Friday December 1, 2023

Friday December 1, 2023

Study for vocabulary quiz!

Vocabulary Quiz

Go to reading when completed

Circle Question: Where do you think you will eventually settle down and why?

Vocabulary: Credit Cards, Interest Rates(on credit cards) Compounding Interest, Delayed Gratification

Personal Reading

Reading Conference Prep

Work on slideshow

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.

1) Visit the Occupational Outlook Handbook

2) Spend 10 minutes surfing the site looking at rapidly growing job fields.

3) Spend 10 minutes surfing career opportunities at CMCC

4) Be ready to report out from your table a career you found interesting and/or a program at CMCC that looks interesting.

5) Spend 5 minutes create a simple google slides presentation about one of the jobs you found interesting.

6) Four 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).

7) You will be presenting these to Mr. Truman or Mr. Toohey

8) Exemplar

9) Rubric

Unit: Economics: On your own time,  finish the The Personal Budget if you haven't.

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 determine the price for certain items.

I can do simple internet research to estimate the price for certain items.

I can analyze my economic choices to determine adjustments I can make in my choices to live within a budget.

Today

1) Finish the 12 stations you are cycling through.  At each station you will be researching specific budget needs and entering them on your spreadsheet.

2) When the budget is complete, make adjustments to ensure future happiness!

Requirements:

-All fields filled out, including notes

-Put adjusted amounts in ALL columns, even if the amount is staying the same (insert a note explaining changes)