Class Syllabus

NAF Notes

http://reg.terau.com/default.aspx?loc=yrc

-Make user name and password the same as your CPS Login and Password

- use school address/phone number and division code for address/phone  boxes

    3601 N. Milwaukee                   Div.  _____

      773 534 3420

Microsoft Unlimited Potential LOGIN SCREEN

http://elearning.terau.com

BPA Officer Resume Template

Senior Only Project: 

9/21   9/24

9/28 - 10/2

10/5-10/9

Complete required information only

User ID:  Shs360

Password:  hS3420

Take Practice Certification Test

- 35 questions from all categories New Test - Difficult

W!SE Certification

Regulatory Agencies

Quiz on Thursday

www.whatsnextillinois.org

Account Name:    cpsYourIDnumber

Password:             cpsYourIDnumber    

when prompted to change your password,

use your school ID

Week #8

10/26 - 10/30

Week #9

11/2-11/6

11/9 - 11/13

11/9                 Credit   overview

11/10               - Credit Score

http://www.consumerjungle.org/images/stories/documents/credit/5_Credit%20Scores%20and%20Reports.ppt#14

http://www.consumerjungle.org/flash/Credit_Vocab.swf

11/12               - Credit risks / abuses  / protections

http://www.consumerjungle.org/flash/Credit_Concept.swf

11/13               Credit Quiz

Microsoft Certification Tests Modules 1-5 Complete will check Fri

Make sure your cps email in the "Your Profile" section

http://elearning.terau.com

11/16               Insurance overview

11/17               Auto Insurance

11/18               Health Insurance                       Life Insurance

11/20               Insurance Quiz

11/23-11/25

11/23              whatsnextillinois.org  Senior Milestones

11/25              Insurance Review, practice quizzes below

                         http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/cgiquiz/cgiquiz_101.jsp?id=20

                         http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/cgiquiz/cgiquiz_101.jsp?id=16

                         http://www.insurance.state.pa.us/naic/quiz.html

11/25               Quiz on regulatory agencies, credit and insurance

11/30               Review quizzes,   Banking Basics                 

                             http://www.bos.frb.org/education/pubs/banking2.pdf

12/1                 Investing Review- Securities

12/2                 - Securities cont.

12/3                 - Housing

12/4                 Investing Quiz

12/7                             Study Guide Review on PowerPoint

12/8         Tues            Study Guide Review on PowerPoint     

GO TO:  www.moneypower.org

LOG IN:   with User ID:  Shs360

Password:  hS3420

Complete required information only  *

Take Practice Test - Hard    -         50 questions from all categories

Select, take the quiz online

Take notes on questions you do not know, the correct answers with

explanations will be given at the end

12/9                             Study Guide Review on PowerPoint

W!SE Certification Flash-Card PowerPoint

12/10                           W!SE  Certification Test

Meet in WriteZone, Room 340 ASAP

12/11                           W!SE Certification Test Make-up

12/14 - 12/18

Happy    Holidays

www.Whatsnextillinios.org

www.whatsnextillinois.org  Guideways AND Milestones will

      be checked in Friday for a grade, please refer to checklist handouts

      for required items.

Week #18  1/19 - 1/22

Banking & Finance Exam

Week #20     2/1-  2/5

Dowie, Mark: "Pinto Madness." Mother Jones, http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1977/09/dowie.html (accessed August 3, 2009).

"Report: Fannie Mae manipulated accounting." MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12923225/ (accessed August 3, 2009).

Ross, Brian, and Joseph Rhee: "A Deal Too Good To Be True?: Katrina Victims Say Mortgage Lender Misled Them." ABC News, http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/09/a-deal-too-good.html (accessed August 3, 2009).

Corporate Watchdog Groups

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v10n2/peopleatwork.html

Read the article above "When good people do bad things at work."

Summarize the major points of the article,   Due Wednesday

3/3 - Whistle Blowing  Employee Responsibility

3/4  -  5  Write a report about a famous whistle-blower from recent history (for ideas, a list of whistle-blowers

can be found online at Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower).

Under what circumstances did this person blow the whistle?

What steps did he or she take before blowing the whistle?

What were the results for the wrong doers?

What, if any, consequences did the whistle-blower face for her actions?

Tues - Management Ethics     Milgram Experiment

Wed - Management Ethics

Thurs -

Fri- www.youthreadychicago.org

www.chooseyourfuture.org/scholarships

Week #27

3/22 Mon  - Read the following article:    Are Teens "Ethically Prepared"

Answer the following questions.
1.  How does the percentage of teens who “feel they are fully prepared to make ethical decisions” differ

from the percentage who believe it is sometimes necessary to cheat, plagiarize, lie, or behave violently?

2.  According to the press release, what factors seem to be influencing teens to think that unethical behavior is acceptable?

3.  What do you think it means that the survey found that “teens have difficulty in understanding that unethical behavior transcends the boundaries between private life, school or work life, and online behavior”?

4.  “In general, do you think most people at our school behave ethically?”( minimum one paragraph response)

3/23 Tues -  Survey Project Introduction  "Are students at Schurz HS ethical?"

 http://www.ja.org/files/polls/2009-JA-Deloitte-Teen-Ethics-Survey-Exec-Summary.pdf

https://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-UnitedStates/Local%20Assets/Documents/us_comminv_2007teenethicssurvey_execsummary110107.pdf

3/24 Wed - Survey Development

3/25 Thurs - Survey Development

www.fairfaxcounty.gov/demogrph/pdf/pitfalls.pdf

“Survey and Questionnaire Design” tutorial  www.statpac.com/surveys

Describe the five core styles of questions used in a survey—Likert scale, multiple choice, ordinal, categorical, and numerical. The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology website http://edweb.sdsu.edu/eet/     search for and click on  "types of survey questions."

