Teaching through the Year: Seasonal Readings and Activities
We're making it easy for you to find seasonally relevant ways to bring Adam Smith and his ideas into your classroom.
Fall Semester
September
4th (Labour Day): Matt Bufton's Reading the Wealth of Nations: Book 2 invites reads to think about what make labor productive. Speaking of Smith post.
October
31st (Halloween):
September
4th (Labour Day): Matt Bufton's Reading the Wealth of Nations: Book 2 invites reads to think about what make labor productive. Speaking of Smith post.
October
31st (Halloween):
- Ghost stories. The ghosts of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes advise President Elizabeth Montgomery the night before her State of the Union address.
- Caroline Breashears' Adam Smith and the Horror of Frankenstein
- Graham McAleer's Adam Smith and Ghosts
- Amy Willis' What's Spooky About Smith?
- Edward J. Harpham's Frankenstein Through the Eyes of Adam Smith
November
7th (Election Day): Men of Public Spirit Activity. Use Adam Smith's discussion of men "whose public spirit is prompted altogether by humanity and benevolence" as a starting point to discuss civil government and how to approach difficult public policy problems.
23rd (Thanksgiving): Heather King's Happy Smithsgiving! Speaking of Smith post.
28th (Giving Tuesday): The Virtue of Beneficence Activity. Use this quotation from Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments to discuss whether we can be forced to be generous and kind.
December
15th (Bill of Rights Day): 1776 and the American Founding AdamSmithWorks Essay Collection
25th (Christmas):
- James Hartley's Adam Smith Wants you to ENJOY the Holidays
- Richard Gunderman's Sympathy for Affliction: Adam Smith and Charles Dickens. AdamSmithWorks Essay
- Renee Wilmeth's What Adam Smith Ate: A Holiday Feast