Learning objectives from UPF's Discovering the Real Me character education books for students in grades 9-12
With links to sample lessons from the curriculum
Altruism
9 - The Purpose of Growth
10 – How Do I Find My Value?
11 – A Leader Lives Altruistically
11 – Leading a Noble Life
12 – Happiness
12 – Altruistic Love
Beliefs
9 - What Kind of Person Will I Be?
Belonging
12 – Groups and Belonging
Budgeting
11 – Money, Money …
Change
9 – Why We Don’t Want to Change
12 – The Thief and the Mask
Citizenship
11 – Leadership by the People
Commitment
11 – Preparation for a Successful Marriage
12 – Commitment and Loyalty
Communication
10 – Communication Skills
Conflict
10 – Am I My Own Boss?
10 – Resolving Inner Conflict
10 – Resolving Conflict and Forgiveness
12 – Me and My Shadow
Conscience
9 – Conscience
Cooperation
11 – Taking the Lead in Understanding Each Other
Decision-making
9 - What Kind of Person Will I Be?
11- You Are the Leader
12 – Happiness
12 – Choose Your Destiny
12 – The Individual, Family, and Society
Desires
9 - Do You Want to Be Happy?
Discernment
9 – Conscience
9 – Good and Bad
Diversity
11 – Becoming Leaders in a Diverse World
Divorce
12 – Marriage and Divorce
Drinking
9 – Peer Pressure, Smoking, Drinking and Drugs
Drug abuse
9 – Peer Pressure, Smoking, Drinking and Drugs
Emotions
12 – Our Emotional Life
Empathy
10 – Am I My Own Boss?
10 – What Do Parents Really Think?
11 – The Single-Parent Family
11 – Respect and Tolerance
12 – I Can Make a Difference
12 – A Life Worth Living
Environment
11 – Leading the Natural World
Family
12 – The Individual, Family, and Society
Fidelity
11 – Preparation for a Successful Marriage
Forgiveness
10 – Resolving Conflict and Forgiveness
Freedom
9 – Freedom and Responsibility
11 – Leadership by the People
Friendship
10 – Friendship
10 – Falling in Love, Friendship and Real Love
Fulfillment
12 – A Life Worth Living
Gender
9 - Masculinity and Femininity
Goals
9 - My Purpose in Life
Goodness
9 – Good and Bad
Growth
9 - The Process of Growth
Happiness
9 - Do You Want to Be Happy?
9 - My Purpose in Life
12 – Happiness
12 – Altruistic Love
12 – Making a Difference through Service
Heroes
11 – Leading a Noble Life
Honesty
9 – Honesty
11 – Money, Money …
Hormones
9 – The Teenage Years
Humanity
9 – The Value of Life
Initiative
12 – I Can Make a Difference
Infatuation
10 – Falling in Love, Friendship and Real Love
11 – Playing the Romantic Lead in Your Life
Integrity
10 – Human Sexuality and Integrity
Internal Aspects
9 - Who Am I?
Leadership
11 – You Are the Leader
11 – A Leader Lives Altruistically
11 – Leadership by the People
11 – Leadership
11 – Moral Leadership: Looking to Philosophy and Religion
11 – Becoming Leaders in a Diverse World
12 – Under Fire
Life
9 – The Value of Life
12 – A Motto for Life
Listening
11 – Taking the Lead in Understanding Each Other
Love
9 - Human Nature
10 – Love the Greatest Value
10 – Falling in Love, Friendship and Real Love
10 – The Family as the School of Love
Loyalty
12 – Commitment and Loyalty
Marriage
10 – Preparation for Marriage
11 – Playing the Romantic Lead in Your Life
11 – Preparation for a Successful Marriage
12 – Marriage and Divorce
Materialism
11 – Money, Money …
Maturation
9 – The Teenage Years
Meaning
12 – Searching for Meaning
Motto
12 – A Motto for Life
Peer Pressure
9 – Peer Pressure: Smoking, Drinking and Drugs
Philosophy
11 – Moral Leadership: Looking to Philosophy and Religion
Potential
9 –Why We Don’t Want to Change
Power
11 – Leadership by the People
Purity
10 – The Challenge of Purity
Relationships
9 - The World of Relationships
10 – How We Relate
10 – Respect in Relationships
10 – Broken Relationships
10 – Resolving Conflict and Forgiveness
11 – Relationship Skills
12 - Commitment and Loyalty
Religion
11 – Moral Leadership: Looking to Philosophy and Religion
Respect
10 – Respect in Relationships
11 – Respect and Tolerance
11 – Becoming Leaders in a Diverse World
Responsibility
9 – Freedom and Responsibility
11 – Leading Your Life Responsibly
11 – Leadership by the People
12 – Choose Your Destiny
Restraint
11 – Respect and Tolerance
Self-awareness
9 – Who Am I?
12 – Being You
Self-confidence
12 – Being You
Self-control
9 – Self-control
11 – Relationship Skills
Self-image
12 – Being You
Self-improvement
9 – Freedom
12 – The Thief and the Mask
Service
12 – Making a Difference through Service
Sexuality
9 – The Teenage Years
10 – Human Sexuality and Integrity
11 – Should You Have Sex Before Marriage?
Smoking
9 – Peer Pressure: Smoking, Drinking and Drugs
Social Awareness
12 – The Individual, Family, and Society
Survival
12 – Groups and Belonging
Tolerance
11 – Respect and Tolerance
Transcendence
9 - Human Nature
Value
10 – How Do I Find My Value?
Virtues
11 – Playing the Romantic Lead in Your Life