Monday, April 16

• Opening writing activity: Plans for the future
• Return economics vocabulary quiz
• Return stock market sheets
• Discuss problems/successes with tracking details
• Provide midway profit update
• Begin Personal Finance Discussion
• Elements of personal finance
• Homework: Discuss other finance questions with your family
• Also bring calculators to the next class

Wednesday, April 18

• Opening writing activity
• Begin filling out personal finance worksheet
• Mortgage discussion
• Enter mortgage rate, payments on worksheet

Monday, April 23

• Opening writing activity
• Credit discussion
• Simulate credit card dilemma
• Compare/contrast with other forms of borrowing
• Final independent work on budgeting
• Worksheet due at the end of class
• Homework: Read and keyword outline Chapter 20 Section 3: How Governments Spend Their Money OR Read and keyword outline Chapter 21, Section 2: Saving, Borrowing, Buying on Credit (to be determined in class, based on discussion)

Wednesday, April 25

• Opening writing activity
• Overview of the budget process
• Compare/contrast personal and national budget process
• Assign individual departments to research
• Hand out worksheet to complete
• Homework: research individual department to be discussed in class

Friday, April 27

• Begin presentations on government department funding
• Should take all class

Monday, April 30

• Finish presentations on government department funding
• Worksheet should be complete by the end of class
• Reflection writing assignment: How would you redesign the federal budget?
• Work in groups of 4-5 to create agreed upon budget