Friday, October 4, 2019

October 7 - 11

Monday:
  1. UE Chap 6 Quiz
  2. Discuss UE Ch 6
  3. Summary Due: Section 11 Mod 61—63
  4. Perfect Competition Quiz
Tuesday:
  1. Notes on Monopoly part 1
  2. Two Worksheets on Monopoly
Wednesday:
Mid Unit Half Test

Thursday:
No Class Because of Early Release Day

Friday:
1. Notes on Monopoly part 2
2. Monopoly Work

Friday, September 20, 2019

Sept 30 - Oct 4

Monday:
  1. Undercover Economist Chap 5  Quiz
  2. Summary Due: Sect 10: Mod 56 & 57
  3. Revenue and Profit on the Graphs.
  4. Notes on Long Run Prod Costs
  5. A Firm’s Long-Run Average Total Cost (Activity 3-4)
  6. Finding Profit in General - Baumann
Tuesday:
  1. Graphing Quiz
  2. Notes on Market Structures
  3. Worksheet on Market Structures
  4. Marvelous Marginal Manipulation Mania
Wednesday:
  1. Summary Due: Section 11: Mod 58-60
  2. Notes on Perfect Competition (Part 1)
  3. Worksheet on the Cost, Revenue and Profit of a PC Firm – Stone
  4. Go over MMMM
Thursday:
  1. Review
  2. Notes on PC part 2
  3. WS on PC Charts
Friday:
  1. Quiz on PC
  2. Go over next part of Marvelous Marginal Manipulation Mania
  3. Notes on PC - Part 3 (PC in the Long Run)
  4. Worksheets on PC in the Long Run

Friday, September 13, 2019

Sep 16 - 20

Monday:
  1. UE Chap 4 Quiz
  2. Section 10 Module 52-55) Summary Due
  3. Notes on Costs of Production
  4. Costs of Production Game/Review
  5. Profit Review Sheet w/ Profit Definition Exercise
  6. Profit Expressions Worksheet
Tuesday:
  1. Notes on Short Run Costs of Production
  2. Worksheet on Same – Done in Class (Productivity and Cost Exercise #1 x2 – Stone 94,95)
  3. Worksheets on Same – Done for Homework (Productivity and Cost Exercise #2, #3 and questions on 1&2 – Stone 96, 97)
Wednesday:
  1. Review yesterday’s worksheets
  2. Notes on Graphing Costs (No ppt, graphs on board) (Stone 102)
  3. Use bar graph example to show how both graphs work.
  4. Discuss how profit is found on both graphs.
  5. Understanding the Different Cost Measures of a Firm (Activity 3-3)
  6. Worksheet on Graphing Costs
Thursday:
  1. Section 14 Mod 74-76 Summary Due
  2. Notes on Business Types
  3. Sole Prop, Part, Corp WS
Friday:

  1. Marshmallow Towers Demonstration

Friday, September 6, 2019

Sep 9 - 13

Monday:
Practice AP Questions

Tuesday:
Test - FRQ

Wednesday:
Test - MC
Classwork Due

Thursday:
Go Over Unit 2 Test

Friday:
  1. UE Chap 4 Quiz
  2. 2 or 5 Points
  3. Fire Jumper Video
  4. Notes on Market Failures
  5. Crash Course #21
  6. Externalities WS (A5-2)

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Sep 2 - 6

Monday:

LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

Tuesday:

  1. Summary Due – Sect 9: Mod 49 & 50
  2. Discuss Excise Taxes
  3. Excise Taxes (Activity 2-6)
  4. Go over any old worksheets that we need to go over
Wednesday:
  1. Quiz - Undercover Economist Chap 2
  2. Other Stuff
Thursday:
  1. Notes on Surplus, Efficiency and Deadweight Loss
  2. Seven CS/PS/DWL Graphs Game (Draw ONE AT A TIME ON BOARDS AND SCORE AFTER EACH)
  3. Pearl Exchange Activity
  4. Surplus Worksheets (pages 55 and 56)
  5. Evaluating an Excise Tax (Stone 81)
Friday:
  1. UE Chap 3 Quiz
  2. Summary Due – Section 9: Mod 51
  3. Return/Review Quiz Retake
  4. Utility Discussion Questions
  5. Notes on Marginal Utility (Ch. 19)
  6. Consumer Equilibrium Examples (Stone 85)
  7. Unit Checksheet
  8. Review for Test

Friday, August 23, 2019

August 26 - 30

Monday:
  1. Summary Due: Section 9: Modules 46-48
  2. Finish Notes on Elasticity Part 1
  3. Elasticity Worksheet
  4. Elasticity an Introduction (Activity 2-3)
Tuesday:
 1. Mid Unit Half Test
 2. Starts Notes on Elasticity Part 2

Wednesday:
  1. Go Over Half Unit Test
Thursday:
  1. Finish Notes on Elasticity Part 2
  2. Elasticity Worksheet (same one as yesterday, except now they can do it using Total Revenue Test) (go over in class)
  3. TR, MR, Ed for a Downward Sloping Curve/Example of Finding Equilibrium/Practice Exercises/Is Demand Elastic (Stone 53, 58, 73, 75)
Friday:
  1. Undercover Economist Chap 2 Quiz
  2. Discussion on UE Chap 2
  3. Elasticity Quiz
  4. Review old work, catch up, make up missing

