| Great Lives, Vital Lessons: |
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A Character Education Curriculum Resource for Grades 5-8 |
| Karen E. Bohlin and Bernice Lerner, Editors |
| Kathleen Clifford, Deborah Farmer, Kurt Kurtzhals, Alison Reichert, Megan Black Uy, and Mary Worlton, Contributors |
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Here is a collection of lessons that will wonderfully enhance a social studies, language arts or science unit, incorporating character education into the existing curriculum. Fifteen great lives from Confucius to Anne Frank are wrapped around a character trait such as diligence, responsibility and integrity, to help middle-school students become aware of these characteristics and learn how they guided exemplary lives. Each chapter includes reflection and discussion topics, activities and a bibliography. |
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"There are rare moments in a long teaching career when you discover a book that meets your goals and challenges your creativity so perfectly that you wish you’d written it yourself years ago. This is the case with Great Lives, Vital Lessons.Challenging teachers and their students to push their thinking beyond simplistic good/bad categories and what responses the teacher wants to hear, Great Lives, Vital Lessons is a pearl in a sea of unsophisticated “workbook-y” materials." |
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Linda Stark, ethics chair and 7th grade English and social studies teacher, Montclair Kimberley Academy, Montclair, N.J. |
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| Available from the Character Development Group |
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Copyright
2005
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for the Advancement of Ethics and Character |
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