Aug 28 - Sept 1

Monday:

1. Undercover Economist Chap 2 Quiz
2. Discussion on UE Chap 2
3. Notes on Elasticity Part 3
4. Elasticity in the Real World Worksheet (l4, A20) & Stone 68
5. Go over any old worksheets that we need to go over

Tuesday:

1. Discuss Excise Taxes
2. Excise Taxes (Activity 2-6)
3. Talk about Elasticity
4. Prep for quiz

Wednesday:

1. Elasticity Quiz
2. Review old work, catch up, make up missing

Thursday:

1. Notes on Surplus, Efficiency and Deadweight Loss
2. Pearl Exchange Activity
3. Seven CS/PS/DWL Graphs Game 
4. Surplus Worksheets (pages 55 and 56)
5. Evaluating an Excise Tax (Stone 81)

Friday:

3. Return/Review Quiz Retake
4. Discussion Questions
5. Diminishing Marginal Utility Example (Candy)
6. Notes on Marginal Utility (Ch. 19)
7. Consumer Equilibrium Examples (Stone 85)
8. Unit Checksheet
9. Review for Test

August 21 - 25

Monday:

1. UE Ch1 Quiz
2. Discuss UE Ch 1
3. Review S&D Determinants Quiz
4. S&D Practice Quiz (Stone 37 & 38)
5. Going over Quiz (Student Graded)
6. Shifts in Supply and Demand (Activity 1-9)

Tuesday:

1. Quiz on D&S
2. Retake of S&D Determinants Quiz
3. How Markets Allocate Resources (Activity 2-1)

Wednesday:

1. Notes – Floors & Ceilings
2. Stossel - Price Gouging
3. Stossel – Minimum Wage
4. Price Controls Worksheet
5. Maximum and Minimum Price Controls (Activity 2-7)

Thursday:

1. Chapter 19 Summary Due
2. Notes on Elasticity Part 1
3. Elasticity Worksheet
4. Elasticity an Introduction (Activity 2-3)
5. Go over S&D Quiz

Friday:

1. 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)

August 14 - 19

Monday:

1. Talk about Book – Undercover Economist
2. Go Over Unit 1 Test
3. Explain Test Corrections

Tuesday:

1. Chap 3 Summary Due
2. Lecture on Demand
3. Determinants of Demand Work
4. Demand Worksheet (Activity 1-4)

Wednesday:

1. Notes on Supply
2. Determinants of Supply
3. Supply Worksheet (Activity 1-6) 

Thursday:

1. Chap 18 Summary Due
2. Equilibrium Prices Notes
3. Stossel in the Classroom Video – “Costs of “Free” Healthcare (2009)
4. Reasons for Changes to Supply Worksheet
5. Reasons for Changes to Demand Worksheet
6. Equilibrium Price Worksheet

Friday:

1. S&D Determinants Quiz
2. Market in Wheat Simulation
3. Equilibrium Price and Equilibrium Quantity (Activity 1-8)

August 7 - 11

Monday:

1. Chap 2 Summary Due
2. PPC Quiz
3. Notes on Economic Systems
4. Stossel Video on “The Role of Freedom in Prosperity
5. Stossel Video on “Economic Freedom in the US, Hong Kong and India
6. Circular Flow Worksheets

Tuesday:

1. Win-Win Trading Game
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)

Wednesday:

1. Review Second set of Comp Adv. Worksheets
2. Comparative Advantage Quiz
3. Unit Check Sheet
4. Study Guide

Thursday:

1. Go over Comparative Advantage Quiz
2. Review for Test
3. Finish Work for Unit

Friday:

1. Last Minute Review
2. Test
3. Classwork Due

July 31 - August 4

Monday:

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 

Tuesday:

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

Wednesday:

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)

Thursday:

1. Pre-Test
2. Review PPC Worksheet
3. Notes on Economic Systems
4. Stossel Video – Is Life Getting Worse?
5. Opportunity Cost Worksheet
6. Article on “Order Without Planning”
7. Smith/Marx Comparison

Friday:

1. PPC Quiz
2. Opportunity Cost Worksheet
3. Article on “Order Without Planning”
4. Campus Parking Activity 

Welcome

Welcome to AP Microeconomics for the Fall of 2017.

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Thanks,

Baumann