Daily Lessons for Teaching Less Is More: The Art of Voluntary Poverty: An Anthology of Ancient and...

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: From the start of the book, it seems the editor and the voices in the book are talking about the rich and about how their power is something that is not helpful to society. Today's objective is to discuss the connections between the rich and simplicity - or the opposite of simplicity.

1) 1. Have each student define the idea of rich and what they...
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