Character Strengths In My Life

Situation were I used Character strengths successfully:

Once I was fighting with my little sister because she broke my Lego I was very mad at her, but instead of yelling at her I went with my parents and told them the situation and they talk with her patiently. Finally my sister apologized to me and she rebuild my Lego.

Situation were I should used Character strengths but I didn't:

Many times in which I wasn't agrre with my teacher or with my parents, I should have used the character strength of self control because with that, I wouldn't be punished during one week, doing extra homework and havin a mark of bad discipline.


How my life changed with character strengths:

It has changed in many ways with my family, friends and teacher because now I know how to respond to certain situations using the character strengths so with that, my relationships can be better and without complainings or problems.

5 tips

5 TIPS character strengths to be a better student


Here we leave some tips for using character strengths to be a better student.

1 Be thankful

It seem like a little thing but if you are thankful you can make someone happy. Other students and teachers would like you more and see you as a good person.

2 Be honest

The people don't like liars so try to always tell the truth

3 Dont Rush

nothing is funny if it doesn't last so keep it slow

4 Study

If you dont study is pointless

5 listen your teachers

they are not the devil they are only trying to help

This is us...

Gonzalo

What I think my character strengths are:

Humor:

I think that I have humor because many people have told me that I am hilarious and i make laugh every person in any way. I think that is true because even my complete family is like that, very crazy in a good way of being sarcastic and hilarious. I use it literally overtime because I like to be funny.

Love:

I'm a lovely person because when I love, I love truly.  Also when I mean that I love, is that I take care of the things I have, I try to have everything like I want, obviously I also try to have it like the other ones want. I love all the people in which I can trust and they also can trust in me. 

Isaias

What I think my character strengths are:

Curiosity

I have curiosity because I always want  to know more about things. Like I saw something in class I want to know more about it, or i see somthing in the world and I want to know everything and don't left things unsolved, I don't like things unsolved.

Gratitude

I think I have gratitude because I always thank people around me. Whenever someone help i thank and i always try to always thank.

Interview

Ale Landeros

Ale thinks that he have Self control, zest and curiosity

one time he use caracter strengths, most likely selft control is when in a french projet where he was pair with a troublemaker. This guy was lazy and only play instead of work. Ale talk to the teacher and tell him the situation and the teacher kick him out of the team. if Landeros wouln't stay calm maybe it would be more problems and maybe he would have been  in trouble.

Opinion vs. Fact (Miss Maggy)

Comparisons (Opinion v. Fact)

Comparison

Our opinion was that miss Maggy main character strengths were Optimism, Perseverance and Gratitude, but we were wrong. The main character strengths were Curiosity, Social intelligence and optimism, at least we were wright in one. If you see we weren't so far from the wright, optimism was correct their's no doubt of it, but Social Intelligence kind of require a little bit of gratitude and Curiosity requires perseverance to keep looking in what you are interested,so in a certain way we kind of hit.

Happy Teachers Day Miss Maggy

Miss Maggy's character

3 character strengths 

THE 3 CHARACTER STRENGTHS OF MISS MAGGY

We ask Miss Maggy about which character strengths and why does she thinks this three are her Character Strengths.

Curiosity

The first Charachter Strength of Miss Maggy is Curiosity. She always want to know more and understand all things. Also to be interested in what she is surrounded by.

Social Intelligence

In Second place comes social intelligence. She loves to treat people good and kind.

Optimism

At last but not least comes optimism. She always tries to see the positive side at all, and she is persistent

The character strength she would like to practice more is self control. She thinks has to control more the exercise and the food

Who is Miss Maggy?

MISS MAGGY

Miss Maggy is our english teacher and we made her an interview to know more about her and her character strengths. We're also going to put some of our opinions.

Her complete name is Margarita del Carmen Corona Mendoza. She likes the food, specially the chocolate things and to travel to new places. What she dislikes a lot is the injustice treatment, for example bullying and that kind of stuff. Also those people that treat bad the things, animals and people because they don't have empathy and feelings.

