Syllabus, Week 11

Mr. Ditzenberger-Economics
Lessons: Money and Banking Time: Week 11, March 31st-April 4th Unit: Money Banking and Finance
Objectives:
1. Students will read an article on the supply of money.
2. Students will acquire knowledge of the highlights of the history of American banking.
3. Students will demonstrate basic saving and investing terms and concepts in realistic situations.
4. Students will create imaginary bonds for different companies and calculate the value of the investment. Students will incorporate basic financial terms related to bonds in this activity.
5. Students will analyze current event information related to credit cards, the discount rate, and take a quiz on the investment principles in LTE.

Monday
1. Back to the Gold Standard-article. Read and answer the following questions:
a. What was the IMF’s decision in 1944?
b. What did President Nixon do with the dollar when it came overvalued?
c. According to the author, what has created huge U.S. trade deficits?
d. What is the author’s prediction of global currencies if the United States’ budget and economy is not managed well?
e. Based on this article, what is a country’s currency value based upon?
2. Chapter 10, Section 2 lecture. History of Banking.
3. Homework: read section 1. Quiz tomorrow.
4. LTE-134-150.

Tuesday
1. Quiz-mna-4105
2. Simulation of M1 and M2 types of money and investments. Students will be given categories, will be asked to look at the strengths of their types of money and or saving plans and sell that to customers.
3. Find a current event relating to credit cards. Turn in on Friday.
4. Test on Tuesday of next week.

Wednesday
1. Chapter 11, Section 1. Students make and perform skits that illustrate the different terms in their assigned section.
2. Homework-read Chapter 11, Section 2.

Thursday
1. In groups of three, each student picks five companies, issues bonds at different par values, coupon rates, and maturity times. Papers are exc
2. hanged and the person who received their examples needs to figure out the total amount of money that they would earn on their bond.
3. Develop a skit where you are a financial advisor and a customer of yours is in their 20s, 30s, 40, 50, or 60s (ages will be assigned). Each customer wants to spend between 20 and 50% of their money in bonds. Using terms in your book, explain the pros and cons of at least three types of bonds and then give your recommendation to your customer.
4. Homework: Read Chapter 11, Section 3, The Stock Market.

Friday.
1. LTE quiz. 134-150.
2. mna-4117 Quiz over section 3.
3. Discuss current event in groups and turn in.
4. Skills for life on page 284, do in groups of two or three.
5. Homework. Each person go to the interactive chart (http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/interchart/interchart.asp?symb=&time=&freq=) and enter a company’s ticker symbol. Do this five times for five different companies. Under chart options choose five years or one decade and yearly. Scroll down to lower indicators and choose P/E ratio. Choose a company to purchase based on the advice given on page 150 in LTE and your analysis of the P/E ratio of the given companies. Each team should choose at least two companies to purchase (that haven’t been purchased already) based on these findings. The purchase should be made by Tuesday of next week.