Global Issues
Monday
WEEK 2
Tuesday
2
Wednesday
3
• Personal History Project
(PHP)
• Mr. Chipman’s example
project
NO SCHOOL
LABOR DAY
Homework:
Begin work on project
WEEK 3
2013
September
9
• PHP Presentations (using
Powerpoint, Prezi, or good
ole’ fashioned posterboard)
Homework:
Free!
10
• Intro to Ten Principles of
Economics
• Economy: “one who
manages a household”
• TERMS: scarcity and
economics
Homework:
Write about how your
household makes decisions
WEEK 4
16
• Discuss Nacirema readng
Homework:
What are your perceptions
of a [randomly assigned!]
place that are based on
indirect sources (e.g. T.V.,
movies, internet, news,
etc.)? How can traveling to
a new place change prior
views of that place to more
informed and developed
views based on experiences
there?
17
• N.G.S. 6: How culture and
experience influence
people’s perceptions of
places and regions
• The Danger of a Single
Story Ted Talk by
Chimamanda Adichie
Homework:
Read Mankiw excerpt on
E.P. 2 (Opportunity Cost)
4
• Personal History Project
work day
Homework:
finish PHP
11
• E.P. 1: People Face Tradeoffs (Mankiw excerpt)
• TERMS: efficiency and
equality
Homework:
Give 3 examples of
important trade-offs that
you face in your life and
Describe trade-offs faced
by various scenarios (i.e., a
student deciding how much
to prepare for Global Issues)
18
• E.P. 2: The Cost of
Something Is What You Give
Up to Get It
• TERM: Opportunity Cost
• Marketplace Whiteboard
and Khan Academy videos
Homework:
What is the opportunity cost
of seeing a movie?
Thursday
Friday
5
• PHP Presentations (using
Powerpoint, Prezi, or good
ole’ fashioned
posterboard )
6
• PHP Presentations (using
Powerpoint, Prezi, or good
ole’ fashioned posterboard
)
Homework:
tweak PHP if you’re a
lucky one who hasn’t
presented yet!
Homework:
tweak PHP if you’re a lucky
one who hasn’t presented
yet!
12
• Discuss NYT Fridays!
guidelines
• Assign Debate teams for
9/27
Homework:
Bring article that relates to
the concept of trade-offs
19
• E.P. 2: The Cost of
Something Is What You
Give Up to Get It
• TERM: Opportunity Cost
Homework:
bring article related to the
concept of opportunity
cost
13
• NYT Fridays!
• THEME: Trade-offs
• G3 (Group of 3) brings
“treat”
Homework:
Read and answer
questions, Body Rituals of
the Nacirema
20
HOMECOMING BBQ
• NYT Fridays!
• THEME: Opportunity Cost
• (new) G3 brings “treat”
Homework:
Read excerpt on
Columbus from American
Colonies by Alan Taylor
and define words
WEEK 5
23
• Discuss American Colonies
excerpt
• N.G.S. 17: How to apply
geography to interpret the
past
• Annotated Bibliography
Homework:
Read Mankiw excerpt on
E.P. 3 (thinking at the
margin)
24
• E.P. 3: Rational People
Think at the Margin
• TERMS: rational people,
marginal change,
behavioral economics
Homework:
Was Columbus a rational
person? Homo
economicus or Homo
sapien?
25
• Discuss Columbus as
rational person responses
• Digedu lesson:
“Convergence: The Birth of
a New World”
• How to construct an
opening statement
Homework:
‘Map the World’ activity
(Digedu)
26
• Digedu lesson:
“Convergence: The Birth
of a New World”
• How to construct an
opening statement
Homework:
teams prepare opening
statements; audience
brings annotated article
related to debate topic
27
• DEBATE SERIES: The World
Is Better Off as a result of
Columbus’ ‘Discovery’
Homework:
Read and take Cornell
notes on Penguin Guide
Ch. 1, part 1, p. 117-123
(Revolutionary Origins of
the American Constitution)