Directions for Monday 9/29/08

Please grab a WSJ from the back counter and read "Anxiety Spreads" on page 10.

This article deals with inflation and the affects. Please answer the questions below on your blog.

1.  What factors forced Marsha Asbury to raise bagel prices from 69 cents to $1.14?

2. Why have apartment rents increased 18% in Casper Wyo., in the last year?

3. There are many ways to measure inflation define and compare the two measures below in your own words. Please link your sources.

Consumer Price Index

Core Inflation

In your opinion what is the best measure and why?

Please include a picture with your post.

Article on the buyout

here is a link to an article I found (where does it come from?)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/22/dirty-secret-of-the-bailo_n_128294.html

Video Response Warm-up

See directions below for your second post of the day. 

Your first task

Please watch the video below and leave a comment in the comments section. 

writing prompt- what do they mean by the housing bubble.

See directions below for your second post of the day. 

The Housing Bubble

Stop- Before you start today's task, please go look at the comments I left on your post from yesterday. Connor, please post your blog address in the comments section of this post. 

In General

1. You need to provide more details in your writing It is hard to compare two situations with out much to go on.

2. Make sure you are doing your own work. Taking sentences verbatim is plagiarism and many of you are walking a thin line.

3. I can sure leave you busy work, your blog posts should be much more thoughtful and please add more of your own insight.

4. where wikipedia may give you a brief overview, is it the best source you can find? Why is Wikipedia not the best source for academic work?

After you have made your edits to yesterday's post, please research the following

Tuesday's Post please title (The Current Economic Situation)

Today you will be exploring the current economic situation. 

These are writing prompts to get you thinking not questions. Your final product should be in paragraph format with complete sentences. 

1.What led up to the current situation?

• What are Sub-prime mortgages, credit default swaps, and credit insurance contracts? How did they lead to the market crash?
• Who are the Key Players in the banking world (who are the recent bankrupt companies and what lead to their downfall.)
  

2. What is the government buyout?

• How will the proposed plan work? break it down in your own words the way that you understand it.
  
• Who are the key players in government and business

Please Provide a picture as part of your post. 

Monday Video

Comparing the Housing Bubble and the Great Depression

Today you will be focusing on the Great Depression. Tuesday you will focus on the Housing Bubble. 

Monday

Today I would like you to focus on the Great Depression. Using your Internet search skills find information on these three areas.

Causes of the Great Depression

Effects of the Great Depression

How We came out of the Depression

Please post links to your findings. 

Post your finding on your blog by the end of the period. I will be commenting on them tonight.

Thanks,

Mr. Herbert

Directions for Tuesday 9/16

With the assembly today you will have only 15 minutes in class. This should be enough time to at least set up your account on blogger. 

Already have a blog- you will need to go to your dashboard and click add blog- you access your dashboard by clicking the orange logo in the top left. 

No Blog- You will need to set up an account, you do not have to have a g-mail account any web based e-mail will work. I recommend making your password the same as your network log in.

You can look at some other students' business blogs if you need an example.

See you Wednesday