10/17 Class Agenda

1.  Bellringer:  Read "What is a Corporation" on pg. 16 of your unit packet.  Answer the following:  What is a corporation?  How can corporations raise $?  Just what kind of a "person" can a corporation be?

2.  Tiered Activity (TA= tiered activity packet)...Day 2.  Do quiz on pg. 4 of TA.  Grade quiz as a class (don't change your answers!)...then go on to page 5 and follow the directions based on your quiz score
3.  10 WEEK EXTRA CREDIT:  Imagine that you are SMALL business owner living during the Industrial Revolution.  Your business (and consumers) has been negatively impacted by rise of "robber barons" and their monopolies of this era.  Using at least FIVE vocabulary words on pg. 1(TA), write a letter to your Senator explaining reasons why our government should regulate and/or declare monopolies illegal.  Do this assignment on a separate sheet of paper.  Highlight the vocabulary in your letter.  Be creative…and have fun!

HW - finish your assignment in the TA packet (if you didn't finish in class)

       - 10 Week Extra Credit due MONDAY