Your team will present a product launch!!
It will include:
food and music
team introduction
pitch
logo
review of business plan
presentation of product print ads
presentation of your commercial
option to buy stock!! by the investors~!
Each student will get $1000 to invest in a company. You will invest your money wisely and own
'stock' in this company!!
Teams with the most money invested by investors will receive extra credit of: 100, 50, and 25 points respectively. SO....
Friday, June 10, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
ALL ESSAYS: 2 pages, 5 paragraphs minimum, typed, well researched, follow DIRECTIONS of prompt!!
If you have questions while you are writing....email me! steven.steinberg@lausd.net
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Essay option #2 (to be continued) There are 5 essays listed on this blog....read and ask questions Friday
CUT THE BUDGET!
Background: The budget for the United States and especially California is facing a huge
deficit. As a result, programs must be cut, or, taxes must be increased. However, budget
cuts are easier to enact. There are many programs to cut: Medicare, Welfare, Food Stamps, WIC, Public Education, loans and scholarships to college students and the Dream Act proposal.
Prompt: Describe the program cuts proposed by the Federal Government and California.
Analyze 3 and describe the pros and cons of cutting these programs. Make a list of budget
cuts and list the amounts you would cut. You need to cut $20 million in the state of California
and $2 trillion for the United States. How will you do this? Who will it effect? What other
changes do you propose?
Specifically, talk about programs that affect you, your family or friends (education, college, welfare programs, medi-cal or medicare, college tuitions, etc.)
Background: The budget for the United States and especially California is facing a huge
deficit. As a result, programs must be cut, or, taxes must be increased. However, budget
cuts are easier to enact. There are many programs to cut: Medicare, Welfare, Food Stamps, WIC, Public Education, loans and scholarships to college students and the Dream Act proposal.
Prompt: Describe the program cuts proposed by the Federal Government and California.
Analyze 3 and describe the pros and cons of cutting these programs. Make a list of budget
cuts and list the amounts you would cut. You need to cut $20 million in the state of California
and $2 trillion for the United States. How will you do this? Who will it effect? What other
changes do you propose?
Specifically, talk about programs that affect you, your family or friends (education, college, welfare programs, medi-cal or medicare, college tuitions, etc.)
Econ Essay option #3 : WILL TEENS HAVE A JOB? unfinished prompt
Essay option #3
Background: The unemployment rate in 2011 in California is over 12%, higher for teenagers and
even higher for teens without a high school diploma.
Prompt: Describe, analyze, and evaluate unemployment in America. Research unemployment, use your text book and the internet to describe the current problems. WHat professions will be the best for employment? Salary?
Describe your concerns for your own financial future and work.
Include Data, opinions of experts, and predictions for unemployment in 2011-future.
Background: The unemployment rate in 2011 in California is over 12%, higher for teenagers and
even higher for teens without a high school diploma.
Prompt: Describe, analyze, and evaluate unemployment in America. Research unemployment, use your text book and the internet to describe the current problems. WHat professions will be the best for employment? Salary?
Describe your concerns for your own financial future and work.
Include Data, opinions of experts, and predictions for unemployment in 2011-future.
Essay option #4 Text Based: Will the Poor Get Poorer? (unfinished prompt)
Read: p. 375-387; 394-400
•Thesis: agree or disagree
The business cycle of 2010-11 causes unemployment and poverty. We can/cannot change unemployment or the fact that the poor will get poorer. Unemployment will always be a big problem, and, there will always be poor people in America.
Include:
–Review of the great Depression, WWII, and factors that influence the business cycle
–Explain why full employment is difficult
–What is poverty? Who? Data. What programs can change poverty….
–Internet research: Explain how today’s economy is impacting the poor and their employment. Tell a story about a family or individual.
Key vocabulary from text; choose 3 from each section
•Thesis: agree or disagree
The business cycle of 2010-11 causes unemployment and poverty. We can/cannot change unemployment or the fact that the poor will get poorer. Unemployment will always be a big problem, and, there will always be poor people in America.
Include:
–Review of the great Depression, WWII, and factors that influence the business cycle
–Explain why full employment is difficult
–What is poverty? Who? Data. What programs can change poverty….
–Internet research: Explain how today’s economy is impacting the poor and their employment. Tell a story about a family or individual.
Key vocabulary from text; choose 3 from each section
ESSAY OPTION #5. 2011 WHO WILL BE THE NEXT....? (unfinished prompt)
In your TEXT: Read the short biographies below:
see TEXT:
1.Oprah Winfrey p. 94
2.Charles Wang 172
3.Cesar Chavez 204
4.Dineh Mohajer 291
5.Linda Alvarado 355
6.Bill Gates 471
7. ..........................
8........................... your choices
Thesis: Only ‘special’ individuals become successful entrepreneurs. (agree/disagree) But, if you want to try it, “Here is What I Know”.
•Compare the personal histories, Include common personal characteristics
•Compare their products,
•Compare the challenges,
•Describe the road to success., include internet research on three entrepreneurs and their product . Inform me about this individual...in your own words. Include personal history, challenges, product. See the website and share any interesting information. Conclude with final advice on being successful. What is important to remember from these biographies as you
pursue your own success in college, work, family, or future career.
see TEXT:
1.Oprah Winfrey p. 94
2.Charles Wang 172
3.Cesar Chavez 204
4.Dineh Mohajer 291
5.Linda Alvarado 355
6.Bill Gates 471
7. ..........................
8........................... your choices
Thesis: Only ‘special’ individuals become successful entrepreneurs. (agree/disagree) But, if you want to try it, “Here is What I Know”.
•Compare the personal histories, Include common personal characteristics
•Compare their products,
•Compare the challenges,
•Describe the road to success., include internet research on three entrepreneurs and their product . Inform me about this individual...in your own words. Include personal history, challenges, product. See the website and share any interesting information. Conclude with final advice on being successful. What is important to remember from these biographies as you
pursue your own success in college, work, family, or future career.
Extra credit test: 100 pts. Jun 8th 3:15 pm
FINAL EXAM ECONOMICS, 2010 (SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT 33 topics)
1.What is the Fundamental Economic Problem?
2.Scarcity
3.Supply
4.Needs vs. Wants
5.Paradox of value
6.Demand
7.Market Economy, Traditional economy, Command economy
8.Economic equity
9.Full employment
10.Econ security
11.Gross Domestic Product and Econ growth
12.Utility
13.Wealth
14.The Role of Education in Income
15.Trade offs, Opportunity Cost
16.Traditional Economies, Command Economies Market Economies
17.Capitalism and Free Enterprise
18.Role of the Government in regulating economy
19.externalized costs,
20.Third world country
21.planned obsolescence,
22.perceived obsolescence
23.Goods
24.Labor-
25.Financial capital
26.Stock
27.S & P
28.NYSE
29.Entrepreneur
30.Sole Proprietorship
31.Corporation
32.Partnership
33.union
34.discrimination,
35.comparable worth
36.minimum wage
37.“Clutter”; breaking through the clutter
38.Name 6 persuasive strategies for advertising
39.THE PERSUADERS explore the idea that Americans are seek an identity buying a brand.
Advertising is more about emotional messages than information. Explain.
Are we being manipulated by THE PERSUADERS? What are their techniques
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