Jan 15-19

Monday:
MLK HOLIDAY

Tuesday:

1. Journal - What are some problems with a Free Market Economy?
2. DIGI Review
3. Talk about how test is a different kind of question, not just memorization
4. Discussion on what “Studying is and isn’t”
5. Notes: American Free Enterprise
6. Stossel Video on “Public vs Private”
7. Stossel Video on “Unintended Consequences” (2008)
8. Worksheet – Chapter 3, Sections 1 & 2
9. Worksheet – Chapter 3, Sections 3 & 4
10. Work on Projects if time
11. DIGI Questions

Wednesday:

1. Circular Flow Diagram
2. Marx vs Smith Diagram
3. Stossel Video on Innovation or Collaboration or Income Disparity (Stossel 2013)
4. Continue Working on Website Project

Thursday:

1. Test
2. Notebooks Due
3. Continue Working on Projects

Friday:

1. Journal - How do you think demand is related to price?
2. Turn in Website Project
3. Notes – Demand (Chapter 4 section 1 and 2)
4. Movie Demand worksheet
5. Determinants of Demand Group Work
6. DIGI Questions

Jan 8-12

Monday:
SNOW DAY

Tuesday:

1. Journal – What grade do you hope to get in this class? What are you prepared to do to get that grade?
2. Setting up "Notebooks"
3. Notes – Scarcity
4. Video Clip on Scarcity
5. Stossel Video on Oil Supplies (2007)
6. Entrepreneurship (Stossel 2012)
7. Scarcity and the Factors of Prod./Vocabulary Puzzle
8. “Did I Get It?” Questions

Wednesday:

1. Journal – Think of a job you might like to do for a career.  What are some of the factors of production for that job?
2. “Did I Get It?” Review
3. Notes – Opportunity Cost
4. Video Clip on Opportunity Cost
5. Cash for Clunkers (Stossel 2012)
6. Production  Possibilities Curve Worksheet
7. Scarcity and Opportunity Cost Worksheet
8. Did I Get It? Questions

Thursday:

1. Journal – What does “opportunity cost” mean?  What was the opportunity cost of you coming to class today?
2. DIGI Review
3. Review Yesterday’s Worksheets
4. Notes – Economic Questions, Goals and Values
5. Stossel Video – Is Life Getting Worse (Macro)
6. Earned Success (Stossel – 2012)
7. Allocating Dorm Rooms Worksheet
8. DIGI Questions

Friday:

1. Vocab Quiz
2. Journal - Which of the six economic goals is most important? Why?
3. DIGI Review
4. Notes – Economic Systems
5. Introduce Project (So they can prepare for tomorrow)
6. Stossel Video on “The Role of Freedom in Prosperity”
7. Stossel Video on “Economic Freedom in the US, Hong Kong and India
8. Cartoon/Economic Detective Worksheet
9. DIGI Questions

Jan 4-5

Thursday:

1. Syllabus/Classroom Expectations/Rules
2. Introductions
3. Thinking like an economist (T/F quiz)

Friday:

1.      Class Meeting Assembly

2.      Scarcity Game

3.      Ball Demonstration

Honors Government

We have moved on to Honors Government for now.

For information on what we are doing in that class, please go to that section of the blog.

Don't forget that the Econ EOC will be on December 6 - 7.

Thanks.

October 8-13

Monday:

1. Journal – How does a credit card work?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Saving, Investing
4. Wall Street – Schoolhouse Rock
5. Saving and Investing/Bonds and Other Assets
6. Stock Market/Opinion Polls
7. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1.     Journal – Explain the difference between saving and investing.  Give examples of each.

2.     Vocab Quiz

3.     DIGI Review

4.     Notes on Insurance

5.     Chap 10 & 11 Vocab

6.     Buying Insurance/Tortoise Domain

7.     Notebook Check Sheet

DIGI Questions

Wednesday:
Unit 5 Station Activity

Thursday:

1. Money Project Due

Friday:

1. Unit 5 Test
2. NB’s Due

Checks

Here are the notes on Checks:

Checks Power Point

October 2 - 6

Monday:

1. Review for Test
2. Finish Notebooks

Tuesday:

1.     Test on Unit 4

2.   Notebooks Due

Wednesday:

1. Journal – Why do you think most of the money in the world looks generally the same?
2. Notes on Money
3. Look at Security Features on Money
4. Death to Pennies (CGP Grey)
5. Hand out Money Project
6. Banking Today/History of American Banking
7. DIGI Questions

Thursday:

1. Journal – Will we always use paper money?  Explain why or why not?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Checks
4. Worksheets on Checks
5. DIGI Questions

Friday:

1. Journal – Are checks money?  Explain why or why not?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Credit and Interest
4. Dollars and Sense – Schoolhouse Rock
5. John Stossel Video on “Debt and Responsibility” (Stossel 2009)
6. Credit and Debit/Credit Card Payments
7. DIGI Questions