WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE - Dublin Diocese



WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?

| | |Teacher Guidance |

|Starter |1. Use the sheet What makes Us Happy to rank the things in their |Activity 1: This activity is to get students thinking about the |

| |lives that make them happy. |concept of happiness. Ask them whether any features of their lives are|

| | |missing and whether they would like to add these. Encourage them to |

| | |share their ideas with a partner to look for similarities and |

| | |differences. |

|Suggested activity |2. What would you do with ten million dollars? Stimulate student |Activity 2: PowerPoint or handouts - What would you do? |

| |ideas with a brief discussion of the lifestyles of people who |To ensure that everyone is involved in the discussion try pairing them|

| |have that kind of money – possibly some examples (Bono, Gates, |up (A & B): A speaks on the issue for 1 minute and then they swap – |

| |Michael O’Leary, Simon Cowell etc) After paired discussion come |while one is talking the other must be listening. Record responses on |

| |together to share ideas with the group. Explore the popular |a board or laptop and return to these after activity 5. |

| |choices for the million dollar spending spree. | |

| |3. Now pose the question: would you tell anyone if you won a |Activities 3 & 4: This is an opportunity for quiet reflection – |

| |million euro? |encourage students to write their thoughts down before sharing with |

| |4. Once the students have reflected and written, ask a couple to |the class. Hopefully students will consider the attention they would |

| |share their thoughts. |get but also could they trust people who now wanted to be friends with|

| | |them? Requests for money? Sense of responsibility? |

| |5. What should we do with a million dollars? |Activity 5: Show What Should You Do PowerPoint/handout. Class |

| | |discusses whether they would change their earlier spending spree. |

| |6. Value for Money |Activity 6: Show Value for Money PowerPoint/handout and discuss |

| | |whether the earnings of the people shown represents value for money. |

| | |Generate discussion about how other professions/jobs earn far less. |

| |7. Philanthropists – there are many rich people who have given |Activity 7: There may be a need to define what a philanthropist is. |

| |money to good causes or used their position to encourage others |Useful sites: philanthropy.ie |

| |to do good things with their money. Ask students to compile a | |

| |list of any they know of in their own communities, countries and | |

| |then globally. | |

|Extension/ | |Further exploration of philanthropists – with a special focus on what |

|Differentiation | |they did, its impact and their motivations – were they motivated by a |

| | |sense of faith/ religious faith or by other factors? |

| |8. Renouncing the world – the monastic tradition |Distribute handout on the monastic tradition and have students |

| | |research self-denial in various religious faiths. |

| | |This can be the link into the study of comparative world religions. |

What Makes Us Happy Now? (Pick ten and then rank them in order of importance in your life at the moment)

Going out with friends Having a meal at home

Doing well at school Going out shopping

Wearing the latest clothes Going to my place of worship

Praying Being with nature (ie. a walk in the country)

Money!! Playing on Wii/ playstation or other

Watching films Knowing I’m loved

Being on my own Reading Writing stories/ poems

Travel/ going on holiday Being with younger children

Volunteer work Being with adults

Having the latest phone Arguing with others and winning

Giving to charity Dreaming of my future

Listening to music

Value For Money

Are the following value for money?

Footballers

Wayne Rooney earns €26,000 a day which equates to

€9,500,000 per year

Music Entertainers

The Singer Lady Gaga banked $90 million between May 2010 and May 2011

World Leaders

The President of the United States of America Barack Obama earns $400,000 per year

Actors & Actresses

Leonardo DiCaprio earned $77million in 2010 after starring

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Renouncing the world – the monastic tradition

Early Christianity had a strong tradition of men and women entering the desert to give up or renounce the worldly life, largely following the example of Jesus’ retreat into the wilderness. Accounts of this are found in the Gospels of Mark (Mk 1: 9-13), Luke (Lk 4: 1-11) and Matthew (Mt. 4: 1-11). There are many examples of early Christian saints. Saint Jerome, for example, lived for a number of years in the deserts around what is now Lebanon and Syria. (Saint Jerome was also a great scholar who translated the Hebrew scriptures – the Christian Old Testament – and the New Testament into a single Latin translation that was used for many centuries within the Roman Catholic Church.)

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Retreating to the desert – and remember the world population in those years was a small fraction of what it is today – these saintly individuals would lead a life of solitude, prayer and asceticism. Asceticism means to follow a way of spiritual purity by self denial. All religious traditions have an element of asceticism. The most common forms of these can be when a tradition denies food or drink during particularly holy times of the year.

QUESTIONS:

Can you think of any examples of self-denial from Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism, or any other faith?

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In what ways do you think self-denial is or is not a good idea?

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