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BRAVE: Valor, courage, doing what is
right despite of being afraid
Vs. Cowardly or Foolhardy
- SUGGESTED READING:
Becky and the Bear
Keep the Light Burning
The Hayes Book of Acts of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage
Beowulf
FAMILY ACTIVITY:
- Talk to your children about the difference between being brave and
being foolish. Bravery is not ignoring danger; it is honorably
surviving it.
- Talk to your children about how brave it is to tell the truth even
if it will get them into trouble. In the future when they admit that
they have done something wrong, before you punish them, thank them
for telling the truth and tell them how proud you are of them.
Later, after their punishment is over, tell them again how proud you
are of them for telling the truth.
CLASS ACTIVITY:
- Assign a paper on "the bravest person I know" or
"the bravest thing I have ever done."
- Discuss: How do we show bravery in our lives? Is bravery always
shown by acting, or do we show bravery by not doing things as well?
What are some examples of being brave by refusing to act?
- Have students perform skits or write short stories about someone
telling their parents or boss about having made a mistake, like
breaking a window or losing something.
HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES:
- Discuss the treatment of bravery in Beowulf or another work. Does
it rate bravery as a more or less important virtue than we do in
modern America? What are the advantages and disadvantages in the
different valuations of bravery? What is it about bravery that is so
important to use that we exalt it as a great virtue?
"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration
of victory." -General George S. Patton
"Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing."
-Samuel Johnson
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the
gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." -President
Theodore Roosevelt
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