A flexible teaching companion for Can't We Just Print More Money by Rupal Patel and Jack Meaning
This downloadable guide helps you get the most out of Can't We Just Print More Morey? with your students, whether you use it as background reading, a structured reading project, or a pick-and-mix bank of resources to dip into. Everything is designed to work flexibly alongside the book, so you can direct your students' reading in whatever way suits your class.
 
The programme aims to:
Guide students through non-fiction reading
Draw their attention to useful ideas and concepts
Develop vocabulary
Build up contextual knowledge
Develop a shared canon of common reference points
See the big ideas of some of the topics we teach
 
 
What's included
Chapter vocabulary and references
Splits the tricky language in each chapter into technical vocabulary, useful for economics, and other useful vocabulary, often the unfamiliar tier-two words students simply may not have come across
Includes the idioms and colloquial references in the book, so that students can get the most out of reading
Can be used as a reference to dip into while reading, or worked through first so students prepare each chapter properly and arrive ready to read with confidence
Chapter questions
Reading questions for every single chapter, drawing students' attention to the points that matter most
Pull out the key ideas of individual economists
Available in a write-on version and a condensed, low-print version to keep photocopying costs down
Chapter summaries
Space for students to write their own summary of each chapter
Lets them step back and capture the big picture in their own words
Gives you another flexible way to set the reading, large scale or small scale
World map
A map for students to collate every geographical reference in the book
Builds their geographical understanding alongside a sense of place for the ideas they are reading about
Helps anchor abstract ideas to somewhere real
Timeline
A timeline for placing the book's events and ideas in order
Helps students stop seeing events in isolation and start seeing how one thing led to another
Gives a clear sense of sequence and development
Log of key thinkers
A log of the economists, philosophers, and other important figures recognised in the book
Listed in order of birth so students can see how economic thought has developed over time
Helps students see economics as an evolving subject
Full teacher answers
Detailed answers to all tasks, based on what students will have read