Government/Economics



SyllabusHonors EconomicsMeeting Information:Contact Information:Semester: Spring 2017Teacher: Mr. CiambottiDays: M-FRoom: 245Time: Periods 3,5Phone: 724-634-3030 x. 3245Room: 245Email: aciambotti@wmasd.k12.pa.usCourse Information:Grade: 12Prerequisites: See the Program of StudiesOffered: Spring Semester ElectiveHigh School Credit: ? CreditCollege Credit: 3 Butler County Community College CreditsWeight: 1.2Course Description:Honors Economics is a topical survey of the defining characteristics of the American economy. Special emphasis will be placed on the recurring themes of scarcity, choice, and opportunity cost; specialization and trade; economic and marginal analysis; the free market; the interaction between consumers and producers, and management and labor; the effect of demand and supply on prices and wages; economic statistics; macroeconomic problems and the national government’s solutions; and the role of the financial markets in the economy.Website and Twitter:Website: ciambotti.Twitter: adamciambotti or @adamciambottiTextbook:Schiller, Bradley, R. The Micro Economy Today. 12th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2010.Recommended Materials:The following items are recommended to bring to class every day unless otherwise instructed:3-Ring Binder and PaperAll Supplemental DocumentsAny Assignments DuePencil/PenColored Pencils/PensHighlightersCalculatorPlan of StudyHonors EconomicsTheme 1: Economics: The BasicsUnit 1: Scarcity and Opportunity CostUnit 2: Specialization of Labor and Comparative AdvantageUnit 3: Economic AnalysisUnit 4: Benefits of the Free MarketUnit 5: Free Market FailuresTheme 2: Microeconomics: The Free Market at WorkUnit 6: Consumers and DemandUnit 7: Producers and SupplyUnit 8: PricesUnit 9: Monopolies, Oligopolies, and Monopolistic CompetitionUnit 10: The Resource MarketsTheme 3: Macroeconomics: Problems and Solutions in the Free MarketUnit 11: Macroeconomic StatisticsUnit 12: Aggregate Demand and Supply and the Business CycleUnit 13: Fiscal and Monetary PolicyUnit 14: Government InterferenceUnit 15: International TradeTheme 4: Investments: The Financial Markets at WorkUnit 16: Principles of InvestmentsUnit 17: The Stock MarketUnit 18: The Bond MarketUnit 19: The Commodity MarketUnit 20: The Foreign Currency MarketGrade CalculationsHonors EconomicsQ3 Grade Calculation:Theme Exams: 50% (2 @ 25% Each)Unit Quizzes: 20% (10 @ 2% Each)Visual Economics Drawings: 20% (2 @ 10% Each)Economics by the Numbers Game: 10% (5 @ 2% Each)Q4 Grade Calculation:Theme Exams: 50% (2 @ 25% Each)Unit Quizzes: 20% (10 @ 2% Each)Visual Economics Drawings: 20% (2 @ 10% Each)Economics by the Numbers Game: 10% (5 @ 2% Each)Final Grade Calculation:Theme Exams: 50% (4 @ 12.5% Each)Unit Quizzes: 20% (20 @ 1% Each)Visual Economics Drawings: 20% (4 @ 5% Each)Economics by the Numbers Game: 10% (10 @ 1% Each)Butler County Community College Grade Calculation:Theme Exams: 50% (1-3 @ 16.67% Each)Unit Quizzes: 20% (1-15 @ 1.33% Each)Visual Economics Drawings: 20% (1-3 @ 6.67% Each)Economics by the Numbers Game: 10% (10 @ 1% Each)Butler County Community College Grading Scale:90-100%:A - Superior80-89%:B – Above Average70-79%:C - Average60-69%:D – Below Average0-59%:F – FailureAcademic PoliciesHonors EconomicsWebsite and Twitter Policy:Throughout this semester, I will make extensive use of the course website and Twitter to communicate both instructionally and administratively. The weekly course schedule will be accessible on the main course page for the entire month by the fifteenth of the preceding month. You will receive a hard copy of this and one will be posted in the window by the door. On this schedule, the topics are posted for each day of the month. These topics are hyperlinked to a description of each topic and the corresponding assignment on the relevant unit page. Alternatively, you may navigate to the relevant theme and unit pages to view the topic and assignment descriptions; however, these are not cross-referenced by date here, only on the weekly course schedule.In addition, all hard copies of the syllabus, plans of study, assignments, notes, and any other supplemental documents that students are given in class will also be accessible on the course website, posted on the main course page, or on the relevant theme or unit pages. You will receive one and only one hard copy of these documents. If you lose it, you are responsible for printing another one from the course website. Reading assignments other than the textbook will primarily be accessible only on the course website, posted under the relevant assignment descriptions for each topic. Websites and most videos, whether viewed in class, as an assignment, or as a general reference, will also be accessible on the course website, posted on the main course page, or on the relevant theme or unit pages.Finally, I