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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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INTRODUCTION-CHAPTER 1
Reading Check
1. What prevents the people in Ruiz’s story from understanding the man who realized that we are all connected?
2. What makes up the Book of Law?
3. Who enforces the Book of Law’s rules as adults?
Short Answer
Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.
1. In your own words, what is the domestication of humans?
2. Why is it challenging for a person to change their agreements or beliefs?
Paired Resource
The Four Agreements - Domestication Part 1 & Part 2 via TheFourAgreements YouTube
- This two-part video series (10 minutes total, 4-5 minutes each) helps students to visualize the process and impact of domestication that Ruiz describes in Chapter 1.
- This resource relates to the theme Self-Limiting Agreements Learned Through Human Domestication.
- What agreements form the truth in your personal Book of Law? How does the world function when different people have diverging truths based on their own domestication?
CHAPTER 2
Reading Check
1. How does the author define sin?
2. Under this agreement, what is the “worst form” of words/speech?
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