ECONOMICS – CA Honor Roll – the A’s

The following individuals earned A’s on the Economics Exam Common Assessment #1.  Congratulations.

102% – Emily “little” Laughlin – 5
98% – Jamie Potts – 3
97% – Hilary Howard – 2
96% – Michelle Shafer – 3
96% – Onamarie Russell – 5
91% – Dustin Shalifoe – 2
90% – Joel Stewart – 3
90% – Megan Dean – 5
90% [...]

Economics – RWE for OCT 22

This is an RWE Option S Assignment.  This assignment is due on Monday.
Please read the following – email or call or ask if you have any questions.  It may be difficult to dig up a good article  for this week’s assignment.  You will have to do some digging.
Next week we will take a really good look at how [...]

Swine Flu and You

Updated Monday May 17
You will hear a lot about Swine Flu in the next few weeks and months. As President Obama said, “This is a cause for concern, not alarm.” Just make sure to separate fact from fiction. The CDC – Center for Disease Control – is the US Government’s [...]

Econ Quiz on the Banks and the Congress

This is a twenty point quiz.  You may work in pairs or by yourself.  It is due at the end of the class period for periods #1 and #2.
As you know, the US banks have been struggling for awhile due in large part to their own actions during the subprime mortgage crisis, as well as [...]

The Economy & America’s Health Care System

For Economics this week (April 13 to 17) we will take a good long look at America’s Health Care system and how it impacts the Economy and lives of us everyday normal Americans.  You will learn A LOT this week -if you pay attention and stay involved.

Family Health Care Survey – Please take this Health [...]

The State of the American Economy

What follows is an indepth look at various layers of the current financial crisis. We’ve looked at the first one…but the others are just as good.  If you listen to these three podcasts and read “The End”, you’ll know more about what is happening to our economy than the Secretary of the Treasury.  So good [...]

Economics Honor Roll – Common Assessment (Intro)

Congratulations to the following individuals for earning an “A” on the Economics Common Assessment #1.

99% – Brian Nulf (2)
98% – Kayley Meisch (2)
98% – Autumn Woods (3)
98% – Josh Barnard (2)
98% – Shelby Cardinal (5)
97% – Amanda Segelstrom (2)
96% – Nyssa Swanson (3)
95% – Cameron Dean (5)
94% – Amanda Hentsch (5)
94% – Kara Finlay [...]

Economics Honor Roll – MP #4

The following individuals have earned A’s in Economics for MP #4.  Well done.

107% – Nyssa Swanson (3)
106% – Autumn Woods (3)
105% – Kara Finlay (3)
103% – Alicia Rogers (3)
103% – Kayley Meisch (2)
101% – Ariel Burrington (2)
99% – Shelby Cardinal (5)
98% – Shelby Ippen (3)
98% – Josh Barnard (2)
97% – Kari Lowe (2)
96% – Amanda [...]

“To Die for” Genocide in Darfur

You all in the Class of 09 (and many 010’s as well) have dedicated yourselves to many worthy causes over the past couple of years. You fought the good fight against Super Delegates by collecting over 2000 petition signatures calling for the end to the use of super delegates in the Democratic [...]

RWE Blogging the Stimulus Bill – Econ 5 & 6

This post is for fifth and sixth period Economics Classes only.
You have been working with your partner on the New York Times coverage of the stimulus bill. Before you begin the post go through the entire article and survey the bill, take your highlighter, and circle each and every place where Federal dollars are [...]