Learners discuss why some people are able to meet goals and some are not able to do so. They also use a survey to determine a personal self-discipline score. The students define self-discipline by determining what it does and does not look like, sound like, and feel like. Learners associate a list of vocabulary words with self-discipline. They use quotations from author Sandra Cisneros to infer concepts of self-discipline. The learners imagine life changes one, four, and five years from the present time and determine skills and behaviors of self-disicpline that will help them be successful in meeting goals for the future.

Focus Question: What role does self-discipline play in relationships and life success? How can developing self-discipline equip people as world citizens who contribute to the common good?

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 The League.