Friday, September 15, 2017

Sept 18 - 22

Monday:

  1. Journal – Explain where the federal government gets most of its revenue.  Is this a good thing?
  2. DIGI Review
  3. Debt vs. Deficit
  4. Stossel Video: Federal Spending (2009)
  5. Are We Heading Toward a Debt Crisis (Stossel – Making Econ Come Alive)
  6. Debt Work
  7. DIGI Questions
Tuesday:

  1. Journal – Explain the difference between National Debt and National Deficit.  Which is worse?
  2. DIGI Review
  3. Notes on Federal Spending and State Taxes
  4. Stossel Video on Pork Barrel Spending (Stossel Macroeconomics)
  5. Video on Budget Cuts Visualization
  6. Federal Spending/State Taxes Worksheet
  7. Review/Cartoon Worksheet
  8. DIGI Questions
Wednesday:

  1. Journal – Explain what the Federal Government spends most of its budget on.  Is that a good thing?
  2. DIGI Review
  3. Notes on Absolute/Comparative Advantage
  4. Video Clip on Comparative Advantage
  5. Stossel Video “Does Outsourcing Hurt the U.S.” (Stossel Macroeconomics)
  6. International Trade: Criticisms and Responses (Stossel – Making Econ Come Alive)
  7. Worksheet on Absolute/Comparative Advantage
  8. Learning to Trade Worksheet
  9. DIGI Questions
Thursday:

  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
Friday:

  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
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Updated Calendar

Here is the new version of the Calendar.

Honors Economics Calendar - Updated for Hurricane Days
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Friday, September 8, 2017

Sept 11 - 15

Monday and Tuesday:

No School

Wednesday:

  1. Journal – Explain what Fiscal Policy is and how it works.
  2. DIGI Review
  3. Notes – Taxes
  4. Stossel Video: Is Government Too Big (Macro)
  5. Stossel Video: Government Growth (Macro)
  6. Schoolhouse Rock: Tax Man Max
  7. Worksheets on Taxes
  8. Yes, I Love Taxes Reading
  9. DIGI Questions
Thursday:

  1. Unit 3 Test
  2. NB's Due
Friday:

  1. Journal – Explain what Fiscal Policy is and how it works
  2. Fiscal vs Monetary Policy Quiz
  3. Talk about old test questions
  4. Work on Fed Brochure Project

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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Sept 4 - 8

Monday:

LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

Tuesday:

  1. Journal – What are the main tools of Monetary Policy?
  2. Project
  3. Monetary Policy Game
Wednesday:

  1. Journal – What are the main tools of Monetary Policy?
  2. Vocab Quiz
  3. Work on Fed Brochure Project
Thursday:

  1. Journal – What are the main tools of Monetary Policy?
  2. DIGI Review
  3. Work on Fed Brochure Project
  4. Review for Test
Friday:

  1. Test on Unit 3
  2. Notebooks Due
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Friday, August 25, 2017

Aug 28 - Sept 1

Monday:
  1. Journal - Why is inflation bad?
  2. DIGI
  3. World GDP Map
  4. Notes – GDP
  5. Video clips: “GDP” and “Real vs Nominal”
  6. GDP/GDP Formula Worksheet
  7. All About GDP
  8. DIGI Questions
Tuesday:
  1. Journal – Is unemployment always bad?
  2. DIGI Review
  3. Bag of Mystery
  4. Notes – Inflation
  5. Video clips: “Inflation”
  6. Stoseel Clip – Gas Prices (Macro)
  7. Inflation/Business Cycles
  8. Economic Cartoons
  9. DIGI Questions
Wednesday:
  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
Thursday:
  1. Journal – Explain how we can measure the “health” of a country’s economy.
  2. DIGI Review
  3. Notes – The Fed
  4. Federal Reserve Functions/Systems
  5. Chap 12 & 13 Crossword
  6. DIGI Questions
Friday:
  1. Journal - How is the Federal Reserve different than a “regular” bank?
  2. DIGI Review
  3. Creating Money Demonstration
  4. Notes on Monetary Policy
  5. Video clip on Monetary Policy
  6. Discuss/Hand Out/Federal Reserve Brochure Project
  7. Worksheet on Monetary Policy
  8. Worksheet on Monetary Policy and Macrostabilization
  9. DIGI Questions

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Endurance Review

Here is the review game we played in 3rd block.

 Endurance Review
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Friday, August 18, 2017

August 21 - 25

Monday:
  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
Tuesday:
  1. Journal - Are monopolies always bad? Explain.
  2. DIGI Review
  3. Brief Discussion on Sole Proprietorship/ Partnership/ Corporation
  4. Small Group Project– Creating Business Types Graphic Organizer
  5. Worksheets on Sole Proprietorship/Partnership/Corporation
  6. DIGI Questions
Wednesday:
1.     Journals – Which business type do you think is best?  Why?
2.     Vocab Quiz
3.     DIGI Review
4.     Finish working on Project
5.     Notebook Check Sheet
6.   DIGI Questions

Thursday:
     Review for Test

Friday:
1.              Test
2.              Notebooks Due

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