End of the Year

Important dates to remember:

5/23           Seniors Last Day

5/24           Depart for California ~ 8am

6/2             Graduation ~ 2pm

Then let the Open Houses Begin!

Congrats to the Class of 2012.

9th grade Seminar- Webquest

Chose one of the following topics and complete the webquest:

Colonial Era

Lincoln (groups of 2)

Slavery

Book Report commercials

Here are some ideas of how to create your commercial:

http://2bflyingpigs.blogspot.com/2009/04/cool-commercial-book-reports.html

Commercials and Reports will be due on January 13, 2012.

8th Grade Web Quest- American Revolution

WebQuest Click here! 

http://www.lasd.k12.pa.us/teachers/purnellj/RWHunt.html

American Revolution- Scavenger Hunt

Chat with V

7th Grade- click below on the RED

Greek Project

url: http://www.rdsc.vic.edu.au/ag/ag2.htm

Sweepstakes

http://www.facebook.com/LifeScoop

apple ipod


General Sweepstakes

Ipad Sweepstakes

Senior Seminar

Sponsored by: Samsung

Samsung is Now Offering Students the Opportunity to Win $500 and a SAMCAM 860 document camera

Through Samsung's 2011 SUPERHERO campaign, we are encouraging students
in grades K-12 to enter a digital video of them portraying a historical
character. The SUPERHERO campaign is both fun and engaging, and allows
students to discover themselves while learning about historical
characters. Students will be judged based on presentation performance,
character accuracy, and content quality. In addition to a $500 cash
prize, student winners will also win a brand new SAMCAM 860 document
camera for their class.

Prizes Awarded:
-$500 for the student
-SAMCAM 860 document camera for the teacher

Winter Quarter Deadline: March 18, 2011
Students can enter at http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=6981241:20769267

Chapter 16 Sec 3- US History

Copy the following outline into a word format. Use your American Visions book to add detail to the outline:

The Rise of Segregation

Chapter 16, Section 3

I. Resistance and Repression

a. Introduction

b. Exodus to Kansas

c. Forming a Separate Alliance

d. Crushing the Populist Revolt

II. Disfranchising African Americans

a. Introduction

III. Legalizing Segregation

a. Introduction

b. Racial Violence

IV. The African American Response

a. Introduction

b. A call fro compromise

c. Voice for the future

Life in the Day~ Webquest

Click the link below and follow along.

Click here

if that doesn't work copy and paste this link below:

http://www.uni.edu/schneidj/webquests/adayinthelife/ADayInTheLife.html

Sold Form for portfolio

* Form is also on edunexo

SOLD

Your Name: ________________________________________

Today’s date : ________________________________________

Stocks you have just before you sell:

Name of Stock	Ticker Name	Number of Shares	Cost per share

Total number of shares: ______________________________________________

Now sell all of your stocks!

What is your total amount of cash? ___________________________

Did you gain or lose from your initial investment of $1 million? ______________

How much? _______________________________________________

If you had to do this all over again and it was REAL money, what would you do differently?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Stock Market Portfolio

Due: Monday, May 10^th, during Block C

Total Points: 100 points

Objective:

· To properly display your investments in the stock market since the beginning of your initial investment. Most people began on April 9^th.

· To state your investment goals throughout the project, how did they change or did they stay the same

· To give your concluding advice about your investments and how you would change it for future investments

Questions to explore:

· What stocks did you invest in?

· At what price did you buy the initial investment?

· What is your final net worth?

· What was your favorite stock to invest in?

· Which company did you hate the most?

Things to include:

· Cover page

· 4 stock market update forms

· Summary of objective and questions (written work)

· SOLD form

· Additional graphs, charts, or explanations

Points:

· Stock market update forms 5 points each~ 20

· Sold form ~ 10

· Answers to objectives 5 points each~ 15

· Answers to questions 5 points each ~25

· Spelling & Grammar ~ 10

· Overall quality of report ~ 5

· Neatness ~ 5

· Organization ~ 5

· Fulfilled investment time frame ~ 5

Bonus:

· + 3 to the person who has the highest net worth

Stock Market Updates

* you will find the classwork for the Stock Market updates on Edunexo.

* remember to email me the completed updates!

Stock Market Tickers

Some students asked in class if I could post a site where you could find what the stock was selling for before you bought it. Well here ya go!

http://finance.yahoo.com/ In the upper left there is a place to type your stock and click "get quotes"

http://www.scottrade.com/?s_kwcid=TC-16867-2277883480-e-157786598 Middle left click "Market Information, Get Quote"

Post below if you have more questions. I will try to respond via blog or email next week! :)

Have a great time trading!

