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. TPS - Minimum Wage Pay Calculations
1. Review calculations
2. Annual take home pay for a person earning minimum wage.
4. Discussion - How has your understanding of minimum wage changed as a result of the reading and discussion?
5. Muddy Points - What elements of minimum wage are you still working to understand?

PART 2
EQ - How do current minimum wage laws impact an individual's 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

WHEN FINISHED:

EQ - How do I prepare a tax return?

1. Activator: Costs of doing taxes - Answer as a comment to this post (select anonymous, type your first name and then your response)
2. Vocabulary Preview - The Language of Taxes - Take notes in your class notebook
3. Start Here - Complete Modules 1-13