ASSIGNMENT FOR SEPT 29TH

Class was enjoyable this evening.  Thanks so much for all of your participation.  It makes for a lively discussion.  You have several things to do this week so don't leave it until the last minute.  Do a little each day and you won't have so much to do next Tuesday or Wednesday morning. 

Here are your assignments:

• Read the article by Lawrence Reed in your handouts that you were given this evening.
• Find a modern article dated 2000 or later either online or in a modern encyclopedia.
• Cite your article - author, title, publisher, date, page number, etc.
• Make a comparison chart to compare and contrast the history of the 1878 Bland- Allison Act as described by Reed and the author of the modern article or encyclopedia.
• Google MLA citation generator; choose article or encyclopedia and enter the information about your source.  Cut and paste and be sure to include it on your chart.
• Choose 1 or 2 topics for your research paper and begin doing some research just to see how much info you can find on your topics. 
• Have your final choice made by October 6th.  I said last week that you should have your final choice made by next week, but I will give you one more week. 
• Look up silver buillon.  What is it????  Google it and find out.
• Finish reading the article "Inflation in One Page."  Underline the important points in  #'s 4,5,and 6.

If you have any questions, call me at 812-0171 or email me at cdsgant@embarqmail.com.

POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR ECONOMICS PAPER

The following is a list of possible topics for your research papers.  If you find another topic that you would like to do that is related to Economics just let me know and we can talk about it.  I did say originally that all of your sources needed to be current within the last 5-10 years.  However, some of these topics may require some sources older than that, but you should still have sources as current as you can possibly find. Begin looking on the internet and seeing what information you can find on topics that are of interest to you.  You should have your topic chosen by September 29th which would be class after next. 

1878 Bland-Allison Act

Austrian School of Economic theory

Monetarist school of Economic theory

Compare Keynesian school of Economic theory with Austrian and Monetarist

Alan Greenspan

Federal Reserve System

Federal Reserve Notes

Gold standard

Friedrich A. Hayek

James M. Buchanan

Milton Friedman

Gresham’s Law

Who is Gresham  and what is Gresham's law?

Federal Debt

Socialism

Capitalism

Compare socialism and capitalism

Stock Market Crash of 1929

Wage /price Spiral

Welfare system

Swiss Economy

William Simon

Common law vs. Civil Law – how it relates to economy

New Deal/ FDR

Free Market

2008 Financial Crisis

Silver Certificates

Ancient Roman Economy

Consumer Price Index

Government subsidies

Inflation

Recession

How to buy gold or other precious metals

Choose a country from the list of Nations and Legal systems in the back of the book  (pages 109-121) and compare their economy with the US

There are also web addresses on pages 139-40 and 142 - 143.

ASSIGNMENT FOR SEPT 22

First thing I want to tell you that it is such a pleasure to teach all of you.  Please give your parents a huge hug and THANK THEM PROFUSELY FOR NOT PUTTING YOU IN PUBLIC SCHOOL!!!!


Now about your assignment: 

• Look at the list of possible topics for your papers and choose one that sounds interesting to you
• See the blog post titled "Possible Topics for Economics Paper."
• Read Chapter 5: Revolutions, Elections, and Printing Presses
• Read this and look for the answer to these questions:

1. What are reasons for inflating in a dictatorship?
2. What are reasons for inflating in a democracy?
3. How do modern politicians inflate?

Be sure to know definitions of all boldfaced words.  Who knows you may have another quiz!!!!  Be prepared for information from this chapter or any previous chapter. 

I will grade your paragraphs and quizzes and return them to you next week.  I did look over your quizzes and I don't think that you all did very well.  I really wasn't trying to stump you all.  I thought that all of those questions were pretty obvious in the text.  But this was only the first quiz so you will have the opportunity to bring up that grade.  As you read the next chapter look for obvious things in the text like lists, etc.  and of course the boldfaced words.

Also remember that you can get a grade on your binder.  I said that you could use a binder or a three pronged folder to keep you materials in and that I would be checking these some evening for a grade.  This isn't hard, just keep everything that I hand out to you in order and your notes in order by the dates of the classes.  So right now you should have notes from Sept 1st, 8th, and 15th and the article that we discussed tonight "Economics for Boys and Girls"  between the 8th and 15th notes.  Your notes should have all of the definitions from the boldfaced words in the book and any other notes that you took in class.  If you have missed any class notes, it is up to you to get those from one of your friends (or relatives!).

See you all next week.  Study hard. 
Ms. Debi

ASSIGNMENTS DUE SEPT 15TH

I apologize for not getting this up sooner.  I will try to do better next time.  Here is your assignment that will be due this coming Wednesday: 

• Re-read article "Economics for Boys and Girls"
• Look for these concepts in the article and mark them:  law of supply and demand, specialization of labor, wealth, economy, money, taxes, production, work, consume/produce.
• Read Chapter 4 carefully.
• Know the definitions in bold face
• Write a paragraph summarizing last weeks discussion.  Be sure that you use the following terms in your paragraph: coins, money, tokens, values, precious metals, base metals.  You may use the notes that you took in class to help you write your paragraph. 

Look forward to seeing you again on Wednesday.  Mrs. Gant

September 1

Welcome to Economics class. Hope that today was a good day for you. I enjoyed teaching you and I think we are all going to learn a lot about the economy these next few weeks. Remember this class is only for this semester. After Christmas we will begin the Government class.
Be sure to check the blog each week for assignments even though I will give them to you in class. Other information may be here that you will need as well so check the blog through out each week in case I add other information.

Be sure to get the notes if you weren't in class today from a friend. The assignment for next week is the following:

• Read the article given you: Economics for Girls and Boys.
• Identify the concepts in this article that we discussed in class: law of supply and demand, wealth, money, taxes, work, production.
• Read Chapters 1-3 in book
• look for as many coins as you can find this week with the date of 1965 or earlier and bring to class next week
• also bring any quarter, dime, nickel, and penny with dates after 1965

You have my email address if you need to write and ask a question or you can call me.