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Students reflect on their attitude about and responsibility for making fair choices about spending. They use the literary device of metaphor for expressing their thoughts.
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Unit: Character Education: Fairness (Grade 8)
Unit: Walk a Mile in My Moccasins
Grades:
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Using words of Native Peoples, youth explore examples of the philanthropic attitudes and traditions.
Unit: Character Education: Trustworthiness (Grade 7)
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6
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Students read the metaphors of their classmates and copy strong words and phrases that help define trustworthiness. They identify traits of people they know and themselves, and write a definition of trustworthy.
Grades:
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Students compare a trustworthy person to an object using the writers' devise of metaphor or simile....
Unit: Poetry of Giving
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Youth will use metaphor, simile and personification to create imagery in their writing and recognize philanthropy in poetry. The learners will also become familiar with the poet laureates, Billy Collins and his writing....
Unit: Painting Pictures with Poetry: Art from the Heart
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6
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Young people discuss examples of philanthropy in poems and quotations. They write an expression of philanthropy using the poetic conventions of metaphor, simile, and personification. These statements could be used as the text for greeting cards produced for an Art from the...
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Unit: Character Education: Courage (Grade 6)
Grades:
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In this lesson, students define courage further by distinguishing it from heroism and recognizing that courage is something we need when making a difficult choice about something important.
Unit: Rights and Responsibilities
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6
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We examine the authority to act, whether the authority comes from self or government. This lesson looks at our rights and responsibilites in the founding documents of our country. We discuss the purposes of the Constitution, Preamble to the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights....
Unit: Partners for the Common Good (4th Grade)
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The students distinguish between for-profit and nonprofit organizations. They identify nonprofit organizations in their community and create an information cube to share with their families to increase awareness of philanthropy within their own communities.
Unit: Our Unique Legacy of Giving
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6
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Students watch the documentary The Gift of All: a Community of Givers and identify the motivations and attributes of the generous people interviewed. Students read, summarize, and report on short biographies of philanthropists. Student writing includes metaphors and journal reflections...