Circle: What was your favorite thing to do on a snow day when you were a kid?
Intro to the Day
Target practice
Vocab Quiz
5/6 Words: socialism, economy, capitalism, dialect, paradox
7/8 Words: socialism, economy, simile, holistic, capitalism
When you finish with your quiz, check your phones, then read.
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 find a news story to explain why a company's stock increased or decreased in value.
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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