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Exam Day

Turn in your essays now!

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Last Day of Review

June 9th, 2015

Warm Up

What is the difference between net income and gross income?

Your finals start tomorrow.  Today you will be taking another practice test with True & False questions.  Do your best and we will review them as a class to help you identify holes in your knowledge.

If you are absent you can download it here.

Remember your final exam take home essays are due when you take your exam.  If you need a new copy of it click here.

Two Days Left

June 8th, 2015

Warm Up

What are 3 ways commercials and campaigns try to manipulate you with propaganda?

We have today and tomorrow until your final exams start.  Today you will be taking another practice test with True & False questions.  Do your best and we will review them as a class to help you identify holes in your knowledge.

If you are absent you can download it here.

Penny for Your Thoughts

Review

June 5th, 2015

Warm Up

Labor is

1. a factor of production.
2. work done by humans to create goods and/or services.
3. stored in money to be used later in the product markets.
4. All of these.

Define consumer sovereignty.

Learning Objective: Students will be prepared for their final exam next week.

Success Criteria: Students will have passed second semester citizenship.







You will be using Zondle to review for your final.  Today you should use question sets from any unit that you feel you need extra help with.  They are all unlocked and open for earning Dun-Bucks.

Exam Review Sheet Revealed

Your review sheet for the final exam will be handed out tomorrow in class (likely today when you read this).  It lists all the chapters, vocabulary words, and key questions to consider for each unit that we covered this semester.  It can be found here.

Use this sheet along with Zondle to guide your studying and test prep for the exam.

Your take home portion of the exam will also be handed out in class with your review sheet. Good luck.

Basic Econ Review

June 4th, 2015

Warm Up

1. What's the difference between a good and a service?
2. What is scarcity?

Learning Objective: Students will be prepared for their final exam next week.

Success Criteria: Students will have passed second semester citizenship.







You will be using Zondle to review for your final.  Today you should focus on games titled:

1. Basic Econ Vocab 1
2. Basic Econ Vocab 2
3. Basic Econ Review

Political Parties & Public Opinion Review Day

June 3rd, 2015

Warm Up

1. Can felons vote?  If so, when?
2. How is Wisconsin different from most states when it comes to registering to vote?

Learning Objective: Students will be prepared for their final exam next week.

Success Criteria: Students will have passed second semester citizenship.







You will be using Zondle to review for your final.  Today you should focus on games titled:

1. Political Parties, Public Opinion, Mass Media
2. Political Party Definitions

Voting & Law Vocab Review

June 2nd, 2015

Warm Up

1. What's the role of the mass media in our democracy and how do they make money?

Learning Objective: Students will be prepared for their final exam next week.

Success Criteria: Students will have passed second semester citizenship.







You will be using Zondle to review for your final.  Today you should focus on games titled:

1. Voting
2. Voting Take 2
3. Law Unit Vocabulary Review

Review Week

June 1st, 2015

Warm Up

1. What's the difference between an open primary and a closed primary?

2. What's the difference between a ballot and an absentee ballot?

Learning Objective: Students will be prepared for their final exam next week.

Success Criteria: Students will have passed second semester citizenship.  

Your test is next week.  It's time to see what you remember.  You will take the next 20 minutes to answer 15 True or False questions and 3 short answer questions. 

Do your best as these questions cover vocabulary and concepts that you will need to know for the exam.  We will go over as many as we can afterward.  

If you do well, then you will know that you can focus on other units.  If you do poorly, you'll have a good study guide for the law unit from the first semester. 

If you are absent and reading this, you can download these practice questions here.

Two American Famlies

May 29th, 2015

Exam Review Warm Up

Define the following:

1. Due Process of Law
2. Libel
3. Hung Jury

Over the past few days we have been watching Two American Families, a news special that followed two families from right here in Milwaukee as they survived together for 20 years.

For extra credit, write a letter to either the Nuemann or the Stanley family about their experiences and turn it in on Monday. If you had chance to speak with them, what would you say?  Can you relate to them?  How or why?  What advice would you ask them for? etc.

Start studying with Zondle this weekend, the exam is only 1 week away!

How to Apply for a Job Pt. 2

May 26th, 2015

Warm Up

What are some "red flags" that companies look for on applications?

Learning Objective: Students will understand pitfalls of applying for work.

Success Criteria: Students can proficiently complete a job application.







On Friday we learned about potential "red flags" companies look for on your applications.  We then filled out sample applications of our own.

