Advanced Placement Macroeconomics
Summer Assignment Form
This form certifies that you have been given the assignment for summer work. This course work is required for every student entering the Advanced Placement curriculum for Macroeconomics in the 2019-2020 school year. Successful completion of this form certifies that you have been made aware of the following information:
Failure to complete this assignment before the due date will result in removal from the course.
A printed version of your work must also be submitted to your teacher on the first day of school.
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Summer Assignment
An Analysis of Economic Theory
Advanced Placement Macroeconomics
Due Date: August 25, 2019
Dear Advanced Placement Student:
A distinguished curriculum, Advanced Placement Macroeconomics will give you a rich and rigorous course aimed at a learning experience equivalent to a typical college introductory macroeconomics course. This course would culminate with a College Board Examination in Macroeconomics, which students have a chance to obtain college credit for a semester long course at many colleges and universities. By offering the students of Longwood High School this program, we can ensure that every student has the opportunity to achieve higher academic standards.
Coursework for this class will begin over this summer, when each student is required to complete the summer assignment. This assignment will require that you read, examine, evaluate, and critique a work of literature that is connected to the curriculum. Your efforts this summer will provide a strong foundation for the rigorous course work you will experience in AP Macroeconomics.
Summer Assignment: There are four possible books, and each book has a limit of fifteen students per book. The distribution of books will be on a first come, first serve basis. If you do not get your first choice, you will have a chance to do a similar project later in the year with some of the other selections. The books are available to you, but you are welcome to purchase your own book if you would like. Furthermore, this assignment should not consume your entire summer break, but it must be handed in on or before August 25th.
This summer assignment must be emailed at the following email address:
It is imperative that you start the summer assignment as soon as possible so that you can complete the assignment before the due date. I am willing to offer any assistance necessary. You can contact me via email at: bryan.makarius@longwoodcsd.org. Good luck and I look forward to working with you at the start of the school year.
Take care,
Mr. Makarius
AP Macroeconomics Teacher
Longwood Social Studies Department
Analysis of Economic Theory
When writing it is important to incorporate four important objectives:
DO NOT use the preceding questions as your sole guide for writing your review. You are encouraged to be original, creative, and out-of-the –box thinker.
This is not a book report. This review requires you to go beyond a mere summary, and inquire into the overall meaning and worth of a work.
Economic Readings
Option 1:
Title: Freakonomics
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Freakonomics was one of the best selling books in 2005 that gives an alternative view of Economics. You will have to write a paper and present their findings in a formal presentation at the start of the school year.
Option 2:
Title: The Fatal Equilibrium
Publisher: MIT Press
This book examines many of the major concepts in the Advanced Placement Economics curriculum and allows you to experience economics within a captivating mystery. Each student will have to write a paper and present their findings in a formal presentation at the start of the school year.
Option 3:
Title: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Publisher: Penguin Books
This book is written by one of the most influential individuals in the world of Macroeconomics. You will implement many of the ideas of John Keynes throughout the year in Macroeconomics class. Each student will have to write a paper and present their findings in a formal presentation at the start of the school year.
Option 4:
Title: Capitalism and Freedom
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Since this book was published in 1962 it has been increasingly influential as many government moved from planned economies to free market economies. The students will be able to experience the theories and how the world economies changed over the past fifty years in this book. Each student will have to write a paper and present their findings in a formal presentation at the start of the school year. The age of this will show how economic theories and government roles have also change over time