November 15-18
Monday- Identify types of money-commodity,representative, & fiat money
Tuesday-Quiz on second half of Key terms for Chapter ten then explain the
functions of financial institutions
Wednesday- Understand the changes brought about by electronic banking
Thursday- Test Chapter 10
Friday- Discuss personal finance
Nov 7-11th
Monday-Identify the key terms in chapter 10 Describe the three uses of money
Tuesday- explain the six characteristics of money and understand the sources
of money's value
Wednesday- Explain how the banking stystem was stabilized in the later 1800s
describe developments in banking during the 20th century
Thursday- Explain how the money supply in the U.S. is measured
Friday- Quiz on first half of key terms for ch 10 Identify different types
of financial institutions
October 31-Nov 4th
Monday-Students will complete a web diagram identifying trade barriers and
their effects in on one side and the arguments in favor of protectionism on
the other.
Tuesday- Continue with Trade barriers and their effects on international
trade and arguments for protectionism through discussion.
Wednesday- International trade agreements and the role of multinationals.
Thursday- Measuring Trade- exchange rates analyze the effects of changes in
exchange rates on the balance of trade
Friday- Test on Chapter 17
Week of October 24-28
Monday- Homecoming week threw us off a little, so we will continue with
Chapter 9.
Tuesday- we will finish chapter 9 material today and review everything in
order to take a test Wednesday
Wednesday- Test Chapter 9 and begin identifying key terms for chapter 17
International Trade
Thursday- Analyze the locations of resources and evaluate the significance of
these locations and analyze the impact of U.S. imports and exports on the U.S
and its trading partners.
Friday- Identify various types of trade barriers
Week of October 17-24
Monday- Begin chapter 9 Labor: identify key terms, describe how trends in the
labor force are tracked, analyze past and present occupational trends, and
complete guided reading & review for section 1
Tuesday- Summarize how the U.S. labor force is changing,identify & explain
trends in the wages and benefits paid to U.S. workers, and understand the
connection between wages and skill levels.
Wednesday- Quiz on sections 1 & 2. Explain how laws against wage
discrimination affect wage levels and identify other factors that affect
wages. Complete guided reading & review for section 2
Thursday- Describe why historically some American workers have joined the
labor unions, trace the history of the labor movement in the U.S. and analyze
reasons for the decline of the labor movement
Friday-Quiz on sections 3 & 4 Explain how labor & management negotiate
contracts. Complete guided reading & review for chapter 9
Week of October 10-14
Monday- Chapter 6 Prices explain how supply & demand create balance in the
marketplace, identify key terms and complete guided reading for section 1
Tuesday- Compare a market in equilibrium with a market in disequilibrium and
identify how the government sometimes intervenes in markets to control prices.
Wednesday- Quiz on key terms for chapter 9 and identify the determinants that
create a change in price and explain how the market reacts to changes by
moving to a new equilibrium. complete guided reading and review for section 2
Thursday- analyze the role of prices in a free market and explain how a price
based system leads to a wider choice of goods and more efficient allocation
of resources. complete guided reading & review for section 3
Friday - test on material from chapter 6 prices
Week of October 3-7
9 weeks exams
Week of September 26-29
We took our test Friday because we were able to move more quickly than
anticipated.
Monday- Begin discussion chapter 6 Prices and key terms
Tuesday- Explain how Supply & Demand create balance in the Marketplace.
Students will be given 9 Weeks exam study guides
Wednesdsay- begin reviewing for 9 weeks exams
Thursday- Continue review
Week of September 19-23
Monday- all classes have had difficulty with the concepts of demand, so at
the end of last week I tried to reteach those basic concepts. As a result we
are not as far along as was planned. We started with Supply and will continue
to discuss key terms, look at the supply graph/curve and schedules to try to
grasp the concepts.
