ECONOMICS
Economics Course Assignments
Mrs. Minervini Fall 2009
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UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS: What is Economics?
Economic Systems, American Free Enterprise
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CHAPTER 1 What is Economics.
Homework:-Chapter Review Key terms WRITE OUT, NOT JUST
THE WORD,Graphic organizer, And skills. Pg. 20-21
#/s 1-12 & 17-21 Due: 9/11
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CHAPTER 2 Economic Systems
Readings on Malthus & Ricardo
Home work. Chapter review. Pg. 46 1-11 & 15-20 Due 9/16
Quiz on chapters 2& 3 9/17
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CHAPTER 3 America Free Enterprise pg. 51
Chapter 3 72-73 ?’s Write out complete answers!
#’s 1-12 & & 17-19 Due: 9/23
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UNIT ONE TEST: CHAPTERS 1, 2, 3, September 29
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UNIT 2 HOW MARKETS WORK: Demand, Supply, Prices,
Market Structures
Chapter 4 Demand pg. 76 Due: 10/1
Entrepreneur Read in class for discussion pg. 97
Case Study: Mary Kay Ash read in class: pg. 89
Quiz on chapters 3 & 4 Due: 10/2
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CHAPTER 5 Understanding Supply pg. 101
Case Study: Robert L. Johnson read in class pg. 115
Case Study: Are Baseball players Paid too Much pg. 121 class
Homework: Due: 10/7
Chapt. 5 review pgs.122-123 #’s 1-12,18 -21
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Chapter 6 Prices pg. 125-147
Case Study: Michael Dell read in class pg. 13
Homework: Due: 10/14
Chapter 6 review pgs. 146-147 #’s 1 –13 & 18 -22
Quiz chapts. 5 & 6 Due: 10/15
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CHAPTER 7 Market Structures. Pgs. 151-177
Read Profile on Bill Gates for discussion
Homework.
Chapter 7 Pgs 178-179 #’s 1- 12 & 17-19 Due: 10/21
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UNIT TWO TEST. CHAPTERS 4,5,6,7 10/27
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UNIT 3 BUSINESS AND LABOR: Business Organizations,
Labor, Money and Banking
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CHAPTER 8 Business Organizations Pgs. 183-206
-Read Profile on Jerry Yang pg. 189 for discussion
Case Study: Business and Ethics pg. 205
Homework:
Chapter 8 Pg. 206 1-17 Due: 10/28
Case Study: Business and Ethics pg. 205 Answer ?’s
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CHAPTER 9 Labor Pgs. 210-236
Read Profile on Karl Marx for discussion pg. 227
Debating the Issue: Child Labor pg. 238 for discussion
Homework Due: 11/4
Chapter 9 Review ?’s 1-16 and 21-25 in class 4/15
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UNIT THREE TEST Chapters 8 & 9 4/20 11/10
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UNIT 4: MONEY,, BANKING AND FINANCE:
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CHAPTER 10 Money and Banking Pgs. 240-268
Read Profile on Amadeo P. Giannini for discussion
Debating the issue pg. 268
Chapter review pg. 266 ?’s 1-14 and 20-23 pg. 266
HOMEWORK Due 11/12
Quiz: Multiple choice on chapt. 10 11/12
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CHAPTER 11 Financial Markets Pgs. 270-275:
Chapter Review pg. 294 1-14 & 20-24
HOMEWORK Due: 11/18
Quiz: Multiple choice on chapt. 11 11/19
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UNIT TEST FOR CHAPTERS 10 & 11 11/20
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UNIT 5: MEASURING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
Gross Domestic Product and Growth &
Economic Challenges
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CHAPTER 12 Gross Domestic Product Pgs. 298-326
Read Profile on Andrew Carnegie for discussion
Chapter Review pg. 326 #’s 1-11 & 16-21
HOMEWORK Due: 11/24
Quiz: Multiple choice on chapt 12 Due: 11/25
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Economic Challenges
CHAPTER 13 Unemployment pg.330
Read Profile on Oprah Winfrey for discussion
Debating the Issue: Welfare and Work
?’s 1-14 & 19-23 HOMEWORK pgs. 352 Due: 12/1
Quiz: Multiple choice on chapt 12 12/2
