About This Lesson
This 62 page study guide guides students through the Zoon Garden, including background information, individual assignments, group assignments, and class discussion for each chapter. Topics taught include:
- America’s foundational principles (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness).
- The Bill of Rights, specifically discussing the First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments.
- Pressing modern day issues: Free Speech, gun legislation, police brutality and corruption, etc.
- The philosophies of the Left and the Right.
- Rightist Nazi Germany and Leftist Soviet Russia and how to avoid either extreme.
- The tenets of Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism.
- Propaganda and its influence on the masses.
- Media bias and how to detect it.
- Social Media and its impacts on society.
- Cultural diversity and how it strengthens society.
- The danger of prejudice and stereotypes.
- How to live alongside people of opposite belief.
- Tribalism and Polarization.
Zoon Garden is a 21st century American political satire. It is the preeminent novel for discussing the America's division and has be lauded as a "novel every citizen should read."
