Minimum Wage Laws - Part 2

EQ - How do current minimum wage laws impact an individuals personal finances?

1. Activator - Homework Recap
1. Know -  Write a short explanation (140 characters or less) of what you now know about minimum wage.
2. Discussion - How has your understanding of minimum wage changed as a result of the reading and discussion?
3. Muddy Points - What elements of minimum wage are you still working to understand?
2. Developmental Activity - Can You Survive?
1. TPS - Before you begin
1. Explain your opinion of a job that will pay your $9/hr.
2. Would you be able to provide for yourself at this hourly rate?
2. The Experience - Can You Survive?
3. TPS - What was this experience like for you?
4. Has your perception changed?  Why or why not?
3.  Additional Reading - Federal Minimum Wage Laws
4. Assessment - Compose a letter to your state representative
1. Identify your state rep.
2. Discuss the minimum wage debate
3. Propose a recommendation for how your rep should vote on minimum wage law changes
4. Provide evidence to support your recommendation

Minimum Wage Laws

EQ - How do current minimum wage laws affect your pay?

1. Activator: LINK
1. List - TPS- What do you know about minimum wage?
2. Inquire - TPS - What questions can be formed from this list?
3. Read "The Impact of $9 Minimum Wage"
2. Collaborative Groups - Discussion - What's the big deal about minimum wage?
1. Note - Make Notes about your discussion.  Look for answers to our inquiry questions, connections to what you already know or heard about in our discussion, and new questions that arose as you read.
2. Know -  Write a short explanation (140 characters or less) of what you now know about minimum wage.
3. Discussion - How has your understanding of minimum wage changed as a result of the reading and discussion?
4. Muddy Points - What elements of minimum wage are you still working to understand?

Where do my tax dollars go?

EQ - Where do my federal tax dollars go?

1. Activator - KWL:  What do you know about your federal tax dollars?
2. How are these taxes used? - Where Did My Tax Dollars Go 
3. Partnership Activity
1. Choose one category where tax dollars are allocated
2. Create a poster to illustrate the components of your category
3. Share with the class
4. Assignment
1. Compose a response to answer the EQs
1. Access Google Drive
2. Create a new document
3. Describe your opinion on how our federal income taxes are dispersed.
4. Do you think the allocation is appropriate? Why or why not?
5. If you could change anything regarding how tax dollars are spent, what would you change?  Explain.
6. Submit to Schoology

Gross Pay vs. Net Pay

EQ - What is the difference between gross and net pay?

1. Activator - Survey
2. Access your laptop.
3. Log in and visit the class website
4. Actively Read - "Open Ended Response"
1. Open Ended Response
1. Preview the question
2. Read the article
2. Class discussion
5. Identifying Key Vocabulary
1. Gross Pay, Net Pay, Wages, Taxes, Deductions
6. Previewing a Paystub - Click Here
7. How are these taxes used?
8. TOD - Knowing the effect of deductions from your paycheck, how might this impact you when you begin financial planning using SMART Goals?

Paychecks Survey

Résumé Writing

EQ - How do I create an effective résumé?

1. Activator - LINK
1. List - Create a list of what you KNOW about Résumés 
2. Inquire - Create a list of items you are curious to learn
3. Note - Actively read the article and search for answers to your inquiries
4. Know - Create a list of items that you have learned regarding résumés.
2. Introduction to Résumés – PowerPoint
• Take Notes
3. Class Discussion
4. Create or update a personal résumé and upload it to Career Cruising

Intro to Financial Aid

EQ - How can financial aid impact my future personal finances?

1. List - 10 Things You Need to Know About Paying for College
2. Inquire - What questions do you have about financial aid?
3. Note - Distribution of Article
1. Frame It (Title, Section heading)
2. Anticipate the purpose
3. Actively Read
1. Highlight unknown words
2. Write questions/thoughts in the margin
3. Briefly summarize each section after reading
4. Know - Create a list of answers to your Inquiries AND compose a summary of what you now know.
5. Career Cruising Financial Aid Section
1. Access your portfolio
2. Click Find A School
3. Click Financial Aid (Link @ bottom of page)
6. Find and apply for a scholarship
7. TOD - Muddy Points

HOMEWORK - Find a link to an online scholarship and post it as a comment to this post.

Presentation Day

Career Presentations begin today.  Please prepare by taking out your rubric, a pen/pencil, and a full sheet of paper.

1. Fold the paper in half 3 times
2. Write the presenter's name in the top of the box.
3. Write the title of the career under the name.
4. Actively listen and record two interesting items about the career in the box.

Following presentations, there will be a written assignment that will require you to have these notes

Career Crusising

EQ - What matters to me when choosing a career pathway?

1. AP – Activator - Factors of Career Selection Races
2. Review Decision Making Matrix
3. Factors of Job Selection Quiz
1. Submit Quiz to the Personal Finance tray
2. Take your account information Access Card

EQ - How will managing personal finances impact your major life decisions?

1. Following Your Quiz Activator – Quote Analysis

“Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked.

'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat.

'I don't know,' Alice answered.

'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.”

1. TPS – What makes decision making so difficult?
2. Laptops - www.careercruising.com
3. Discussion Question - What are you hoping to learn during your career exploration?
4. Click the "Assessments" Tab at the top of the page
5. Complete Matchmaker (3 sets of questions)
6. Complete Skills Assessment
7. Browse two of your top choices
8. Create a Decision Matrix to choose which career is best for you to research
9. AO - Begin your research
10. Rubric Distribution
11. Presentation Preparation