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Read this lesson plan before class to familiarize yourself with the ideas and concepts you’ll be teaching the students. You may print this page out if you need to use it as a reference point during live classes.
This lesson is a guide, but feel free to expand on the content or decrease/increase what you teach depending on the learning levels of the students in your class or the amount of time you have to cover the material.
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Class Summary
Students will learn the importance of being honest and the reasons a person may not tell the truth. They will learn how honesty and respect work together & examine a Bible character who was not honest.
Lesson Slide
Main Teaching Points
When a person is honest, they tell the truth no matter what happens. They act in a way they know to be right and kind in all situations. It can be hard to be honest, but if we love Jehovah we will try to always tell the truth.
Qualities of an Honest person:
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- Tells the truth, even if they may get in trouble
- Admits when he or she is wrong about something.
- Doesn’t cheat or steal from others
- Does not exaggerate or make things seem different from what they really are
- Keeps their promises and helps other people to be honest
- Doesn’t let other people get blamed for something they didn’t do
When we show someone respect, it means that we are treating them the way we would like to be treated. It means you think about how you would feel if someone did the same thing to you.
Qualities of a Respectful person:
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- You respect yourself by being positive and doing your best
- You respect yourself by taking care of your belongings
- You respect others by treating people the way you’d like to be treated
- You respect people in charge by listening and obeying
- You respect people’s personal space by keeping your hands and feet to yourself
- You respect people’s property by not breaking or stealing things.
- You respect the rules in a place like at the Kingdom Hall or at School.
Discussion Questions
Respect:
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- How does respecting personal space show kindness to others?
- How can you kindly let someone know they are in your personal space?
- Have you ever asked for permission and someone said no? What did you do?
- Have you ever had something taken away from you without permission? How it make you feel?
- How can we show ourselves respect?
- How do we treat ourselves with kindness?
- How do we treat our classmates, our family, our friends?
- How do our words and actions affect others?
- How do we show respect for our house, car, bedroom, Kingdom Hall?
Honesty:
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- Why is important to always be honest and tell the truth?
- Why is honesty the best policy?
- What happens when we start to tell little lies?
- How do these lies start to build on each other?
- Does Jehovah ever lie? Who does lie all the time?
- How does cheating hurt us in the long run?
Vocabulary Words
- Honest – A quality of someone who does not cheat, lie or steal.
- Mistake – When you mess-up or have a misunderstanding.
- Truth – When you tell things exactly as they are and exactly as they happened.
In-Class Activities
- Important things: Ask students to bring one personal item that is important to them to share in class. Express that every item each student has shared is very important to them person. We need to make sure we show respect for each person by respecting the items that are important to them. We do this by keeping them in a safe place, playing with them a way that doesn’t make them upset or cause damage to the item, and taking care of it.
- Bible Characters: Highlight examples of persons in the Bible who did not show respect or were not honest with Jehovah or others. (Achan, The children that taunted Elisha, etc.)