GoodCharacter June Newsletter

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Volume 1, Issue 5 June 2007

Contents

The Daily Dilemma
Summertime Reading List
Character Building Organizations and Opportunities
In the News

The Daily Dilemma

CHALLENGE YOUR STUDENTS!
Not-so-hypothetical situations from the case files of Charis Denison.

For June...
Peter’s lifelong close friend, Bridget, is wrapped up in an online relationship with some older guy on MySpace, a social networking website. Peter senses danger, but Bridget resents his warnings and wants him to butt out. What can he do without risking their friendship?
Click here to read the complete dilemma with facilitator notes and discussion questions.

Summertime Reading List

Here are some sites that give you some nice suggestions on great books for your children, or your students, to read this summer!

Markula Center for Applied Ethics: Character based summer reading list listed by grade level.
CAEC at Boston University School of Education: Suggested reading lists categorized by grade level and character virtue.
Michigan State University Extension: Reading list for kids and adults.

Character Building Organizations and Opportunities

The Fiver Children's Foundation is a comprehensive youth development organization that empowers children from underserved communities to develop life skills and to reach their full potential.
Fiver Children's Foundation

The American Youth Foundation inspires people to discover and develop their personal best, to seek balance in mental, physical, social and spiritual living and to make a positive difference in their communities and in the wider world.
American Youth Foundation

Together, the nation's 2,617 YMCAs are the largest not-for-profit community service organization in America, working to meet the health and human service needs of 20.2 million men, women and children in 10,000 communities in the United States. YMCAs are at the heart of community life across the country: 42 million families and 72 million households are located within three miles of a YMCA.
YMCA

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need.
Habitat for Humanity

The Meals On Wheels Association of America (MOWAA) is the oldest and largest organization in the United States representing those who provide meal services to people in need.
Meals on Wheels

VolunteerMatch is a leader in the nonprofit world dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to volunteer. The organization offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement.
Volunteer Match

In the News

Use these articles to gather ideas about how to build good character at home, work, and in your community!
Valedictorian overcame difficult path
Bill would increase penalties for school threats
Cedar Hill ISD gets a jump on character education - There are some good comments on this article!

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Famous Words from Famous People "If" by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream and not make dreams your master; If you can think and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same: If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
New Character Education Resources
	Reality Matters DVD Series Click here for more info.
	Skills for Healthy Living DVD Series Click here for more info.
	Groark's Birthday Surprise Click here for more info.
	Character for Middle Grade Students Click here for more info.
	Young Person's Guide to Getting and Keeping a Good Job Click here for more info.



Have a great summer!