OK guys…we will finish the year by looking closely at the continent of Africa. You may choose a partner if you wish. I need you to concentrate on a single African nation. Make sure of both decisions. The individual who you connect with will have a large baring on your Marking Period #4 grade. Make sure that you fully appreciate his or her work ethic (or lack of one). Secondly, you need to invest in a single African state. You’ll learn about the others, however I expect that your relationship with this home state will be intimate. Make each of these choices wisely. I’d to have your decisions finalized by Monday. Continue reading →
Exploring Africa – an introduction on gapminder.org
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College Talk #1 – To Go or Not
For all things college – go to our website – building a better world.net. Please check Google Classroom Economics Assignments for informative podcasts and extra credit opportunities. Go here to find Google Classroom Reflection Blendspace features.
- College Talk #1 – To go or Not to go…
- Assignment – post to google classroom (copy questions)
- Yes it is worth it – MSNBC (11/17/11)
- Degree – Payoff is growing– New York Times (9/21/10)
- What’s more expensive than going? Not going. – Atlantic (2012)
- Yes, a college degree is worth the cost– USA Today (12/6/11)
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Travel the World with SCI – Final Post…
Final Post for this assignment is due by 11:59 PM on Thursday, April 16. This final post is worth 100 points.
- Your Final project must include the Following:
- Large Calendar – complete with daily city/country destination and “1 to 5 Things to do”
- Travel Notebook – daily log complete with lodging, traveling (flight, train, car, or bus).
- One complete and continuous daily “Things to do” notation covering the entire trip, complete with photos – you should also have lodging linked and titled at the end of each day. Make sure that you label the beginning of each new day so that it is noticeably separated from the previous day. Post this to google classroom, by combining all of the travel days on your calendar into one post.
- Hand in the calendar and notebook on Friday. The “Things to Do” itinerary should be posted to Mr. Wood by 11:59 PM on Thursday April 16.
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College Talk 1 – Pre unit survey
We will be spending the next month in Economics on an issue that is essential to your future. What are you going to do when you get out of Oakridge; how will you create valuable human capital and how are you going to pay for it? Some pretty big challenges await. Post high school training is a necessity in this highly competitive globalized economy. You can’t go into this thing blind, and you cannot go into it lazy. A high school diploma is virtually worthless in today’s society; we need to lay some solid groundwork on what comes next. And we need to do it with eyes wide you.
Let’s start with this survey. It’s fully anonymous. Nobody will know its you; me included. But the fact that you are honest and detailed in answering the questions should give us a good start on a very very important study. So…take your time. Check your spelling. And do your best work. We will thoroughly discuss the responses as a class.
Create your own user feedback survey
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TKO in the 8th – King Charles retains the Title
With a flurry of punches in the Essay portion of the Exam – Charles “The King” Klug, knocks out Tommy “The Machine” Alder in the Heavyweight Championship of the world.
On points in eight rounds – 84 to 77. The King retains his crown. the battle royale…
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