1. ECONOMICS: March 22
Warm-up What do you visualize when you hear the word “poverty”? What do you think causes people to live in poverty?
Economics Learning Target In order to understand how to measure the economic and social well-being of the U.S., I will be able to evaluate the impact of poverty. I will know I have it when I can: (1) explain poverty thresholds; (2) discuss the major factors that contribute to poverty; and (3) analyze information contained in a Lorenz Diagram.
Poverty (using Ch. 12, Lesson 3 HO) -Hard Time Generation (video clip); poverty terminology; factors that contribute to poverty; top factor and solutions
Closure How can the cycle of poverty going on from generation to generation in a family be eliminated? Assignment --read Ch. 13, Lesson 1