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?

Fairness/Justice Part 2 Due 12-04-07

Is it possible to be fair without considering everyone who will be affected by your decision?


Give an example.


What does intolerance have to do with unfairness?


Most people think fairness requires us to treat people equally.


What does it mean to treat people equally?


Give examples of equal and unequal treatment.


Can you think of a situation in which it might be right to give someone a special advantage?


Are there ever good reasons to give unequal consequences for the same offense?

Fairness/Justice Part 1 Due 12-03-07

Agree or disagree: It's an unfair world, and nothing I do is going to change that.


How do you know when something is unfair?


What does treating people fairly mean?


Does fairness mean everyone gets the same amount, like an equal piece of a chocolate bar?


Does fairness mean enforcing the rules for everyone, even if it means losing a game?


Is it possible to treat everyone fairly?


What does it mean to be open-minded?


What does it mean to be impartial?


What do these things have to do with fairness?

Responsibility Part 4 Due 11-29-07

Write at least five things you could say to yourself when you are tempted to act irresponsibly.

Explain the meaning and significance of each.

Describe something you've done that was really irresponsible.

How did you feel afterward?

What did you learn from it?

Describe what this society might be like if nobody was accountable for their actions, if nobody kept their commitments.

Responsibility Part 3 Due 11-28-07

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

What are the benefits of being a responsible person?

How do you benefit from the responsibility of others?

What responsibilities do you believe you personally have for: 1) yourself, 2) your family, 3) your community, 4) the world?

Responsibility Part 2 Due 11-27-07

What does the golden rule have to do with responsibility?

It's been said that "There are no rights without responsibility, and there is no responsibility without rights."

What does that mean?

Do you agree?

What is the relationship between rights and responsibilities?

Responsibility Part 1 Due 11-26-07

Do you consider yourself to be a responsible person?

Why?

In what ways?

Do you consider it important for your friends and family members to be responsible?

Why?

Think about somebody you know who is very responsible.

How does that person demonstrate responsibility?

Does that make you respect him/her more?

Respect Part 4-Due 11-16-07

(Post the questions and the answers to the questions)

Watch a sitcom on television, and then write about how the actions of the characters demonstrated either respectful or disrespectful behavior.

Bullies are often trying to make people "respect" them. Is this really respect, or is it fear?

What is the difference?

How is bullying and violent behavior an act of disrespect?

Write about a time when you were disrespectful to someone. Why did it happen?

Was it the right thing to do?

What were the consequences?

How did it make the other person feel?

What did you learn from the experience?

Describe three things you could do to be a more respectful person.

How would that affect your relationships with others?

How does it benefit you to be a respectful person?

Respect Part 3-Due 11-15-07

(Post the questions and the answers to the questions)

How is respect related to fairness?

To caring?

To the Golden Rule?

To violence?

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

What are the benefits of people treating each other with respect?

Respect Part 2-Due 11-14-07

(Post the questions and the answers to the questions)

What can you do to make this a more respectful world?

Does respect play a role in harmonious race relations?

Explain.

Do you think that people in our society are respectful enough of each other?

Why?

Do you consider yourself to be a respectful person?

Why, or why not?

In what ways do you show respect to others?

Respect Part 1-Due 11-13-07

(Post the questions and the answers to the questions)

How do you feel when someone judges you without knowing you or giving you a chance?

How do you feel when someone you disagree with calls you a name?

How do you feel when someone bumps into you in the hall and doesn't apologize?

Agree or disagree: Courtesy and politeness are a lot of nonsense.

Agree or disagree: When people stay out of a bully’s way, they are showing respect.

Trustworthiness Part 5-Due 11-08-07

Write about a time you lost somebody’s trust or somebody lost your trust.

Was this trust ever regained?

How?

What did you learn from the experience?

Trustworthiness Part 4-Due 11-08-07

(Post the questions and the answers to the questions)

Write about someone you trust.

Why do you trust that person?

How important is that trust to you?

How do you reciprocate?

Trustworthiness Part 3-Due 11-07-07

Are you a trustworthy person?

In what ways are you trustworthy?

In what ways are you, perhaps, not so trustworthy?

What could you do to improve?

Trustworthiness Part 2-Due 11-06-07

(Post the questions and the answers to the questions)

If your friends were here right now, would they say you were trustworthy?

What would your parents say?

Are you more trustworthy with your friends or with your parents?

Do you think your parents should trust you automatically?

Why or why not?

If you want someone to trust you, who has most of the responsibility— you or the other person?
Why?

As a general policy, should we start off trusting people and only stop trusting if they prove that they're not worthy?

Or should we be cautious and not trust them until they prove themselves worthy?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of each position?

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

What are the benefits of being a trustworthy person?

