Materials: TV/VCR, magazines with pictures (or have students bring magazines from home) paper, scissors, paste.

Start video at this scene: "I feel that we are at the early stages of a second American revolution to reconsider this consumption binge that we've been on for almost half a century now. It's going somewhere along the line even the economists will come on board." (about 22:12 on the counter)

Stop video: At the credits at the end of tape.

Ask students to define a "good life." Make a list of the material and non-material things they believe are necessary to have a "good life."

Writing: Have students choose either the material or non-material necessities and write about what is important for them to have a "good life."

Art: Illustrate the "good life" by making a collage with pictures and words from magazines. Option: Illustrate what is not the student's idea of the "good life."