Dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Graduation week!

1. Zoom meeting links for this week:

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ALL late work needs to be in by 3:00pm Wednesday 6/3. Remember, if you have shown no progress toward distance learning (you will earn an INCOMPLETE) If you have shown progress and want to increase your grade by doing missing current events/quizzes/ etc that are currently represented by an asterisks in the gradebook as of now and will change to a zero on Wednesday. Remember those are all assignments prior to March 13th so they can negatively affect your grade.  Please let me know if you need me to open up quizzes or have any questions. FINISH STRONG! 

Building Credit Early in Life — Important Rules of Thumb

1. Zoom meeting links for this week:

Join Zoom Meeting at 10:00 on TUESDAY 5/26
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JUMP$TART NATIONAL STANDARD: Credit and Debt, Standard 3

CEE NATIONAL STANDARD: Using Credit, Standard 1

COMMON CORE STATE STANDARD: CCRA.R.2

CONTENT STATEMENT: Establish rules of thumb to build credit early in life.MATERIALS NEEDED: (included); Building Credit Vocabulary Powerpoint (included)

KEY VOCABULARY/TERMS: Credit, Credit Score, Credit Utilization Rate, Rules of Thumb

1. Students complete the Fact or Myth worksheet, Fact or Myth Worksheet. Students predict how a lack of credit history or bad credit will impact their everyday life. Here is the fact or Myth key Fact or Myth Master 
2. Students read the article “How Credit Impacts Your Day to Day Life” and circle the correct responses.
3. Review the brief article and Infographic on what factors that contribute to building a strong FICO credit score. In the article on the bottom is a short video.“What’s In Your Score?”.
4. Students read the following articles and identify credit building strategies.
   1. “What’s The Best Way to Build My Credit Score?”
   2. “How Do I Get and Keep a Good Credit Score?”
5. Model for students how the complexity of credit building can be coalesced into simple Rules of Thumb* students can remember that are relevant to their lives now, or in the immediate future. Research exhibiting the effectiveness of Rules of Thumb:
6. • Consumer Voices on Financial Rules to Live By. Rep. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, May 2016. Web. 11 Apr. 2016. <http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201603_cfpb_rules-to-live-by_ideas-for-financial-educators.pdf>.
   • Schoar, Antoinette, and Saugato Datta. The Power of Heuristics. Rep. Ideas42, Jan. 2014. Web. 12 Apr. 2016. <http://www.ideas42.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ideas42_The-Power-of-Heuristics-2014-1.pdf>.
7. Distribute to students the CFPB document MY Credit Rules to Live By click here CFPB Credit Rules to Live By as an example of the process of establishing a rule of thumb. Encourage students to use what they learned from the credit building articles, the FICO scoring model, and if applicable a prior lesson on credit reports, when developing their own rules of thumb.

8. DO THIS EXIT TICKET WHEN DONE,CLICK HERE

Enrichment reading:

• “Zina Kumok: ‘Getting My First Credit Card Was So Exciting’”
• “When It Comes to Student Loans, It Pays to Finish Your Degree”
• “The Power of Plastic: What to Know about What You Owe”
• “Take Command of Your Credit Score”
• “Killing the ‘Cockroaches’ of Myths about Money”
• “Getting Creative with Money”
• “Educator Toolkit: Paying for College”
• “Digital-age Danger: Learning to Protect Your Identity”
• “Credit Alert: The Dangers of Overspending and Underpaying”

Financial Goal planning

Join Zoom Meeting at 10:00 on TUESDAY 5/19
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Please click here for the slides presentation on financial goals.
Please click here for the corresponding exit ticket aligned with this weeks lesson "Guided Notes for SMART Goals Lesson “Financial Goals in Focus” OR “Getting off to a S.M.A.R.T Start”

Please go on an check out https://www.mint.com/ this is a great site/app that will help you budget and manage your spending in a secure way. I highly encourage it.

TOPIC/COMPETENCY: Standard: Spending & Saving – Goal setting strategies [i.e. S.M.A.R.T.], integrating personal values, experiences vs. possessions research

CEE National Standard:

II Buying Goods and Services, Standard 7 [Grade 4]

Jump$tart National Standard:

Spending & Saving, Standard 4.

