Week 9, Syllabus

Mr. Ditzenberger-Economics
Lessons: Labor Time: Week 9, March 10th-14th Unit: Business and Labor
Objectives:
1. Students will write an essay on entrepreneurship.
2. Students will map/arrange information regarding unemployment so that key concepts are reinforced.
3. Students will debate whether the minimum wage is an effective tool in helping the poor.
4. Students will read and discuss the basic tools and historical highlights of the labor movement.
5. Students will read a recent news article regarding counterfeiting currency.

Monday
1. Finish SP and partnership lecture.
2. Entrepreneurs. Watch the Anschutz biography. Read a biography. Then share your biography with two other people. Discover any common elements in their life.
3. What are the qualities of an entrepreneur? Choose three entrepreneurs. Research their lives. Submit a two to three page (body) typed, double-spaced, essay that explains the qualities of an entrepreneur based on their story of success (and failures). Use their story(ies) as illustrations that support your point. 20 points total: 5 points-clear, succinct, well-organized writing that has sound sentence structure and few conventional mistakes; 5 points-stories and illustrations; 5 points-qualities of the entrepreneur; 5 points-three entrepreneurs are given relatively equal treatment in the essay about the qualities of an entrepreneur.
Due Friday.
4. 112-134 LTE Quiz. Friday.
5. Homework: Each team member research their own mutual fund, write a paragraph on that fund and bring it to class on Friday to share with your group. This will be turned in.

Tuesday
1. Opener? What is the optimum level of unemployment in a society? Why?
2. What have been the main changes in labor in the U.S. over the last 50 years? Make a list in your groups.
3. Students read chapter 9, section 1. Fill in mind mapping/web. 1st 2 sections as a class. Last 2 individually.
Take Quiz (mna-3095) in class using students’ web
4. Homework: Preview: http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=168 for tomorrow’s debate
and page 238. rite a paragraph that summarizes your belief. This is your ticket in to class.

Wednesday
1. Debate-15 minutes.
2. http://www.theopenmind.tv/tom/searcharchive_episode_output.asp?id=494
3. Homework: Read section two and create your own graphic organizer/mind map that works for you! Due Tomorrow.

Thursday
1. Opener: Who is the most influential person of the 19th century? (5 min)
2. Opener: Who would be in the top 10? Answer: Michael H. Hart’s list (5 min)
3. Read Karl Marx profile on page 227.
4. Labor Unions. Read section (3) and discuss in class.

Friday
1. Turn in essay.
2. LTE Quiz 112-134.
3. Share mutual fund research.
4. Counterfeiting Article. –Word.
5. Temporary Worker Article-pdf