Her hobbies are to watch movies, specially in the movie theatre because is a bigger screen, with delicious food like popcorns and all that stuff and also she likes to read. The genres that she can see in a movie are whatever kind except for horror, she gets traumatised very easily. Whenever she has free time, she likes to watch Netflix (better if its with food) and to rest, like to take a shower and sleep.

She studied Language Interpreter with different languages. The languages that she can interpret are English, Spanish, French and Italian. She does like what her job is, when she finished college, she didn't want to be a teacher because of the kids, but when a new opportunity came of working as a teacher with teenagers, she went and discover that was wonderful!! Now she doesn't know what her future would be without being a teacher. She isn't married, but still she has a boyfriend.

Miss Maggy (my opinion)

What we think our english teacher has of character strengths is the Optimism, Gratitude and Perseverance:

Optimism

Because she is a very pride and happy person, sppecially if it's of completing many tasks or to check many things, even though she is very busy because of her job, she has a time to talk with the students and be happy.

Perseverance

Because I have seen how she sets a goal and makes everything possible to go through it and finish her  goals. Maybe she has a lot of obstacles but I know that she finish everything because she had always told us her goals, obstacles and effects.

Gratitude

Because she always thanks about everything and she is very grateful specially when they do many things for her. 

Character Strengths in Books

Character Strengths in Books

Surprisingly, but not surprisingly, we can see every single character strength is special moments in the majority of the books.

Only to put a little example we can use "The Diary of Anne Frank".

We can read here every moment of his life, when he was a little kid, an adolescent and a maturated woman because of the Holocaust. His life wasn't easy because her family and she were jews in time of the Second World War. We can see the hope she has that someday the war will finish, we can see how the perspective she had of the war wasn't the worst, we can see the bravery she had when they were sent to the camps, we can see the humor she had to make laugh her family although there was a war, we can see the love she had to her father, Otto Frank, which they were best friends, we can see the kindness she had to talk to all the people that were in the Annexe although sometimes they were a little bit unbearable, we can see the leadership she had when her sister was very sick.

This was one of the most amazing books I ever read in my life. It was unique to know everything about her. We recommend you to see the different movies there are about her life. 

I leave some of their most important quotes she wrote in her diary and some scenes from some of the movies they made about her life.

He was Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, and one piece of her diary.

Character strengths in Movies

CHARACTER STRENGTHS IN MOVIES

Now, everybody knows that some of the teachings we get is from the movies, we base our life in movies and special moments that has some love movies or inclusive in some comedy and action movies.
                                              

There's a movie that in my personal perspective has the majority of the character strengths is the one of "The Grand Budapest Hotel"
                                                     

If you already saw this movie you can go one with the explanation, if not, I recommend you to pls see it first and then read this...

We can see the bravery when Mr. Gustave dare to go against the authority to let Zero travel through the train. Also humor, is very funny the way they structured the movie by the change of scenes or the way the conflicts present. In my opinion the funniest moment was when they were shooting each other in the last part when Agatha and Zero where searching for the painting.


HERE I LEAVE THE OFFICIAL TRAILER...

Character Strengths in Songs

CHARACTER STRENGTHS IN SONGS

First, in here we are going to talk about a song that we think has character strengths, in this case the song of "7 years" by Lukas Graham

This song talks about the perspective a man has about his life also zest and hope of a man's life through it. The song also show the cycle of life. From childhood all the way to advance age and restarting at last. We can say that it also has bravery too, because everyone knows how difficult is to lose someone you love a lot, in this case his father, imagine to lose your own father, it would be very difficult to pass thought it and in this song (and basically in all his new album "The Blue Album") he talks about all the love he had to his father.

Here is the song :D ENJOY IT

Know the Character Strengths

To start...
There are 24 character strengths but we won't work with all of them. These character strengths are:

1. Creativity
2. Perspective
3. Judgement
4. Curiosity
5. Honesty
6. Bravery
7. Fairness
8. Humor
9. Zest
10. Perseverance
11. Teamwork
12. Love
13. Kindness
14. Leadership
15. Social Intelligence
16. Love of Learning
17. Forgiveness
18. Hope
19. Prudence
20. Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence
21. Humility
22. Spirituality
23. Self-Regulation
24. Gratitude