will use Twitter to announce any changes to the schedule, and to offer updates and reminders. You are responsible for anything that is communicated via Twitter.Assignments Policy:Assignments are always due at the beginning of class on the due date. You are to place any assignment in the Due Now tray on my desk before the bell rings to begin class. Any assignment not turned in at the beginning of class will be considered a minimum of one day late. If you are tardy without an excuse on the day an assignment is due, then that assignment will be considered late. Late assignments will be accepted, but the grade will be reduced by 10 percent per day late.Attendance and Tardiness Policy:Attendance and promptness is vital for success in academics. All attendance and tardiness policies of West Middlesex Area Junior/Senior High School and Butler County Community College (BCCC) will be strictly enforced. When you are absent, you are responsible for reading the topic and assignment descriptions on the course website before talking to me, so that you are aware of exactly what we did in class and what you should have completed or will complete outside of class. You are responsible for any material presented in your absence and it is your responsibility to talk to me upon returning, if necessary, to receive instructions for obtaining that material, and to arrange a schedule for completing any missed assignments, or taking any missed quizzes or exams. Failure to do so or to follow that arranged schedule may result in a zero for that assignment, quiz, or exam. While different circumstances dictate different schedules, the following general rules will apply:1.For short- and long-term assignments, if you receive an assignment and are then absent before the due date and/or on the due date, then the due date remains fixed, or is the day you return, whichever comes first.2.For short-term assignments, if you are absent on the day an assignment is received, then you will be given that assignment on the day you return and will have the same number of days to complete that assignment as the rest of the class.3.For long-term assignments, if you are absent on the day an assignment is received, then you will be given that assignment on the day you return and the due date will remain fixed, since everyone will be in receipt of the assignment well in advance of the due date.4.If you are absent only on the day of a quiz or exam, and/or the day before the quiz or exam if no new material was covered, then you will be required to take that quiz or exam on the day you return to class.Keep in mind that many assignments for this course do not need to be given to you in the sense that it is not a hard copy of a document that is distributed, explained, completed, and returned. Rather, most are reading assignments or some other task that you are expected to perform in order to be prepared for class. Since all assignments are explained on the course website, you are expected to be prepared for class the day you return by completing these assignments during your absence.If any hard copies of documents were distributed during an absence, your copy with your name on it will be placed in your period’s folder in the Pick Up file on the wall near my desk. You must pick this up on the day you return before the bell rings to begin class. If any assignment is to be turned in late, either because of an absence, or even if it is just late, it is to be placed in your period’s folder in the Drop Off file on the wall near my desk before the bell rings to begin class. Quizzes or exams that need to be made up because of an absence can be taken during class or at any prearranged time during the day that is mutually convenient for the both of us. I am very flexible with this. Any quizzes or exams that need to be made up are to be placed in the Drop Off file upon completion.Things to Remember:This course is weighted at 1.2.Your BCCC grade will be calculated after the Theme 3 Exam. This exam will be given approximately midway through the fourth nine weeks during BCCC’s finals period.After this, we will continue with Theme 4. Your grades from Theme 4 will not be included in your BCCC grade, but will be included in your fourth nine weeks’ grade and final grade.It is possible to have a final grade which differs from your BCCC grade.You must earn a C or higher in order for the three credits and this course to transfer to another college or university.If a C or higher is earned, the credits and the course will generally transfer, but the grade generally will not.Even if a C or higher is earned, there is no guarantee that the credits will transfer. That is entirely dependent on the policies of the college that you are attempting to transfer them to and it is your responsibility to find this out. ................
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