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Monday
January 5
Welcome Back!
We are in the home stretch!
1. Get out your notes from the film: Norma Rae and
review.
2.
Assignment of Presentation Dates
Review
Presentation Rubric
Class Presentation Schedule
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Date |
Presenter(s) |
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Wed. 1/14* |
pd1:
Gabriel, Shaina, Jordan | Jalisa, Jerri, Angela
pd6: Sabrina and
Steven | Fitsum and Thai |
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Thurs. 1/15 |
pd1:
Kadeem | Kimberly W. & Sindu
pd6: |
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Fri. 1/16 |
pd1:
Alicia
pd6: |
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Tue. 1/20 |
pd1:
pd6: Tevon & Victor
| Amanda, Santos & Tessel |
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Wed. 1/21 |
pd1:
pd6: Daniel,
Sharleen and Delrita |
*5 points bonus on presentation score for
going first.
Tuesday
Jan. 6
How do to a PowerPoint
1.
Review
Presentation Rubric
2. Watch
Demonstration: Design, Text Format, Image Insertion
3.
Presentation Delivery: Don't read the screen, Annotate
instead, Look at your audience.
Wednesday
Jan. 7
Should "whistle blowers" get special protection?
1.
Read article and take notes
Thursday
Jan. 8
Norma Rae (cont.)
Why is it hard to form a union?
Take Cornell Notes
Focus points: What are the obstacles faced by Norma and
others in forming the union?
How did they overcome those obstacles?
Monday
Dec. 22
Review Your Test 3 Score
Work on PowerPoints
Monday
Dec. 15
Review for Wednesday's Test on Money and the Consumer
1. Know: APR, Universal Default, "Deadbeat", Minimum
Payments, FICOS, Revolver.
2. What is interest? How is money subject to the laws of
supply and demand?
3. What are the attributes of money? What is "inflation"?
What is "deflation"?
4. Local Currency- how does it help people locally?
5. How did currency figure into the U.S. invasion of Iraq?
6. What is Ralph Nader famous for?
7. What is wrong with the U.S. food supply (see Public
Citizen Report)
8. Dirty Money- How do U.S. support criminals?
9. What is "Buy Nothing Day"? What's the relevance of the
Walmart Tradgedy?
10.
Review Unit
Homework for Test
Tuesday
Dec. 16
Review Unit
Homework for Test
Wednesday
Dec. 17
TEST ON MONEY AND THE CONSUMER
Sub topics: Credit Cards, War for Euros, Dirty Money,
Interest Rates and Supply & Demand, Ralph Nader, Food
Quality
Thursday
Dec. 18
New Unit:
Labor
Take Cornell Notes on Film:
Norma Rae
(a true story)
Points to
note:
labor organizer
cooptation
issues: wages, working conditions
Friday
Dec. 19
Begin
your PowerPoint presentations
Meet with me to discuss your drafts.
Monday
Dec. 8, 2008
Activity:
Is the
government protecting the quality of our food?
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Tuesday
Dec. 9, 2008
Work on Project (Draft Project Due
Sunday!)
Test Friday!
Wednesday
Dec. 10, 2008
Preparing our Drafts
1.
Review the Project Rubric
2.
Project Review Exercise
Thursday
Dec 11, 2008
View Model Drafts/ Rubric
Finish Project Drafts
Friday
Dec. 12, 2008
View Model Drafts/ Rubric
Finish Project Drafts
Monday
Dec. 1, 2008
DRAFT OF PROJECT REPORT DUE DEC. 14TH
mail to:
Jelfrank1@gmail.com as a Word attachment.
One DRAFT per GROUP! Combine your work in logical format
into ONE Word document with FOOTNOTES (ENDNOTES).
Euors and
the U.S. invasion of Iraq
Is the invasion of Iraq about Euros for oil?
Read and answer the questions
Use supply and demand
curves to illustrate the points of the theory.
Tuesday
Dec. 2, 2008
DRAFT OF PROJECT REPORT DUE DEC. 14TH
mail to:
Jelfrank1@gmail.com as a Word attachment.
One DRAFT per GROUP! Combine your work in logical format
into ONE Word document with FOOTNOTES (ENDNOTES).
How can you use credit wisely?
Warm Up: Define "credit"
Why do people use credit cards? How do they get into trouble with credit
cards?
Activity:
Read and take notes tips for young people and credit cards.
Points:
1. Minimum Monthly Payments, "deadbeats"
2. APR
3. Credit Rating
Activity 2: Calculate how
long it will take to pay off a credit card.
