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Preview material and print out worksheets.
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2 to 3 x 30-minute class periods
• Student journals or scrap paper
• Worksheet
• Blackboard
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Part I:
Journal entry (10 minutes)
What is the best purchase you’ve ever made? Why
do you consider that purchase the best? What is the
worst purchase you’ve ever made? Why was it the
worst?
Part II:
Class discussion
Visit Downtown
Spendopolis and discuss Zach’s spending problems.
Discuss:
- Has anyone spent money on something
and regretted it? What sort of thing?
- Journal entries – What makes
a good or bad purchase? (How long it lasts, how useful
it is, how much satisfaction you derive from it, how
cheap it is, etc.)
As a class, come up with a list of questions
you can ask yourself the next time you’re shopping
to help you make only good purchases. Write these questions
on the board.
Part III:
Individual work (or homework)
Hand out worksheet.
Have students complete the worksheet once they have
finished re-reading Zach’s story. Remember to read
through the instructions and answer any questions before
the students begin working.
Part IV:
Regroup
Discuss students’ worksheets:
- Is Zach a role model? Why or why not?
- What is the moral of the story?
- How did you change the story?
Assessment
Worksheet
Performances
Group work
Have students read Jack and the Beanstalk
instead of Zach’s tale. Discuss fairy tales and
heroes and have students complete the optional
worksheet. Discuss:
- Is Jack a hero? Why? (He outwits the
giant, he’s adventurous, he earns money for his
mum.) Why not? (He doesn’t follow his mum’s
orders, he steals, he kills the giant.)
- What message does this tale send about
spending money? A good one or a bad one?
- What would happen to a modern-day
Jack?
- What would Jack do if he had asked
himself the questions written on the board?
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