Horizontal Curriculum Map by Month
Month
February
Intro to
Economics
CC Standards Literacy Skills Reading
Common Core Standards
Reading
1. Drawing conclusions from
documents
2. Analyzing text for main ideas
and supporting details.
3. Connecting ideas between
different sources/documents
4. Interpreting and understanding
historical vocabulary
5. Comparison of documents in
terms of relation and connection
6. Evaluating documents based
on perspectives (POV and bias)
7. Integrating various sources to
understand the big picture
8. Assessing if the reading is
historically accurate by
determining of it supported by
other sources
9. Analysis of a theme using
various sources with different
treatments / perspectives
CC Standards Literacy
Skills - Writing
Common Core standards
Writing
1. Implementing primary
and secondary sources
into writing (DBQ).
2. Analyzing documents
(chronology and theme)
to support essay.
3. Establishing thematic
connections across time
and space between
sources
4. Incorporation of
historical vocabulary into
thematic and DBQ essays
5. Comparing /
contrasting documents
6. Explain and evaluate
how authors treat the
same topics and themes
7. Integration of various
sources into an essay to
support an argument
8. Assessing the validity
of an author’s perspective
9. Compare / contrast
different treatments of
the same topic
Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings
To what extent are
economic systems
successful?
What are the goals of
economics systems?
To what extent can
economic systems please
everyone?
How do economic systems
reflect the priorities of a
society?
Economies evolve and
governments are created to
protect the economic order.
Content
What topic(s) is being covered and What do
students need to know?
Introduction to the study of Economics
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Scarcity
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Resources
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Economic systems
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Supply & Demand
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Currency
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Circular Flow of income
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Federal Reserve System
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Opportunity Costs
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Diminishing Marginal Utility
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Comparative Advantage
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Macro v. Micro
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Traditional/Market/Public
Economic cycles: boom to bust.
Skills
What students will be able to do
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ID and explain different
economic systems
Understand the difference
between needs and wants
Analyze the laws of demand
(D) and supply (S)
Determine acceptable elasticity
of demand
Apply knowledge of law of
demand in providing examples
from personal experience
Identify variables that
challenge the laws of S and D
Demonstrate comprehension of
the effect of market supply on
competition
Synthesize knowledge of S and
D using concepts, such as
limitation of resources
Analyze the effect on market
price caused by variables in S
and D
Assessment
DBQ/thematic/comparative/changeover-time essays
Project based learning
Problem based learning
Debates
Mock trials
Multiple choice
Film analysis
Exams
Student blogs / websites
Month
March
Economi
c systems
CC Standards Literacy Skills – Reading
1. Drawing conclusions from documents
2. Analyzing text for main ideas and
supporting details.
3. Connecting ideas between different
sources/documents
4. Interpreting and understanding
historical vocabulary
5. Comparison of documents in terms of
relation and connection
6. Evaluating documents based on
perspectives (POV and bias)
7. Integrating various sources to
understand the big picture
8. Assessing if the reading is historically
accurate by determining of it supported
by other sources
9. Analysis of a theme using various
sources with different treatments /
perspectives
CC Standards Literacy Skills –
Writing
1. Implementing primary and
secondary sources into writing
(DBQ).
2. Analyzing documents
(chronology and theme) to
support essay.
3. Establishing thematic
connections across time and space
between sources
4. Incorporation of historical
vocabulary into thematic and
DBQ essays
5. Comparing / contrasting
documents
6. Explain and evaluate how
authors treat the same topics and
themes
7. Integration of various sources
into an essay to support an
argument
8. Assessing the validity of an
author’s perspective
9. Compare / contrast different
treatments of the same topic
Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings
To what extent does U.S. have a “free
market” economic system?
To what extent does the U.S. have a
corporate socialist economic system?
Labeling economies one “ism” or
another must be taken with a grain of
salt.
Content
What topic(s) is being covered and What do students
need to know?
