Lesson Five provides the opportunity to make meaning of integrity through writing or drawing.

Students edit their memoir drafts, adding dialogue and figurative language in this guided writing session. This lesson will help students realize that struggles they experience in their lives often lead to a new understanding or lesson learned. Students will reflect on how their experience...

Students will understand the concept of philanthropy and be aware of its presence in the community. While written for a Christian Middle School, the lesson may be easily adapted for public school use.

Students examine how their understanding of respect evolved. This will be achieved by creating and completing a reflection/demonstration project that illustrates what respect for self, others, property and environment looks likes....

The teacher poses several questions to spark conversation and critical thinking about the meaning of fairness. Students work together to create a definition of fairness.

Using different approaches, the group develops a working understanding of the definition of philanthropy.

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Students become familiar with the motivation of volunteers through interviewing some of the school volunteers.

Students will be exposed to literature that illustrates how responsible citizens participate constructively in their communities.

Through teaming with younger children, learners will determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in context and use encouragement to help others learn to read. They will determine how their acts are a form of community capital as they build trust with their younger learners.

Learners will compare and contrast the same act of philanthropy over two periods in time.