America The Greatest®
Post Office Box 9907
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33310
Lesson Task Sheet For America The Greatest
The primary use of America The Greatest® is as a weekly wall hanging poster. The school has non-commercial photocopy privileges; a secondary use of this program would be lesson plans and handing out photocopies to the students. The Lesson Task Sheet for America The Greatest® contains a large number of questions the teacher can use - assigning specific appropriate questions to the class.
- Do you think you could achieve a similar success today?
- Did age, race, religion, or gender help or hinder this person and how?
- How did education help the success?
- In your opinion, why did this person achieve success?
- Did parents help or hinder this person?
- What could you do today to achieve a similar success in a similar field?
- Do you think the same opportunity would be available to a person today in a Communist or Right Wing Totalitarian Dictatorship? Explain.
- Do you think the zodiac sign affected this person's success?
- Do you think genetics affected this success?
- Do you think determination, direction, and hard work affected this success?
- Do you think luck affected this success?
- Was a great amount of money needed for this person to start?
- By saving a small sum of money every week, do you think after a reasonable period of time you would have enough money to initially finance a similar success?
- Do you think you could achieve a similar success by working a 9 to 5 job?
- Do you think by working a 9 to 5 job you could save enough money to initially finance a similar success?
- Do you think by working an extra job you could save enough money to initially finance a similar success?
- If an individual is working a "dead end" job, yet saving money and planning for a greater success, would that job really be a "dead end" one?
- Would you be happy achieving a similar success?
- How would you consider setting your goals to achieve a similar success?
- Assuming you achieved this degree of success, how would you consider making that success greater?
- Do you think the background of this individual was substantially different from yours?
- Do you think this individual achieved success because he was a genius?
- Do you think it possible to be quite ordinary in most life situations, yet demonstrate "genius" in a specific field?
- Do you think you could be a poor student in school and yet achieve a similar success?
- With directed hard work and determination, do you think you could achieve a similar success?
- Do you think you could do what this person did, but do it better?
- Are you wasting your life, or are you directed toward some goal?
- If you got into the habit of setting specific short and long term goals, and were continuously modifying and attempting to reach them, would your life be more productive?
- Why could this person achieve this success and not you?
- If you directed your life now, do you think you could achieve a similar success?
- How do you think the use of alcohol or drugs would affect this success?
- Do you think in America the opportunities for success are greater today or in the future, than they were in the past?
- Did thinking big have anything to do with this person's success?
- Did this person need a special person or agent's help to achieve success? How would you go about getting such a person?
- Did this person stop learning after finishing their formal education, or did they continue to study, learn and intellectually grow?
- Did initial defeat or rejection stop this person? Explain.
- How can you turn your initial defeats and rejections into success?