Homework:
- 5/1 Extra Credit: On the Move: Mortgage Basics (20 Points)
- 5/2 Extra Credit: What's the Best Strategy for Paying off a Credit Card? and Beyond the Hype: Crypto Assets (32 points)
- 5/1Extra credit Questions for Rep. Crane
Graded Classwork:
- 4/22 Banking Basics
- 4/27 Cars and Cash. and Credit Cards
- 4/30 The Card Game (documentary)
- 5/1 Credit Card worksheets
- 5/3 Taxation (WS)
Formal Assessments:
- 4/26 USMCA Questions
- 5/10 Final Project (15% of Grade)
Resources:
Semester 2: Economics
Unit 1: Introduction to Economics
Week 1: Introductions to Economics
- January 1– No school
- January 2– No school
- January 3 school
- January 4 (late start) Introduction to Economics (PPT)
- Graded Classwork: PPF Curve
Week 2: The Supply and Demand Model
- January 9 RG Chp. 2
- January 10 Supply and Demand PPT (PPT),
- Graded class work: Supply and Demand (WS)
- January 11-- Supply and Demand PPT (PPT),
- Graded class work: Supply and Demand (WS)
Week 3: Incentives
- January 15 (Holiday)
- January 16 -- Price Ceilings and Floors
- Graded classwork: Pricing with Kid Rock (WS)
- January 17– Graded Classwork : Minimum Wage
- January 18 Incentives and perverse incentives (PPT)
- January 19 – RG Chapter 3
Week 4: Unit Assessment
- January 22– Incentives and perverse incentives (PPT)
- Graded Classwork: Is College still worth the Cost?
- January 23– Graded Classwork: Price Discrimination Worksheet
- January 24 – Economic Principles Assessment
- Formal: 1/31 Economic Principles Assessment
- January 25–Economic Principles Assessment
- January 26 – Economic Principles Assessment
Unit 2: Government and the Economy
Week 5: Government in the Economy Overview
- January 29– Economic Principles Assessment/ Chp 4 Reading Guide
- January 30 – Government in the Economy Overview (PPT)
- January 31 – Government in the Economy Overview (PPT)
- February 1– Government in the Economy Overview (PPT)
- February 2-- Snow Day
Week 6
- February 5– Chp 4 Reading Guide
- HW 2/14 Chp 4 Reading Guide
- February 6- Government in the Economy Overview (Monopoly)
- Graded Classwork: Monopoly and Antitrust laws
- February 7 -- Snow Day
- February 9-- Snow Day
Week 7
- February 12- Inequality Reading and Examining Racial Wealth Inequality
- Graded Classwork: Inequality Reading and Examining Racial Wealth Inequality
- February 13– Inequality (PPT)
- February 14 – Inequality (PPT)
- February 15 -- Inequality (PPT)
- February 16-- Income Inequality Reflection
- Formal: 2/21 Income Inequality Reflection
Week 8
- February 19 (Holiday)
- February 20–Government failure
- February 21– Economics and the Environment
- Graded Classwork: Externalities Economics of the Environment
- February 22– Economics and the Environment
- February 23– Externality paper
Week 9
- February 26– Externality paper
- February 27– Externality paper
- February 28– Externality paper
- February 29– Externality paper
Unit 3: The Economics of Information and Human Capital
Week 10
- March 5–The Economics of Information
- March 6– RG Chp 7 154-164
- HW- 3/8 RG Chp 7 154-164
- March 7– RG 165-181
- HW-- 3/19 RG 165-181
- March 8– RG 165-181
March 11-15 (Holiday)
Unit 4 Financial Markets
Week 11
- March 18– Financial Markets Lecture (PPT)
- March 19– Financial Markets Lecture (PPT)
- March 20–Financial Markets Lecture (PPT)
- March 21– Retirement Accounts
- March 22– Inside Job
Week 12
- March 25– Inside Job
- March 26– Inside Job
- March 28– Portfolio
- March 29- Portfolio
Unit 5: GDP and the Federal Reserve
Week 13
- April 3– GDP WS
- April 4– GDP (Slides)
- HW-- 4/10 Extra Credit: Chapter 10
- HW--4/10 Chp 12
- April 5 --
Week 15
- April 8 – RG Chp 12
- April 9– Keynesian Fiscal Policy
- April 10– The Federal Reserve
- April 11– The Federal Reserve
- April 12– Fiscal and Monetary Policy Assessment
- Formal: 4/19 Fiscal and Monetary Policy Assessment
Unit 6: International Trade
Week 16
- April 15– Fiscal and Monetary Policy Assessment
- April 16–Introduction to comparative advantage with example Worksheet HERE.