Common Core State Standard:                                                                                               

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL11-12.3

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL11-12.1

LESSON TITLE: “Financial Goals in Focus” OR “Getting Off to a S.M.A.R.T. Start” Objective: Students will learn the elements of a SMART Goal, practice writing goals that address planning for a future financial goal, and identify how their personal values are related to goal setting by completing a values inventory assessment.

May 4th-May 11th EXAM WEEK! 5/11 @1:00pm

Hope you all have been studying hard!
Here is the final information regarding the AP Government and Politics exam.
Click here for essential information for the exam. YOU MUST prepare! Make sure that you go through the checklist and be prepared.

Here are the last practice items that I will give you:

FRQ's Practice Questions, click here.
FRQ Practice Questions guidelines, click here.

Another PRACTICE FRQ, click here.
FRQ Practice question guidelines, click here.

MC Practice, click here. (REMEMBER THIS IS NOT ON THE EXAM BUT SOMETHING TO GET INFORATION ON SUBJECTS THAT COULD BE USEFUL AND ENHANCE ON WRITING)
MC Practice 2 Answers and Explanations, click here.


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This Week AP Gov 4/27- May/1

I am going to link up some practice for you all.
Yes even multiple choice, I think it would be good to help "get the wheels turning"
When done please report your scores after you grade them. BE HONEST! Challenge yourself.

1.Practice Multiple Choice (55) questions, click here.
2. Practice Multiple choice  ANSWERS with explanations, click here.

3.(The Main FOCUS) FRQ Practice Questions, Click here.
4. FRQ Practice guidelines, click here.


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REVIEW APGOPO Exam learning Links

The AP® GoPo exam covers Three different units of study.

• Unit 1     Foundations of American Democracy
• Unit 2    Interactions Among Branches of Government
• Unit 3    Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

*(There is no state/local unit, there is no unit on international politics, there is no unit on Monster Trucks.)

1. Click here for important writing examples from the AP College Board
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPzq48la7A&t=2100s (Great review and you can download his powerpoint. Use this to get the juices flowing)
3. Crash course GOPO choose weaknesses
4. Content Application Writing example. Presents students with an authentic scenario, and assesses students’ ability to do the following:
   • Explain the effects of a political institution, behavior, or process
   • Transfer understanding of course concepts and apply them in a new situation or scenario
5. Argumentation Writing example.  Assesses students’ ability to do the following:
   • Articulate a defensible claim or thesis that responds to the question and establishes a line of reasoning
   • Provide evidence from 1 of the foundational documents listed in the question to support the claim
   • Provide evidence from a second foundational document, or from knowledge of course concepts, to support the claim
   • Use reasoning to explain why both pieces of evidence support the claim
6. 
   
7. MUST KNOW FOUNDATIONAL DOCUMENTS AND COURT CASES
8. Play some of our fantastic review games. For review fun try:
   Random GoPo Flashcards and Review Game
   GoPo Jeopardy!
   Wheel of SCOTUS
   Wheel of Foundational Documents
   BinGoPo
   Name that GoPo Tune
   Odd One Out!
   GoPo Redesign Password
   Matching Supreme Court Case Review Game

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Distance learning

All, as we are in preparation for this distance learning we know there are going to be some bugs along the way.
1. Please help me with knowing your status during this by filling out this google form (If I don't hear from you I will be contacting you): https://forms.gle/B7dr2ieYRmFnjC786
2. Make sure that you are signed up on remind (remind app, that get notifications).This is the best way to push out important information. Listed below are the class join codes:
    2nd period CWP: @f7fkke
    3rd period CWP: @f338cg
    4th period AP GOV: @caaaeb
    5th period CWP: @cfdhbd
    6th period CWP: @3k4e2f
3. Make sure you check this website for everything regarding the class. I will post on here primarily. Make sure you have this site bookmarked.

4. Please visit the site: zoom.com or download the app in the chrome store. This is a way to have class via video. I don't plan on using this often however I will be available for questions or concerns. I do plan on holding an initial one for the entire class for us to practice.

5. If you have work that you have not done, you may still turn it in electronically. via email: jim.reed@washougalsd.org

6. You may also message me via google meet or hangouts, remind (best) or email.
    

Entitlement Project

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