Types of Economic Systems Compared
Capitalism - laissez faire,competition,
supply side, keynsianism, Puritan Ethic,
Social Darwnism, Reaganism,
Skills
What students will be able to do
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Socialism - communism v. democratic
socialism v. corporate socialism,
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externalities, tax policy.
Belief in economic systems are often
supported by faith.
No economic systems exist in their pure
form.
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ID and explain various
economic systems
Explain the components
of and differences
between a capitalist and
communist economic
system
Apply the ideas from
Keynes, the Puritan
work ethic and social
Darwinism to modern
day capitalism
Identify reasons that
economic systems may
change over time
Demonstrate an
understanding of
externalities and how
they effect the free
market system
Apply the concepts of
capitalism and socialism
to come to a greater
understanding of the
American economic
system
Assessment
DBQ/thematic/
comparative/c
hange-overtime essays
Project based
learning
Problem based
learning
Debates
Mock trials
Multiple
choice
Film analysis
Exams
Student blogs /
websites
Month
CC Standards Literacy Skills - Reading
April
1. Drawing conclusions from
documents
2. Analyzing text for main ideas and
supporting details.
3. Connecting ideas between different
sources/documents
4. Interpreting and understanding
historical vocabulary
5. Comparison of documents in terms
of relation and connection
6. Evaluating documents based on
perspectives (POV and bias)
7. Integrating various sources to
understand the big picture
8. Assessing if the reading is
historically accurate by determining of
it supported by other sources
9. Analysis of a theme using various
sources with different treatments /
perspectives
Consumer economics
CC Standards Literacy Skills
– Writing
1. Implementing primary and
secondary sources into writing
(DBQ).
2. Analyzing documents
(chronology and theme) to
support essay.
3. Establishing thematic
connections across time and
space between sources
4. Incorporation of historical
vocabulary into thematic and
DBQ essays
5. Comparing / contrasting
documents
6. Explain and evaluate how
authors treat the same topics
and themes
7. Integration of various
sources into an essay to
support an argument
8. Assessing the validity of an
author’s perspective
9. Compare / contrast
different treatments of the
same topic
Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings
How can we be savvy
consumers?
To what extent is consumerism
an addiction?
Is consumer society driving
environmental destruction?
We don’t own things…things
own us
Consumer protections we take
for granted today we owe to
activists of the past
Content
What topic(s) is being covered
and What do students need to
know?
Saving v Investing
Consumer rights and product
safety
Ralph Nader
Credit cards and interest
Consumer reports
Online shopping
Advertising
Recycling
Extended warantees
Assessment
Skills
What students will be able to do
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Caveat emptor
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Define the divers roles
of banks
ID diverse forms of
investments and loans
Investigate correlation
between risk and return
in investment strategies
Compare/contrast
functions of various
investment
opportunities
Understand how the
laws of S/D impact
different investments
Understand the
importance of being an
educated consumer
Determine how to do
effective comparative
shopping
ID and examine typical
adult household
purchases
ID and explain different
forms of advertising
and the elements they
contain
Explain the benefits of
recycling to our
economy
Understand the
importance (or lack
thereof) of extended
warrantees
Explain the importance
of Ralph Nader as
champion of consumer
interests
DBQ/thematic/comparative/changeover-time essays
Project based learning
Problem based learning
Debates
Mock trials
Multiple choice
Film analysis
Exams
Student blogs / websites
Month
May
Labor economics
CC Standards Literacy Skills Reading
CC Standards Literacy Skills
– Writing
1. Drawing conclusions from
documents
2. Analyzing text for main
ideas and supporting details.
3. Connecting ideas between
different sources/documents
4. Interpreting and
understanding historical
vocabulary
5. Comparison of documents in
terms of relation and
connection
6. Evaluating documents
based on perspectives (POV
and bias)
7. Integrating various sources
to understand the big picture
8. Assessing if the reading is
historically accurate by
determining of it supported by
other sources
9. Analysis of a theme using
various sources with different
treatments / perspectives
1. Implementing primary and
secondary sources into writing
(DBQ).