3/26 Fri - Survey Questions Due

Tues - www.SurveyMonkey.com   /Ernst&Young Research   

Wed -   Ernst & Young Guest Speaker

Thurs -  Ethics in Finance and Accounting

     Fraud Triangle  -   http://www.boisestate.edu/internalaudit/pdfs/FraudTriangleRedFlags.pdf

    Fraud Schemes Defined

Mon-  Fraud Schemes Poster

Tues- Fraud Schemes Poster

Wed- Fraud Schemes Presentation

Thurs- Human Resource Fraudulent Activity

Fri-

Mon- Fraud in Human Resources in the news:  Read and write a summary on any

TWO articles linked below: DUE TODAY!!

•
“5 Ways Your Computer Use Can Get You Fired,” U.S. News and World Report, March 11, 2008 (http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/careers/2008/03/11/5-ways-your-computer-use-can-get-you-fired.html).
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“CEO Pay: Sky High Gets Even Higher,” CNN, August 30, 2005 (http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/26/news/economy/ceo_pay/).
•
“Corporate America Confused About Workplace Dating,” ABC News, March 8, 2005 (http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Business/story?id=562728).
•
“The Ethics of Office Romance,” BusinessWeek, February 12, 2008 (http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/feb2008/ca20080212_702316.htm).
•
“E-Mail at Work: Some Basics,” New York Times, February 18, 2008 (http://shiftingcareers.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/e-mail-at-work-some-basics/?hp).
•
“Workplace Bullying Worse Than Sexual Harassment: Study,” Reuters, March 10, 2008 (http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN0622290520080310).
•
“Racial Harassment Still Infecting the Workplace,” MSNBC, January 13, 2008 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22575581/).

Tues-  Ethics in Legal Compliance

Wed - Ethics in Legal Compliance

Thurs -  Parent/Teacher Conferences

Fri-  Ethics in Marketing

Mon-- Ethics in Marketing   Fraud Practices and the 4 P's

Tues- Ethics in Marketing   Fraud Practices and the 4 P's

Wed - No School

Thurs - No School

Fri -

             www.nl.edu/harrisonfellows     ( Business Admin or Elemetary Ed Major )

              NAF Senior Project  ( Valedictorian or MC at FED Graduation )

Tues- Company Research Log

Wed-Company Research Log

Thurs- Company Research Log 1

Fri- Company Research Log 1

Mon-  Research       

Tues- Research           NAF Senior Project  ( Valedictorian or MC at FED Graduation ) DUE TODAY

Wed-

Thurs-

Fri-Company Research Log 1(14.6)  and Company Profile (14.3) DUE

Mon   Research Log 2  Environmental Record

Tues  Research Log 3  Philanthropy Record

Wed   Research Log 2 + 3

Thurs   Research Log 2 + 3

Fri - Company Research Logs  1 + 2 DUE

Mon

Tues

Wed

Thurs

Fri

Mon - Memorial Day

Tues-

Wed-

Thurs-

Fri-

HMK sent to your fc.cps.edu account

     on a separate sheet of paper.) 

Rough drafts for 3 personal statements due Friday9/19

Resume rough draft due 9/19

5 applications due 9/19 (hard copies of 5 apps, they do not have to be completed,

Current Events:  The Financial Crisis:

The crisis  summed up (short version): Andrew Lombard summary.

Around the World:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7654647.

Financial Advice:  http://www.thewisdomjournal.com/Blog/back-to-the-basics/

Due at end of period today:  summary of what is happening around the world

and what regular people can do today to help themselves out.

Scholarships 101   Quiz Friday   Terms

Final copies of personal statements, resumes and applications due October 31, 2008.

 HWK:  Roommates Agreements

Country Map Work

country current event #2

Your country fact sheet, flag and map are due Friday

January 9, 2009

Secret History of the Credit Card

Chapter 2 Lesson 1

What is the downside of shopping at Wal-mart?

Use example from the film, 1 page essay due Friday.

#10 Cultural events/Important people

Redirecting your CPS email

country current event  #3

#4  Imports and Exports

Due Friday, March 6

 #7  Health Care

Turn in your applications:  CSBI and YouthReadyChicago.org

country current event  #5

#8  Education

#6  Infrastructure

below: 

Web Address: 

Headquarters:

Leader: (title and name)

Mission  (do not rewrite their mission statement):

Brief History (when it began, who started it):

1.  United Nations      2. World Bank,

3. World Trade Organization 4. International Monetary Fund  

5.  RED                    6.  Red Cross

country current event  #7

DUE THURSDAY with #5 Trade Partners

then click student activities

Do Chapter 2.1, and 2.3 activities

http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/dvd/

What do the authors of the linked articles have to say about this film?

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/215801

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118964470258225901.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/16/AR2007071601391.html

Due Today

Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs  (define life insurance)

How Much Life Insurance Do You Need?

Highlighted items here:   IES LINK

Final drafts in folder by 5/19

5/19 - 5/23

6/9 - 6/13

Insurance Careers:  Underwriters 1.2 activity

http://websites.swlearning.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20bI&flag=instructor&product_isbn_issn=9780538432016&discipline_number=423

Insurance company rating service   1.3 activity

http://websites.swlearning.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20bI&flag=instructor&product_isbn_issn=9780538432016&discipline_number=423

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