- Calculating Pay Quiz
EQ - How do current minimum wage laws impact an individual's personal finances?
- Activator - Minimum Wage "List" & "Inqure"
- Developmental Activity - Can You Survive?
- TPS - Before you begin
- Explain your opinion of a job that will pay your $9/hr.
- Would you be able to provide for yourself at this hourly rate?
- The Experience - Can You Survive?
- TPS - What was this experience like for you?
- Has your perception changed? Why or why not?
- Homework
- Know - Write a short explanation (140 characters or less) of what you now know about minimum wage.
- Discussion - How has your understanding of minimum wage changed as a result of the reading and discussion?
- Muddy Points - What elements of minimum wage are you still working to understand
- Reading & Resources
- A Glimpse at 2013's Debate
- Federal Minimum Wage Law
- The Dream of a $15 Minimum Wage
- A Case Against Minimum Wage
- 4 Reasons Not to Increase Minimum Wage
- Continuation: LINK
- Note - Actively Read the articles listed above (You may print them if you'd like)
- Make Notes about your discussion.
- Look for answers to our inquiry questions, connections to what you already know or heard about in our discussion.
- Write new questions that arose as you read.
- Know - Summarize what you have learned from these readings
- Write a short explanation of what you now know about minimum wage.
- Activator: Row Discussion: What have you learned?
- Share your notes
- Finalize the "Know" box on the organizer
- Class Split
- Left Side - Yes, increase it.
- Right Side - No, keep it the same.
- Partner Discuss: Present your side of the issue and your rationale
- Assessment - Compose a letter to your state representative
- Minimum Wage Pay Calculations
- Calculate the Annual Gross Pay for a person earning minimum wage.
- Identify your state rep. - CLICK HERE
- Write a letter to your state rep. that includes the following:
- Discuss the minimum wage debate: What is the issue, why does it matter, etc.
- Use evidence from your readings and use appropriate citations.
- Discuss both sides of the issue using and provide evidence with citations.
- Propose a recommendation for how your rep should vote on minimum wage law changes
- Provide evidence to support your recommendation
- Discussion - How has your understanding of minimum wage changed as a result of the reading and discussion?
- Muddy Points - What elements of minimum wage are you still working to understand?
Coming Soon
EQ - How do I prepare a tax return?
- Activator: Costs of doing taxes - Answer as a comment to this post (select anonymous, type your first name and then your response)
- Vocabulary Preview - The Language of Taxes - Take notes in your class notebook
- Start Here - Complete Modules 1-13
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