PACE
At a recent homeschooling convention (my first!) I was excited to run into this resource at the Adoremus Books table:
Program for Achieving Character Education
As I had run out of cash
I went home and ordered it online. Free shipping on orders over $25! That is a good deal. 
The book consists of chapters on various virtues and positive character traits…then using The Moral Compass and The Book of Virtues as core texts, it presents lesson plans for the different grade levels (i.e. read stories X and Y to grades K-2, stories W, X, Y, Z to 3-4th graders, etc). I’m going by memory here, but I believe it went up to at least 8th grade. But it seemed to do exactly what I needed – breaking down the oh so numerous stories in the above mentioned books, and organizing them by grade/maturity level.
I should be receiving mine in the mail in a few days. If this brief intro doesn’t do it justice, I’ll do a better review after I’ve had time to look it over.
I have this and am planning to use it for next year. I want to do the read alouds from the Book of Virtues and discussion questions. I also am going to encourage my kids to write the quotes in their commonplace books. I think I will leave it up to them what other things they want to do. There are lots of fun activities that tie into each story/virtue. I think the program looks wonderful. I am excited to try it.
Blessings,
Faith
Comment by DumbOxAcademy — July 12, 2006 @ 5:37 pm
This sounds like a terrific curriculum!
Comment by momof3feistykids — July 12, 2006 @ 7:29 pm