Thurs & Fri, Dec 1-2

Period 0: (Thurs)
1. 7-Minute Reading: Tax Pledge May Scuttle A Deal on Deficit
2. 60 Minutes Clip: Grover Norquist & "The Pledge"
3. PPT on National Debt/Deficit
4. Steven Colbert on Christmas Shopping

Period 0 (Fri)
1. Finish Debt/Deficit PPT
2. Tangibly Working on our Debt (cutting spending and raising taxes)
3. Worksheet on fiscal policy (2nd sheet in packet)

Period 2:
1. PPT on 5th, 6th & 8th Amendments
--> Video: Bush/Cheney, The War on Terror & Due Process
--> Video: 60 Minutes on Death Penalty

Period 4 & 5:
1. 7-Minute Reading: Tax Pledge May Scuttle A Deal on Deficit
2. PPT on National Debt/Deficit
3. Debt Working Group
4. Steven Colbert on Christmas Shopping

Periods 1 & 3
1. Practice Test
2. Chapter 13 TEST
3. Genghis Khan Quick Read

Tues & Wed, Nov 29-30

Period 2:
1. 7-Minute Reading: Miranda
2. Fill-in on Due Process
--> Video: Pepper Spray at UC Davis
--> Video: 60 Minutes on Gitmo

Period 4:
1. 7-Minute Reading: Too Little of a Good Thing
A. What are the 2 most important parts of Obama's stimulus plan?
B. How long will it take to get back to full employment?
C. How does Krugman disagree with "deficit hawks?"

2. Fill-ins: Taxes
3. PPT: Taxes since 1950
4. 60 Minutes Clip: Grover Norquist & "The Pledge"

Monday, November 28

Period 0,4 & 5
1. 7-Minute Reading: Keynes vs. Hayek
2. Go over Macro Stats Test (test corrections)
3. Start Fill-in Notes on Fiscal Policy

Period 2
1. Video: Michelle Alexander & Bryan Stephenson on Race
2. Power Mapping

Periods 1 & 3
1. Terms TEST III (chapters 9-12)
2. Grade Chapter 12 TEST
3. Return Essays

Thurs & Fri, November 17-18

Period 0 (thurs):
1. Confessions of an Economic Hitman

Period 0 (Fri):
1. Macro Stats TEST!!!!!

Period 2:
--> Stephen Colbert on the Gun Lobby1. Notes on Race
2. Carl Dix versus Cornel West
3. Rachel Maddow versus Pat Buchanan
4. White Privilege: Does it still exist?
--> Finish The Most Dangerous Man in America

Period 4 & 5
1. Macro Stats TEST
2. Speaking Freely: John Perkins

Tues & Wed, November 15-16

Period 2
--> Turn in HW
--> Introducing: Cornel West
1. 7-Minute: 2nd Amendment
2. Chapter 19 Review Sheet
3. Start Top Secret America

Period 4
--> Chapter 12 & 13 Notes
1. 7-Minute Reading: Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?
2. Multiple Choice Questions
3. PPT Review
4. Video: College, Inc

Wed/Thurs, November 9-10

Period 0 (Wed):
1. Fill-In Notes: Types of Unemployment and Inflation
2. Unemployment & Inflation Review
3. Chapter 13, Section 3: Poverty

Period 0 (Thurs):
1. 7-Minute: The Wageless Recovery
2. The Business Cycle
3. Leading/Lagging Indicators

Period 2:
1. 7-Minute: SC on Fred Phelps (see video here)
2. Free Speech PPT
3. Finish 1st Amendment Fill-In Notes
4. Video: Jack Abramoff on Lobbying

Periods 1 & 3
1. Unit II TEST Corrections
2. Continue Chapter 11 Notes

Periods 4 & 5
1. 7-Minute: The Wageless Recovery
2. Unemployment & Inflation Review
3. The Business Cycle
4. Leading/Lagging Indicators
5. Chapter 13, Section 3: Poverty

Mon/Tues, November 7-8

Period 0
1. 7-Minute: Fat Cats Forever?
A. What are the authors’ credentials?
B. What is the authors thesis?
C. Why is HUGE CEO pay such a big deal?
D. Why can’t we rely on the shareholders of corporations to find a solution to the problem of CEO pay?
E. Give 3 specific solutions (that the authors think will work) mentioned in the article
2. Working with CPI

Period 1 & 3
1. Unit 2 TEST
2. Practice Compare/Contrast Essay
3. Start Chapter 11 PPT

Period 5
1. 7-Minute: Fat Cats Forever?
A. What are the authors’ credentials?
B. What is the authors thesis?
C. Why is HUGE CEO pay such a big deal?
D. Why can’t we rely on the shareholders of corporations to find a solution to the problem of CEO pay?
E. Give 3 specific solutions (that the authors think will work) mentioned in the article
2. Working with CPI
3. Handout: Types of Unemployment/Inflation
4. Review Unemployment & Inflation PPT
5. Video: An Unusual Market

Period 2:
1. 7-Minute Reading: SC and Fred Phelps
2. Finish PPT on 1st A Religion
3. Finish Half-Sheet

Thurs & Fri, Nov 3-4

Period 0 (Thurs)
1. 7-Minute Reading: Be Like Bhutan
A. Give 3 examples of ways that Bhutan has made decisions that, from an economist's point of view, do not make sense.
B. Give 3 of your own ideas for the US to "achieve the greatest happiness for the greatest number of it's citizens.
2. Alternatives to GDP
3. Unemployment + Inflation PPT

Period 0 (Fri)
1. 7-Minute Reading: The 2 Jobs Report
--> How Much Is the Doggie in the Window?
2. Inflation + Unemployment handout
--> Video: Food Stamps
--> Video: The Medical Industrial Complex
-Take Notes on these key concepts:
A. universities + private corporations
B. Bayh-Dole Act
C. Chakrabarta case
D. Henrietta Lacks
E. the price of drugs
F. the corporatization of knowledge

Period 2
1. 7-Minute: Atheist Sue Over Day of Prayer
2. Handout: Religion and US Population
3. 1st A PPT
4. Chapter 19 Questions (Handout)

Periods 4 & 5
1. 7-Minute Reading: Where America's Jobs Went
2. GDP & Inflation (1/2 sheet handout)
3. Read Chapters 12 & 13 and take notes (any style)
--> Should be at least 2 pages front/back