Monday
4/25

Activities:

• pass back & Discuss Macro MC Test #1
  
   
• Micro & Macro AP Score Breakpoints
  (2012-2019)

Homework:

• Complete 2019 #2-3 (Set 1)
  2019 Set 1 Answers
  
  
• JSlo's Micro Review
  
• JSlo's Macro Review

return to previous month's plans

Tuesday
4/26

Activities:

• Macro FRQ Test #2 
  (2 questions in a shortened class period)
• JSlo's Macro Review
  
  

Homework:

• Micro & Macro AP Score Breakpoints
  (2012-2019)
  
• JSlo's Micro Review
  
• JSlo's Macro Review

Wednesday
4/27

Activities:

• (3rd & 5th Block)  Macro MC Test #2
• (6th Block)  No Class
  
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• ACDCEcon Macro FRQ frequency
  
• ACDCEcon Micro FRQ frequency
• Practiced FRQs:  Old FRQs from previous tests and
  4 short FRQs from AP Classroom on Bank Reserves & Money Supply Expansion
  Answers to Bank Balance Sheet FRQs

Homework:

• Graph Racing for Micro  (w/Mr. Clifford)

• Practice Macro MC   (Macro answers)
• Macro: Unit 2 Key Ideas, Unit 2 Review List, Unit 3 Key Ideas, Unit 3 Review List, Unit 4 Key Ideas, Unit 4 Review List, Unit 5 Key Ideas,  Unit 6 Key Ideas, Unit 6 Review List
  

• JSlo's Micro Review
  
• JSlo's Macro Review
  
  

Thursday
4/28

Activities:

• (6th Block)    Macro MC Test #2
  
• (3rd & 5th Block) No Class
  
•  Table of Contents of ACDC Units
  

Homework:

• JSlo's Micro Review
  
• JSlo's Macro Review
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• 
  
• Answers to Mac Prac FQRs
  ('98-1, 2000-1, 2001-1)

Friday
4/29

Activities:

• Music Fest
• (short class)
• Go through change on AS/AD model, impact in Loanable Funds Mkt, impact on interest rates,  impact on domestic Investment (Crowding Out Effect), impact on trade (Net Export Effect), impact on value of the dollar
• passed out practice MC in both Micro & Macro
• Monetary Policy Response to Recessionary Gap
• Go through change on AS/AD model, impact in Money Market & Loanable Funds Mkt, impact on interest rates, impact on domestic Investment, impact on trade, impact on value of the dollar
• Monetary Policy always affects the SUPPLY for Money
• Changes in Investment b/c of policy
• Understand that Response to Inflationary Gap has exact opposite results
• Goals of Economy
• Fiscal Policy Response to a Recessionary Gap
• Fiscal Policy  always affects the DEMAND for Money
• Changes in Investment b/c of policy
• Understand that Response to Inflationary Gap has exact opposite results
• Capital Account = Financial Account
• Say's Law,  Okun's Law,
• Leakages: (Savings, Taxes, Xn [Exports]), Injections: (Investment, Gov't., Xn [Imports])
• LR & SR Phillip's Curves
• Natural Rate Hypothesis, Adaptations Theory, Rational Expectations Theory
• Supply Side Government
• Stagflation 
• Real vs. Nominal Interest Rates
• 
  
• FRQ Topic Frequency

Homework:

Macro Review Info:

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Monday
5/2

Activiti es:

•  Beginning of Week #1 of AP Tests
• Micro FRQ Topic Frequency
  
• Macro FRQ Topic Frequency

Homework:

• "Review Econ.com" Micro Crash Review (34:26)
   
• JSlo's Micro Review
  
• JSlo's Macro Review

Tuesday
5/3

Activities:

• (Block) No Class
  
  
• Answer specific questions on terms/concepts/graphs of Micro
• Complete 2019 #1 (Set 1)
• 
  
• Micro FRQ Topic Frequency
  
• Macro FRQ Topic Frequency

Homework:

• Mr. Clifford Micro Review
  "Everything You Need to Know"
  
• Bring Textbooks to the Test and turn in afterwards........
  
• JSlo's Micro Review
  
• JSlo's Macro Review

Wednesday
5/4

Activities:

• (3rd & 5th Block)  Final Review
  
  
• Micro FRQ Topic Frequency
  
• Macro FRQ Topic Frequency
• (6th Block)  No Class

Homework:

• Macro "Everything You Need to Know" (Mr. Clifford (29:58)
  
  
• JSlo's Micro Review
  
• JSlo's Macro Review

Goog Meet 8:00 p.m.

