Labor and Business


Date:
In Class Assignment
Homework
Fri
9/4
  • Lecture: Demand
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  • Extra credit films for this unit include: Roger and Me, The Corporation, Norma Rae, Supersize Me, Erin Brockovich (on movie night only), Deepwater Horizon, The Founder, & American Dream, and Tucker. There is a maximum of two credit videos per semester and one for any single unit. Here is the form
  • Print out the Business & Labor Unit crossfire and keep ready for when we debate in class.
  • Listen to NPR news now on TUESDAY 9/8 and take notes (using the normal questions from your asynchronous day) in YOUR CLASS NOTES. Note: I will collect all your notes up to this point on Friday.
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    Wed
    9/9
  • Lecture: Supply
  • Start Lecture: Business Types: Sole Proprietorship ((Film Clips: Simpsons), Partnerships, Corporations (Film Clips: Citizen United/Sarnakovas)
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  • Do Minimum Wage and Unemployment Sheet
  • Get out of the Saratgoa bubble for a few minutes. Take cornell notes on this podcast. (Note you can listen on spotify too). In your paragraph conclusion at the end reflect upon the story and suggest a solution to the problem
  • If you'd like to watch video guide for Tucker for extra credit print out the worksheet, have your parents sign the form and write that you watched the film.
  • Reminder your cornell notes for the class so far are due on Friday.
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    Fri
    9/11
  • Finish Lecture: Business Types: Sole Proprietorship (Film Clips: Simpsons), Partnerships, Corporations (Film Clips: Citizen United/Sarnakovas/Advantages of Corporations: Corporations are People, Citizens United v. FEC, & Thank You For Smoking, The Corporation, Erin Brockovich & Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room)
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  • Read Tulipmania (interactively highlight).
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    Tues
    9/15
  • Lecture: Market Structures
  • Assign Sweatshop/Min. Wage Debate Roles
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  • Print out, or have ready the Project Brief for the Shark Tank Project
  • Take the slavery footprint quiz, screen shot your results an upload to canvas.
  • Those In the Minimum Wage Debate:
  • Print out, read and interactively highlight the minimum wage question
  • Those in the Sweatshop Trial:
  • Interactively read the modern sweatshop issue (by 9/18) Also, print out, read, and start preparing a defense for your group in the Sweatshop Trial(due 9/22). Be prepared with a 1 to 1 1/2 page opening statement for the Sweatshop Trial by 9/22. Here are the individual groups Multinational Corporations, Poor Country Ruling Elite, Poor Country Workers, United States Consumer, System of Profit

    • Wed


    9/16
  • Download the NPR Podcast form for your Wednesday asynchronous learning. doc format or PDF format and upload them Wednesday afternoon to Canvas.Asynchronous Learning: (lsiten to NPR News Now, Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal and do the assignments on Khan Academy. Take notes on the videos on the back page of your NPR guide.) Turn this in by 10:59 this evening.
  • See Homework from above.
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    Fri
    9/18
  • Launch Sharktank
  • Start Lecture: Labor in America & Its Inequalities : Underemployment and poverty
  • Video Clips: Is Walmart Good For America


    We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.
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  • Print out, read and interactively highlight lnequality Grows
  • Interactively read: Wage Equality Here is the PDF Version
  • Also, Those in the Sweatshop Trial: Be prepared with a 1 to 1 1/2 page opening statement for the Sweatshop Trial next Wednesday. Here are the individual groups Multinational Corporations, Poor Country Ruling Elite, Poor Country Workers, United States Consumer, System of Profit
  • Those in Minimum Wage Debate should also be ready for the debate with a 1 page intro statement and some bullet points to attack the other side and be prepared to argue their points to a senate committee. Here are a couple of links that can help. Make sure you look at the following.
  • Proponents should argue:
       -Not a liveable wage
       -Not kept up with inflation
       -Doesn't cost jobs
       -should be increased
  • Opponents should argue:
       -costs jobs
       -forces companies out of the country
       -damages America
    • Tues
    9/22
  • Lecture: Reasons for gap between productivity and Wages: Gender Pay Gap, Sweatshop Introduction Videos, Sweatshop Trial: Who is to Blame?
    Multinational Corporations, Poor Country Ruling Elite, Poor Country Workers, United States Consumer, or System of Profit, Post Sweatshop Trial Debrief

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  • Complete, the What to do with Sweatshops Postscript we started in class today and make sure you listen to the soundcloud (before answering question #3) and staple the Sweatshop Addendum to the front.
  • Download and print out the Inequality For All video guide and bring it to class.
    • Wed
    9/23
  • Asynchronous Learning: Listen to NPR News Now, doc format or PDF format. Do not do Marketplace this week. Then spend 30 minutes with your group brainstorming ideas for Sharktank. (Take notes on your discussion and piost this with your NPR.) Turn this in by 10:59 this evening.
  • See Homework from above.
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    Fri
    9/25
  • Finish Sweatshop Trial
  • Continue Lecture on Labor: Problem with Productivity and Compensation: Racial and Age Discrimination
  • Minimum Wage Debate
  • Start Lecture on Inequality: Underemployment and poverty
  • Crossfire #3: Corporations good or bad?
    'The ranks of America's poorest poor have climbed to a record high' according to the most recent Census Bureau report. It said the data also indicate poverty is spreading further into mainstream America. Meanwhile the Walmart heirs, who still own a substantial portion of the firm, have more wealth than the bottom 30 percent of Americans put together.
  • Interactively read Women do Office Housework
  • Be Prepared to argue either side of the inequality issue in your crossfire. You do not need to interactively highlight it but make sure you read it.
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    Tues
    9/29
  • Film: Inequality for All
  • Finish Inequality Lecture and do Crossfire #2: Inequality in America
  • Finish up the Inequality for All Video Guide. Do the forget the essay question.<
  • You must watch 45 minutes of one of the 3 presidential debates. Please put the date and the times you watched the debates and complete this form here is the doc version
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    Wed
    9/30
  • Download the NPR Podcast form for your Wednesday asynchronous learning. doc format or PDF format and upload them Wednesday afternoon to Canvas.Asynchronous Learning: (lsiten to NPR News Now only.) Turn this in by 10:59 this evening. Each member of the group should also turn in your Shark Tank Brainstorming Assignment. (Note they can be the same)
  • See Homework from above.
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    Fri
    10/2
  • Finish final crossfire: Inequality
  • Start Lecture: Macroeconomics on inflation/and the Trial of Ann Flation
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  • Study for Next Friday's Quiz by going over your cornell notes.
  • Print out & Read theFRQ Advice handout.
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    Wed
    10/7
  • Your team should decide on your final product and schedule a meeting with Mr. Davey duirng tutorial between 1-2pm: You should have completed a 1 page rough draft of your exectuive summary that highlights the key points from each part of your business plan.
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  • See Homework from above.
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    Fri
    10/9
  • Trial of Ann Flation and Finish Lecture: Macroeconomics on inflation
  • Start Lecture: Money and the Fed
  • Quiz: Intro to Economics and Microeconomics
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  • Print out the Unit Crossfire
  • Go to New Unit, Macroeconomics
  • Download, listen to, take notes on, write a summary for, and reflect upon Threat of White Supremacists
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