Friday, August 16, 2019

Aug 19-23

Monday:
  1. UE Ch1 Quiz
  2. Discuss UE Ch 1
  3. Section 2: Mod 7 & 8 Summary Due
  4. Equilibrium Prices Notes
  5. Reasons for Changes to Supply Worksheet
  6. Reasons for Changes to Demand Worksheet
  7. Equilibrium Price Worksheet
Tuesday:
  1. S&D Determinants Quiz
  2. Finish Equilibrium Notes
  3. Market in Wheat Simulation
  4. Stossel in the Classroom Video – “Costs of “Free” Healthcare (2009)
  5. Crash Course Econ: Episode #29 Healthcare
  6. Equilibrium Price and Equilibrium Quantity (Activity 1-8)
Wednesday:
  1. Review S&D Determinants Quiz
  2. S&D Practice Quiz (Stone 37 & 38)
  3. Going over Quiz (Student Graded)
  4. Shifts in Supply and Demand (Activity 1-9)
Thursday:
  1. Quiz on D&S
  2. How Markets Allocate Resources (Activity 2-1)
Friday:
  1. Go over S&D Quiz
  2. Notes – Floors & Ceilings
  3. Stossel - Price Gouging
  4. Stossel – Minimum Wage
  5. Price Controls Worksheet
  6. Maximum and Minimum Price Controls (Activity 2-7)

Friday, August 9, 2019

Aug 12 - 16

Monday:
  1. Review Comp Adv. Worksheets
  2. Comparative Advantage Quiz
  3. Go over Comparative Advantage Quiz
  4. Unit Check Sheet
  5. Study Guide
Tuesday:
  1. Last Minute Review
  2. Test
  3. Classwork Due
Wednesday:
  1. Talk about Book – Undercover Economist
  2. Go Over Unit 1 Test
Thursday:
  1. Chapter Summary – Section 2: Mod 5&6
  2. Lecture on Demand
  3. Determinants of Demand Work
  4. Demand Worksheet (Activity 1-4)
Friday:
  1. Notes on Supply
  2. Determinants of Supply
  3. Supply Worksheet (Activity 1-6) 

Friday, August 2, 2019

Aug 5-9

Monday:
  1. Review Lemonade Worksheet
  2. Law of Increasing Costs Demonstration
  3. Notes on Opportunity Cost and PPC’s
  4. PPC Worksheet
  5. Scarcity Opp. Cost and PPC (Activity 1-2)
Tuesday:
  1. Review PPC Worksheet
  2. Notes on Economic Questions, Goals and Values
  3. Stossel Video – Is Life Getting Worse?
  4. Smith/Marx Comparison
Wednesday:
  1. Section 3: Mod 10 Due (Stop when you get to the part about GDP)
  2. PPC Quiz
  3. Econoland Activity
  4. Circular Flow Worksheet
  5. Campus Parking Activity
Thursday:
  1. Notes on Economic Systems
  2. Stossel Video on “The Role of Freedom in Prosperity
  3. Stossel Video on “Economic Freedom in the US, Hong Kong and India
  4. “Marvel of Cooperation” Article
Friday:
  1. Section 1: Mod 4 Due
  2. Notes on Comparative Advantage
  3. Stossel Video “Does Outsourcing Hurt the U.S.” (Stossel Macroeconomics)
  4. Sanchez- Martin/Ukraine-Croatia Worksheet (together in class)
  5. Four More Comp. Adv and Opp. Cost Worksheets for various countries (homework)

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Aug 1 - 2

Thursday:

  1. Syllabus/Classroom Expectations/Calendar
  2. Introductions
  3. AP Econ is different PPT/demonstration
  4. Work Smarter Not Harder
  5. Boards and Partners
  6. Area of Shapes Worksheet 

Friday:

  1. Go Over Area of Shapes
  2. Notes – Day 1
  3. Stossel Video on “Oil Supplies”
  4. Lemonade Worksheet 

Monday, July 29, 2019

Welcome! - Fall 2019

Welcome new students to another semester of Honors Econ.

On the right side of this page there are links to all of the study guides and forms and such that go with this class.  You will get a copy of all of these in class, but this is where you can get them if you need another copy.

This is also where weekly posts about what's going on in class will show up and occasionally other random announcements.

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Friday, May 10, 2019

May 13 - 17

Monday:

Unit 5 Test/Review for AP Test

Tuesday:

Go Over Practice AP Test

Wednesday/Thursday:

Review for AP Test

Friday:

AP Econ Test

Friday, May 3, 2019

May 6-10

Monday:
Review/AP Gov Test

Tuesday:
Practice AP Test - Written

Wednesday:
Review/AP Lit Test

Thursday:
Review/AP Chem and AP Psych Test

Friday:
Practice AP Test - MC