August 5 - 9

Monday:

1. Journal – Think of a job you might like to do for a career.  Describe the factors of production for that job?
2. “Did I Get It?” Review
3. Notes – Opportunity Cost
4. Production  Possibilities Curve Worksheet
5. Scarcity and Opportunity Cost Worksheet
6. Did I Get It? Questions

Tuesday:

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

Wednesday:

1.     Class Meeting Assembly

2.   Out of the Box Assignments and Notebook

2.     Pre-Test

3.     Scarcity Game

Thursday:

1. Journal - Which of the six economic goals is most important? Why?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes – Economic Systems
4. Stossel Video on “The Role of Freedom in Prosperity”
5. Stossel Video on “Economic Freedom in the US, Hong Kong and India
6. Cartoon/Economic Detective Worksheet
7. DIGI Questions

Friday:

1. Journal - What are some problems with a Free Market Economy?
2. Vocab Quiz  
3. DIGI Review
4. Notes: American Free Enterprise
5. Stossel Video on “Public vs Private”
6. Stossel Video on “Unintended Consequences” (2008)
7. Introduce Project (So they can prepare for tomorrow)
8. Worksheet – American Free Enterprise
9. DIGI Questions

August 1 & 2

Thursday:

1. Syllabus/Classroom Expectations/Rules
2. Introductions
3. Thinking like an economist

Friday:

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

Welcome! - Fall 2019

Welcome new students to another semester of Honors Econ.

On the right side of this page there are links to all of the study guides and forms and such that go with this class.  You will get a copy of all of these in class, but this is where you can get them if you need another copy.

This is also where weekly posts about what's going on in class will show up and occasionally other random announcements.

Also notice that further down on the right hand side is a place to sign up for getting automatic emails whenever there is a post on this page.  Perhaps you should sign up!

Honors Econ is Over

Honors Econ has ended for Spring 2019.

Please click the link over on the right for Honors Government if that is what you were looking for.

March 18 - 22

Monday and Tuesday:

Review for EOC

Wednesday and Thursday:

Econ EOC

Friday:

Money Project Presentations
Last Day of Econ

March 11 - 15

Monday:

1. Journal – Explain how a credit card works?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Saving, Investing, Insurance
4. Saving and Investing/Personal Finance Vocab
5. Notebook Check Sheet
6. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1. Journal – Explain the relationship between risk and reward in saving and investing.  Use examples.
2. Vocab Quiz
3. Unit 5 Station Activity

Wednesday: (Early Release Day)
Review for EOC – USA Test Prep

Thursday:
Review for EOC - Touchstones

Friday:

1. Unit 5 Test
2. NB’s Due

March 4 - 8

Monday:

1. Journal - What is the difference between comparative and absolute advantage?
2. DIGI Review
3. Notes on Trade Barriers
4. Win-Win Trading Game
5. Stossel Video on “Boycotts of Sweatshop Products” (Stossel Macroeconomics)
6. Economics of Trade Deficits (Stossel – Making Econ Come Alive)
7. Worksheet on Trade Barriers
8. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

1. Journal – How are trade barriers good? How are they bad?
2. Vocab Quiz
3. DIGI Review
4. Notes on Exchange Rates
5. Worksheet on Exchange Rates
6. Chap 17 Review Worksheet
7. Notebook Checksheet
8. Study Guide
9. DIGI Questions

Wednesday: [Begin Unit 5 - This material will be on the Unit 5 test, not the Unit 4 test on Friday]

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. Money/Checks Worksheet
7. DIGI Questions

Thursday: [Unit 5 Day 2 - This material will be on the Unit 5 test, not the Unit 4 test on Friday]

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

Friday:

1.     Test on Unit 4

2.   Notebooks Due