1. Character Education Citizenship

2. Citizenship Definition: Being a good neighbor and member of the community and protecting the environment.

3. Citizenship Definition: Obeying the rules and working to make your community a better place.

4. Citizenship Example
A person who respects authority plays by the rules.

5. Citizenship Example
A person who respects authority obeys parents, teachers, coaches, and others who have been given authority.

6. Citizenship Example
A person who respects authority observes just laws.

7. Citizenship Example
A person who respects authority honors the principles of democracy.

8. Civic Duty Example
A person performs his/her civic duty by doing more than his/her fair share to make society work, now and in the future.

9. Civic Duty Example
A person performs his/her civic duty by staying informed on issues concerning privileges and obligations as a member of the community and of a democratic society.

10. Citizenship Words Respect Authority Civic Duty Honor Fair share Obey
Just laws
Stay informed

11. Citizenship Quotes
Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world…No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble. -Isaiah Bowman

12. Citizenship Quotes
Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
-Andrew Jackson

13. Citizenship Quotes
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.
-Abraham Lincoln

14. Citizenship Quotes
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing to pull his weight.
-Theodore Roosevelt

15. Citizenship Quotes Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
-Aristotle

16. Citizenship Quotes
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
-Thomas a Kempis

17. Citizenship Quotes
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
-Patrick Henry

18. Citizenship Quotes Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
-Jawaharlal Nehru

19. “The Goatherd and the Wild Goats.” -Aesop

20. Discussion Questions for “The Goatherd and the Wild Goats”
1. Do you think the wild goat was right with its prediction?

21. Discussion Questions for “The Goatherd and the Wild Goats”
2. Do you treat new friends more kindly than you do your old friends?

22. Discussion Questions for “The Goatherd and the Wild Goats”
3. What are some things that a friend does to let you know he is loyal?

23. Discussion Questions for “The Goatherd and the Wild Goats”
4. How do you select friends?

24. Discussion Questions for “The Goatherd and the Wild Goats”
5. How do you keep good friends?

25. Recipe for Good Friendship
1 cup of patience
2-3 hugs per day
13 big smiles per day
A generous helping of listening
1 giant scoop of kindness
Sprinkle with sugar and spice