End of the School Year 🐲

Clintondale High School is closed for Summer Break.

Have a safe and restful vacation, Dragons!

Semester Assessment 💯

🎯 Learning Targets

• Assess comprehension of Lessons 1 through 11 in Economics

⏰ What We Did

• Completed the Semester Assessment
• Collected Economics binders for the Q4 Binder Check

Challenges to Growth 🌱

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how many developing nations respond to scarce factors of production
• Describe how the status of economic infrastructure can help and hinder a developing nation
• Explain how political instability can challenge a developing nation

⏰ What We Did

• Used instructional notes from Lesson 11, Part 3: Challenges to Growth, to describe the characteristics — and location — of developing nations
• Analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of American foreign aid to these countries

⚙️ Resources

• Understanding Economic Development (A-23)
• Per Capita GDP World Map (World Bank, 2021)
• 8 Serious Pros and Cons of Foreign Aid (Green Garage)

💻 Homework

• Watch and take notes on Lesson 11, Part 4: Paths to Economic Development, before the Semester Exam
• Watch and take notes on Lesson 11, Part 5: Poverty and Income Distribution, before the Semester Exam

Economic Development 🏗️

D-Day — Allied Invasion of Normany (1944) 🇺🇸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how many developing nations respond to scarce factors of production
• Describe how the status of an economic infrastructure can help and hinder a developing nation
• Explain how political instability can challenge a developing nation

⏰ What We Did

• Calculated per capita GDP for ten countries
• Classified each of the ten countries by their per capita GDP on a provided scale

⚙️ Resources

• Calculating Per Capita GDP (A-22)

💻 Homework

• Watch and take notes on Lesson 11, Part 3: Challenges to Growth, before class on Monday

CJ Barrymore's Junior Class Trip 🎢

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1985) 🚘

⏰ What We Did

• The Junior class was on a trip to C.J. Barrymore's today; Used today as a study hall for those remaining in class

Types of Economic Systems 🌎

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how the three basic economic questions are answered in traditional, command, and market economies
• Describe the roles of self-interest and incentives in a market economy
• Summarize the types of mixed economies that exist today

⏰ What We Did

• Collected last Wednesday's Lesson 9 Lesson Review
• Watched and took instructional notes on Lesson 11, Part 1: Types of Economic Systems
• Used the Lesson 11, Part 1 instructional notes to describe how the three basic economic questions are answered in each of the pure economic models
• Defined the three mixed economic systems and provided examples of current nations for each
• Used an example of owning two cows to describe each economic system, both pure and mixed

⚙️ Resources

• Lesson 11 Instructional Notes
• Lesson 11, Part 1: Types of Economic Systems
• The Tale of Two Cows (Cardsort)
• Examining Mixed Economies (A-21)

💻 Homework

• Watch and take notes on Lesson 11, Part 2: Economic Development, before class on Friday

Lesson 10 Lesson Review 🔟

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review key concepts raised in Lesson 10

⏰ What We Did

• Took a quiz on Lesson 10, Part 2: The Growth of Labor Unions
• Completed Lesson 10 Lesson Review

⚙️ Resources

• Lesson 10 Lesson Review (LR-10)

Unions and Management 🪧

🎯 Learning Targets

• Identify the major issues discussed by labor contract negotiations
• Summarize how union and management reach a contract agreement
• Explain the negotiation tactics used by unions and management

⏰ What We Did

• To gain background for today's assignment, watched a Teamsters-produced video on the 1997 UPS Strike
• To gain further background for today's assignment, read a CNN article about the end of the 1997 UPS Strike
• Examined contract negotiations through a 1997 UPS strike-inspired editorial cartoon and created a political cartoon expressing an opposing view

⚙️ Resources

• Economics Binder Portal (Binder Check on day of semester exam, W 11 June 2025)
• America's Victory: The 1997 UPS Strike (International Brotherhood of Teamsters)
• "It's Official: Teamsters End UPS Strike" (CNN, Aug 20, 1997)
• Examining Labor Issues (A-20)