Circle: What was the best thing that you ate this weekend?
Intro to the Day
Target practice
Vocabulary Practice
This year, we will be learning the 100 words that every high school graduate should know.
1) Click here to access the list.
2) We will select three words each week to study and learn.
3) You will be assessed every Friday.
5/6 Words: socialism, economy, capitalism, dialect, paradox
7/8 Words: socialism, economy, simile, holistic
Unit: Economics: The Personal Budget*
Learning Target:
Big Picture -- I can explain the importance for living on a budget.
Students will be able to develop a budget for living on their own.
Success Criteria --
I can do simple internet research to estimate the price for certain items.
I can use a spreadsheet to make calculations.
I can analyze my economic choices to determine adjustments I can make in my choices to live within a budget.
Today
1) Verify the requirements for submission.
2) Insert a chart
Reading Practice
We will read for 20 minutes each class to get better at reading.
Unit: Economics
Learning Target: I can research to determine jobs I might like to day and what is required to get the job, what I might earn, how much the job is growing, etc. I can make a google slide show to show information I have learned. I can make a Loom video.
1) Visit the Occupational Outlook Handbook
2) Spend 5 minutes surfing the site looking at rapidly growing job fields.
3) Spend 5 minutes create a simple google slides presentation about one of the jobs you found interesting.
4) Five slides: Intro, three slides on information from the web site (the tabs for each job are a good way to organize the slides -- just pick three of the tabs).
5) Create a Loom 1-2 minute Loom video to present the slideshow.
Loom steps: a) log into Loom using google account; b) install Chrome extension (Chromebook) OR download app (Mac); c) record!
Unit: Economics
Learning Target: I can analyze the movement of stocks and explain why some stocks increase in value while others diminish in value at the same time.
1) Visit Google Finance
2) Learn how to create simple stock comparison charts using the compare tool.
3) Load a 1-year chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
4) At your table, brainstorm & discover companies that have diverged from what the market is doing.
5) Use google news and filtering for the days that a market sharply diverged, find news stories the explain why the stock gained or lost value.
5) Cold call share out of findings.
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