Stock Market

Creating your own Stock Market Trades

1. Go to http://www.smartstocks.com/

2. Click “Enroll for Free” on the left side of the page

3. Fill in your information- only click offers if you are interested- they are usually scams

4. Then Click submit

Once you are enrolled

1. Click “Play now” on the left side of the page

2. Log in using password info

3. It will take you to your portfolio page- DON’T DO ANYTHING YET

4. Click on “group features” on the left side of the page

5. Click Join a group

6. Select “ASSD Econ” from list, Password: Verwys

7. Once you join the group you can go back to your “portfolio” and begin trading

Health Care, one size fits all

Last night the US House of Reps passed the Senate HealthCare bill, putting into law that every American must have health care. Here are a few facts about the bill:

• The vote passed 219 in favor, 212 opposed
• forces business to provide health care to part time workers
• cost to government and tax payers: over $850 billion
• bill included issues like: abortion, money to cities,federal take over of student loans, and other things not related to health care
• some states are suing because they believe it is their state right to decide if they want to offer universal health care, not the governments.... violates Amendment 10- laws not specificaly reserved for federal are given to the state

What effect will universal health care have on a nation economically?

How do you feel about universal health care?

Check with your parents or other adults to see their views on this policy.

It’s a Bloggy Blog World!

For many of you this may be the first blog you have been a part of; for other it may be a long list of ones you follow. Me personally, this is my first year being a part of the blogging community. However, to most people blogs are the new news paper, media center, and information highway. Some people even make money by getting people to sponsor and advertize on their blog pages.  Check out what these BIG time Bloggers make:

• http://www.boingboing.net/ make over $1 million per year, has 2.6 million visitors per month
• http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/ makes over $5,600 per month, 500,000-1.5 million views per day
• http://www.thedigeratilife.com/go/shoemoney-tools, makes $1200 0 month and has 20,000 visitors per day.

My question for you….. If you had to start a blog what would it be about? Who would be your intended audience? Could you see yourself making this a career, or a hobby? I could sure go for making an extra $5600 a month :)

 

Unemployment Benefits increased

Law in the United States: When you are let go from your job you receive what is known as Unemployment Benefits. These are benefits that you are given by the government for a certain amount of time in order to help you get you back up on your feet. Benefits include: healthcare, job searching assistance, and a bimonthly paycheck which usually is about 75% of your original pay check. Usually you would get unemployment for about 8-12 weeks. Last year they increased it to 30 weeks and then they announced an extension of an additional 20 weeks if you still need it. Today they have increased unemployment benefits for up to 99 weeks!!!

This is costing our government and tax payers $10 billion PER MONTH! This is costing more money than financing the war in Iraq!

Read hear for further info and then make your comment below: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030804927_pf.html

Quake in Chili

How does this effect the American economy?

If you haven't heard, early Sunday morning an earthquake sturck outside of CONCEPCION, Chile. It was a 8.8 on the richter scale! That means it is 10 times the size of the one that hit in Haiti just over a month ago. Because of the depth of the shake, and the structure of the buildings, as well as other factors, Chili did not experience as much devistation as Haiti did. However many families have been seperated and people are still searching for loved ones. They will need help from all around the world.

So... how does this effect Americans and their economy? Will it help it or hurt it? Explain your answer.

Trouble with the Euro

Current exchange rate:

1.00 USD

=

0.734293 EUR

Europe thought that by creating a universal monitary exchange they could avoid falling into a recession. Well that just isn't the case any more. The Euro is at an all time low against the dollar (see above exchange rate). Most of this is due to the debt that nations like (PIIGS) Porturgal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain, that hold a large debt.

Do a little research for yourself and post at least 3 sentences about this topic. Some possible questions to answer would be:

• How does this effect the US economy?
• Will this effect the Dominican Republic?
• Will the EU keep using the Euro?
• Should the world adopt a universal currency?
• What are the pros and cons of a universal currency?

Fun Post!

For this weeks post… to lighten the mood a little… let’s make it fun!

1st- post your favorite place to get updated about the news. Whether it’s a website, newspaper, TV show, radio program, whatever, simply post the source and it if has a link include that as well

2nd- comment about the Olympics. Are you watching it? What is your favorite winter sport?

Have fun with this one! See my example comment below.

And a photo of my cat- FRAN- just to make you smile :)