Go here:
http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/debtplanner/debtplanner.jsp
Enter the following
information:
1. Credit card name: MC,
Balance: $1800.00, Interest: 5, Min. Monthly Payment:
25
2. Select "Minimum Payments" and click on "calculate"
How long will it take to payoff the credit card? How much did you
pay to the credit card in interest?
Do it again, except double the min. monthly payment.
What's the difference?
Do it a third time but
increase the interest from 5% to 21%.
What's the difference?
Summary: Review the aim and answer in
your notebooks.
Wednesday
Dec. 3, 2008
mail to:
Jelfrank1@gmail.com as a Word attachment.
One DRAFT per GROUP! Combine your work in logical format
into ONE Word document with FOOTNOTES (ENDNOTES).
How do interest rates
affect borrowing and saving?
Interest Rates - note in your notebook
A rate which is charged or paid for the use of money. An interest
rate is often expressed as an annual percentage of the principal. It is
calculated by dividing the amount of interest by the amount of
principal. Interest rates often change as a result of inflation and
Federal Reserve policies. For example, if a lender (such as a bank)
charges a customer $90 in a year on a loan of $1000, then the interest
rate would be 90/1000 *100% = 9%.
from:
http://www.investorwords.com/2539/interest_rate.html
When do you pay interest and when are you paid interest?
Explain why.
Activity 2: Calculate how
long it will take to pay off a credit card.
Go here:
http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/debtplanner/debtplanner.jsp
Enter the following
information:
1. Credit card name: MC,
Balance: $1800.00, Interest: 5, Min. Monthly Payment:
25
2. Select "Minimum Payments" and click on "calculate"
How long will it take to payoff the credit card? How much did you
pay to the credit card in interest?
Do it again, except double the min. monthly payment.
What's the difference?
Do it a third time but
increase the interest from 5% to 21%.
What's the difference?
Summarize the
lesson your learned about credit cards from this activity.
Thursday
Dec. 4, 2008
Buy
Nothing Day - Revisited
1. What is a FICOS score?
2. What is a "revolver"
3. Who is a "deadbeat" to credit card companies?
4. How does "universal default" work?
Film: The
Secret History of the Credit Card
Are credit cards good or bad?
Take
Cornell Notes
Friday
Dec. 5, 2008
Do Now:
Answer from yesterday's notes
1. Why did credit card companies lower the minimum monthly
payment?
2. How was offering Zero percent interest affective for
credit card companies at making more money?
ACTIVITY: Film- The
Secret History of the Credit Card
Has the government done its job in
regulating credit card companies?
Take Cornell Notes
See where you
can go for help with credit cards.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/more/where.html
Monday
Nov. 24, 2008
Buy Nothing Day
Why "buy
nothing"?
How does
this movement challenge us to be different?
Why do they say we must change?
Do you agree?
Tuesday
Nov. 25, 2008
Film: An
Unreasonable Man (Part III)
Take Cornell Notes
Wednesday
Nov. 26, 2008
Work on
Projects
Thursday
Nov. 27, 2008
Thanksgiving
Friday
Nov. 28, 2008
Buy Nothing Day!
Monday
Nov. 17, 2008
Review Test II
Work on Project
Tuesday
Nov. 18, 2008
Aim:
Introduction to Financial Institutions & the Consumer
Why don't we have the government print enough money so we can all be
millionaires?! Write your answer in a paragraph in your
notebook.
1. Review new homework assignments
2. Concepts of Money (do by Tuesday) - Research and define: money,
currency, barter, credit, interest rate, inflation.
Wednesday
Nov. 19, 2008
Money - Why is it
important to the economy?
Do Now: Copy the Attributes and explain why each is important.
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Durability
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Portability
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Divisibility
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Uniformity
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Ease of Recognition
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Relative Scarcity
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Stability
Local Money
- Does it help a community?
Read and answer
the questions.
Extension: Forbes Magazine
article Funny Money
View the various
alternative currencies.
Thursday
Nov. 20, 2008
Why does the U.S. have an incentive not to fight the war on drugs?
Read Money Laundering Article and
and answer questions.
Friday
Nov. 21, 2008
Film: An
Unreasonable Man (pt. 2)
Work on Project
Monday
Nov. 10, 2008
Discuss Answers to Part II of
Wolf Article
Test II on Wednesday
Review your project, Wolf Article and the Corporation
Topics: Social Responsibility, Privatization, Taming
the Corporate Beast (how do hold them accountable). Discuss
your project in detail.
Tuesday
Nov. 11
Veteran's Day - No School
Wednesday
Nov. 12
Test II
Topics: Social Responsibility, Privatization, Taming
the Corporate Beast (how do hold them accountable). Discuss
your project in detail. Also know the answers to the Wolf
article.
