Integrity – Suggested Readings
Integrity – firm adherence to a code of moral values (syn. Honesty) –Webster’s Dictionary, 2003
Easy Books for Everybody
The Empty Pot by Demi (90) When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty
Mr. Peabody’s Apples by Madonna. A boy learns the lesson that it is easy to damage a person’s integrity by spreading misinformation.
Aesops Fables -- The boy who cried wolf
Frog Fables – see http://allaboutfrogs.org/stories/fables.html for ideas
The Moral of the Story – Bobby Norfolk CD – master storyteller tells 6 fables (3-13 mins.
In length) with responsibility, courage, patience, respect, justice themes
Fiction
Rainbow Jordan – Alice Childress (82)Her mother, her foster guardian, and 14-year-old Rainbow comment on the state of things as she prepares to return to a foster home for yet another stay.
Nothing but the truth – Avi (91) A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.
Secret Life of Bees – Kidd Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, find a safe haven in South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
Son of the Mob – Korman (02) Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.
Whale Talk – Crutcher (02) Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.
Scribbler of Dreams – Pearson (02) Despite her family's long feud with the Crutchfields, seventeen-year-old Kaitlin falls in love with Bram Crutchfield--the son of the man her father murdered--and weaves a tangled web of deception to conceal her identity from him.
Cheating Lessons –Cappo (02) When her team is announced as finalists in the state Classics Bowl contest, Bernadette suspects that cheating may have been involved.
Chocolate War –Cormier (86) Jerry’s refusal to sell chocolates in a school’s fundraiser creates a stir.
Academic Integrity Quizzes:
http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/student-conduct/aiquiz.html
http://reslife.villanova.edu/raresources/intellectual/resources/academicintegrityquiz.htm
www.web-miner.com/plagiarism
This site discusses the plagiarism case in a Piper, KS school --
http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/03/19/plagiarism.dispute.ap/
Nonfiction
The Good War – Terkel (84) An oral history of the lives of ordinary Americans, at home and
abroad, during World War Two.
Time 100: Heroes and Icons – Excerpts The American G.I., Einstein, Edison,etc.
Hole in my Life – Gantos . Autobiographical account of how Gantos used writing to
overcome his negative prison experience.
Professional Sports (Examining Pop Culture Series) – Chapt. 5, article 2 discusses
Professional athletes as role models
Poor Richard’s Almanac -- A collection of proverbs by Benjamin Franklin, which served as the
prefix to his 1757 almanac, presented in the form of a lecture given by the fictional character Richard Saunders to people attending an auction.
Watergate: Scandal in the Whitehouse (Feinberg)
Poetry
Truth & Lies : an anthology of poems (01) The poems provoke thought and discussion about the different kinds of lies and truth. Poets range from Sappho to Shakespeare to Margaret Atwood and represent many nationalities and cultures.
Class Dismissed – Glenn Original poems about the emotional lives of contemporary high school students
Quotes (for discussion)
“This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
-Shakespeare-Hamlet
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. ~Alan Simpson
Character is much easier kept than recovered. ~Thomas Paine
Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau
Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. ~Arthur Freed
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. ~Confucius
You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverb
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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