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RESPECTFUL: To show proper deference
and consideration to other people; to have a high opinion of; to be
polite and kind
Vs. Disrespectful
- SUGGESTED READING:
Sarah Plain and Tall
The Hundred Penny Box
What Does it Mean? Sharing
Everybody Takes Turns
Charlotte's Web
- SUGGESTED MOVIES:
The Never Ending Story
Forrest Gump
- SONGS:
Respect
FAMILY ACTIVITY:
- A strong family respects each other. Discuss with your children
what it means to respect one another and why we should respect
family members. Encourage your children to show respect for others
by doing so yourself. Talk to your children about respecting people
who believe things that are different from what they believe.
- When you talk to your children about our leaders and governing
institutions, and when you talk about them in front of you children,
remember that your children are learning from you. Do not lie to
them, but be careful not to paint a picture of government that is so
bleak that they will refuse to become involved in the political
process. Also remember to respect your older children's political
beliefs, especially when you disagree with them.
- Talk with your children about how they should react when they feel
people are being disrespectful to them.
- Racism is an especially severe form of disrespect. Talk to your
children about respecting people of different ethnic groups. Help
them to understand how disrespectful and hurtful it is to taunt a
person with racial epithets.
CLASS ACTIVITY:
- Every person deserves respect; discuss why we should respect
others. Also discuss why we should pay extra respect to our elders,
police, parents, and other groups.
- Have students talk or write about how it feels to be disrespected
by other people.
- Discuss, in broad terms, the obstacles that people of different
ethnic groups must overcome and why we should respect people who are
able to do that.
- Talk to your students about what an American flag represents and
why they should respect it.
- Have students write an essay on why they deserve respect.
- Have students write about why they respect their parents.
HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- To what extent is a free society based on mutual respect? Can
voluntary associations, businesses, governments, marriages, etc.
survive without mutual respect? Is there enough respect in American
society to maintain these vital institutions? How can people
encourage more respect for these institutions?
- Discuss in detail the great adversities that different ethnic
groups have had to overcome and how they are treated in our
community. How can we respect people who have overcome such great
adversities?
"I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree
with them." -Herbert Henry Lehman
"The more I respect others, the more I deserve to be
respected." -Emmanuel Kant
"Men are respectable only as they respect."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now
there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going."
-J.B. Priestly
"I may not agree with what you are saying, but I'll fight to
the death to defend your right to say it." -American saying
"Our country is built on the belief that people of different
cultures can come together in mutual respect and build something better
together than we can build separately." -President Richard
Nixon
"Every human being has the right to respect for his person,
to his good reputation; the right to freedom in searching for truth and
in expressing and communicating his opinions, and in pursuit of art,
within the limits laid down by the moral order and the common good."
-Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth)
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