Lesson Plan: Compliment Jars

Course: Character Development

Unit: Self-Esteem

Instructor: Aira Lyn Millanes

Date: November 22, 2016

Common Core State Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.3
Follow precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking
measurements, or performing technical tasks, attending to special cases or exceptions defined
in the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.5
Analyze the structure of the relationships among concepts in a text, including relationships
among key terms.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.7
Translate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text into visual form
(e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually or mathematically (e.g., in
an equation) into words.

Guam Department of Education Standards (Health Education):

HS 1.7
Compare and contrast the benefits of and barriers to practicing a variety of healthy behaviors.
HS 2.3
Analyze how peers affect healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
Objectives:
Practice positive self-esteem
Evaluate the worth of self-esteem, and understand low self-esteem and positive selfesteem
Practice the evaluation of self-esteem in daily life
Materials:
Lesson:

Activity:

Laptop, Projector, Strips of Construction

Paper, Jars
Our self-esteem affects the way we build
relationships, our confidence, success, and
ultimately, our happiness. Low self-esteem is
associated with many physical, mental, and
social consequences, and high self esteem is
associated with self-acceptance, optimism,
and happiness. There are many ways to boost
your self-esteem.
1. Each student will be given a jar
2. Students will move clockwise around
the room
3. Using a strip of construction paper,
the student will write a compliment, or
an encouraging sentence
4. The sentence written will be dropped
in the jar

Lesson Plan: Compliment Jars

Conclusion:
Homework/Exit ticket

5. The students will repeat steps 2-4 until

they have visited all of their
classmates jars.
The student will read their compliment jar
individually.
Write a paragraph-long summary of what you
have learned, and another paragraph about
your reflection on how this activity has
changed your self-esteem