Homework:

9/8  Get parent note signed

9/9  None

9/10  Study for Ch 1 quiz

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This course is required for graduation.  There are three components for your grade:  quarter grade, quarter grade, and final exam grade.  You must pass two of the three components and earn your 5 quality points to pass the course.

When current events are assigned, here's what you need to do:  Find a news article relating to economics, and write a paragraph explaining how the article relates to economics (extra credit if you relate your article to the current chapter and specific vocab concepts we've discussed in class).  Turn in the article, the paragraph, and an MLA citation of the article.

Notes:

Chapter 1

Chapter 7

Chapter 12

Chapter 17

Chapter 2

Chapter 8

Chapter 13

Chapter 18

Chapter 3

Chapter 9

Chapter 14

 

Chapter 4

Chapter 10

Chapter 15

 

Chapter 6

Chapter 11

Chapter 16

 

Key Websites:

Career Project

Credit Crisis Video (scroll down to "Crisis of Credit Visualized" by Jonathan Jarvis posted Feb 25, 2009)

FDIC & Bank Failures Video (CBS 60 minute special "Your Bank Has Failed" 3/8/2009)

Stock Market Project:  list of companies trading on the NYSE

Stock Market Project's Corporate Analysis must have 4 sources:   Ideas include 1.   Yahoo Finance  2. Company homepage 3. Business & Company Resource Center (our library subscribes to this database through the Gale subscription service.  To access it, go the GHS library homepage, find Gale Gengage Learning which is a blue box on the left side part way down, then click on the link for Business & Company Resource Center, once there, type in your company name.  Yes, I could put a link here, but then you wouldn't notice all the other wonderful things the library has to offer!) 4. The business section of newspapers  5. Wikipedia  6.  CNN Money

GHS MLA handbook

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Ben Bernanke

Budget Simulation Activity -- complete worksheet questions after doing online activity

Candidates & Issues -- study the row labeled "Economy"

United Nations "Free Rice" vocab game

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