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 Federal 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
5. Extension Activity - Federal Budget Challenge
1. Can you reduce the federal deficit?
2. Explain the rationale of your choices.
6. Extension Activity - Federal Budget Archives
1. Explore the budget and identify 2 items that you believe are in your best interests.
2. Explore and identify 2 items that you would change.  Explain how.
7. TOD - How can exploring the Federal Budget help you understand your payroll deductions?

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?

IF TIME PERMITS
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

Paychecks Survey

FCCLA Decision Making Method

EQ - How can we develop a logical argument to explain a decision?

1. Activator - Forced Decision
1. Directions
2. Statements
3. Reflection
2. Decide by Chance
3. Introduction to FCCLA's Method - LINK HERE
   
4. As a class - Solving a problem
5. Collaborative Group Activity
1. Choose a problem
2. Identify the 6 steps of DECIDE
3. 4 share
6. TPS - Making Decisions
7. TOD - Answer the EQ

Evaluating SMART Goals

EQ - How do I write an effective SMART Goal?

1. Activator - Quick Recap
2. Quiz Part 1
3. Rewriting SMART Goals
1. TPS - Activity
4. Homework Evaluation
5. Quiz Part 2 

If Time Permits - Life Map Assignment

Introduction to SMART Goals

EQ - How are SMART goals applied to financial decisions?

1. Activator: "Goal Out" - My Future Letter
2. Introduction to Goal Setting (with PPT) 
• Financial v. Educational Goals
• Short-term and Long-term goals
• SMART Goals
3. Identify the missing elements
4. Knowledge Check
5. Team Practice

Résumé Writing

EQ - How do I create an effective résumé?

1. Activator - Resume evaluation
1. CP - First Impressions
2. CP - Evaluate the candidates
2. Debriefing - Who would you like to meet?
3. Introduction to Résumés – PowerPoint
• Take Notes
4. Class Discussion
5. Create or update a personal résumé and upload it to Career Cruising

Résumé Writing

EQ - How do I create an effective résumé?

1. Activator - Resume evaluation
1. CP - First Impressions
2. CP - Evaluate the candidates
2. Debriefing - Who would you like to meet?
3. Introduction to Résumés – PowerPoint
• Take Notes
4. Class Discussion
5. Create or update a personal résumé and upload it to Career Cruising

Introduction 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.

Career Presentations

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