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DON'T PUT PEOPLE IN BOXES

Activity: Don't put people in boxes Location: MPH, Campsites, Football field

Activity description and Outcomes: Pre-check before use:


- Activity site is flat and big enough for a big group to
move around
- Group readiness: maturity, early day 4 of the program

Timeline: Equipment
- Different squares marked on the ground
- Question list

Run activity and review:

Introduction: It is so easy to place people in boxes, drawing lines, creating sides. There are us and there
are them. There are those we feel comfortable around, those we don't. (There are those of us with many
chapters, and those just starting their own story). There are those too well to do, and those doing what
they can. There are those we share something with, and those we don't seem to share anything with.
In a school with ... students of year 9, each person has their own personality. It may seem difficult to feel
united.
In today experiment, you are put into boxes with which you and others identify the most. We are gonna
challenge your perception for yourself and others. And ask you to step out of your box, open your mind
with your most honest response. Questions used are very personal. So, for us, to have a true result, I
need you to be completely honest with how you respond.
I will read out loud one by one question. Question form will start with 'Who'. You listen and reflect
yourself on it for 10 seconds. After 10 seconds, if the answer is 'I did it' or 'I find myself in the question',
you will move to the middle square over there. If not, you stay in your own one.
- The first question I have in here is who always goes to school on time?
To appreciate their honesty and bravery, let's give them an applause.
We are done with the first question. To move to the next one, I would like to invite you to go back to your
very first square.
- Who is never on time?
- Who has dyed hair?
- Who always finishes homework?
- Who used to use phones in class?
- Who has received low scores but come back with higher ones after that?
- Who loves milk tea?
- Who likes to take your pet for a walk?
- Who has gone through a tough time?
- Who has at least one best friend?
- Who has been confiscated your phone by parents?
- Who wishes to have a univesity scholarship?
- Who studies in SIS Gamuda/ works in ...?

Agreed that we are all different: different strengths, different weaknesses, different experience, different
past, having different friend groups, coming from different neighborhoods, but we are now. That is what
is in common. Because there are all of us who are proudly SIS students.

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