Thursday
& Friday
Nov. 13 & 14
Work on your Projects
Monday
Nov. 3, 2008
Election Day Special
Activity
Tuesday
Nov. 4, 2008
Election Day!
No Students
Wednesday
Nov. 5, 2008
Election Day Follow-up
Do we have a President yet?
Thursday
Nov. 6, 2008
Note new homework assignments
due starting next week
New Unit: The Financial Crisis.
Read Wolf Article- first
in a series.
Do part I in your notebooks.
Film
Fridays
Part 2
Wolf Article
Ralph Nader - An Unreasonable Man
Nov. 7, 2008
Wednesday
Nov. 12, 2008
Project Report/ Corporation Exam
Topics: Social Responsibility, Privatization, Taming
the Corporate Beast (how do hold them accountable).
Be prepared to discuss your project in detail.
Monday
October 27, 2008
Effective Internet Search Strategies
How to limit your search results
Fill-in Your
Group's Progress Report
Tuesday
October 28, 2008
New Unit - The Financial Crisis
What comes to mind when you hear financial crisis? Jot down
your thoughts.
Read and
answer questions
Wednesday
October 29, 2008
Work on Project
Thursday
October 30, 2008
How can we tame the corporate beast?
Finale of the film- The Corporation
Monday
Oct. 20, 2008
List your topic and sources found thus far
See sample report
Tuesday
Oct. 21, 2008
Continue Phase 1 of Project
Wednesday
Oct. 22, 2008
Youth
Vote Day!
Special Lesson
Thursday
Oct. 23, 2008
The Corporation and Fascism
take Cornell notes
Friday
Oct. 24, 2008
Monday -
Oct. 13, 2008 - No School
Tuesday,
Oct. 14, 2008
Introduction to Economics Project
Read through
the entire description.
Create a
Gmail account if you don't have one already.
See
new homework assignments
and next test date.
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008
Project Topic Selection
How to research a topic.
Review this page:
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
Outline the research process from General Topic to Specific
Questions your project will address.
Thursday,
Oct. 16, 2008
The Corporation and Fascism
take Cornell notes
Friday, Oct. 17, 2008
The Corporation and the Elections
take Cornell notes
Monday - Oct. 6, 2008
View film: The Corporation - take Cornell Notes
Review Exam Results
Tuesday - Oct. 7, 2008
Review Exam Results -
Work in pairs to find the right answers to your questions.
Introduction to Class Project.
TOMORROW: CUNY Visit - Meet in balcony of the auditorium.
Wednesday - Oct. 8, 2008
CUNY Visit - Meet in balcony of the
auditorium.
Thursday - Oct. 9, 2008 NO SCHOOL
Friday - Oct. 10, 2008
Film Fridays - Finish The Corporation - Take Cornell
Notes
9/29/2008 Monday
Critique of Supply and Demand
No School Tuesday and
Wednesday
10/2/2008 Thursday
Review for Test in Pairs
First 20 min.
review these topics.
Develop one question per-topic
Topics for Test (multiple choice, fill-in,
true/false/opinion)
1. Know the laws of supply and demand, elasticity,
what affects changes in supply and demand, equilibrium
place. What are the assumptions of this "law" and its
"fact of life" contradictions? Know what supply and
demand curves look like and how and why they move, and
its impact on market price.
2. Know the three questions all economies must answer,
the three types of economic systems, circular flow of
income, production possibilities, opportunity costs,
problem of scarcity.
3. How are corporations different than what they used to
be, and are different from other business organizations?
How did they get the status of "legal persons"? How do
they do good? How do they do bad? Know: Externalities,
14th Amendment.
4. The Commandments of Capitalism: Does it say life is
fair regarding who is rich and who isn't? How does the
Puritan ethic differ from the Social Darwinists' view
why there is poverty? Who would rich people like these
commandments? How does the liberal answer to "Is life
fair?" differ from the conservative answer?
Ask me questions
10/3/2008 Friday
TEST 1
9/22/2008 Monday - Three
Forms of Business Organization
Do corporations dominate our economic life too much?
Fashion an answer based
on your notes from the film.
9/23/2008 Tuesday -
Production Possibilities Curve and Shifting Supply and
Demand:
How do we use charts to understand economics?
Plot the chart on the board.
What are the "opportunity costs" (trade-offs) presented?
Activity: Analyze shifting
supply and demand curves.
What causes supply and demand to shift?
How is equilibrium (market) price affected?
