Character Education Chapters

What better way for a youth to explore issues of character and to find their ethical center than through stories? Here is a collection of inspirational and thought-provoking stories to fuel that search.

As Marie stays up late, to play with the Nutcracker and her other Christmas gifts, the clock strikes and strange things occur. The Nutcracker comes to...

When Abraham Lincoln becomes America's 16th President, Southerners viewed the event as a showdown. South Carolina became the first state to leave the ...

After Ebenezer Scrooge takes a trip with the Three Spirits, he decides to make changes in his life. He determines not to end-up like his partner, Jac...

To a person with dementia, thoughts pull away from a cohesive whole, just like a feather - in the air - floating on its own.

Marley promises that Scrooge Three Spirits will visit his old partner. The first Spirit - the Ghost of Christmas Past - is his first visitor.

North Vietnam attacks American naval ships, on 2 August 1964, but they do not react.

What was once so familiar - even one's home - becomes unfamiliar to a person suffering from Lewy Body Dementia.

After a wild night of the Nutcracker battling the Mouse King (and his army), Marie wakes-up to a doctor sitting by her bedside. No one believes that s...

Is it possible that wearing a key around one's neck will help to unlock memories hidden by a brain illness?

To declare war with Germany in 1939, George VI gives a strong speech to millions of radio listeners without stammering.

As he journeys with the "Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come," Scrooge sees the body of a man who dies alone, unwanted and unloved. He begins to worry: I...

Wanting his gifts to be anonymous, legend says Nicholas would throw gold coins into open windows of houses or down chimneys.

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