{"id":6011,"date":"2025-07-10T23:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T03:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/?page_id=6011"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:49:16","slug":"financial-literacy-and-society-lesson-plans-by-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/materamabilis.org\/ma\/high-school-level-5-6\/high-school-government-economics-and-civics\/high-school-financial-literacy-and-society\/financial-literacy-and-society-lesson-plans-by-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Literacy and Society Lesson Plans by Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990;\">High School <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990;\">Economics: Financial Literacy and Society <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990;\">Lesson Plans by Book<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>These lists provide a recommended reading schedule for the resources used in the course, to make it easier to assign them in other ways.<\/p>\n<h6>Mater Amabilis participates in affiliate programs with Amazon and Living Book Press.<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div class=\"scbb-content-box scbb-rounded-corners\" style=\"background-color: #f8f6f0\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">personal finance<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em>How to Attack Debt, Build Savings, and Change the World Through Generosity: A Catholic Guide to Managing Your Money<\/em>, Teixeira and Teixeira [<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4eOEp8Y\">Amaz<\/a>]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction and Chapter 1 &#8211; What to Expect from this Book<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2 &#8211; What Is Money, Anyway?<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3 &#8211; Recipe for Success: Introducing the WalletWin Method<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 4 &#8211; Money Mindset<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5 &#8211; Live with a Budget<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 6 &#8211; Insure Yourself<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 7 &#8211; Starter Rainy Day Fund<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 8 &#8211; Get a Month Ahead<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 9 &#8211; Debt Payoff<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 10 &#8211; Full Rainy Day Fund<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 11 &#8211; Save a Down Payment and <a href=\"https:\/\/join1440.com\/t\/homeownership\">1440: Homeownership<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 12 &#8211; Contribute to Your Retirement<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 13 &#8211; Save for Your Kids&#8217; College<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 14 &#8211; Pay off the House<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 15 &#8211; Live Generously<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 16 &#8211; Be Wealthy (Without Losing Your Soul) and Conclusion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The Instant Economist: Everything You Need to Know About How the Economy Works,\u00a0<\/em>Taylor [<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3UaedM8\">Amaz<\/a>]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chapter 1 &#8211; How Economists Think<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2 &#8211; Division of Labor<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3 &#8211; Supply and Demand<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 4 &#8211; Price Floors and Ceilings<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 6 &#8211; The Labor Market and Wages<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 7 &#8211; Financial Markets and Rates of Return<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 8 &#8211; Personal Investing<\/li>\n<li>Life Hack: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifehack.org\/325117\/why-you-should-start-investing-early-possible-infographic\">Why You Should Start Investing As Early As Possible [Infographic]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 14 &#8211; Public Goods AND CFPB: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/ask-cfpb\/what-are-some-classic-warning-signs-of-possible-fraud-and-scams-en-2094\/\">What are some classic warning signs of possible fraud and scams?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 15 &#8211; Poverty and Welfare Programs<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 17 &#8211; Imperfect Information and Insurance<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 29 &#8211; Money and Banking<\/li>\n<li>The College Investor: <a href=\"https:\/\/thecollegeinvestor.com\/student-loan-guide\/\">The Definitive Guide To Student Loan Debt<\/a> Chapters 1-4<\/li>\n<li>Optional &#8211; The College Investor: <a href=\"https:\/\/thecollegeinvestor.com\/student-loan-guide\/\">The Definitive Guide To Student Loan Debt<\/a> Chapters 5-10 &#8211; These chapters may have useful information, but it&#8217;s also possible that much of this information has changed in the intervening years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/span><\/p><\/div><div class=\"scbb-content-box scbb-rounded-corners\" style=\"background-color: #f8f6f0\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"color: #c4a990\">society<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em>Force for Good: The Catholic Guide to Business Integrity<\/em>, Engelland [<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4lS6xu5\">Amaz<\/a>]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 1: Doing Business the Right Way<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2: A Firm Foundation for Right and Wrong<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3: Finding Clarity in the Big Picture<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 4: Character Counts<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5: Integrity-Infused Employee Relationships<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 6: Integrity-Infused Customer Relationships<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 7: Integrity, Regulation, and Society<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 8: Conditions that Lead to Good Decisions<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 9: Creating an Integrity-Infused Organization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered<\/em>, Pearce [<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4lN5XO6\">Amaz<\/a>]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chapter I: Beginnings and Ends<\/li>\n<li>Chapter II: Malignant Growth<\/li>\n<li>Chapter V: Mechanistic and Materialistic<\/li>\n<li>Chapter VII: The Cult of Bigness<\/li>\n<li>Chapter XVIII: Ends and Beginnings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth<\/em>, Berry [<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/40dSCGi\">Amaz<\/a>]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Money Versus Goods pp 3-17 (stop at the break before &#8220;To a ground-level observer\u2026&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Money Versus Goods pp 17-30<\/li>\n<li>An Argument for Diversity pp 75-88<\/li>\n<li>Waste pp 157-160<\/li>\n<li>Conserving Forest Communities pp 161-176<\/li>\n<li>The Total Economy pp 176-193<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Centesimus Annus<\/em>, Pope St. John Paul II [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_01051991_centesimus-annus.html\">Vatican<\/a>]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>I. Characteristics of &#8220;Rerum Novarum&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>II. Towards the &#8220;New Things&#8221; of Today<\/li>\n<li>III. The Year 1989<\/li>\n<li>IV. Private Property and the Universal Destination of Natural Goods<\/li>\n<li>V. State and Culture<\/li>\n<li>VI. Man Is the Way of the Church<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 Mater Amabilis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High School Economics: Financial Literacy and Society Lesson Plans by Book These lists provide a recommended reading schedule for the resources used in the course, to make it easier to assign them in other ways. Mater Amabilis participates in affiliate programs with Amazon and Living Book Press. 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