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In this lesson, students brainstorm universal obstacles to completing tasks and/or meeting goals....
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Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
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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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6
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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 6)
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Each student sets an individual goal using a goal-setting strategy. The class reflects on perseverance and how to persevere when the plan gets difficult to carry out.
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Students review the Civil Rights work of Martin Luther King, Jr. as discussed in Lesson One. They create an acrostic about his life and work. Then students identify his goals and relate goals to perseverance.
Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 6)
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6
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The students will set a personal goal and make a plan for using self-discipline to meet the goal. They will reflect on their level of self-discipline and their determination to increase that level as they mature.
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Unit: Book Builders
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Grades:
6
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In an effort to make an awesome school year, students draft and share a simple book describing the strengths and needs at the school to challenge everyone to make the school great. They learn the importance of community/social capital by building positive experiences with students of...
Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
The learners will reflect on quotations about self-discipline and relate them to personal goals.
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Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 7)
Grades:
6
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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.
Grades:
6
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Students discuss what it means to do their personal best. They find, through a simple physical activity, that they can do a good job in something, but they still have more talent and drive to do better if they persevere. They recognize that perseverance can help them do their personal best...