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PERSEVERANCE: Working steadily
and enduring hardships to achieve a goal without giving up
Vs. Giving up
- SUGGESTED READING:
I Can't Said the Ant
The Little Engine that Could
Stories about Valley Forge
Ephesians 6:18
- SUGGESTED FILMS:
Glory
Stand By Me
Labyrinth
- SONGS:
I'm Still Standing
FAMILY ACTIVITY:
- Work with your children to help them to set high goals and reach
them, one achievable step at a time.
- Discuss difficult situations for your family and discuss how you
can work through them.
- Show your children that if money is saved, something expensive can
be purchased; this could be done by saving part of their allowance
and combining it with money earned from recycling so that they can
purchase a toy or other item.
- Periodically, take your children to the bank with you and purchase
a US Bond for them. This might be a good birthday present. Explain
to them that by purchasing a bond they are helping other people
today and that they will get more money in the end.
- Help your children with their homework, make sure that they do it
and help them to understand it.
- When you set rules for your children, stick to them, especially if
your children keep breaking them. If you do not persevere, they will
disobey rules that are designed to help and protect them.
CLASS ACTIVITY:
- Discuss obstacles that students have overcome in their lives and
how important perseverance is.
- Also, discuss the limits of perseverance, that is, when is it
appropriate to recognize one's limitations and move on to another
goal.
- Give an assignment and make students redo the assignment until
they can get a perfect score. Spelling lists and math tables are
ideal for this type of assignment.
HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Encourage students to develop a post high school education/work
plan and outline the steps needed to meet it.
- Many students struggle to learn what is being taught. Take time
out to thank them for trying so hard. Talk with them and find out if
there is anything you can do to help them to succeed.
- Many seniors are struggling to keep their senior projects moving,
encourage them to keep going and continue making progress.
- Have students apply for a scholarship for college or vocational
school.
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a
crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in
two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone
before." -Jacob Riis
"It is our sacred duty to defend the cause of the Union.
Whatever the hardship, whatever the cost we will persevere."
-Capt. Matthew Waters, 1862
"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no
defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own
inherent weakness of purpose." -Kin Hubbard
"We must not slacken in our efforts until we have won this
war, and saved mankind." -Winston Churchill
"Never give in, never give away, and never, ever, give up."
Alan Clark, MP
"A task half done is time wasted." -Anonymous
"[There is] no rock so hard but that a little wave may beat
admission in a thousand years." -Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is
unaccomplished by talent, beating your head against the wall is more
likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall."
-Sydney Harris
Perform a Random Act of Kindness Each Day
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