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VIRTUE: Demonstrating honesty and integrity in my life by
doing what is right
Vs. Impurity
- SUGGESTED READINGS:
The Adventures of Obadiah
I Know You Cheated
On My Honor
The Story of George Washington and the Cherry Tree
Ephesians 4:25
FAMILY ACTIVITY:
- Talk to your children about what kinds of character traits you
believe a virtuous person exhibits.
- Talk to your children about what they should do when they are
pressured to drink, smoke, or use other drugs.
CLASS ACTIVITIES:
- Have students put on skits showing a person standing up to a group
of their friends refusing to smoke with them.
- Have your students make lists of people they admire and respect
and why they respect them.
- Given that virtue is the impulse to do wrong, have a class
discussion about where that impulse comes from.
- Talk about why it is important for people to tell the truth, and
to keep their promises.
HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Talk about ways in which compromise relates to virtue. Under what
circumstances does compromise undermine virtue, and when is it a
virtue? How do you know the difference?
- Have a discussion about whether virtue is shown through individual
behaviors or by patterns of behaviors.
- Have students write a short paper on what they think virtue is.
"It goes without discussion that for states as for individual
citizens, when a debt has been signed and acknowledged it must be paid,
and faith must be kept as to obligations undertaken." -Benito
Mussolini, Dictator of Italy and creator of Fascism
"We must have the courage to be virtuous" -President
Gerald Ford
"Public men should be honest and plain speaking."
-President Warren G. Harding
"Integrity is everything, without it you can accomplish
nothing, with it you can accomplish anything." -President Harry
Truman
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