- Graded Classwork: Comparative Advantage WS
- April 17– Introduction to comparative advantage
- Graded Classwork: Comparative Advantage 2
- April 18– World Trade
- April 19– USMCA Questions
Unit 7 Personal Finance
Week 17
- April 22– Creating a budget
- Graded Classwork: Banking Basics
- April 23— Budgeting WS
- April 24– Credit Cards (Slides)
- April 25– USMCA Questions
- April 26– Graded Class work Cars and Cash. and Credit Cards
- Extra Credit: On the Move: Mortgage Basics (20 Points)
Week 18
- April 29– Extra Credit: What's the Best Strategy for Paying off a Credit Card? and Beyond the Hype: Crypto Assets (36 points)
- April 30 --The Card Game (documentary)
- May 1– Credit Card worksheets
- May 3– Representative Crane
Week 19
- May 6– Final Project
- May 7– Final Project
- May 8– Final Project
- May 9– Final Project
- May 10– Final Project
Week 20
- May 13 Last Day for Seniors
Semester 1
Unit One: The Foundations of American Democracy
Week 1: The Constitution
- August 7 – No School
- August 8(Early) – Introductions to Class
- August 9 –Intro To Government (Hobbes to Locke)
- In Class Readings: Hobbes, Locke and Montesquieu
- August 10 – Intro To Politics
- August 11 –Intro To Politics
Week 2: The Constitution
- August 15 – The Constitutional Convention
- August 16 – The Federalist Papers
- Graded Classwork: 8/16, 8/17 Federalist vs Anti Federalist (on paper)
- August 17 – Federalist vs Anti Federalist (on paper)
- August 18 – The Constitution
- Graded Class work: Constitutional Primary
Week 3: Federalism
- August 21– The Constitution
- Graded Classwork: Constitutional Primary
- August 22 – Graded Classwork: Federalism Readings
- August 23 – Constitutional Federalism (Nuts and Bolts)
- August 24– Constitutional Federalism (Nuts and Bolts)
- Introduce current event blog
- August 25– Current Event: The Constitution
Week 4: Federalism
- August 28– The Courts interpret Federalism
- August 29– Federalism Case Study
- In Class: Federalism listening guide
- August 30- Federalism Case Study
- August 31– Federalism Case Study
- September 1- Federalism Case Study
Week 5: Local Government
- September 4– Holiday
- September 5- Federalism Case Study
- September 6 – State Gov/Local Government
- September 7– State Gov/Local Government
- Graded Classwork: Local Governments
- September 8– State Gov/Local Government
Unit 2: Interaction Among Branches of Government
Week 6: Congress
- September 11 (golf noon release) – 9/11 lesson
- September 12 – Introduction to Congress
- September 13 – Introduction to Congress
- September 14 – Introduction to Congress
- September 15– The Legislative Process
Week 7: The Presidency
- September 18 (In Service)
- September 19 – Gerrymandering
- Graded Classwork-- Gerrymandering
- September 20 – Introduction to the Presidency
- September 21 –Graded Classwork: Presidency Case studies
- September 22 – The Bureaucracy
Week 8: Foreign Policy
- September 25– Register to Vote and Current Event Blog Post: Congress/ Presidency
- September 26– Foreign Policy individual research
- September 27 – Foreign Policy individual research
- September 28 –Foreign Policy Case Study handout
- September 29 – Foreign Policy Case Study handout
- Formal: 10/3 Foreign Policy handout (50 points)
Week 9: The Courts
- October 2:–The Courts Background
- October 3– Supreme Court Case 2023 Decision Research
- October 4 – Supreme Court Case t 2023 Decision Research
- October 5 – Supreme Court Case 2023 Decision Group Work
- October 6 – Supreme Court Case 2023 Decision Group Work
Week 10: Supreme Court 2023 Decision Presentations
- October 9 – Supreme Court Case 2023 Group Work
- October 10 –Supreme Court Case 2023 Decision Presentations
- October 11 – Supreme Court Case Decision Presentations
- October 12, 13 ( Holiday)
Unit 3: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Week 11: Civil Liberties
- October 16:–Civil Liberties Introduction
- Graded Classwork: Bill of Rights
- October 17– Graded Classwork: Bill of Rights
- October 18 – Flagstaff City elections
- October 20 –Supreme Court and the First Amendment
Week 12: Civil Rights
- October 23 –Current Event: Civil Liberties
- October 24 – Trial Rights
- October 25 – 2nd and 9th Amendment
- Formal: 10/25 Presentation Retakes
- October 26 – The Civil War Amendments
- October 27– Graded work: Letter From Birmingham Jail
Week 13- Civil Rights
- October 30 – Civil Rights Legislation
- October 31– Women’s Rights
- Graded Work: 1st wave feminist movement
- November 1 – Women’s Rights
- November 2 – Civil Liberties/Civil Rights response
- Formal: 11/9 Civil Liberties/Civil Rights response
- November 3– Civil Liberties/Civil Rights response
Unit 4 : Political Ideology and Political Participation
Week 14: Public Opinion and the Media Political Parties and Elections
- November 6 –Civil Liberties/Civil Rights response
- November 7 – Civil Liberties/Civil Rights response
- November 8 – Political Ideology
- Graded Work: Political Typology Quiz
- November 9 – Political Parties
- November 10 (Holiday)
Week 15: Interest Groups and Citizens United
- November 13 –Elections Pt. 1/ Study hall
- November 14 –Elections Pt. 1/ Study hall
- November 15 – Elections Pt. 2
- November 16 – Elections Pt. 2
- November 17 –The Campaign
- Graded work: Can you win the 2024 Election?
November 20- 24 (Holiday)
Week 16 Interest Groups/ Start Final Paper
- November 27– Polling
- November 28–Public Opinion Poll Activity
- November 29– Paper
- November 30– Paper
- December 1– Paper
Unit 6 Social Policy Paper 12/4-12/15
● Students will write a final paper demonstrating their skill and content development applying their knowledge to a current issue. The full project is described here
- Final Paper (15% of final grade)
- Due by 11/29– Research Question approved (10 points)
- Due by 12/1 @ 11:59 PM Annotated bibliography in MLA format of at least 2 sources (25 points)
- Due 12/8 @ 11:59 PM: Annotated bibliography in MLA format of at least 7 sources, this includes your previous 2 (25 points)
- Due 12/12 @ 11:59 PM : Working Thesis and outline of your paper citing the SPECIFIC Evidence you will use in your paper (25 points)
- Due 12/14 before class Draft for Peer Review (15 Points)
- Final Paper is due 12/15 @ 11:59 PM (100 points)
Week 17
- December 4
- December 5
- December 6
- December 7
- December 8
Week 18
- December 11
- December 12
- December 13
- December 14
- December 15
Week 19
- December 18 (early)
- December 19 (early)
- December 20 (early)
December 20-31 (Holiday)