This week class focuses on personal finance. We will explore the topics of:
Managing money; banking; credit and debit cards (and pre-paid cards); credit scores; and identity theft. We will revisit financial values as a topic as our values may influence the financial choices we make.
Friday the 20th or Tuesday the 24 of May there will be a brief unit test that will be corrected in class.
Class begins with two free writes from the following prompts:
Describe a life you'd like to be living in ten years. Be specific about the details of free time, work, activities that make you happy.
What is value? What do you value? What is worth more to you, happiness or money? What is worth more to you, time or money? How do you balance the tension between wanting time and wanting money?
The costs and advantages of banks and credit unions
The costs, benefits, and risks of credit cards
The costs, benefits, and risks of debit cards
The costs, benefits, and risks of pre-paid cards
Protecting your identify
Balancing a ledger
Creating and managing a budget
The outline for the unit is as follows:
Managing money; banking; credit and debit cards (and pre-paid cards); credit scores; and identity theft. We will revisit financial values as a topic as our values may influence the financial choices we make.
Friday the 20th or Tuesday the 24 of May there will be a brief unit test that will be corrected in class.
Class begins with two free writes from the following prompts:
Describe a life you'd like to be living in ten years. Be specific about the details of free time, work, activities that make you happy.
What is value? What do you value? What is worth more to you, happiness or money? What is worth more to you, time or money? How do you balance the tension between wanting time and wanting money?
2 Euros is about $2.27; Would you buy this t-shirt?
The test on Monday, 23 May will cover the topics of:
The costs and advantages of banks and credit unions
The costs, benefits, and risks of credit cards
The costs, benefits, and risks of debit cards
The costs, benefits, and risks of pre-paid cards
Protecting your identify
Balancing a ledger
Creating and managing a budget
The outline for the unit is as follows:
Personal Finance Unit
CONCEPTS
Budgeting
Predictable
Unpredictable
Predictably Unpredictable
Foreseeable
Banking
Credit
Saving
Investing
Insurance
SKILLS
Budgeting
Reconciling
Graphing
and analyzing compounding interest and growth
Calculating
Return on Investment (ROI)
VOCABULARY
Bank Accounts:
Budget
Cash
flow
Balance
Available
Balance
Debit
Cards
Credit
Credit
Line
Insurance
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