Here are the materials and resources needed for Our Virtue Lesson on Courage

Our Virtue Lesson on Courage

Our Virtue Lessons

Consideration

Courage

Determination

Joyfulness

Kindness

Love

Responsibility

Thankfulness

How to use Our Virtue Lessons

Our Virtue Lessons

Consideration

Courage

Determination

Joyfulness

Kindness

Love

Responsibility

Thankfulness

The Virtue of Courage

In this lesson we will define Courage this way:  

Courage is being brave when I am scared.  Sometimes courage means doing something until it is finished.  Other times it means NOT doing something because I know it is wrong or unsafe.  Courage lives in my heart and is a gift from God.

Courage, which we also can call courage, is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

"Fortitude is the moral virtue that ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in the pursuit of the good. It strengthens the resolve to resist temptations and to overcome obstacles in the moral life. The virtue of fortitude enables one to conquer fear, even fear of death, and to face trials and persecutions. It disposes one even to renounce and sacrifice his life in defense of a just cause. "The Lord is my strength and my song. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." -CCC: 1808

Here are the materials and resources needed for Our Virtue Lesson on Courage.  To learn more about these resources visit Our Virtue Lessons main resource page or our How to Use Our Virtue Lessons resource page.

Week 1

Defining Courage

What does this virtue mean? Definition Sheet

Cut-n-paste Piece (needed for Definition Sheet) 1 per page  2 per page

Virtue Prayer and Examples Sheet

Reinforcement Prayer Card

Virtue Progress Incentive Sheet

Extra Activities

*Choose a scriptural passage provided below to discuss with your child this week.  You may wish to use this passage for copywork purposes.

You may want to consider beginning one of Our Learning Projects for Homeschoolers that teaches about this virtue.

Week 2

Understanding Courage

What does it look like? Sheet

Reminder Half-sheet Poster 1 per page  2 per page

Aesop's Fable Story:  The Sheep and the Pig

Aesop's Fable Story:  The Sheep and the Pig Trace Copywork:  Print  or  Cursive

Extra Activities

*Choose a scriptural passage provided below to discuss with your child this week.  You may wish to use this passage for copywork purposes.

Deuteronomy 31:7

Joshua 1:9

Psalm 23:1-6

Isaiah 41:10

1 Maccabees 2:64

Mark 6:50

John 16:33

Romans 12:21

1 Corinthians 16:13

Philippians 2:12-14

Philippians 4:13

Week 3

Practicing Courage

Aesop's Fables Story: The Lion, the Ass and the Fox

Aesop's Fables Story: The Lion, the Ass and the Fox Trace Copywork:  Print  or  Cursive

Let's talk about it? Sheet

Extra Activities

*Choose a scriptural passage provided below to discuss with your child this week.  You may wish to use this passage for copywork purposes.

*Select a book from the list below to read to or with your child to help them see more examples of this virtue in action.

*Consider using the Virtue Key Tag Activity to see how many times your children can be caught in the action of practicing this virtue either daily or weekly.

Virtue Key Tag Activity for this Virtue

Week 4

Reviewing Courage

Review all lessons and discuss each learners completed My Book - the Virtue of Consideration Mini-book.

My Book - The Virtue of Courage Mini-book

Extra Activities

*Choose a scriptural passage provided below to discuss with your child this week.  You may wish to use this passage for copywork purposes.

*Select a book from the list below to read to or with your child to help them see more examples of this virtue in action.

*Consider using the Virtue Key Tag Activity to see how many times your children can be caught in the action of practicing this virtue either daily or weekly.

Virtue Key Tag Activity for this Virtue

Additional resources and activities to help teach about COURAGE

 Worksheets 

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Bible Scripture Passages

Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou mayst observe and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst understand all things which thou dost.

- Joshua 1:7

I can do all these things in him who strengtheneth me. - Philippians 4:13

Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good. - Romans 12:21

See more scripture passages that can be used to discuss this virtue at the left.

Virtue Themed Reading List

Books that help teach children about the Virtue of Courage

Picture Books

Doctor De Soto by William Steig

Brave Brush-tail Possum by Diane Redfield Massie

Franklin's New Friend by Paulette Bourgeois

The Berenstain Bears' Moving Day by Stan and Jan Berenstain

Chapter Books

Joan of Arc By Shana Corey

Novels and Bigger Reads

The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett

The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Parables From Nature by Mrs. Gatty

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry