Transfer Task 1:
Essential Question: How do economic and political policies impact the United States?
Goal: Your task is to create an economic strategy that will prevent the upcoming recession
Role: You are a top economic consultant in the U.S. and have been hired by the Federal Reserve Bank to develop a strategy to stop the upcoming recession.
Audience: The Federal Reserve Bank
Situation: A major recession is looming and the Federal Reserve Bank needs your help. They have hired you because you are the best. You must figure out how to stop this recession before it hits. Do you raise taxes? Do you buy bonds? You have studied the different theories of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes. You have also read about the economic policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. You must work together with the economist and president who most closely align with your ideas about how to keep the economy from crashing.
- For an economic advisor, you can choose Adam Smith or John Maynard Keynes. How do his ideas align with yours? Use specific examples
- For president, you can choose FDR, Ronald Reagan, or Barack Obama. How do his ideas align to yours? Use specific examples
Product: A two-three page, double spaced report where you present your information to the Federal Reserve Bank
Standards: Your report must be professional quality because it will be presented to the head of the Fed.
Essential Question: How do economic and political policies impact the United States?
Goal: Your task is to create an economic strategy that will prevent the upcoming recession
Role: You are a top economic consultant in the U.S. and have been hired by the Federal Reserve Bank to develop a strategy to stop the upcoming recession.
Audience: The Federal Reserve Bank
Situation: A major recession is looming and the Federal Reserve Bank needs your help. They have hired you because you are the best. You must figure out how to stop this recession before it hits. Do you raise taxes? Do you buy bonds? You have studied the different theories of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes. You have also read about the economic policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. You must work together with the economist and president who most closely align with your ideas about how to keep the economy from crashing.
- For an economic advisor, you can choose Adam Smith or John Maynard Keynes. How do his ideas align with yours? Use specific examples
- For president, you can choose FDR, Ronald Reagan, or Barack Obama. How do his ideas align to yours? Use specific examples
Product: A two-three page, double spaced report where you present your information to the Federal Reserve Bank
Standards: Your report must be professional quality because it will be presented to the head of the Fed.
Transfer Task 2:
Essential Question: How do economic and political policies impact the United States?
Goal: Your task is to read and respond to an article by Jeffry Bartash
Role: You are a high school student who is really interested ways to fix the economy of the United States
Audience: Jeffry Bartash
Situation: You just read Jeffry Bartash's article and you are very interested in one particular issue that he presents. You have a great idea about how to fix this problem and you want his opinion about whether it is a realistic option.
Product: A one page email to Bartash about an economic issue in his article and the solution to fix it.
Standards: Your email must be professional quality because it is being emailed to a real-life economic journalist
Send me the a google doc, acting as if I am Jeffry Bartash.
Article
Transfer Task 3:
Essential Question: How do economic and political policies impact a society?
Goal: Your task is to investigate the different social classes in your society
Role: You are an investigative reporter
Audience: The citizens in your community
Situation: There is a division in wealth and social class in your community and you want to investigate the reasons for this division. You also want to talk to citizens to get their point of view.
Product:
Watch one of the following movies. The setting of the movie becomes the backdrop for your society.
Essential Question: How do economic and political policies impact the United States?
Goal: Your task is to read and respond to an article by Jeffry Bartash
Role: You are a high school student who is really interested ways to fix the economy of the United States
Audience: Jeffry Bartash
Situation: You just read Jeffry Bartash's article and you are very interested in one particular issue that he presents. You have a great idea about how to fix this problem and you want his opinion about whether it is a realistic option.
Product: A one page email to Bartash about an economic issue in his article and the solution to fix it.
Standards: Your email must be professional quality because it is being emailed to a real-life economic journalist
Send me the a google doc, acting as if I am Jeffry Bartash.
Article
Transfer Task 3:
Essential Question: How do economic and political policies impact a society?
Goal: Your task is to investigate the different social classes in your society
Role: You are an investigative reporter
Audience: The citizens in your community
Situation: There is a division in wealth and social class in your community and you want to investigate the reasons for this division. You also want to talk to citizens to get their point of view.
Product:
Watch one of the following movies. The setting of the movie becomes the backdrop for your society.
- Hunger Games
- Batman: The Dark Knight Rises
- V for Vendetta
- District 9
- Write a narrative explaining what type of economy exists in the society from your movie. Is it a capitalist economy? Communist economy? Barter economy? How do you know this? Use examples form Economix.
- Create a Venn Diagram where you compare/contrast the economy of your society (from the movie) with a different type economy that we learned about
- Interview at least two citizens from your community (from the movie) about the economy. What, if any, are the issues that these citizens face? Do they feel any changes need to happen in order to create a thriving economy? What are those changes?