Ethics teacher pack
Five weeks of lessons on Ethics for ages 14 to 18: a plan, a worksheet and the answers for each week, a final essay with a marking guide, and a reading certificate to print. Free to use in class.
Five weeks, week by week
- Week 1Chapters 1 to 3
The opening definitions and arguments establish God as the sole substance and frame freedom as action through one's own nature.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 2Chapters 4 to 7
The account of minds, bodies, and bodily impressions explains perception and memory while separating incomplete experience from adequate understanding.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 3Chapters 8 to 10
The argument places emotions within natural laws and explains action, passivity, and striving through causes and changes in power.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 4Chapters 11 to 14
Definitions classify emotions and connect virtue with power, while the axiom establishes every individual's vulnerability to stronger forces.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 5Chapters 15 to 17
The closing arguments explain truth's limits and show how understanding necessity and emotions supports self-control, love of God, and blessedness.
Plan · worksheet · answers
Assessment
Final essay
Three questions to choose from, 800 to 1,200 words, with a marking guide in four bands.
Quiz bank
The 30 questions and 40 flashcards online, for homework or a quick check in class. Open the quiz
Discussion
Questions for small groups, meeting by meeting. The book club kit
Reading certificate
Certificate of reading
Student's name
has read
Ethics
by Benedictus de Spinoza
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