Virtue or Vice?

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Summary

Aristotle noted that positive traits and negative traits are often the same thing, but just in different amounts. The right amount is a virtue, but too much or too little and it’s a vice.

  1. After seeing "giving" modeled, students think of characters who desired too much, too little, or just the right amount of power.
  2. I share my examples of power. Then students think of their own trait, write down words to describe too much, too little, and just right. Finally, students think of examples of characters for each category.
  3. Lastly, students create an "interview" in which a character with a vice explains how their life changed once they turned that vice into a virtue.