October 28 - November 1

Monday:

1. Notes on Resource Demand – Part 2
2. How Many Workers Should a Firm Hire (Stone)

Tuesday:

1. UE Chap 8 – Quiz
2. UE Chap 8 – Discussion
3. How Many Workers Should a Firm Hire (Activity 4-1)

Wednesday:

1. Review Labor Chart Part 1
2. Notes on the Supply Side of Labor
3. The Only Game in Town (Activity 4-3)
4. Factor Market Pricing (Activity 4-4)

Thursday:

1.     Chapter 27 Summary Due

2.     Labor  Quiz

3.     Go Over Old Work

4.     How Wages are Determined in Labor Markets (Activity 4-5)

5.   Wages and Employment in Competitive and Monopsonistic Labor Markets (Activity 4-6)

Friday:

1. Go over old work
2. The Story of Economic Rent (Activity 4-50)
3. Problems Dealing with Factor Markets (Activity 4-7)

October 21- 25

Monday:

 - Practice FRQ's

Tuesday:

Unit 3 Test - Written

Wednesday:

Unit 3 Test - MC

Class Work Due

Thursday:

Go Over Unit 3 Test

Friday:

1. Finish Strong Video
2. Summary Due - Section 13: Mod 69-72)
3. Notes Resource Demand
4. “As the Circular Flow Turns” (Lesson 1, Activity 43)
5. Profit Maximizing Amount of Labor #1 & #2

Oct 14-18

Monday:

1. UE Chap 7 Quiz
2. Notes on Monopolies – Day 3
3. Price Discrimination (Activity 3-13)
4. Regulating a Monopoly (Activity 3-14)

Tuesday:

1. Discuss old work/review Monopoly graphs
2. Summary Due – Section 12 – Mod 67
3. Notes on Monopolistic Competition
4. Monopolistic Competition (Activity 3-16)

Wednesday:

PSAT Day - No 2nd Period
3rd Period - Review/Discussion

Thursday:

1. Summary Due: Section 12 – Mod 64-66
2. Split or Steal Balls Video
3. Notes on Oligopolies

Friday:

1. Quiz on Monopoly and PC graphs
2. Quiz on Monopoly graphs
3. Market Structures Work

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

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

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

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)

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:

4. UE Chap 3 Quiz
5. Summary Due – Section 9: Mod 51
6. Return/Review Quiz Retake
7. Utility Discussion Questions
8. Notes on Marginal Utility (Ch. 19)
9. Consumer Equilibrium Examples (Stone 85)
10. Unit Checksheet
11. Review for Test

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

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)

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) 

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)

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