learn about your character that you didn't know from what you read?

part three

TRUTH OR DARE

Explain TRUTH or DARE in relation to your character: Cooper.

What stereotype is Cooper fighting against?

1. real sportsmen are straight
2. pretty boys are gay
3. all male models are gay
4. Southern boys are real macho men

There's only one gay man Cooper knows of in the field of professional baseball. It doesn't bode well for him.

Cal State is the only university who didn't forget about Cooper when they learned of his sexuality.

Why does Cooper choose Cal State University?

1. In order to please his father he accepted the offer from his #1 university.
2. It's the only university who remained interested in him when he was outed.
3. Josh Langley finally offered him a scholarship he couldn't refuse.
4. Kris is a medicine student at UCLA.

The media circus around Cooper is like a roller coaster. Add to your Cooper Fakebook page in which you show this roller coaster. Also, add Lucas as a commenter. ± 200 words in total (=entire Fakebook page).

supported when he was a murder suspect,

hated when he was outed, 

loved when he managed to flatten Jake with a well-aimed punch

loved because he is with Kris who is the new breakout star of the entire Simon mess

Who figures out who is behind all the drama?

1. Lucas
2. Ashton
3. Maeve
4. Kris

If all four of them are certain they weren't responsible then that leaves only one person in the detention room: Simon. 

They know it was almost impossible for anyone who wasn't in the room to kill Simon.

In detention, Simon said, "I'm the omniscient narrator". How is this an extremely relevant phrase at the end of the book?

Take a screenshot of your group coggle - whole book.

What information new information did you learn about your character that you didn't know from what you read?

Write Cooper's yearbook entry keeping in mind all he's been through. What lesson would he like to pass on? Min. 120 words. Take a picture of his yearbook entry. Bring to class too.

Before you watch the video,
what do you think American teenagers
have to say about school shootings?

05:45

What did they actually
have to say about
school shootings?

  At American high schools, some students …

o have lockdown drills in which they pretend a shooter is in their school

o are taught a procedure called ‘run, hide, fight’

o have teachers who have access to guns 

o experience security measures like metal detectors 

Possible solutions according to high school students: 

o Raise the age to buy firearms 

o Ban firearms 

o Regulate ammunition

o Vote 

o Demand change

scared Pilgrims are to blamed

- scared of the Indians
- scared of each other

- scared of the British

- scared of Black People rebelling (which they did of course!)

Samuel Colt made a gun that could fire several shots.

KuKluxKlan - NRA 
pro killing people - pro shooting people

fled to suburbs 

with gates

guns

03:07

According to the producer of this film, Micheal Moore, Americans own guns because ...

scared Pilgrims are to blamed

- scared of the Indians

- scared of each other

- scared of the British

- scared of Black People rebelling (which they did of course!)

Samuel Colt made a gun that could 

7000 school shootings

action would be taken if this were a faulty product

despite media portrayals they are multi-faceted
A crisis on various level

gun laws are at the surface of the issue

but ... no concern for people's lives
--> change the culture about guns
--> make it harder for mentally ill people to own guns
--> gun lobby restriction
--> keep guns out of the hands of teenagers

--> common sense: fewer guns, fewer shootings

Societal problem:
negative stigma around mental health
--> talk about it! Anxiety for instance. 
"Boys don't cry". = weak and feminine but this is wrong at a basic level. Also, around 60% of suicides are male - so talking about problems is vital!!!

- mental illness likely to be in the mind of the shooter

- male entitlement (white males - often the shooters!). Starts at birth. 

- Toxic masculinity. Limit the range of emotion. We excuse violent behaviour when they are white males. 

- Sante Fe shooter. Targeted the class of a girl who refused to date him. 

- Toxic masculinity affects not only the white males, it affects everyone!

- The point isn't all men are like this, but enough are and we need to treat this problem.

The psychological profile of a school shooter:
- he won't fit in the box of toxic masculinity

- fell through the cracks of the mental health system - he went unrecognised

- has access to a gun

She feels society doesn't take responsibility for its issues.

She turned her feelings into action in the TED Talk. Give time to an organisation that votes against gun violence etc. Also, talk about it at home, keep it in your mind's eye. Have that tough conversation. 

Stand up and realise that change is in order! Talk about mental health. 

Stop using femininity as an insult. 

10:57

How many students have died in school shootings in the US?

1. 700
2. 70,000
3. 7,000
4. 70

10:57

The speaker describes the school shootings as a ...

1. masculinity problem
2. societal problem
3. gun problem

10:57

The Sante Fe shooter was a prime example of ...

1. a white privileged male
2. depressed students
3. mental instability
4. Toxic masculinity

What do you think is the likelihood of school shootings happening in the Netherlands?