Finally Starting Economics - a Crash Course!

This week marks our official THIRD LAST WEEK!!! Which means, you should start reviewing things for your diploma over the Christmas break. Our last unit deals with economics, so we will be looking at how capitalism developed (a bit of a review from the beginning of the semester), how it evolved into modern capitalism, how communism attempted to solve the issues of capitalism, and key historical events that have led to the evolution of modern capitalism.

Some things to remember this week:

1. Your Dictatorship for Dummies project is due on Thursday
2. You will be having your Dictatorship and Cold War exam on Friday - probably between 25 and 30 multiple choice questions.
3. Rough copies of essays will be returned tomorrow - final draft is due on FRIDAY by 3:00 pm
4. Dates for doing your final writing assignments (in either a 2.5 hour or 3 hour time setting):
• Monday, January 4 - starting in your spare 
• Wednesday, January 6 - Starting in your spare (you should finish earlier as it is early dismissal)
• Thursday, January 7 - starting in your spare
• PLEASE SIGN UP WITH ME FOR WHICH DAY YOU ARE DOING THIS SO I KNOW HOW MANY COMPUTERS TO SIGN OUT BY FRIDAY!!!!

This Week In Social...

Monday:

Some videos about the Cold War....

Tuesday: 

• Aspects of Classical Capitalism that led to the Industrial Revolution
• How did the British government React to Classical Capitalism? 
• Pros and cons of the ideology
• Case Studies: Henry Ford vs. John D. Rockefellar
• When does self-interest become too much?

Wednesday

• Citizen and government responses to industrialization
• Responses in the Industrial Revolution
• Roosevelt's Progressivism
• Debate: Is it the government's responsibility to check industrial growth and protect workers in a capitalist economy?

Thursday:

• Rants by Corbin, Andrei and Ryan F
• Problem 2 with capitalism: The Roaring Twenties and the Stock Market Crash

Friday:

• Dictatorship and Cold War Exam