The Character Issue: Resilience & Resourcefulness
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. – Martin
Category: Character
Teaching Through Literature: Citizenship
Our Teaching Through Literature series is all about sharing quality books that have been carefully and intentionally selected to correlate with each month’s character trait. Citizenship is our character trait
The Character Issue: Citizenship
It is April and we have a new character trait — Citizenship. Back when I (Sharon) was in elementary school, I remember each month we would have an all-school assembly
Teaching Character Through Literature: Courage
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth
The Character Issue: Courage
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. ― Franklin D. Roosevelt Last March when we introduced our character
The Humility of Socratic Discussion (Reprise)
If we have had the practice to ask again and again what the author meant, and the discipline and training to return to the text and say, “How do you
Teaching Character Through Literature: Humility
…A powerful story…quickens that hero’s heartbeat within us. Well-chosen words touch and transform our souls–making us want to be better than we are right now. Nagging lectures from Mom and
The Character Issue: Humility
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as
Teaching Character Through Literature: Diligence
When we read a book with a protagonist facing difficulties we can’t help but cheer them on. As they face seemingly insurmountable obstacles, we want to shout, “Don’t give up!”
The Character Issue: Diligence
Did you know that the word diligence also refers to a stagecoach? It is short for the French carosse de diligence. A diligence was a large, four-wheeled, closed French stagecoach
