Week Five

This Week

This week we began our look at stocks. Students have now been exposed to stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, as well as an overview of what ETFs are and how they work. Students have been given the opportunity to learn about these securities through the GeniRevolution game or through more traditional worksheets. Students have also learned about how to place stock orders, both market orders and conditional ones. Finally, students were given access to the Ohio Stock Market Challenge website and may now to practice growing their portfolios. The competition doesn't start until October, so students are encouraged to try out different investment strategies and experiment now before the simulation begins. As we prepare for our tests next week, students will need to complete the Review Sheet they were given today and study for the second test and study this over the weekend.

Upcoming Week

Next week students will take the test on Monday, but after that we will begin our first major project - the vacation project. Students will be working on planning a vacation to the destination country of their choice (in groups), so students will be assigned roles within their groups and given a budget to plan their trip. The project will last for at least two weeks and students will create websites for their trips. This project is always a lot of fun, and hopefully students will be able to take these trips some day! To check out more about what this project entails, see the website I have created to serve as a template/directions.

Check out the travel site to see what the vacation project will look like!

Don't forget about the Plan E on Friday of next week.

Also, next week an informational meeting is scheduled for Monday for all 10th and 11th grade JCOWA students. Seniors would be invited, but they have a Jostens meeting they have to attend.

The meeting will take place at 12:15 in my room and we will be going over the recently released study guide. If you'd like to take a look at the study guide, you can find it here.

There are four JCOWA events this year:

• Oct. 29 - International Career Day at Sinclair CC
• Dec. 2 - Youth Forum at Wright State University
• February 9 - Academic Quiz Bowl at the University of Dayton
• April 2014 - Geography Bowl at the University of Dayton

Due to the large number of students who have joined (over 50!) we will have to be selective this year in terms of who goes to which of the first two events. We may or may not be able to attend the Geography Bowl. We will be going over who gets to attend which event on Monday at this informational meeting, so it's important that students attend.


Have a great week!

~Mr. Grieve