In your groups you will be given several applications filled out by your classmates (with private information blanked out).  As a group take a few minutes to study these applications for "red flags" and decide who you'd want to interview.  Be ready to explain to the class why you came to the decision you did.

How to Apply for a Job

May 22nd, 2015

No Warm Up

We will be passing around a "yearbook" for Erin from City Year today.  Please sign it and/or leave her a nice note letting her know how much you liked working with her this year.










Learning Objective: Students will understand pitfalls of applying for work.

Success Criteria: Students can proficiently complete a job application.

Test Day

May 21st, 2015

No Warm Up

Test Day

Reminder you can make purchase that benefit the test today.

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Review Day

May 19th, 2015

Warm Up

How do people get into trouble with credit?

Learning Objective:  Students will understand how to be financially responsible.

Success Criteria: Students will be able to explain how to effectively manage their finances.





Your test is on Thursday.  Your packets are also due this Thursday.

Use today to catch up on anything you need to in your packets or study for the test with Zondle.

For review you should be using:

1. Personal Finance Vocab 1
2. Personal Finance Vocab 2
3. Personal Finance Review

The test is Thursday, packets are due Thursday.

DO NOT WRITE ON THESE BOOKLETS!!!!!

DO NOT TAKE THESE BOOKLETS WITH YOU!!!

Electronic copies of both can be found on the class blog under the packets section over there.

Personal Finance Booklet

To make it easier, here is the personal finance booklet needed to complete this unit's packet.  Remember it is due this Thursday.  Our test will also be on this Thursday.

Click here for the booklet.

New Review Question Set!

You may now answer a new set of practice questions for the upcoming test on personal finance.  These questions do not focus on vocabulary, but instead focus on applying the concepts and vocabulary you have learned to different personal finance situations.

You can play be either logging on to your Zondle account and choosing "Personal Finance Review" or by playing the spaceship/asteroid game below right from our class site.




Happy Hunting.

Debt

May 18th, 2015

Warm Up

1. What should you look for in a good credit card agreement?

Learning Objective:  Students will understand how to be financially responsible.

Success Criteria: Students will be able to create a plan to stay out of debt.

One student's story.

YOU MAY TAKE YOUR PACKETS WITH YOU TODAY.  THEY ARE DUE ON TEST DAY.

Complete pages 12 of your packets using the booklet.

DO NOT WRITE ON THESE BOOKLETS!!!!!

Electronic copies of both can be found on the class blog under the packets section over there.

Credit Part 2

May 15th, 2015

Warm Up

1. What is the amount of credit you can borrow based on?  (the 3 c's)
2. How does not paying your bills affect these 3 c's?

Learning Objective:  Students will understand how to be financially responsible.

Success Criteria: Students will be able to explain how to use credit carefully and responsibly.

Today we are going to try to figure out which credit card is the best deal.  Each group will be given a disclosure summary from a real credit card and have to answer several questions about that card.

After each group has had time to read over their disclosure summaries we will compare our options and decide which card is the best deal.

      

Important take-aways.  Pick cards with:

1. low APR
2. no annual fee
3. lower penalty APR (just in case)
4. longer grace periods
5. lower penalty fees

Avoid interest and penalties by:

1. only charging what you can afford to pay back
2. pay off balances in full at the end of a billing cycle
3. avoid impulse buying!!!!!

Credit

May 14th, 2015

Warm Up

What is the difference between a fixed expense and a flexible expense?  Give 2 examples of each.








Learning Objective:  Students will understand how to be financially responsible.

Success Criteria: Students will be able to explain how to use credit carefully and responsibly.






Credit is money you borrow with a promise to pay it back with interest.

The amount you're allowed to borrow is based on three things:

1. Your capacity - ability to pay the money back
2. Your character - your reputation when it comes to paying things back
3. Your capital - what you can give them if you can't pay it back

People get into trouble when they borrow too much and don't pay it back.  Interest can pile up against you causing you to have to pay back far more than you borrowed in the first place.

However, there are some advantages to credit.

1. Helpful in times of emergency
2. It is more convenient and safer than carrying cash
3. Allows you to make major purchases like a house or car

Complete pages 10 & 11 of your packets using the booklet.

DO NOT WRITE ON THESE BOOKLETS!!!!!

DO NOT TAKE THESE BOOKLETS OR PACKETS WITH YOU!!!

Electronic copies of both can be found on the class blog under the packets section over there.