- Review the key concepts of Unit 1 of AP Microeconomics
- Revisited key themes and important terms presented in Unit 1
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Unit 1 Study Guide ✏️
HOMECOMING 2025: TODAY IS CRAZY HAT DAY 👒
🎯 Learning Targets
Monday, September 29, 2025
Unit 1 Study Guide ✏️
HOMECOMING 2025: TODAY IS TOMATO DAY 🍅
🎯 Learning Targets
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Review the key concepts of Unit 1 of AP Microeconomics
- Broke down how to answer FRQs
- Revisited key themes and important terms presented in Unit 1
📖 Corresponding Reading
Friday, September 26, 2025
1.6 Marginal Analysis 🧐
- Define the key assumptions of consumer choice theory
- Explain how a rational consumer’s decision making involves the use of marginal benefits and marginal costs
- Calculate how a rational consumer’s decision making involves the use of marginal benefits and marginal costs
- Define marginal analysis and related terms
- Explain a decision using marginal analysis
- Discussed the answers to yesterday's "Marginal Analysis" problem set
Thursday, September 25, 2025
1.6 Marginal Analysis 🧐
- Define the key assumptions of consumer choice theory
- Explain how a rational consumer’s decision making involves the use of marginal benefits and marginal costs
- Calculate how a rational consumer’s decision making involves the use of marginal benefits and marginal costs
- Define marginal analysis and related terms
- Explain a decision using marginal analysis
- Explored consumer-choice theory
- Identified the difference between marginal utility and marginal benefit
- Summarized how and why economists use marginal analysis
📖 Corresponding Reading
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
1.5 Cost-Benefit Analysis 🧐
- Define opportunity cost
- Explain the opportunity costs associated with choices
- Calculate the opportunity costs associated with choices
- Explain a decision by comparing total benefits and total costs
- Calculate total benefits and total costs
- Defined cost-benefit analysis and the role of rational agents in calculating opportunity costs
- Compared total benefit with total cost and how they relate to marginal benefit and marginal costs
📖 Corresponding Reading
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
1.4 Comparative Advantage and Trade 🔄
- Define absolute advantage and comparative advantage
- Determine (using data from PPCs or tables as appropriate) absolute and comparative advantage
- Explain (using date from PPCs or tables as appropriate) how specialization according to comparative advantage with appropriate terms of trade can lead to gains from trade
- Calculate (using data from PPCs or tables as appropriate) mutually beneficial terms of trade
- Discussed the answers to last week's "Absolute vs. Comparative Advantage" problem set
Monday, September 22, 2025
1.3 Production Possibilities Curve 📉
- Define (using graphs as approrpriate) the production possibilties curve (PPC) and related terms
- Explain how the PPC illustrates opportunity costs, trade-offs, inefficiency, efficiency, and economic growth or contraction under various conditions
- Discussed the answers to last week's "Understanding Graphs" assignment and "Scarcity and Choice" problem set
Friday, September 19, 2025
1.4 Comparative Advantage and Trade 🔄
- Define absolute advantage and comparative advantage
- Determine (using data from PPCs or tables as appropriate) absolute and comparative advantage
- Explain (using date from PPCs or tables as appropriate) how specialization according to comparative advantage with appropriate terms of trade can lead to gains from trade
- Calculate (using data from PPCs or tables as appropriate) mutually beneficial terms of trade
- Stickered the three-inch three-ring binders
- Calculated absolute advantage
- Calculated comparative advantage
- Calculated favorable terms of trade
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Complete Absolute and Comparative Advantage problem set before class on M 22 Sep 2025, if necessary
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Where In the World is... Chapter 2 Notes? 🕵️♂️
- Turned in — and searched for — Chapter 2 notes of Principles of Microeconomics
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
1.3 Production Possibilities Curve 📉
Today's class was led by a guest teacher.
Today is Constitution Day 📜
🎯 Learning Targets
- Define (using graphs as approrpriate) the production possibilties curve (PPC) and related terms
- Explain how the PPC illustrates opportunity costs, trade-offs, inefficiency, efficiency, and economic growth or contraction under various conditions
- Completed and turned in the PPC problem set from yesterday
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
1.3 Production Possibilities Curve 📉
Today's class was led by a guest teacher.
🎯 Learning Targets
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Define (using graphs as approrpriate) the production possibilties curve (PPC) and related terms
- Explain how the PPC illustrates opportunity costs, trade-offs, inefficiency, efficiency, and economic growth or contraction under various conditions
- Using yesterday's instructional notes on 1.3, calculated opportunity costs using a given PPC
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Complete PPC problem set before class on W 17 Sep 2025, if necessary
Monday, September 15, 2025
1.3 Production Possibilities Curve 📉
Today's class was led by a guest teacher.
🎯 Learning Targets
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Define (using graphs as approrpriate) the production possibilties curve (PPC) and related terms
- Explain how the PPC illustrates opportunity costs, trade-offs, inefficiency, efficiency, and economic growth or contraction under various conditions
- Examined production possibilities curves and what they represent
- Began "Understanding Graphs"
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Complete "Understanding Graphs" before class on T 16 Sep 2025, if necessary
Friday, September 12, 2025
1.2 Resource Allocation and Economic Systems ⚖️
- Define how resource allocation is influenced by the economic system adopted by society
- Discussed the answers to yesterday's "Examining Mixed Economies" and The Tale of Two Cows cardsort
- Identify the economic system after being shown a commercial
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Chapter 2, Principles of Microeconomics
- Read and take notes on Chapter 2 in PoM before M 15 Sep 2025
Thursday, September 11, 2025
1.2 Resource Allocation and Economic Systems ⚖️
- Define how resource allocation is influenced by the economic system adopted by society
- Completed "Examining Mixed Economies"
- Completed The Tale of Two Cows cardsort
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Chapter 2, Principles of Microeconomics
- Finish Examining Mixed Economies, if necessary (due R 11 Sep)
- Read and take notes on Chapter 2 in PoM before M 15 Sep 2025
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
1.2 Resource Allocation and Economic Systems ⚖️
- Define how resource allocation is influenced by the economic system adopted by society
- Signed up with Remind (@carp2nd on the Remind app)
- Received notes for 1.2 Resource Allocation and Economic Systems
- Discussed the types of economic models and mixed economies around the world
- Began "Examining Mixed Economies"
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Chapter 2, Principles of Microeconomics
- Finish Examining Mixed Economies, if necessary (due R 11 Sep)
- Read and take notes on Chapter 2 in PoM before M 15 Sep 2025
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
1.1 Scarcity 💸
Today's class was led by a guest teacher.
- Define resources and the cause(s) of their scarcity
- Received notes for 1.1 Scarcity
- Used notes to watch AP Classroom's Daily Video on scarcity
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Chapter 2, Principles of Microeconomics
- Read and take notes on Chapter 2 in PoM before M 15 Sep 2025
Monday, September 8, 2025
11th & 12th Grade Class Meetings 🏫
- Collected PoM Chapter 1 notes
- Juniors and Seniors were called to the gymnasium for class meetings
- Chapter 2, Principles of Microeconomics
- Read and take notes on Chapter 2 in PoM before M 15 Sep 2025
Friday, September 5, 2025
1.0 Basic Economic Concepts 💵
- Review basic-level economics content
- Examine the enduring understandings of Unit 1
- Introduced the enduring understandings and essential questions of Unit 1
- Introduce basic economic concepts necessary to build from during the course
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Chapter 1, Principles of Microeconomics
- Read and take notes on Chapter 1 in PoM before M 8 Sep 2025
- Purchase a 3" three-ring binder and 10 tabs before class on M 8 Sep 2025
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Intro to Free Response Questions ✏️
- Acquire an understanding of the structure of — and strategies on — Free Response Questions (FRQs)
- Signed in/up with AP Classroom and registered with AP Microeconomics
Introduced to Microeconomics FRQsExamined and completed a sample FRQ
Mastering AP Microeconomics FRQs: A Simplified Guide
- Chapter 1, in Principles of Microeconomics
- Read and take notes on Chapter 1 in PoM before M 8 Sep 2025
- Obtain a 3" three-ring binder and 10 tabs before class on M 8 Sep 2025
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Course Overview: AP Microeconomics 🛒
- Summarize the classroom expectations and the course
- Provided an overview of the class website and the course syllabus
- Distributed the "Your Course at a Glance" and discussed an overview of AP Microeconomics Test
📖 Corresponding Reading
- Chapter 1, Principles of Microeconomics
- Read and take notes on Chapter 1 in PoM before M 8 Sep 2025
- Purchase a 3" three-ring binder and 10 tabs before class on M 8 Sep 2025
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Welcome Back! 🏫
- Establish classroom rapport and expectations
- We shared our names and introduced ourselves
- Created name cards to help learn student names
- Discussed and clarified classroom expectations
- Demonstrated how to navigate the textbook and identify key information using its features
- Chapter 1, Principles of Microeconomics
- Read and take notes on Chapter 1 in Principles of Microeconomics before M 8 Sep 2025
- Purchase a 3" three-ring binder and 10 tabs before class on M 8 Sep 2025