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Purpose:
Learners demonstrate understanding of integrity by reflecting and writing in response to quotes or personal experience related to integrity.
Duration:
One 20-minute lesson
Objectives:
The learner will:
- reflect on quotes or personal experience.
- write ideas on integrity to demonstrate understanding.
Service Experience:
Learn more about the stages of service-learning.
This character education mini-lesson is not intended to be a service learning lesson or to meet the K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice. The character education units will be most effective when taught in conjunction with a student-designed service project that provides a real world setting in which students can develop and practice good character and leadership skills. For ideas and suggestions for organizing service events go to www.generationon.org.
Materials:
- In a display area post the definnition of integriy - Knowing and Doing What's right.
- Student copies of Attachment One: Reflection Assignment or teacher may copy the assignment on the board
Instructional Procedure(s):
Anticipatory Set:
Read the definition on the board. Ask the students to decide which is more important -- knowing or acting? Discuss their answers: Why did you choose that?
- Teacher: Today, you'll have the opportuntiy to reflect and write on one of these quotes OR write about a personal experience.
- Read the quotes together.
- Tell students to write a reflection in their journals about how one of the following quotes relates to the definition of integrity:
Quote #1: "Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do." --Don Galer
Quote #2: "Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." --Paul Wellstone
Quote #3: "The measure of a man's character (integrity) is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out." --Thomas Macauly
- Or, they may choose to write on a personal experience: Write about a time when you demonstrated integrity. Describe how knowing and doing what was right made you feel.
Lesson Developed By:
Jan DalmanCurriculum Consultant
Learning to Give
Handouts:
Handout 1Print Handout 1
Reflection Assignment
Write a reflection in your journal about how one of the following quotes relates to the definition of integrity:
Quote #1: "Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do." --Don Galer
Quote #2: "Never separate the life you live from the words you speak." --Paul Wellstone
Quote #3: "The measure of a man's character (integrity) is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out." --Thomas Macauly
OR
If you choose to write on a personal experience: Write about a time when you demonstrated integrity. Describe how knowing and doing what was right made you feel.
Unit Contents:
Overview:Character Education: Integrity (Grade 6) Summary
Lessons:
- 1.
- Knowing What's Right
- 2.
- Doing What's Right
- 3.
- A Decision of Integrity
- 4.
- Acting with Integrity
- 5.
- Integrity and Me!
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