How do you benefit from the trustworthiness of others?

Trustworthiness-Part 1 Due 11-05-07

(Post the questions and the answers to the questions)

How do you know when you can trust someone?

Some adults say that your generation cannot be trusted, that you've lost the values from past generations.

Do you agree, or disagree?

How important is trust in your relationships with friends and family?

How would these relationships be affected if you found out someone was lying to you?

Once trust has been broken, what can you do to get it back?

Have you ever lost someone's trust?

Has someone lost your trust?

Explain.

Citizenship-Part 5 Due 11-02-07

(Post the questions and the answers to the questions)

What are some of the things in your community that need improving?

What could you do about it?

Do you agree that helping needy people is an important part of being a good citizen?

Why or why not?

Citizenship-Part 4 Due 11-01-07

(Post the questions and the answers to the questions)

What does good citizenship have to do with the Golden Rule?

What does it have to do with good character?

Citizenship-Part 3 Due 10-31-07

(Post the questions and the answers to the questions)

Is it important for citizens to voice their opinions and participate in the decision making process?

Why, or why not?

Citizenship-Part 2 Due 10-30-07

(Post the questions and the answers to the questions)

Do you think you are a good citizen?

Why, or why not?

Citizenship-Part 1 Due 10-29-07

(Post the statement and the answer to the statement)

Agree or disagree: I don't have any responsibility to my school, my community, my nation, or anything else. My only responsibilities are to myself.

Integrity-Part 5 Due 10-26-07

(Post the questions and your answers to each question.)

1. Identify someone in public life who you think has demonstrated a lack of integrity.

2. Write a letter to this person saying what you think of his/her behavior and what he/she should do to shape up.

Integrity-Part 4 Due 10-25-07

(Post the questions and your answers to each question.)

1. Write your own eulogy, describing how you want to be remembered.

2. Then write about what you will need to do in your life to be remembered the way you would like.

3. Include what challenges or obstacles you will face in order to reach this goal and how you might overcome them.

Integrity-Part 3 Due 10-24-07

(Post the questions and your answers to each question.)

1. What does "compromising your principles" mean?

2. Give an example.

3. How far would you compromise your principles in order to get ahead?

4. In what ways do you benefit from making choices that are consistent with your highest values?

5. What do you think Gandhi meant when he said, "We must be the change we want to see?"

6. What does integrity have to do with your character?

Integrity-Part 2 Due 10-23-07

(Post the questions and your answers to each question.)

1. What does the expression "walk your talk" mean?

2. Do you know people who walk their talk?

3. What do you think of them?

4. Do you know people who don’t walk their talk?

5. What do you think of them?

6. How do you feel when you hear people say one thing and do another?

7. How do you feel when you see someone who’s not willing to stand up for his/her beliefs?

8. Have you ever taken a stand that was unpopular and had to pay the price for that?

9. What did you do?

10. What was the outcome?

11. How did you feel afterwards?

12. What did you learn from the experience?

Integrity-Part 1 Due 10-22-07

(Post the questions and your answers to each question.)

1. How do you want to be remembered after you die?

2. Are you that kind of person?

3. Does thinking about how you want to be remembered tell you anything about how you should live your life?

4. Have you ever heard the phrase "Let your life speak"?

5. What do you think that means?

6. Is being thought of as someone with integrity important to you?

7. Why, or why not?

8. How would you feel if someone accused you of not having integrity?

9. What does the word "integrity" mean to you?

Courage-Part 5/Due October 19, 2007

Part 5 7. Consider the following behavioral definition of what courage means:
- Stand up for what is right, even if you stand alone.
- Don't cave in to negative peer pressure.
- Don't avoid trying something for fear of making a mistake or failing.
- Don't be afraid to express yourself just because some people might disapprove.
Write a 5-7 sentence paragraph on each of the points in this definition of courage.

Courage-Part 4/Due October 18, 2007

Write about a time when you had to give up friends because they became a negative force in your life? In what way did that take courage?

In what ways have you demonstrated courage in your life?

Courage-Part 3/Due October 17, 2007

What was the hardest stand you ever had to take with your friends? Did it cost you anything? What were the benefits?

Have you ever gone along with the crowd even though you knew it was wrong? How did you feel about yourself? What did you learn from it?

Courage-Part 2/Due October 16, 2007

(Post the questions and your answers to each question.)

1. Is peer pressure a very strong influence in this school? Does it take courage to resist peer pressure?
2. What does it mean to have principles? What are some of your principles? How much are you willing to risk for your principles? Would you risk being criticized or losing popularity?
3. What do you think stops people from taking a stand against something they know is wrong?
4. Have you ever stood up for someone who was being picked on or treated unfairly? Would you do it again? What did you learn from that experience?
5. Are there kids in your school who pick on others? How do you feel about it? Why do people allow that to happen? What could you do about it?
6. Have the courage to be yourself. What do you think this means? How can it require courage to be yourself?
7. Evil will continue to triumph as long as good people do nothing. What does this mean? Do you agree?
8. Is courage something you have to be born with, or can you develop it?
9. What does courage have to do with the quality of your character?

