Mr. Anderson's character development class focuses on the character traits of trustworthiness, loyalty, and integrity. The class defines these traits and provides examples. Trustworthiness involves being honest and reliable. Loyalty means promoting and protecting others. Integrity is behaving ethically in all situations. The class discusses the fable "The Blind Woman and the Physician" and questions about taking advantage of others.

1. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Character EducationCharacter Education
Mr. AndersonMr. Anderson
Character TraitCharacter Trait
TrustworthinessTrustworthiness

2. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Trustworthiness Definition:Trustworthiness Definition:
Being honest and reliable inBeing honest and reliable in
carrying out commitments, duties,carrying out commitments, duties,
and obligations.and obligations.

3. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Trustworthiness ExampleTrustworthiness Example
• Always return
items I have
borrowed.

4. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Trustworthiness ExampleTrustworthiness Example
• When others
count on me to do
what I say I will
do.

5. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Trustworthiness WordsTrustworthiness Words
• honesty
• integrity
• loyalty
• reliability
• promise
• trust
• reputation
• commitment
• obligation
• truth
• candor
• confidence

6. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Loyalty Definition:Loyalty Definition:
Making it a responsibility to promoteMaking it a responsibility to promote
and protect the interests of peopleand protect the interests of people
and associations.and associations.

7. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Loyalty ExampleLoyalty Example
• A loyal person
supports and
protects family,
friends,
community, and
country.

8. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Loyalty ExampleLoyalty Example
• A person whom is
loyal doesn’t
gossip or talk
behind the backs
of others.

9. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Loyalty ExampleLoyalty Example
• A person who is
loyal doesn’t
violate ethical
principles and
doesn’t ask a
friend to engage in
wrongful activities.

10. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Integrity Definition:Integrity Definition:
Behaving the same ethical way inBehaving the same ethical way in
any situation or place; being yourany situation or place; being your
best self.best self.

11. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Integrity ExampleIntegrity Example
• A person of
integrity stands up
for his/her beliefs
about what is right
and what is wrong.

12. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Integrity ExampleIntegrity Example
• A person of
integrity shows
commitment,
courage, and self-
discipline.

13. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Integrity ExampleIntegrity Example
• A person of
integrity doesn’t
get involved in
things that he/she
thinks are wrong,
even under social
pressure.

14. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Trustworthiness QuotesTrustworthiness Quotes
Be honorable yourself if you wish to
associate with honorable people.
-Welsh Proverb

15. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Trustworthiness QuotesTrustworthiness Quotes
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks
inside, awakes.
-Carl Jung

16. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Trustworthiness QuotesTrustworthiness Quotes
Friendship with oneself is all-important,
because without it one cannot be
friends with anyone else.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

17. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Trustworthiness QuotesTrustworthiness Quotes
It is better to be hated for what you are
than to be loved for what you are not.
-Andre Gide

18. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Trustworthiness QuotesTrustworthiness Quotes
Those people who are uncomfortable in
themselves are disagreeable to
others.
-William Hazlitt

19. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
““The Blind Woman and theThe Blind Woman and the
Physician.”Physician.”
-Aesop-Aesop

20. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Discussion Questions forDiscussion Questions for
“The Blind Woman and the“The Blind Woman and the
PhysicianPhysician””
1. Do you think that the
woman owes the
physician anything?

21. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Discussion Questions forDiscussion Questions for
“The Blind Woman and the“The Blind Woman and the
PhysicianPhysician””
2. Have you ever felt taken
advantage of?

22. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Discussion Questions forDiscussion Questions for
“The Blind Woman and the“The Blind Woman and the
PhysicianPhysician””
3. Why is it wrong to take
advantage of others?

23. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Discussion Questions forDiscussion Questions for
“The Blind Woman and the“The Blind Woman and the
PhysicianPhysician””
4. Would you consider
someone who takes
advantage of others
trustworthy?

24. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
Discussion Questions forDiscussion Questions for
“The Blind Woman and the“The Blind Woman and the
PhysicianPhysician””
5. How can you avoid
taking advantage of other
people?

25. Mr. Anderson's Character Development Class
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