Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Tuesday, January 4th, 2022

  Circle: What is a smell that brings back a specific memory?

Intro to the Day
Target practice

Vocabulary Practice
This year, we will be learning the 100 words that every high school graduate should know.
Click here to access the list.
5/6 Words: The societal value of the profit motive (how does society benefit from people competing to make a profit); globalization, competition
7/8 Words: The societal value of the profit motive (how does society benefit from people competing to make a profit); globalization, competition
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.  This needs to be submitted by Thursday, December 8th.

Unit: Economics -- Globalization Map, Continued
Learning target:  I can explain the role globalization plays in our capitalist economy.  Mainly where all my wants and needs come from.
Your globalization map is due Friday
Skills to google to complete this map:

Unit: Rumford or Cape? Opening Activity
Learning TargetI can use data and information to explain how my choices determine who I will become.
The Scenario: You have the opportunity to raise your child in either Cape Elizabeth or Rumford.  Your family will earn $140,000.  One parent is a chemical engineer and the other a nurse.  This amount of yearly income would allow you to buy a house in either town up to but not over 350,000.  That will mean very different things in each community -- you will very comfortable in Rumford, and house poor and struggling in Cape.  Your child will have very different experiences in each.
1) In order to make this decision, you will need an understanding of several theories and ideas:
     -Value-based decision making
     -Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
     -Competative advantage



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