The purpose of this lesson is to reflect on long-term impact. Discuss the importance of not getting discouraged when their actions don't seem to make a difference in the short term.

Learners use a decision-making model to identify the issues they feel most concerned about. With those in mind, they explore how perseverance and doing their personal best are more effective ways to address needs than looking at the short term.

Each learner sets an individual goal using a goal-setting strategy. The group reflects on perseverance and how to persevere when the plan gets difficult to carry out.

In this lesson, we explore the value of reading and discuss why it is good for the community when everyone has access to books.

We learn about public trust and identify characteristics of public figures that merit trust. Learners also discuss how they can use their own time, talent, and treasure to support trustworthy politicians, sports figures, corporations, and celebrities.

The learners identify the different communities with which they engage. They explore what it means to develop reciprocal trust within different communities.

Learners play a game that helps them identify qualities in others that make them trustworthy.

Learners reflect on their own experience with trustworthy behavior or respond to a quote about trust.

The learners read the metaphor drawings of the other groups and copy strong words and phrases that help define trustworthiness. They identify traits of people they know (including themselves) and write a definition of trustworthy.

The learners use metaphors to describe a trustworthy person.