2. Analyzing documents
(chronology and theme) to
support essay.
3. Establishing thematic
connections across time and
space between sources
4. Incorporation of historical
vocabulary into thematic and
DBQ essays
5. Comparing / contrasting
documents
6. Explain and evaluate how
authors treat the same topics
and themes
7. Integration of various
sources into an essay to
support an argument
8. Assessing the validity of an
author’s perspective
9. Compare / contrast
different treatments of the
same topic
Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings
Are unions good or bad for
workers?
Content
What topic(s) is being covered
and What do students need to
know?
Wage determination
Assessment
Skills
What students will be able to do
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Types of unemployment
Minimum v living wage
How has the American middle
class been evaporating since
Reagainsm?
Collective bargaining
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Mediation / arbitration / strikes
To what extent tdo we need an
economic Bill of Rights in the
US?
Solidarity
Without the threat if a strike,
unions do not exist
The financialization of the
American economy has had a
profound impact on the types of
jobs available
Analyze the true power
of unions, both
historically and today
DBQ/thematic/comparative/changeover-time essays
Project based learning
Problem based learning
Debates
Mock trials
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Cooptation
Sweatshops
Understand the
development of the
organized labor
movement in the US
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Child labor
Define the concept of
solidarity and how it is
important to unions
ID forms of
negotiation, and give
historical examples of
each
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Explain the need for
government
intervention with
regard to worker in
spite of laissez faire
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Explain the difference
between minimum
wage and a living wage
Multiple choice
Film analysis
Exams
Student blogs / websites
Month
June
Globalization, Sustainability
and economic performance
CC Standards Literacy Skills Reading
CC Standards Literacy Skills
– Writing
1. Drawing conclusions from
documents
2. Analyzing text for main
ideas and supporting details.
3. Connecting ideas between
different sources/documents
4. Interpreting and
understanding historical
vocabulary
5. Comparison of documents
in terms of relation and
connection
6. Evaluating documents
based on perspectives (POV
and bias)
7. Integrating various sources
to understand the big picture
8. Assessing if the reading is
historically accurate by
determining of it supported by
other sources
9. Analysis of a theme using
various sources with different
treatments / perspectives
1. Implementing primary and
secondary sources into writing
(DBQ).
2. Analyzing documents
(chronology and theme) to
support essay.
3. Establishing thematic
connections across time and
space between sources
4. Incorporation of historical
vocabulary into thematic and
DBQ essays
5. Comparing / contrasting
documents
6. Explain and evaluate how
authors treat the same topics
and themes
7. Integration of various
sources into an essay to
support an argument
8. Assessing the validity of an
author’s perspective
9. Compare / contrast
different treatments of the
same topic
Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings
How is today’s globalization
different form world trade?
Content
What topic(s) is being covered
and What do students need to
know?
WTO-GATT
Assessment
Skills
What students will be able to do
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Externalities
How is a world governemtn
forming to regulate
globalization?
How are activists working for a
democratic and sustainable
globalization paradigm?
In what ways is economic
performance measured?
The study of economics does not
take into account the ecological
base from which it must operate
Most resources are finite
Climate change
Green energy / environmental
justice
Privatization / nationalization
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CPI
DJIA
Use economic
indicators as a means
for predicting our future
Explain the concept of
global economic
interdependence
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Identify the reasons
behind the Green
energy movement and
explain its costs /
benefits
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Analyze the importance
/ lack thereof of
privatization/nationaliza
tion
Climate change is causing
massive global upheaval which
will worsen before it gets better
Economic indicators can be
used to predict the future
Track economic trends
by decade in the 20th
and 21st centuries
DBQ/thematic/comparative/changeover-time essays
Project based learning
Problem based learning
Debates
Mock trials
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The Commons
GDP
Assess pertinent
information available in
the study of economic
indicators
Multiple choice
Film analysis
Exams
Student blogs / websites