Caring-Part 4 Due 12-13-07

What does caring have to do with the quality of your character?

Describe the most caring thing anyone has ever done for you.

What effect did that have on you?

Imagine that you have just inherited $20,000, and you want to spend it all to help other people. What would you do with it, and why?

What effect would it have on the people you would be helping.

Caring Part 3-Due 12-12-07

Can you choose to be a caring person, or do you have to be born that way?

Agree or disagree: By performing caring acts, we become caring people. Explain.

Someone said, Caring needs a government that works. In our country, do government programs show caring for people in need?

Do you think we can pass laws that will make people care?

Why or why not?

Explain the quote from Kahlil Gibran, "You give little when you give of your possessions. It's when you give of yourself that you truly give."

Caring-Part 2-Due 12-11-07

Agree or disagree: It's uncool to be a caring person. Why, or why not?

To what extent would you inconvenience yourself for another person?

Would you give money to a stranger on the sidewalk who asked for spare change?

Why or why not?

Would it make a difference if the person were a mother with child, b) very old, c) from a different culture? What does giving money to a stranger have to do with caring anyway?

Is it realistic to think that an average teenager could make an impact on their community?

Caring Part 1 Due 12-10-07

A lot of people say that teenagers are self absorbed and don't care about anything but themselves. Do you agree or disagree?



How do you feel when people show that they really care about you?



How do you feel when you do something really caring for someone else?



In what ways is this a caring world? In what ways is it uncaring?



What could each of us do to make this a more caring world?



When someone is uncaring how does that affect friends, school and community? Give examples.

Fairness/Justice Part 4 Due 12-06-07

What are the benefits of being a fair person?

How do you benefit from the fairness of others?

Think of a time when you've taken unfair advantage of a person or a situation, or when someone has taken unfair advantage of you. Describe it.

What was unfair about it?

How did it make you feel?

What did you learn from the experience?

How is fairness related to having respect for others?

How is it related to honesty?

How is it related to being reliable?

How is it related to being a good citizen?

Describe an unfair situation in your community and what you think should be done about it.

Fairness/Justice Part 3 Due 12-05-07

What if being fair to others means sacrificing something important of your own, like time, money, or even your job? How can you determine what's fair when you have to choose between yourself and others?




How should you treat people who are not fair with you?




What do you think Aristotle meant when he said, "All virtue is summed up in dealing justly"? Do you agree with him?




What does being fair have to do with the quality of your character?