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

Feb 25 - Mar 1

Monday:

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. Worksheets on Taxes
7. Yes, I Love Taxes Reading
8. DIGI Questions

Tuesday:

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

Wednesday:

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

Thursday:

1. Journal – Explain what the Federal Government spends most of its budget on.  Is that a good thing?
2. Fiscal vs Monetary Policy Quiz
3. Talk about old test questions
4. Work on Fed Brochure Project

Friday:

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