Grades:
6
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8
Students will define perseverance and identify the need to persevere in completing tasks. They will explore obstacles and excuses that deter perseverance....
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Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Perseverance involves staying with a task even if it is difficult. Students identify obstacles they must overcome in order to stay on a task and/or reach a goal. Students identify having a plan and team work as strategies to persevere....
Grades:
6
7
8
Students will consider obstacles to persevering and write creative "one-liners" to help them face obstacles with creativity, determination and humor....
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Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
The students will create a plan that includes steps and strategies for practicing self-discipline in an effort to reach a goal....
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Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Self-Discipline is a little hard to define because it varies by personal experiences. This activity uses discussion and analysis to define self-discipline through examples and non-examples.
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Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
The learners discuss a quote from Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and reflect on the meaning of respect for themselves as individuals. They commit their support to a plan for promoting respect in their school.
Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students look for examples of personal best in a movie about perseverance and discuss the value of working toward personal best even when it is difficult.
Unit: Character Education: Caring (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson the learners discuss a quote about gratitude and consider the relationship between caring and gratitude.
Unit: What Respect Means to Me
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Grades:
3
4
5
The students will demonstrate self-respect by learning good habits for taking care of their emotional and physical health. The students will be provided with an opportunity to practice treating oneself and being treated by others with respect. They explore why caring for self and others is good...
Unit: Kwanzaa: Unity Within Community
Grades:
K
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Through the integration of the arts, the learners will develop an understanding of the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Students are challenged to apply the principles to their everyday lives in a way that enhances the communities to which they belong.