| Workshop Itinerary--Monday, June 23 - Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| The workshop begins at 8 a.m. on Monday, June 23 and ends at 11 a.m. on Friday, June 27, 2008 |
| The entire course will be presented on PowerPoint. At the end of the course, you will be given a CD of the entire course and a CD of the answers to all of the AP* Microeconomics and Macroeconomics free response questions from 1989 to 2008. You won't want to miss this opportunity. |
| MONDAY, June 23, 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
| 8:00 a.m.Course discussion, textbook selections, starting an AP* course, materials, grading of AP* exams, preparing to teach an AP* economics course, grading of students, types of students, etc. |
| 8:30 a.m. Starting the first week of economics (the most important week) |
| 9:30 a.m. Five Powers of Economic Thinking |
| 11:00 a.m. Production-possibilities curve/absolute and comparative advantage (Macro and micro concept) |
| 12:00 noon Lunch Break |
| 1:00 p.m. AP* Economics questions covering morning topics |
| 1:30 p.m. Circular flow (Macro and micro concept) |
| 2:00 p.m. Supply and Demand |
| 3:00 p.m. Price ceilings/price floors |
| TUESDAY, June 24, 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
| 8:00 a.m. Elasticity of Demand/Supply |
| 9:00 a.m. Economic Baseball |
| 10:00 a.m. AP* Economics Questions relating to supply and demand |
| 11:00 a.m. Utility, Diminishing Marginal Utility, Economic Games |
| 12:00 noon Lunch Break |
| 1:00 p.m. Costs of doing business |
| 2:00 p.m. Perfect Competition |
| WEDNESDAY, June 25, 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
| 8:00 a.m. Perfect Competition in both the product and factors markets |
| 9:00 a.m. AP* questions relating to perfect competition |
| 10:00 a.m. Monopolies |
| 11:00 a.m. AP* questions relating to monopolies |
| 1:00 p.m. Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. Computer Lab |
| THURSDAY, June 26, 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
| 8:00 a.m. Overview of Macroeconomics |
| 8:30 a.m. Debt/Deficit |
| 9:00 a.m. Fiscal Policy (Kennedy to Clinton) |
| 10:00 a.m. Monetary Policy |
| 11:00 a.m. Aggregate Supply and the variables that shift it. |
| 12:00 noon Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m. Aggregate Demand and the components of Ad |
| 2:00 p.m. AP* Questions relating to Aggregate Supply and Demand |
| 6:00 p.m. No-host Social Gathering |
| FRIDAY, June 27, 8 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
| 8:00 a.m. International trade |
| 9:00 a.m. Combining monetary policy, fiscal policy, interest rates, prices of products, components of Aggregate Demand, variables shifting Aggregate Supply, short run, and long run |
| 11:00 a.m. AP* questions relating to Macroeconomic concepts |
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