Month

Six Weeks

Major Topics / Learning Focus

Major Assessments / Products

August

1st Six Weeks

Course introduction & expectations; Introduction to Economics; Scarcity; Opportunity Costs & Trade-offs; Production Possibilities Curves; Free Enterprise; Three Economic Questions; Free Markets; Centrally Planned Economies; Mixed Economies.

Lesson 1 review & quiz; Test over Lessons 1–3

September

1st / 2nd Six Weeks

Demand, Supply & Prices; Shifts & Elasticity; Equilibrium; Market Structure; Competition; Money & Banking; Role of Money; Investing; Stocks. Begin 2nd six weeks: Three Economic Questions; Factors of Production; Federal Budget; Competition & Structure.

Test over Lessons 1–3; project/presentations; quiz; Factors Test; Competition Test

October

2nd Six Weeks

Four Factors of Production; Federal Budget; Competition; Businesses & Labor; Corporations; Labor; Labor & Wages; Nonprofit Organizations; Federal Reserve System; Investing; Investing Research; Labor Unions; Role of Money.

Quizzes, research assignments, review/assessment, 2nd Six Weeks Test

November

3rd Six Weeks

Trade-offs & Opportunity Costs; Types of Economies; Fundamentals of Demand; Shifts in Demand; Demand Graphs; Business Project; Globalization; Unemployment; Stock/Trade Introduction; Stock Market; Trade Assignment; Current Events Project.

Quiz; Business Project & presentations; Globalization Quiz; Unemployment Test

December

3rd Six Weeks

Trade Essay; Essay Revisions; Stock Research; Review; Semester Finals. Complete trade/current-events work and stock research before finals.

Trade Essay; Stock Research; Review; Semester Finals

January

4th Six Weeks

Introduction to Government; Foundations & Principles of Government; Types of Government; Origins of the Modern Democratic State; Basics of Democracy; Beginning of American Government; Origins of American Political Ideas; Current Events Project; The Constitution; Federalism & Divided Powers.

Quiz; review; Constitution/Lesson Test; Current Events Project & presentations

February

4th / 5th Six Weeks

National Government & the States; Types of Branches; Two Houses; National Legislation; Comparing Branches; Creating Branches. Begin 5th six weeks: Amendments; Civil Liberties; Amendments Essay; Freedom of Speech; History of Voting Rights.

Quiz; Creating Branches Packet; Test; Amendments Essay

March

5th Six Weeks

Constitutional Rights; Government Overview; Picking Governments; Create Your Own Government; Presentations; Gerrymandering; Freedom & Assembly; Due Process of Law; Rights of the Accused; Government Concepts; Current Events.

Test; Create Your Own Government project/presentations; Gerrymandering Quiz; Current Event presentations; Review

April

5th / 6th Six Weeks

Complete Government Concepts/Current Events. Begin 6th six weeks: American Citizenship; Diversity & Discrimination; Equality; Economic Systems; Government & the Economy; Political Parties; Money & Elections; Wages; Spending & Borrowing; Labor.

Current Event presentations; Equality Quiz; Economic Systems Project; Review/Test

May

6th Six Weeks

Complete Wages, Spending & Borrowing, and Labor; Equality assignment; Review for Final; Semester Finals; course completion.

Review; Test; Semester Finals