Teaching Character Through Literature: Gratitude
Good morning and happy Wednesday! Today we have our follow up literature post for our monthly character trait – Gratitude. Below is a selection of books that have been curated
Category: The Character Issue
The Character Issue: Integrity
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” ― Frederick
The Character Issue: Kindness and Respect
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. — Rudyard Kipling Welcome to The Character Issue for the month of October. At SLOCA we
The Character Issue: Responsibility
Welcome to the first month in our Character Issue series! An essential part of SLOCA’s mission statement is to be a community that forges character. While we are always endeavoring
The Character Issue: Stewardship
We have made it to the last month of the 2020/2021 school year! And what a year it has been. This month’s character trait is Stewardship. Last year in the
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
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
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 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
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
