When a family member dies, the emotional stress can be devastating. But what if the deceased person doesn’t have family and overlooks making a will? The movie Mr. Deeds demonstrates how a happy ending can come from a fortunate misfortune.

With the help of Mr. Deeds’ new love with her amazing researching skills and knowledge of the language of the stock market, Deeds and many others show that although money does change things, it doesn’t need to change values in people.

In this Active Learning Tool, participants create a greeting card illustrating the importance of investing or creating a will.

Lesson Objectives

  • Communicate the importance of the majority stockholder within a corporation
  • Apply the concept of market price to an engaging story
  • Identify with a  person who doesn’t allow wealth to change his values
  • Categorize the fictional stock of Blake Media

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