SIX WEEKS CONTENT & STANDARDS SCHEDULE

Date:

2/21/06-4/11/06

Teacher:

June Seamons

Grading Period:

2nd

Subject:

Economics

  Grade:

12

Period

Standards

Resources/Projects

Approximate

Test

Dates

Vocabulary

List

Week 1

Demand and Supply

C 1.2, E 2.4, E 2.4&2.5,G 3.2

Starting a Business

I 6.1

Glencoe- Economics Today and Tomorrow pp. 169-211

Daily Focus Transparency 9, 10, 13, 14, 16

Presentation Plus Lecture Chapter 7 & 8-1

NBR Economics and You Chapter 5, 7, 6, 8,

Chapter 7 Mindjoggers

Chapter 7 Vocabulary

2/28

Demand, supply, market, voluntary exchange,  law of demand, quantity demanded, real income effect, substitution effect, utility, marginal utility, law of diminishing marginal utility, demand schedule, demand curve, complementary good, elasticity, price elasticity of demand, inelastic demand, law of supply, quantity supplied, supply schedule, supply curve, technology, law of diminishing returns, equilibrium price, shortage, surplus, price ceiling, rationing,

Week 2

Government Policies Toward Competition GC 4.2

Investing in the Free Enterprise System

E 2.5

Glencoe- Economics Today and Tomorrow pp. 248-253, 263-268

Daily Focus Transparency 22,46

Presentation Plus Lecture Chapter 9-3, 10-1

NBR Economics and You Chapter 8, 19

Chapter 9 & 10 Vocabulary

Activities

3/2

3/6

Interlocking directorate, antitrust legislation, merger, conglomerate, deregulation, financing, cost-benefit analysis, revenues, profits

Week 3

The American Labor Force

GC 4.1, H 5.1,

Glencoe- Economics Today and Tomorrow pp. 313-333

Daily Focus Transparency 38, 39, 40

Presentation Plus Lecture Chapter 12

NBR Economics and You Chapter 14,

Chapter 12 Mindjoggers

Chapter 12 Vocabulary

3/8

3/14

civilian labor force, blue-collar, white –collar, service worker, unskilled, semiskilled, skilled, professional, minimum wage laws, labor union, craft unions, industrial unions, local union, union shop, agency shop, collective bargaining, cost-of-living adjustment, mediation arbitration, picketing, boycott, lockout, injunction

Date:

SIX WEEKS CONTENT & STANDARDS SCHEDULE

Teacher:

Grading Period:

Subject:

Period

Standards

Resources/Projects

Approximate

Test

Dates

Vocabulary

List

Week 4

National Income Accounting

I 6.3

The functions and Characteristics of Money

E  2.4

Glencoe- Economics Today and Tomorrow pp. 343-348, 375-379

Daily Focus Transparency 52, 58

Presentation Plus Lecture Chapter 13-1, 14-1

NBR Economics and You Chapter 13,18

Chapter 14 Mindjoggers

Chapter 13, 14Vocabulary

3/16

National income accounting, gross domestic product, net exports, depreciation, net domestic product, national income, personal income, transfer payments, disposable personal income, money, medium of exchange, barter, unit of accounting, store of value, commodity money, representative money fiat money, legal tender

Week 5

History of American Money and Banking  E 2.4

Types of money in the United States

E 2.4

Glencoe- Economics Today and Tomorrow pp. 381-405, 412-417

Daily Focus Transparency  59,

60, 62

Presentation Plus Lecture Chapter 14-2, 14-3, 15-1, 15-3

NBR Economics and You Chapter 18, 22

Chapter 15 Mindjoggers

Chapter 15Vocabulary

3/30

4/5

Overdraft checking,

Electronic funds transfer, automated teller machine,

Checking account, checkable deposits, thrift institutions, debit card, near moneys, N1, N2,Fed, monetary policy, federal Open Market Committee, check cleaning, discount rate, prime rate, federal funds rate, open-market operations

Week 6

Review