Word of the Month: NOVEMBER

RESPECT: To show proper deference and consideration to other people; to have a high opinion of; to be polite and kind
Vs. Disrespect
EspanÕl - respetar

**Please review the following suggestions for content and appropriateness to your child and/or student/s**

Suggested Reading:
Cinderella
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Johnny Appleseed
All the Places to Love (Pratrica MacLachlan)
It's Not Fair! (Charlotte Zolotow)
The Hundred Penny Box  
What Does it Mean? Sharing
Everybody Takes Turns
Charlotte’s Web
Sarah Plain and Tall
Yussel's Prayer (Barbara Cohen)
The Story of Hanukkah (Amy Ehrlich)
The Frog Prince
Brothers Francis and the Friendly Beast (Margaret Hodges)
Through Grandpa's Eyes (Patricia MacLachlan)
The Rough-Face Girl (Rafe Martin)
Beauty and the Beast
The Cat Who Went to Heaven (Elizabeth Coatsworth)
Molly's Pilgrim (Barbara Cohen)
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (Paul Goble)
The Bicycle Man (Allan Say)
The Emperor and the Kite (Jane Yolen)
The Indian in the Cupboard (Lynn Reid Banks)
The Kitchen Knight (Margaret Hodges)
Hiawatha (H.W. Longfellow)
Old Turtle (Douglas Wood)
The Little Princess (Francis Hodgson Burnett)
Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words (Edited by Michael McCurdy)
The Sign of the Beaver (Elizabeth George Speare)
Iggie's House (Judy Blume)
Commodore Perry in the Land of Shogun (Rhoda Blumberg)
On the Frontier with Mr. Audobon (Barbara Brenner)
Constance (Patricia Clapp)
Thank You, Jackie Robinson (Barbara Cohen)
Strawberry Girl (Lois Lenski)
To Be a Slave (Julius Lester)
Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)
Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon (Dhan Gopal Mukerji)
Sing Down the Moon (Scott O'Dell)
The Best Christmas Pageant Even (Barbara Robinson)
Words By Heart (Quida Sebestyen)
Call it Courage (Armstrong Sperry)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred Taylor)
The Cay (Theodore Taylor)
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain)
The Pigman (Paul Zindel)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Slave Day (Rob Thomas)

Suggested Film:
The Never Ending Story rated PG  
Forrest Gump rated PG-13
To Kill a Mockingbird not rated
Remember the Titans rated PG-13

Song:
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
I’m Different  

Family Activity:

• A strong family respects each other. Discuss with your children what it means to respect one another and why we should respect family members. Encourage your children to show respect for others by doing so yourself. Talk to your children about respecting people who believe things that are different from what they believe.

• When you talk to your children about our leaders and governing institutions, and when you talk about them in front of your children, remember that your children are learning from you. Be truthful, but be careful not to paint a picture of government that is so bleak that they will refuse to become involved in the political process. Also, remember to respect your older children’s political beliefs, especially when you disagree with them.

• Talk with your children about how they should react when they feel people are being disrespectful to them.

• Racism is an especially severe form of disrespect. Talk to your children about respecting people of different ethnic groups. Help them to understand how disrespectful and hurtful it is to taunt a person with racial epithets.

Class Activity:

• Every person deserves respect; discuss why we should respect others. Also, discuss why we should pay extra respect to our elders, police, parents and other groups.

• Have students talk or write about how it feels to be disrespected by other people.

• Discuss, in broad terms, the obstacles that people of different ethnic groups must overcome and why we should respect people who are able to do that.

• Talk to your students about what an American flag represents and why they should respect it.

• Have students write an essay on why they deserve respect.

• Have students write about why they respect their parents.

 High School Activity:

• To what extent is a free society based on mutual respect? Can voluntary association, businesses, governments, marriages, etc. survive without mutual respect? Is there enough respect in American society to maintain these vital institutions? How can people encourage more respect for these institutions?

• Discuss in detail the great adversities that different ethnic groups have had to overcome and how they are treated in our community. How can we respect people who have overcome such great adversities?

Quotes:

“I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.” 
-Herbert Henry Lehman

“The more I respect others, the more I deserve to be respected.”
-Emmanual Kant

“There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now there is no respect for age—I missed it coming and going.”
-J.B. Priestly

“I may not agree with what you are saying, but I’ll fight to the death to defend your right to say it."
-American saying

“Our country is built on the belief that people of different cultures can come together in mutual respect and build something better together than we can build separately.”
-President Richard Nixon

“Every human being has the right to respect for his person, to his good reputation; the right to freedom in searching for truth and in expressing and communicating his opinions, and in pursuit of art, within the limits laid down by the moral order and the common good.”
-Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth)

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
-Helen Keller

“Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.”
-W.H. Auden

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.”
-Jesse Jackson

“Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.”
Elvis Presley

“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”
 -William Hazlitt

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