68 pages • 2 hours read
Don Miguel RuizThe Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
During Reading
Reading Questions & Paired Texts
Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.
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?
