
Read these two short scenes together.
Scene A: Someone barges past you at the lockers and does not say sorry.
Scene B: Every time you speak in class, people laugh at how you say words, and nobody stops it. After a while you stop putting your hand up.
Which one is just rude? Which one treats a person as if they do not really count?
When you have answered, read this:
Dignity is the standing every person has simply by being human. Rudeness stings. Denying dignity goes further: it treats somebody as a problem, a joke, or someone who does not matter. Your piece today needs the second kind, not the first.
Swap with a partner. Do not explain your piece. Your partner has thirty seconds to say what situation they think you showed, and whether it is rude or a dignity denial.
Then answer two questions together:
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