Assignments & Handouts

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Unit 1

Week1

>First Day: Do online reading. Click here 

>Asset Survey & Welcome Letter: See file below

>Vocab: Click here

>Problem Solving: Click here

>Stock Market Game/Movie: Wall Street

Part1: Pick Stocks/Movie Part1

Part2: Do Buy Sheet/Movie Part2

Week2

>Ch1 What is Economics

Part1: Do posters Click here

Part2: Do Math Activity Click here

Week3

>Ch2 Economic Systems

Part1: Work time

Part2: In-class mini movies (CAVE-O-NOMICS)

>Oral Presentations/ Current Events

>Ch3 American Free Enterprise

Part1: Do Math Activity Click here

Part2: In-class mini movies  (60 Second Adventures in Economics)

Unit 2

Week4

>Vocab: Click here

>Ch4 Demand

Part1: Draw curves Click here

Part2: Do Math Activity Click here

>Ch5 Supply

Part1: Draw curves Click here

Part2: Do Math Activity Click here

Week5

>Ch6 Prices: Draw curves Click here

>Ch7 Market Structures: Do Math Activity Click here

>Econ Simulation: Life On Min Wage: Click here

Week6

>Ch8 Business Organizations

Part 1: Type of Business Click here

Part 2: Franchise Click here

>Oral Presentations/ Current Events

>Ch9 Labor: In-class mini-movies. Alternative Assignment, Click Here. EL Opportunity, Click Here 

                                                        For more info on what to do after HS, Click Here

                                                        For more info on what people make and possible careers, Click Here

Unit 3

Week7

>Vocab: Click here

>Ch10 Money and Banking: In-class mini movie (History of Money)

>Ch12 Gross Domestic Product and Growth: Movie Freakonomics

>Movie: Inside the Meltdown or Inside Job (Crash 2008/Great Recession)

>Ch13 Economic Challenges: Movie, PBS Poor Kids, Click here

>Ch14 Taxes and Government Spending: In-class mini movie (Econ & AmGovt Class)

Part 1: In-class mini movie (AN ANIMATED FILM ON THE DEBT & THE DEFICIT)

Part 2: Movie: –Inside Job or Inside the Meltdown

Week8

>Ch15 Fiscal Policy: Movie, Master Your Future

>Ch16 The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy: In-class mini movie

>Oral Presentations/ Current Events

Week 9

>NFL Financial Football

>Ch17 International Trade: Do Math Activity Click here

>Economics of Nuclear War: Click Here

>Feeding the Poor: Click Here

Handouts: See files below

>Essay outline

>Asset Survey

>Welcome Letter

>How to Write a Thesis