Thursday
5/5

Activities:

• (3rd & 5th Block) No Class
  
• (6th Block)    Decompress....................
• Go Team........
  

AP Macro Test Day !
( A.M.)

Homework:

• JSlo's Micro Review

Friday
5/6

Activities:

• AP Micro Test Day !
  ( P.M.)

Homework:

•  Study No More!

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Monday
5/9

Activities:

Homework:

Tuesday

Activities:

Homework:

• Good site for Review
  ("Welker's Economics")

Wednesday

Activities:

• (3rd & 5th Block) 
• (6th Block)  No Class

Went over:

• Great Review Topics

•  Constant Cost vs. Increasing Cost Industry
• Lump Sum vs. Per Unit Tax (picture)
• Lump Sum & Per Unit Tax/Subsidy  (ACDC Video)
• (Lump affects Fixed Costs & Total Costs while Per Unit affects MC, Variable Costs, and Total Costs)
• answer questions on terms/concepts/graphs of Micro
• Price Floor & Price Ceiling
• Surplus (Qs>Qd at given price) & Shortages (Qd>Qs at given price)
• Cross Elasticity (are items related, subs, comps, or independent) & Income Elasticity (Normal Good or Inferior Good)
• Law of DMU (Demand),
  ex. Cookies or M&Ms
• Law of Diminishing Returns (Supply),
  ex. JSlo's Pizza Palace
• Consumer Surplus & Producer Surplus in a Monopoly (& compare w/ Perfect Competition) (video)
• ACDC Micro 4-12 Dead Weight Loss (4:46)
• Taxes impacting price & quantity
• Who Bears Burden?
• MRP=MRC
• define: Derived Demand
  Marginal Product, Marginal Revenue Product, Marginal Resource Cost (aka Marginal Factor Cost)
• Supply/Demand for Labor in:
  Perfectly Competitive Mkt &  Monopsony
• Labor Market Comparison
• Remember the 3 Rules of Production:
• Table of Contents of ACDC Units
• passed out Graph paper and students drew major graphs & discussed
  [Perfect Competition, Pure Monopoly, difference b/t Pure Monopoly & Natural Monopoly, Economies of Scale]
• Answer specific questions on terms/concepts/graphs of Micro
• Elasticity, Mid-Point Formula
• Game Theory, Dominant Strategies, Nash Equilibrium
• Least Cost Rule, Profit Maximizing Rule
• Maximizing Utility Rule (formula)
• Review: Demand Determinants & Supply Determinants, Market Structure Characteristics
• Perfect Competition, Pure Monopoly, difference b/t Pure Monopoly & Natural Monopoly,
• Table of Contents of ACDC Units
• answer questions on terms/concepts/graphs of Micro
• Negative Externality, Positive Externality, & Tax Incidence
• Least Cost Rule (formula)
• Profit Max Rule
• Perfectly Competitive Labor Market &
  Monopsony, Visual 6 (The Wage Rate and Level of Employment in a Monopsonistic Labor Market)
• Wage determination in a competitive labor market Visual 5 (The Supply of and Demand for Labor in a Competitive Labor Market)
• Bilateral Monopoly
• Impact of Unions on Wages & Quantity hired
  
• Mr. Clifford on Circular Flow
  
• ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
• Emphasize important concepts & graphs for Micro Unit 1 Key Ideas, Unit 2 Key Ideas, Unit 2 Review List,  Unit 3 Key Ideas, Unit 3 Review List, Unit 4 Key Ideas, Unit 4 Review List, Unit 5 Key Ideas, Unit 5 Review List
• ------Review for Micro:
• Review Old Free Response Questions
• Major Graphs of Micro
• Various terms & concepts discussed including:
• Micro Review Topics
• Remember the 3 Rules of Production:
• Constant Cost vs. Increasing Cost Industry
• Lump Sum vs. Per Unit Tax (picture)
• Lump Sum & Per Unit Tax/Subsidy  (ACDC Video)
• (Lump affects Fixed Costs & Total Costs while Per Unit affects MC, Variable Costs, and Total Costs, difference between "Diminishing Returns (MC & SR) & Economices of Scale (ATC & LR), Negative Externality, Positive Externality, & Tax Incidence (who bears burden?)
• Least Cost Rule (formula)
• Profit Max Rule
• Completed & Discussed
  2017 Micro FRQs  #1 & #3 & 2017 Answers
• Complete 2016 Micro FRQs  2016 Answers
  