9/24/2008 Wednesday -
How does money circulate in our economy?
Do Now: Read this
and answer questions:
Circular Flow of Income
1. What adds to the circular flow?
2. What detracts from this flow?
3. Is it good or bad when money is deflected from the flow?
Application: How
does the current crisis affect our circular flow of income?
9/25/2008 Thursday -
Special Lesson -
President Bush on the Current
Economic Crisis
9/26/2008 Friday - Test
1 POSTPONED TO THURSDAY (open notes) on Introduction to Economics/ Supply and Demand/ The
Corporation (Part I).
Study guide:
1. Know the laws of supply and demand, elasticity,
what affects changes in supply and demand, equilibrium
place. What are the assumptions of this "law" and its
"fact of life" contradictions?
2. Know the three questions all economies must answer,
the three types of economic systems, circular flow of
income, production possibilities, opportunity costs,
problem of scarcity.
3. How are corporations different than what they used to
be, and are different from other business organizations?
How did they get the status of "legal persons"? How do
they do good? How do they do bad? Know: Externalities,
14th Amendment.
4. The Commandments of Capitalism: Does it say life is
fair regarding who is rich and who isn't? How does the
Puritan ethic differ from the Social Darwinists' view
why there is poverty? Who would rich people like these
commandments? How does the liberal answer to "Is life
fair?" differ from the conservative answer?
9/15/2008 Monday: Intro.
to Supply & Demand
Register your book
9/16/2008 Tuesday: Graphing your
Supply and Demand Charts Using Excel
Watch demonstration and follow.
Introduction to Supply & Demand -
How do we use Excel to plot supply and
demand curves?
Watch Demonstration
1. Using
Excel, create two tables. One showing a supply schedule the
other a demand schedule. (as demonstrated) Make up another product if
you like and
plot the data according to the laws of supply and demand. Use your
homework and consult with your neighbor if necessary.
2. Create two line graphs depicting the two tables. Label them
accordingly.
3. ID a product you consider Demand Inelastic. Make up a demand
schedule and plot a graph on a separate sheet in the same file. See
demonstration.
4. Copy and paste into a word document.
5. Write a one paragraph explanation for the differences in two
demand curves.
4. Save in your economics folder on the network drive.
5. Upload to Sharepoint thread "S&D Curves"
9/17/2008 Wednesday:
The
Commandments of Capitalism-
Is life fair?
Quiz 2
9/18/2008 Thursday: Elasticity of
Demand
1. For each item
below, pretend the price doubled. Think for each if you
would do without or continue to purchase or subscribe to the
item.
a. butter, b. milk, c.
gasoline, d. cigarettes (assume you smoke), e. iTunes, f.
cell phone, g. cable t.v.,
For the items you would
cut back on, explain why.
For items you would not cut back on, explain why.
Activity: Watch
demo on creating elastic and inelastic demand curves with
Excel.
Elasticity of
Supply
How do we use
Excel to demonstrate elasticity of supply and demand?
Review
"elasticity" of demand &
supply.
1. What determines if an item is demand elastic or supply elastic?
9/19/2008 Friday: The Corporation
(Part II)
Use Cornell Notes.
Friday
9/12/2008 Film The Corporation: How do corporations
externalize costs?
Introduction to Cornell Notes (pt. 2)
See Cornell Notes Format - copy onto a piece of
notebook paper or use Word.
Summary: Share your Cornell summaries with the class.
Homework: Revisit your notes and add
afterthoughts.
Thursday
9/11/2008
Introduction to Supply and Demand
Activity: Intro.
to Supply & Demand
Wednesday
9/10/2008 Film The Corporation
Introduction to Cornell Notes
See Cornell Notes Format
Tuesday
9/9/2008
How can you call the U.S. economy "a mixed economy"?
Activity: Three Types of
Economic Systems
Review answers
together
Register your book
Monday
9/8/2008 How does an economy try to answer the three basic
economic questions?
Warm up: Review:
What is the maximum about you will work for?
The "problem of scarcity". Why can't we have everything we
want?
Infinite Human Wants | Resources
Activity:
What
are the three questions? Take notes.
Quiz #1
9/5/2008 How do we chart our MI
scores with Excel?
Open MS Excel from the
Program List and get out your scores from yesterday. Follow the
big-screen demonstration.
1. Today we will use the graphing tool in Excel to chart our scores
and insert in a Word file.
2. Then we will explain what this means for us as learners after
reviewing the explanation of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences
at:
http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm
9/4/2008 What kind of a learner
are you?
Take the Multiple
Intelligences Inventory Survey.
9/3/2008:
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