Weekly Schedule February 23 – February 27

1st Year Social Studies

Monday:
Assignment Due: America under James Madison
Topic: America under James Monroe and John Quincy Adams, 1817-1828: The Monroe Doctrine and the Missouri Compromise: This program looks at American expansion under presidents James Monroe and John Quincy Adams and how it affected American Indians and foreign powers.
Assignment: Worksheet & Quiz
Tuesday:
Assignment Due: America under James Monroe and John Quincy Adams
Topic: America Under Andrew Jackson, 1829-1836: The Indian Removal Act, The Nullification Crisis, The Battle of the Alamo - This program examines how industrialization, immigration, expansion of slavery, and western movement changed the lives of Americans under the presidency of Andrew Jackson.
Assignment: Worksheet & Quiz
Wednesday:
Assignment Due: America under Andrew Jackson
Topic: America Under Martin Van Buren, William H. Harrison and John Tyler, 1837-1844: The Panic of 1837, The Oregon Trail, Manifest Destiny - This program examines westward expansion and America's financial troubles under presidents Van Buren, W. H. Harrison, and John Tyler.
Assignment: Worksheet & Quiz
Thursday:
Assignment Due: America under Martin Van Buren
Topic: America Under James Polk, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore, 1845-1852: The Mexican War, The Oregon Treaty of 1846, and the Compromise of 1850 - This program examines westward expansion and slave laws under presidents Polk, Taylor, and Fillmore.
Assignment: Worksheet & Quiz

2nd Year Social Studies

Monday:
Assignment Due: Resources
Topic: Economics: The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Goods and Services: Producing - Students learn the differences between goods and services and that each is divided into consumer and industrial. The "factors of production:" are defined and illustrated using real businesses. Through skits, we see how the factors of production can be combined in various ways in a market economy to result in profit or loss.
Assignment: Worksheet & Quiz
Tuesday:
Assignment Due: Producing
Topic: Economics: The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Goods and Services: Needs and Wants - This program defines the three basic needs common to humanity: food and water, shelter, and clothing. This program examines how a market economy works to satisfy wants. Students learn that the principle of "opportunity cost" governs the use of resources to satisfy wants and needs.
Assignment: Worksheet & Quiz
Wednesday:
Assignment Due: Needs and Wants
Topic: Economics: The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Goods and Services: Consuming - The principle of "opportunity cost" plays a major role in consuming, since we cannot have everything we want. Through skits, we are shown the major pressures which influence our choices as consumers. The program traces the growth of consumerism throughout the United States in the last part of the 20th century.
Assignment: Worksheet
Thursday:
Assignment Due: Consuming
Topic: Economics: The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Goods and Services: Money - The evolution of money is traced through history, starting with bartering and ending with today's electronic forms of monetary exchange. Illustrated by humorous skits, the five defining properties of money are shown. The concepts of savings and checking accounts, and credit cards, are presented.
Assignment: Worksheet & Quiz