Jan 27 - Jan 31

Monday:

1. Journal – Describe “demand elasticity” in your own words.
2. DIGI Review
3. Quiz on Determinants of S&D
4. Notes on Floors and Ceilings
5. Minimimum Wage (Stossel Econ Comes Alive)
6. Price Gouging  (Stossel 2007)
7. Price Controls Worksheet
8. Worksheet on Combining S&D/Changes in Market Equilibrium
9. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1. Journal – Are price floors and ceilings ever a good idea?  Explain.
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Market Structures
4. High Priced Fashion (Stossel 2008)
5. Discuss project that starts tomorrow.  They should read about the three business types.
6. Perfect Competition/ Monopoly Worksheet
7. Monopolistic Comp/Oligopoly Worksheet
8. DIGI Questions

Wednesday:

1. Journal - Are monopolies always bad? Explain.
2. DIGI Review
3. Vocab Quiz
4. Brief Discussion on Sole Proprietorship/ Partnership/ Corporation
5. Small Group Project– Creating Business Types Graphic Organizer
6. Worksheets on Sole Proprietorship/Partnership/Corporation
7. Notebook Check Sheet
8. DIGI Questions

Thursday:

1.     Test

2.     Notebooks Due

Friday:

1. Journal – What do you know about our how our nation’s economy is really managed?  Explain who makes the decisions that really affect it?
2. Unemployment Scenarios
3. Notes – Unemployment
4. Stossel Video – Unemployed Steel Workers (Macro)
5. Worksheet on Unemployment
6. Unemployment Scenario/Writing Assignment
7. DIGI Questions