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There is a link to each day's lesson on this page. The calendar contains information about homework, assignments that are due, and class resources (videos, slideshows, and related readings and podcasts). It also has information about what we'll be doing each day, including the problem of the day. Click here to read the syllabus. Download this app to help you study throughout the year and for the AP Exam.
August 13: Introduction to AP Economics. Click here to read the syllabus.
August 15: Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, and Production Possibilities
August 19: Demand
August 21: Supply
August 23: Equilibrium and Market Efficiency
August 27: Price Elasticity of Demand and Total Revenue
August 29: Open day
September 2: Unit One Test (Study Guides on Blackboard)
September 4: Circular Flow, Business Cycles, and GDP
September 6: Calculating GDP and GDP as a Measure of Well-Being
September 10: Real and Nominal GDP
September 12: Calculating Unemployment and Inflation
September 16: Open Day
September 18: Unit Two Test (See Blackboard for review materials)
September 24: Aggregate Demand
September 26: Short-run Aggregate Supply and General Equilibrium
September 30: Long-run Aggregate Supply
October 2: Economic Growth and Productivity
October 4: Inflationary and Recessionary Gaps and Long-run Adjustment
October 8: Keynesian Fiscal Policy, the Accelerator Effect, and the Multiplier Effect
October 10: Crowding Out and Supply-side Economics
October 14: Open Day
October 18: Unit Three Test
October 22: The Meaning of Money and Money Creation
October 24: The Classical Theory of Inflation and Quantity Theory of Money
October 28: The Costs of Inflation
October 30: The Keynesian Theory of Liquidity Preference
November 1: Monetary Policy Tools
November 12: Keynesian Monetary Policy
November 14: Monetarism and the Money Rule
November 18: The Phillips Curve and the Role of Expectations
November 20: Supply-shocks and the Natural Rate Hypothesis
November 22: Open Day
November 26: Unit Four Test
December 2: Sources and Consequences of Economic Growth
December 4: Barriers to Economic Growth
December 6: Growth and Development Strategies
December 10: Unit 5 Test
December 12: Semester Exam Review Day
December 16: B1 Exam
December 18: B3 Exam
January 15: The Theory of Comparative Advantage and Terms of Trade
January 17: The Benefits of Free Trade and Protectionism
January 21: The Balance of Payments
January 23: The Foreign Exchange Market
January 25: International Trade's Link to the Macroeconomy
January 29 and 31: Open Days
February 4: Unit 6 Test (Study guides emailed and posted to Blackboard)
February 6: Derived Demand
February 8: Allocating multiple inputs, least-cost profit maximizing combination of inputs, and determination of wages in perfect and monopsonistic markets
February 14: Labor Unions and economic rent, interest, and profits
February 25: Open Day
February 27: Unit 7 Test
March 1: Short-run Production Costs
March 5: Long-run Production Costs
March 7: Short-run and Long-run Equilibrium in Perfect Competition
March 11: Short-run and Long-run Equilibrium in Perfect Competition (Day 2)
March 13: Pure Monopoly
March 15: Regulating Monopoly (Natural Monopolies) and Price Discrimination
March 19: Test on Perfect Competition and Monopoly
March 21: Go over test and practice AP Exam (MCQ's only)
April 1: Monopolistic Competition (No HW)
April 3: Collusive Oligopoly and the Prisoner's Dilemma
April 5: Non-collusive Oligopoly (Kinked Demand Theory)
April 6 (Saturday morning): AP Macro mock exam in auxiliary gym
April 9: Test on Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
April 11:
April 15: Negative and Positive Externalities
April 17: Internalizing Externalities
April 19: Public Goods and Common Resources
April 23: Asymmetric Information
April 25: Unit 9 Test (Practice MCQ's and Study Guides have been sent by email)
April 28 (Sunday afternoon): AP Micro mock exam in auxiliary gym
April 29: Review for AP Exam
May 2: Economic Growth and Measuring Economic Performance
May 6: The AS-AD Model
May 8: Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy, and the Phillips Curve
May 10: Go over Mock Exam and Open Review
May 14: International Economics
May 16: AP EXAM