Courage-Part 1/Due October 15, 2007

(Post the questions and your answers to each question.)

1. Thomas Jefferson said that one person with courage is a majority. What does that mean to you?
2. What is courage?

Diligence-Part 3 10-12-07

4. Make a chart of the things in your studies that are easy for you and those things that seem difficult. Now write out a plan for what you can do to overcome your difficulties. (Chart should be in notebook, submit plan on blog.) (Plan should have S.M.A.R.T. Goals)

Diligence-Part 2 Due 10-11-07

Write about an event in your life in which you succeeded at something which was very challenging. How much did any of the behaviors listed in Diligence Part-1 contribute to your success? What did you learn from that? (Post the questions and your answers to the questions.)

Diligence-Part 1 Due 10-10-07

How diligent are you? For each of the behaviors listed below, write a thorough evaluation of yourself: (Post the behavior and your answer to each behavior.)

a. I always do my best; I strive for excellence.

b. I am willing to risk failure to accomplish a higher goal.

c. I am self-disciplined.

d. I learn from my mistakes and failures.

e. I look at the big picture; I think long-term.

f. I set goals and stay focused.

g. I don’t give up just because things seem difficult.

h. I don’t leave things unfinished.

i. I don’t procrastinate.

j. I learn from people who have made a habit of all these things.

Honesty-Dishonesty Journal Conclusions Due 10-05-2007

Check your e-mail.

Who is Dave Ramsey?

Tell me about Dave Ramsey.

Your response should be at least 200 words and no more than 300 words.

Document your sources.

Honesty

Answer the following questions. Post the question and your answer to each question in a complete sentence.

1. How many lies do you get to tell before you are a liar?
2. Do you consider yourself to be an honest person? Why?
3. What would you do if you found $10,000 on the shelf beneath an ATM machine and nobody saw you find it?
4. People often rationalize their own dishonesty by saying, "That’s the way the world is, so why should I be different?" What do you think of this reasoning?
5. A guideline for making good choices is to ask yourself, "How would I feel if this were printed on the front page of the newspaper?" How might that help keep you honest?
6. Is there anything wrong with a "small" lie to parents or friends to keep from upsetting them?
7. When people are dishonest with you, how does it make you feel?
8. Lying ruins relationships. Do you agree? Has that ever happened to you?
9. What is your definition of an honest person?
10. How important is it to you that your friends be honest?
11. If you discover your classmates are cheating on an important exam, does that make it okay for you to cheat, too?
12. It’s been said that cheating is just another form of lying. Do you agree?
13. Being honest makes life a lot easier. What does this mean? Do you agree? Have you experienced this in your own life?
14. What risks are involved in being honest? What risks are involved in being dishonest? How do you benefit from being an honest person?
15. What does honesty have to do with your character?

Folksonomy

Post the question and the answers to the questions.

1. What is folksonomy?
2. How does it work?
3. Why would anyone want to do this?
4. Who uses it?
5. When was the term invented?
6. Where are some websites that are examples?

Podcasting

Post the question and the answers to the questions.

1. What is it?
2. Why is it called podcasting?
3. How does it work?
4. Why would anyone want to do this?
5. Who uses it?
6. When was the term invented?
7. Where are some websites that are examples?

RSS Feeds

Post the question and the answers to the questions.

1. What is it?
2. How does it work?
3. Why would anyone want to do this?
4. Who uses it?
5. When was it invented?
6. What are some examples?
7. How do you read it?
8. Are RSS Feeds better than E-Mail news letters?

Social Bookmarking

Post the question and the answers to the questions.

1. What is it?
2. How does it work?
3. Why would anyone want to use it?
4. Who uses it?
5. When was the term invented?
6. Where are some websites that are examples?
7. Some types of bookmarking:
8. What are the downsides?

Wiki pages

Post the question and the answers to the questions.

1. What is a wiki page?
2. What does the term Wiki refer to?
3. How does it work?
4. Why would anyone want to use wiki pages?
5. Who uses wiki pages?
6. How do you edit a wiki page?
7. What does it do?
8. When was the term invented?
9. Where are some websites that are examples?

Blogosphere

Post the question and the answers to the questions.

1. What is it?
2. How does it work?
3. Why would anyone want to do this?
4. Who uses it?
5. When was the term invented?
6. Where are some websites that are examples?

Daily Dilemma # 20

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Audio Visual Equipment Project

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