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Secondary Character Education Activities to Support

Haitian Heritage Month

Secondary Character Education Activities to Support

Haitian Heritage Month
Core Value: Integrity
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is committed to helping all students develop the values and strength of character needed for them to become caring, responsible citizens at home, school, and in the community. To support this goal, character education has been an instructional requirement, grades K-12, since 1995.
The foundation of the District’s character education requirement is the nine core values adopted by The School Board of Miami-Dade County, Florida in 1995. The District’s nine core values are: citizenship, cooperation, fairness, honesty, integrity, kindness, pursuit of excellence, respect, and responsibility. Each month a different core value has been designated for emphasis in all classrooms throughout the District.
In May, students need to recognize the importance of integrity. Integrity is acting in accordance with one’s beliefs and values and behaving ethically and morally at all times. When students act with integrity they have learned to incorporate all of the values into their daily life. This is a good time for students to review everything they have done for the year and to reflect upon whether they have acted with integrity. As students are preparing for promotion or graduation, they should think about how integrity will help them to succeed in the next phase of their life.
In addition to the enclosed lessons for Haitian Heritage Month, teachers may further emphasize the value of integrity through the following lesson ideas.

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  Have students answer the questions below as a self-assessment. Discuss the answers and emphasize that integrity means being honest and having strong moral principles.  Integrity is about making good choices. It is doing the right things for the right reason.  It is about being honest with yourself and with others.
  

□ □ I am an honest person.

□ □ I always do what is right, even when it is difficult.

□ □ I do my own work at school.

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  Discuss the following questions:
  

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  What does the word “integrity” mean to you?
  
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  Have you heard the phrase “”Let your life speak.” What does this mean? Do you consistently follow this principle?
  
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  What does the phrase “walk the talk” mean to you? How do you feel when you hear people say one thing and do another?
  
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  What does “compromising your principles” mean? Give an example. Do you ever compromise your principles to get ahead?
  
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  Have you ever taken an unpopular stand on something and had to pay a price for it? What did you do? What did you learn from the experience? Would you take the unpopular stand again?
  
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  Is being thought of as a person of integrity important to you? Why or why not?
  

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  Using magazines, newspapers and the Internet, have students create posters illustrating people doing the right thing and acting with integrity.
  

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  Discuss a very common test of integrity in schools – cheating. Have students create a classroom honor pledge against cheating on assignments and tests. Have students voluntarily sign the pledge.
  

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  Create scenarios in which someone’s integrity is being tested and have students decide what they would do in each situation. Examples:
  

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  John and his friends went to the movies. His friends snuck in the side door and did not pay. Should John sneak in also?
  

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  Maria took a science test early in the school day and copied her answers down. At lunch, she shared her answers with Jose and other friends so that they could score better on the test later in the day. Should Jose use Maria’s answers on the test?
  

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  Paul found a new Smart phone in the cafeteria. Should Paul keep the phone?
  

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  Have students write their own eulogy, describing how they want to be remembered. Then ask them to write about what they need to do in their life to be remembered the way they would like. Include the challenges or obstacles they will face in order to reach this goal and how they will be overcome.
  
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  Ask students to identify someone in public life who they think has demonstrated a lack of integrity. Have students write a letter to this person expressing what they think of his/her behavior and what he/she should do to improve.
  

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  Discuss the following inspirational quotes that help explain the importance of integrity, honesty, and doing the right thing.
  

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  “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
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  “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.” – J.C. Watts
  
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  “If you have integrity, nothing else matters.  If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” – Alan Simpson
  
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  “When I do good, I feel good.  When I do bad, I feel bad.” – Abraham Lincoln
  
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  “Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.” -Henry David Thoreau
  
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  “Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.” -William Shakespeare
  
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  “A half-truth is a whole lie.” -Yiddish Proverb
  

1. 
   http://www.kellerisd.net/studentsandfamilies/know/community-of-character/documents/traits/coc_integrity_5-8.pdf
   
2. 
   http://www.goodcharacter.com/ISOC/Integrity.html
   

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