Week 8, Syllabus

Mr. Ditzenberger-Economics
Lessons: Business Organizations Time: Week 8, March 3rd-7th Unit: Business and Labor

Objectives:
1. Students will organize and discuss material regarding monopolistic competition and oligopoly.
2. Students will provide examples of government regulation.
3. Students will compare the different types of business organizations.
4. Students will write and explain the significant elements of corporations.

Monday
1. Finish reading section 2.
2. Lecture-Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly.
3. LTE 92-112. Quiz on Friday.

Tuesday
1. Regulation-Lecture
2. Four Price fixing articles. Jigsaw. (15 minutes) 1 2 3 4 (20 min)

Wednesday
1. Test

Thursday
1. Lecture-Business Organizations
2. Read partnerships. Quiz tomorrow

Friday
1. Quiz
2. LTE Quiz: 92-112
3. Read section 3, 195 and 196 and organize the information in a way that makes sense.
4. Read section 3, 197-199 and do the same-organize the information graphically or linearly.

Monday, March 10th
1. Entrepreneurs. Watch the Anschutz biography. Read a biography. Then share your biography with two other people. Discover any common elements in their life.
2. Research (computer lab 3rd floor is booked) their life. Submit a two page (body) typed, double-spaced, in-text cited, bibliographed, biographical report on an entrepreneur of your choice by Monday. A title page must be included.
3. Preview: http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=168 for tomorrow’s debate.