1/4 (due 1/5) - Read and take notes on pages 6-11.
1/5 (due 1/6) - Read and take notes on pages 12-14.
1/6 (due 1/9) - Read and take notes on pages 15-17.
1/9 (due 1/10) - Read and take notes on p. 18-19.
1/10 (due Thursday, 1/12) - Read and take notes on p. 20-21. Quiz on Thursday. Organize and review your notes.
1/12 (due 1/13) - Read and take notes on p. 22-27.
1/13 (due 1/17) - Research a news story which relates to economic health indicators. Be prepared to tell the class about it and how it is an indicator of economic health.
1/17 (due 1/19) - Read and outline pages 32-35.
1/19 (due 1/20) - Read and outline pages 36-37 (first 2 pages of Stocks)
1/20 (due 1/23) - Read and take notes on p. 38-39.
1/23 (due 1/24) - Read and take notes on p. 42-43.
1/24 (due 1/26) - Organize and review notes for quiz on Thursday.
1/26 (due 2/1) - Write a 1-page reflection on the movie "Inside Job." What did you learn and what did it make you think or feel?
1/30 (due 1/31) - Read and take notes on pages 46-47.
1/31 (due 2/2) - Finish the 1-page reflection on the movie "Inside Job."
2/2 (due 2/3) - Read and take notes on p. 48-49.
2/3 (due 2/6) - Read Bloomberg News article on Facebook IPO.
2/6 (due 2/7) - Read pages 50-51 on stock short sales (selling short).
2/7 (due 2/8) - Read and take notes on p. 52-53 (Buying on margin).
2/8 (due 2/9) - Read and take notes on p. 54-55.
2/9 (due 2/13) - Read and take notes on p. 58-59.
2/13 (due 2/14) - Read and take notes on p. 60-61 (Evaluating Companies)
2/14 (due 2/15) - Be prepared to discuss 2 investments you are considering for the Stock Market Game. Why are you interested in them?
2/15 (due 2/16) - Read and take notes on p. 62-63.
2/16 (due 2/17) - Find 2 more potential investments.
2/17 (due 2/22) - Make at least one trade on Tuesday, 2/21, the day the game begins. Make sure you have your login and password with you. The website is smgww.org
2/22 (due 2/23) - Read and take notes on pages 68-69. (Evolving Markets)
2/23 (due 2/24) - Briefly write up what you have bought and why you have bought it.
2/24 (due 2/27) - Review for quiz on Monday (starting on p. 44, Selling New Stock, through p. 71, Tracking the Markets, also questions from the movie "Inside Job.")
2/27 (due 2/28) - Study for quiz tomorrow. See above.
2/28 (due 2/29) - Read and take notes on page 72-73. (Market Cycles)
2/29 (due 3/1) - Read and take notes on pp. 76-77 (Trading Around the Clock)
3/1 (due 3/2) - Read and take notes on p. 78-79 (Tracking International Markets)
3/2 (due 3/5) - Read and take notes on p. 82-83 (Privatization)
3/5 (due 3/6) - Read and take notes on p. 84-85 (Bonds: Financing the Future)
3/6 (due 3/7) - Study for quiz on p. 72 (Market Cycles) to p. 85 (Bonds: Financing the Future) tomorrow.
3/7 (due 3/8) - No HW
3/8 (due 3/9) - Finish reading selection from "The Big Short."
3/9 (over the break) - Manage your portfolio.
3/26 (due 3/27) - Read pages 86-87 (The Bond Certificate)
3/27 (due 3/28) - Make a list of what you own and describe how it has done.
3/28 (due 3/29) - Read pages 90-91 (Rating Bonds)
3/29 (due 3/30) - Read pages 92-93 (Tracking Bond Performance)
3/30 (due 4/2) - Read pages 94-95 (Municipal Bonds)
4/2 (due 4/3) - Read pages 96-97 (U.S. Treasury Notes and Bills)
4/3 (due 4/4) - Read pages 98-99 (A Bond Vocabulary)
4/4 (due 4/5) - Review for quiz tomorrow on pages 86-99 ("The Bond Certificate" through "A Bond Vocabulary")
4/5 (due 4/10) - No HW
4/10 (due 4/11) - Write a paragraph describing how your portfolio could be improved and how you plan to do to improve it.
4/11 (due 4/12) - Read and take notes on pages 106-107 (Mutual Funds: Putting It Together)
4/12 (due 4/13) - Read and take notes on p. 108-109 (The Mutual Funds Market)
4/13 (due 4/17) - Read and take notes on p. 110-111 (Targeted Investments)
4/17 (due 4/18) - Read p. 112-115 (from Focused Funds to Inside a Mutual Fund)
4/18 (due 4/19) - Finish SAT math section.
4/19 (due 4/23) - Review section 7 of SAT math. Final next Friday.
4/23 (due 4/24) - Finish SAT section 2.
4/24 (due 4/25) - Study for Final on economics and SAT sections 2 and 7.
4/25 (due 4/26) - Study for Final on economics and SAT sections 2 and 7.
4/26 (due 4/27) - Study for final exam tomorrow.