Homework:
9/3 Parent note
9/4 None
9/5 Study for Ch 1 Quiz
9/8 None
9/9 Mini-essay -- see topic from class worksheet
9/10 Ch 1 review worksheet
9/11 None
9/12 Career Project -- due 9/19
9/15 Ch 2 review worksheet; Study for Ch 1 & 2 Test which will be Tuesday 9/16
9/16 None
9/17 None
9/18 Study for Ch 3 quiz
9/19 None
9/22 None
9/23 None
9/24 Ch 3 review worksheet
9/25 None
9/26 Study Ch 4 quiz Mon
9/29 None
9/30 None
10/1 Ch 4 review worksheet; study for test on Ch 3 & 4
10/2 None
10/3 Movie assignment; Due Friday 10/11
10/6 None
10/7 None
10/8 Intro to Stock Project; select 4 companies in which you'd like to invest & research; bring calculator tomorrow
10/9 Stock Project Chart 1
10/10 Stock Project Corporate Analysis, Terms & Advertising Analysis all due Friday 10/24 (see links below for research help)
Announcements:
If you did not take the Ch 3&4 Test on Thurs 10/2, you must do so within 2 weeks to avoid a zero.
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:
Stock Market Project's Corporate Analysis must have 4 source: 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
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"