Week Six

This Week

This week we finished up our personal finance unit material and began working on our first project after taking our second test over personal finance. Overall, students performed well and demonstrated a high level of comprehension of the material covered. Students also gained access to their stock market challenge portfolios and have begun practicing for the stock market simulation challenge, which officially starts in October.

We are now working on our vacation project, whereby students plan a trip to a non-USA contiguous country. A handful of students have asked if they can stay in vacation homes or time shares owned by their family members or friends. As this is a fictional trip, and those experiences are possible, I am telling them they may do so. I would encourage you to have them talk with those family members so they can get a fuller understanding of what travel outside the United States entails and how to become successful travelers, particularly in the area of trip planning and budgeting. This will help make this experience more authentic, and who knows, maybe your family can take the trip together some day after the students do all of this planning!

Read more about the project on the project website, which serves as a template for students to model their website after.

Of course we will be out for Plan E tomorrow. Students are continuing their work on their own individual portions of the assignments during this time period.

Upcoming Week

Students are working on the vacation project for the next two weeks. When they're finished, they will be presenting to the rest of the class in order to allow us to experience their vacations. Below are the due dates associated with the project:

Complete the "Before You Go" page and designate roles for ALL group members on this page. Fill out the Vacation Planner and submit for approval to Mr. Grieve (by Thursday, 9/18/14) 
 
Creation of website and send the URL to Mr. Grieve (by Thursday, 9/18/14)

Website should be finished and ready to present before class on (Wednesday, 10/1/14) 

Have a great weekend!

~Mr. Grieve