Tuesday-Notes on sections 1 & 2 and continue discussion of key terms/concepts
then discuss the relationship with elasticity/time
Wednesday- explain how firms decide how much labor to hire to produce a
certain level of output and discuss diminishing marginal returns
Thursday- identify ways that the government can influence supply and demand
complete guided reading and review for section3
Friday- identify how determinants such as input costs create changes in
supply and discuss supply and demand in the global economy. Throughout the
week we will continue to look at supply schedules and curves.
Week of September 12-16
Monday- review guided readings and notes for Demand
Tuesday- Test chapter 4 Demand and identify key terms for chapter 5 supply
Wednesday- Students will make a tree map for each section of chapter 5,
identifying main ideas and supporting details
Thursday-explain the law of supply, interpret a supply graph using a supply
schedule, explain the relationship between elasticity of supply and time, and
complete guided reading & review for section 1
Friday- expalian how firms decide how much labor to hire to produce a certain
level of output and analyze the production costs of a firm.
Week of September 6-9
Tuesday-Identify key terms associated with Demand and Explain the law of
demand. Students will create note cards for key terms that will include and
illustration of each term (not all terms will be illustrated)
Wednesday- Analyze how the subtitution effect and the income effect influence
decisions complete guided reading for sections 1 & 2
Thursday-Interpret a demand graph using demand schedules and understand the
difference between a change in quantity demanded and a shift in the demand
curve. Students will create thier on demand curves and demand schedules
Friday-Quiz Chapter 4 key terms. Explain how the change in the
price of one good can affect demand for
a related good.
August 29-September2
Monday Describe the tradition of free enterprise in the U.S & the
Constitutional protections that underlie it
Tuesday-Analyze how the government promotes economic strength. Take
Vocabulary quiz for sections 1 & 2 of Chapter 3
Wednesday-Identify example of public goods and analyze market failures. Quiz
on Vocabulary for sections 3 & 4 of Chapter 3
Thursday-Describe the main programs through which the government
redistributes income.
Friday- Test on Chapter 3 material
Week of August 22-26
Monday- I was out so students finished work from Friday and continued with
the rest of the material for Chapter 2.
Tuesday- We will take a vocabulary quiz and finish up chapter 2 material
Wednesday- test on chapter 2 and begin identifying key terms for chapter 3
Thursday-Explain the basic principles of the Free Enterprise System and
describe the roles of the consumers and government in the U.S. free
enterprise system.
Friday-Analyze the effect of technology on productivity. Students will
complete Guided reading and review for sections 1 & 2 of Ch 3.
Week of August 15-19
Monday- We will take our test for chapter 1 then begin Chapter 2 Economic
Systems Section 1- We will identify the three key economic questions of what
to produce, how to produce, and who consumes what is produced and analyze the
societal values that determine how a country answers the three economic
questions.
Tuesday-Explain the characteristics of traditional, command, and market
economies and describe the societal values that influence them.
Wednesday- Eplain why markets exist and understand the self-regulating nature
of the marketplace. Students will complete the Guided Reading and review
worksheets for section 1 & 2, if they do not finish they should do so for
homework.
Thursday-We will discuss Adam Smith using the Economic profile on pg 33 of
our text. Next, we will
discuss Centrally planned Economies, how they are organized and the problems
they have.
Friday- We will discuss the rise of mixed economies and analyze the role of
free enterprise in the
economy of the U.S. Students will be given Guided reading and review for
sections 3 & 4.
Week of August 8-12 E-1A-H1
Monday-Classroom rules and expectations begin discussing the problem of
scarcity.
Tuesday- Continue scarcity and play game to reinforce the problem of
scarcity.
Wednesday- Students will recieve books throughout the day, so will complete
vocabulary for chapter 1 and work on guided reading for section 1
Thursday- Finish Guided reading for the sections 1 and 2 and discuss the
difference between scarcity and shortages. Also we will begin to discuss
opportunity costs/trade offs
Friday- discuss the cirucular flow of goods, production possibilities, and
review scarcity, opportunity costs, and trade offs. Complete guided reading
for section 3
