Financial Literacy and Society Lesson Plans by Book

personal finance

How to Attack Debt, Build Savings, and Change the World Through Generosity: A Catholic Guide to Managing Your Money, Teixeira and Teixeira [Amaz]

• Introduction and Chapter 1 – What to Expect from this Book
• Chapter 2 – What Is Money, Anyway?
• Chapter 3 – Recipe for Success: Introducing the WalletWin Method
• Chapter 4 – Money Mindset
• Chapter 5 – Live with a Budget
• Chapter 6 – Insure Yourself
• Chapter 7 – Starter Rainy Day Fund
• Chapter 8 – Get a Month Ahead
• Chapter 9 – Debt Payoff
• Chapter 10 – Full Rainy Day Fund
• Chapter 11 – Save a Down Payment
• Chapter 12 – Contribute to Your Retirement
• Chapter 13 – Save for Your Kids’ College
• Chapter 14 – Pay off the House
• Chapter 15 – Live Generously
• Chapter 16 – Be Wealthy (Without Losing Your Soul) and Conclusion

The Instant Economist: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works, Taylor [Amaz]

• Chapter 1 – How Economists Think
• Chapter 2 – Division of Labor
• Chapter 3 – Supply and Demand
• Chapter 4 – Price Floors and Ceilings
• Chapter 6 – The Labor Market and Wages
• Chapter 7 – Financial Markets and Rates of Return
• Chapter 8 – Personal Investing
• Life Hack: Why You Should Start Investing As Early As Possible [Infographic]
• Chapter 14 – Public Goods AND CFPB: What are some classic warning signs of possible fraud and scams?
• Chapter 15 – Poverty and Welfare Programs
• Chapter 17 – Imperfect Information and Insurance
• Chapter 29 – Money and Banking
• The College Investor: The Definitive Guide To Student Loan Debt Chapters 1-4
• Optional – The College Investor: The Definitive Guide To Student Loan Debt Chapters 5-10 – These chapters may have useful information, but it’s also possible that much of this information has changed in the intervening years.

society

Force for Good: The Catholic Guide to Business Integrity, Engelland [Amaz]

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Doing Business the Right Way
• Chapter 2: A Firm Foundation for Right and Wrong
• Chapter 3: Finding Clarity in the Big Picture
• Chapter 4: Character Counts
• Chapter 5: Integrity-Infused Employee Relationships
• Chapter 6: Integrity-Infused Customer Relationships
• Chapter 7: Integrity, Regulation, and Society
• Chapter 8: Conditions that Lead to Good Decisions
• Chapter 9: Creating an Integrity-Infused Organization

Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered, Pearce [Amaz]

• Chapter I: Beginnings and Ends
• Chapter II: Malignant Growth
• Chapter V: Mechanistic and Materialistic
• Chapter VII: The Cult of Bigness
• Chapter XVIII: Ends and Beginnings

What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth, Berry [Amaz]

• Money Versus Goods pp 3-17 (stop at the break before “To a ground-level observer…”)
• Money Versus Goods pp 17-30
• An Argument for Diversity pp 75-88
• Waste pp 157-160
• Conserving Forest Communities pp 161-176
• The Total Economy pp 176-193

Centesimus Annus, Pope St. John Paul II [Vatican]

• Introduction
• I. Characteristics of “Rerum Novarum”
• II. Towards the “New Things” of Today
• III. The Year 1989
• IV. Private Property and the Universal Destination of Natural Goods
• V. State and Culture
• VI. Man Is the Way of the Church