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This lesson explores how people can be honest with themselves. Learners reflect on how they can be honest with themselves and take personal responsibility.
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Unit: Character Education: Honesty (Grade 8)
Unit: Character Education: Courage (Grade 8)
Grades:
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Working in small groups, learners match the classic hero traits to an activist who took social action for the common good.
Unit: Character Education: Responsibility (Grade 8)
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The learners brainstorm the effects of taking responsibility and not taking responsibility around issues they care about.
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 7)
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The learners use metaphors to describe a trustworthy person.
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Learners reflect on their own experience with trustworthy behavior or respond to a quote about trust.
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Unit: Character Education: Courage (Grade 6)
Grades:
6
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8
The learners define courage and describe the identity of someone with courage. They describe courage with words that show what it is and what it isn't.
Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 7)
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The learners investigate their perceptions about bullying and its relationship to respect. They brainstorm ways to promote respect of self and others as individuals and as a group.
Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 6)
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Learners write an acrostic poem about Dr. King's life and work, focusing particularly on his perseverance.
Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 7)
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In the final reflection, the learners connect the concepts of fairness and philanthropy through written a response to a quote or personal experience.
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 8)
Grades:
6
7
8
Learners play a game that helps them identify qualities in others that make them trustworthy.