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The learners will set a personal goal and describe self-discipline steps to meeting the goal. They will select quotations and reflect on their relevance to achieving their goal. ...
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Unit: Character Education: Self-Discipline (Grade 7)
Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 8)
Grades:
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8
The class will examine and reflect on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as it relates to respect....
Unit: Character Education: Honesty (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
In this lesson, students discuss different types of lies and rate them in their severity and damage to others.
Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 8)
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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Grades:
6
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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....
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: Responsibility (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students examine the consequences of Abraham Lincoln's responsible decisions. The introduction of the concept of common good adds a dimension to the benefit/consequences of taking responsibility.
Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
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: Trustworthiness (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
7
8
Students identify the qualities that make a friend trustworthy and determine whether you can be friends with someone you don't trust.