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UNIT FIVE TEST Chapters 12 & 13 Due: 12/3
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UNIT 6: GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY;
Taxes and Government Spending, Fiscal Policy,The Federal
Reserve and Monetary Policy
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Chapter 14: Taxes and Government Spending pg. 358
Chapter 14 Homework #’4 1-11 & 16 –21 Due: 12/9
Multiple Choice Quiz 12/9
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CHAPTER 15: Understanding Fiscal Policy . Pgs. 386 – 410
Debate pg. 412
Chapter 15 review pg. 410 1-14 & 20-23
HOMEWORK Due: 12/16
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CHAPTER 16: The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy:
Case Study: pg. 435
Chapter review pg. 436 1-13 and 17 – 22
HOMEWORK Due: 12/17
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UNIT SIX TEST 12/22
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UNIT SEVEN: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY:
International Trade,Economic Development and Transition
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CHAPTER 17 Why Nations Trade pg. 440-465
Read Profile on Carla Anderson Hills for discussion :
Case Study NAFTA
Chapter review pg. 466 1-12 and 17 – 20
HOMEWORK Due: 1/4
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CHAPTER 18 : Levels of Development pg. 470-495:
Due: 1/4
Case Study pg. 494 Due: 1/4
Chapter review pg. 497 1-12 and 17 – 20
HOMEWORK 1/7
UNIT SEVEN TEST IF TIME ALLOWS
REVIEW FOR FINAL
FINAL EXAM IS: ?????????????????????
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HOLOCAUST STUDIES
Homework Assignments Fall 2009
HOLOCAUST STUDIES
Computer Lab Days???
Video: The Longest Hatred
Topic 1. & 2 Defining the Holocaust and Reasons for Studying the Holocaust
Readings- Document #1
Complete the questions on document #1.
List, for discussion, three reasons for studying the Holocaust
Return class expectations letter
Due: 9/11
Topic 3.Anti-Semitism in Europe Prior to Hitler: Religious and Secular
Assignments.
Read and answer ?’s Doc. 2 Due: 9/11
Read and answer Doc. 3 Due: 9/11
Read and answer Doc. 4 Due: 9/15
Read and Answer Doc. 5 Due: 9/15
Read and answer Doc. 6 Due: 9/15
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Massacre of 1098 in Worms, Diaspora 70 A.D., Ghettos in Venice 1516,
Expulsions from France or England,Pogroms of Bogdan,Chmelnitzki/Poland
1600’s, Spain 1500’s, Cossack Pogroms 1800’s, Protocols of the Elders of
Zion, Balfour Declaration, Dreyfus Affair
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TEST ON TOPICS 1-3 9/17
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Terms: Holocaust, holocaust, Semite, genocide, deicide, blood
libel, Laws for the Protection of German Blood and Honor, geta, heretics,
expulsion, scapegoat, Secular, pogroms, Protocols of the Elders of Zion,
anti-Semitism (religious, Secular and scientific), Inquisition,
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Topic 4 Anti-Semitism in Germany Prior to Hitler
Review Document 5
Terms: Black Death, Protestantism, dietary and hygienic laws, Aryan,
St. John Chrysostom
Document on Martin Luther Due: 9/21
Topic 5 Hitler’s War Against the Jews 1933-1939
Text- Review Chapter 1 pgs. 9-12, History Channel: Hitler
-Read Chapter 2
-Questions at end of Chapter 2 Due: 9/22
Read Documents 7, 8, 11, 10, 12
Assignments
Doc. 7. Due: 9/23
Doc. 8 Due: 9/24
Doc. 9 Due: 9/25
Doc. 10 Due: 9/30
Doc. 11 Due: 9/30
Doc. 12 Due: 9/30
Movie: Hitler's biography
Computer Lab 10/1-10/2
Terms: Mein Kampf, NAZI, untermenschen, Der Stumer,
Schutzstaffel, Nuremberg Laws, Anschluss, Evian Conference, Kristallnacht,
Big Lie, emigration problem, Concentration camps, Hitler Youth, League of
German Girls, Zionism, Palestine, Aktionen, Jewish Bolshevik conspiracy,
Spartacists, DAP & NSDAP, Weimar Republic, Article 231 of Treaty of
Versailles, Putsch,
Choose one of the writing assignments
Writing assignment on people. Choose five below and complete
A biographical sketch that includes: Birth date and where born,
some personal information, role in the Holocaust, where they
died and how.
