This Week
This was a unique first week for my Economics class! I admit to struggling with figuring out what to assign students given that they only had one day's worth of class time with me to introduce the course before having three days' worth of successive Plan E days, but I hope that the assignments provided helped them practice the skills they would need to be successful in the class (such as learning about how to make up assignments) and that they were able to get an understanding of some new concepts, like Opportunity Cost and the Production Possibilities Frontier.
Today, we went back over both of these topics in class before moving on to what I had initially had planned for Tuesday, which was talking about different types of economic systems, how economies answer the "three essential questions" differently, and how to create a demand schedule and a demand curve. Students had a fun homework assignment that they may need to interview you for in order to complete it (if they didn't do so while in class today).
Upcoming Week
Due to the Plan E confusion that always happens as a result of Plan E, I am not counting anything late until next Monday so that students have time to make up assignments that they may not have had given the high work load assigned by many teachers. I hope this helps.
In terms of content, next week we will continue with our unit on the "basics of economics," looking at how supply curves are formed and how shifts in supply and demand curves are different from movement along those curves. In short, we will learn the foundational concepts of the study of Economics.
Depending on how quickly we move through the material, we may have a test next Thursday. Otherwise, it will likely be the Tuesday after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as I need to re-assess how my plans were impacted by the weather. Hopefully the bitter cold is over, *knock on wood*!
If you have any questions, as always, please feel free to email me at arch.grieve@wright.edu.
Have a great weekend!
~Mr. Grieve
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