Hope you all had fun in the snow…I want to start today where we stopped on Monday. The main question I want us to get into is how 16-30 year olds in Durango support themselves and whether there is anything we can do to help them overcome these labor challenges that hopefully the budgeting exercise exposed on Monday.
You’ll see how we’re going to loop back around to our essential questions for the project as we close this introductory unit on economics.
1. Starter – Write three things you’d like to do for a living before you’re 30
2. We’ll then Four Corners on this question – “I will be able to afford to live in Durango doing something I like.” I want to know the reasons for your choice and get your ideas on what you think is possible to get everyone on the “Agree” side of the room
3. Small Groups on Solutions - You’ll divide into groups and do a little research and reporting on one of four different topics: Time Banking, Worker Cooperatives, Living Wage, and Labor Unions. The information you'll need is on the student resources page. I want you to give the whole class the pros/cons and whether you think these ideas are thumbs up, sideways, or thumbs down with regard to our essential question. I’ll go back to our labor supply graph and talk about how things like the minimum/living wage impact the graph
4. During break you’ll give me your products and prices that you brought in for homework.
5. Consumerism – After break, we’ll move from labor to consumerism…the supposed object of working. Consumerism has a history and it’s important to understand this before jumping into this debate.
6. Advertising – A big part of consumerism is advertising. We’ll use the ads you bring in to think about advertising to young Durangatangs.
7. Journaling – You’ll end class journaling about some piece of logic that made an impression on you today. You’ll going to have to do an essay outline for these first two weeks of the course and so I want you to have some ideas for a thesis before the weekend
Homework due on Thursday, January 15th
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You’ll see how we’re going to loop back around to our essential questions for the project as we close this introductory unit on economics.
1. Starter – Write three things you’d like to do for a living before you’re 30
2. We’ll then Four Corners on this question – “I will be able to afford to live in Durango doing something I like.” I want to know the reasons for your choice and get your ideas on what you think is possible to get everyone on the “Agree” side of the room
3. Small Groups on Solutions - You’ll divide into groups and do a little research and reporting on one of four different topics: Time Banking, Worker Cooperatives, Living Wage, and Labor Unions. The information you'll need is on the student resources page. I want you to give the whole class the pros/cons and whether you think these ideas are thumbs up, sideways, or thumbs down with regard to our essential question. I’ll go back to our labor supply graph and talk about how things like the minimum/living wage impact the graph
4. During break you’ll give me your products and prices that you brought in for homework.
5. Consumerism – After break, we’ll move from labor to consumerism…the supposed object of working. Consumerism has a history and it’s important to understand this before jumping into this debate.
6. Advertising – A big part of consumerism is advertising. We’ll use the ads you bring in to think about advertising to young Durangatangs.
7. Journaling – You’ll end class journaling about some piece of logic that made an impression on you today. You’ll going to have to do an essay outline for these first two weeks of the course and so I want you to have some ideas for a thesis before the weekend
Homework due on Thursday, January 15th
None