Teaching Free to Choose: A Personal Statement | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Chapter 1, The Power of the Market.The emphasis of this chapter is on how different economies function. Friedman discusses both the former Soviet economy and ends the chapter with a discussion of Hong Kong. At the time the book was written, these two economies were polar extremes. The Soviet economy was a command economy and Hong Kong was the freest or most capitalistic...
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