Hitler, Goebbls, Heine, Herschel Grynszpan, Rosa
Luxemburg, Aton Drexler, Von Papen, Heydrich, Himmler, Hoess,
Ernst Roehm, Luger, Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg, George
Grosz, Sergei Einsenstein, David Buffum, General Franco, Picasso
And Guernica, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, General
Erwin Rommel, Hermann Goering,
Writing Assignment: Read “Legal and Ideological Underpinnings
of the Nazi Regime.” Write and editorial for an American newspaper
explaining why Americans should be concerned with events in
Germany. (Ask English teacher for credit!) Due: 10/5
FIVE WEEK REPORT DUE:
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TEST ON TOPICS 4 & 5 10/20
Topic 6 Hitler’s War Against the Jews, 1939-1945
Be sure that you read the issues discussed section at the beginning of each
Chapter.
Documentary: “Roots of Evil,” Propaganda movie; “Triumph of the Will”
Documents: 13-20
Doc 13 Due: 10/22
Doc 14 Due: 10/22
Doc.15 Due: 10/23
Doc.16 Due: 10/23
Doc.17 Due: 10/27
Doc.20 Due: 10/27
Videos: Documentary: The Nazis, The St. Louis
Movie: Swing Kids 10/19 - 10/27 Following document discussion.
IF YOU HAVE NOT COMPLETED THE DOCUMENTS YOU MUST GO TO THE LIBRARY AND
COMPLETE THEM. YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO SEE THE MOVIE.
Terms: Sturmabteilung, Balfour Declaration, Chaim Weizmann, Haaara
Agreements, Madagascar Plan, Nuremberg Laws, mischling, Volk,
Kristallnacht, Jewish Question, Operation Euthanasia, Operation Barbarossa,
Einstatzgruppen, Final Solution, Vernichtungslager, Chelmno, Belzec,
Sobibor, Majdanek,Treblinka, Wannsee Conference, Endlosung, Zyklon B gas,
Euthanasia, Auschwitz, work (slave) camps, Sonderkommando, Judenrat, Raul
Wallenburg,Oskar Shindler
Computer lab time for assignment: 10/26-10/29 if schedule permits.
Writing Assignment: "Heros and Villans."
Due: 10/30
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Test on Topic 6 and chapters 3, 4 and 5 Due: 11/5
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MARKING PERIOD ENDS 11/5
Topic 7 THE FOREIGN REACTION TO THE HOLOCAUST,
HOLOCAUST DENIERS AND East and West: COLLORBATION
AND THE HOLOCAUST EXPERIENCE. In class work.
Terms: Hore-Belisha scandal, “Better a Hitler than Blum,” Riegner
telegram, Vatican,Confessing church, Anglo-American democracies,
collaboration, Wehrmacht,Vichy regime, “Statuits des Juifs”Milice, Beligum
Rexists
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Topic 8 JEWISH RESISTANCE
Documents 21-24, Review document 15
Assignments
Document 21 Due 11/13
Document 22 Due 11/13
Document 23 Due 11/16
Document 24 Due 11/16
Videos: Warsaw Ghetto documentary and Uprising after Document discussion.
11/17-11/17
Terms: Judenrate, Warsaw uprising, righteous Gentiles, spiritual
Resistance. People: Raoul Wallenberg, Januscz Korezak
Video: Before Christmas break if all work is done:
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Topic 9 THE HOLOCAUST ENDS- DEFEAT OF NAZI GERMANY
Video: Shindler’s List
Reading and questions Due:
Graded as a test
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Topic 10 WORLD REACTION TO THE HOLOCAUST
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Topic 11 THE LEGACY OF THE HOLOCAUST
Virtual Field Trip: United States Holocaust Museum
Computer Lab 12/21-12/23 Due: 12/23
Graded as a test
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Topic 12 THE MIDDLE EAST TODAY:
Current Events News Project
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