• Practice Micro MC    (Micro answers)
  
• Annnounced
   25 Practice Questions on Costs of Production

Homework:

Thursday

Activities:

• (3rd & 5th Block) No Class
  
• (6th Block)    see yesterday
• ACDCEcon Macro FRQ frequency
  
• Foreign Exchange Rate Explanations (Youtube)
  
• Differentiate b/t Monetary & Fiscal Policy
• Multipliers.........
• Micro Review Materials:
  
• Game Theory, Dominant Strategies, Nash Equilibrium
• Least Cost Rule, Profit Maximizing Rule
• Maximizing Utility Rule (formula)
• Review: Demand Determinants & Supply Determinants, Market Structure Characteristics
• Perfect Competition, Pure Monopoly, difference b/t Pure Monopoly & Natural Monopoly,
• Table of Contents of ACDC Units
• answer questions on terms/concepts/graphs of Micro
• Negative Externality, Positive Externality, & Tax Incidence
• Least Cost Rule (formula)
• Profit Max Rule
• Perfectly Competitive Labor Market &
  Monopsony, Visual 6 (The Wage Rate and Level of Employment in a Monopsonistic Labor Market)
• Wage determination in a competitive labor market Visual 5 (The Supply of and Demand for Labor in a Competitive Labor Market)
• Bilateral Monopoly
• Impact of Unions on Wages & Quantity hired
  
• Mr. Clifford on Circular Flow
• ----------------------
• Constant Cost vs. Increasing Cost Industry
• Lump Sum vs. Per Unit Tax (picture)
• Lump Sum & Per Unit Tax/Subsidy  (ACDC Video)
• (Lump affects Fixed Costs & Total Costs while Per Unit affects MC, Variable Costs, and Total Costs)
• answer questions on terms/concepts/graphs of Micro
• Price Floor & Price Ceiling
• Surplus (Qd>Qs at given price) & Shortages (Qd<Qs at given price)
• Cross Elasticity (are items related, subs, comps, or independent) & Income Elasticity (Normal Good or Inferior Good)
• Law of DMU (Demand),
  ex. Cookies or M&Ms
• Law of Diminishing Returns (Supply),
  ex. JSlo's Pizza Palace
• Consumer Surplus & Producer Surplus in a Monopoly (& compare w/ Perfect Competition) (video)
• ACDC Micro 4-12 Dead Weight Loss (4:46)
• Taxes impacting price & quantity
• Who Bears Burden?
• MRP=MRC
• define: Derived Demand
  Marginal Product, Marginal Revenue Product, Marginal Resource Cost (aka Marginal Factor Cost)
• Supply/Demand for Labor in Perfectly Competitive Mkt
•  Monopsony
• Labor Market Comparison
• Remember the 3 Rules of Production:
• Table of Contents of ACDC Units
• ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
• List of Sites for practice Micro MC Questions
• Concepts covered included:
• Elasticity
• Mid-Point Formula  (make sure to study this)
• Economic Rent Activity Answers
• Supply/Demand for Labor in:
  Perfectly Competitive Mkt &  Monopsony
• Labor Market Comparison
• Impact of Union negotiation (goals of Unions matter) on wages/quantity of labor employed
• Remember the 3 Rules of Production:
• 2011 B Micro FR   (we did all 3)
  (short class b/c of MusicFest)
  
• Good site for Review (Welker)
• Characteristics of Market Structures
• Monopolistic Competition earning an Economic Profit in the SR and an Economic Loss in SR, and Zero Economic Profit in LR Equilibrium

Homework:

Friday

Activities:

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Monday
5/16

Activities:

Homework:

Tuesday
5/17

Activities:

Homework:

• ACDC Econ Homepage
  
• ACDCEcon Macro FRQ frequency
  
• ACDCEcon Micro FRQ frequency
  
• Mr. Clifford's Macro FRQ Predictions

Wednesday
5/18

Activities:

• P.S. NO Careless Boo Boos!

Homework:

•  
• ACDC Econ Homepage

Thursday
5/19

Activities:

• (Block) No Class

Homework:

• bring textbooks to class tomorrow

Friday
5/20 

Activities:

 Graduation
  and there they go

Homework:

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Monday
5/23

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Tuesday
5/24 

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Wednesday
5/25 

Activities:

• (Block) 

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Thursday
5/26 

Activities:

• (Block)    No Class

Homework:

Friday
5/27

Activities:

•  Graduation !!
  

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Monday
 5/30

Activities:

•  Memorial Day

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