PERSONAL FINANCE

Text Book Reading

Financial Literacy Units

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*Resume
Social media how to present
yourself

Create resume using the

Chronological-ResumeTemplate.

*Interview techniques

Check your spelling

Text Book Reading

Resume
Pages 471 to 473

The Interview
Pages 471to 473

Create a check related to good

interview techniques.
*Career Interest

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Ep. 30 - Jonah Keri: How

to Design Your Own
Luck (Grantland and NY
Times Top 10 Author)
McArdle on Failure,
Success, and the Up Side
of Down

Text Book Reading

Career Planning
Complete the following:
Career test copy results
career-interest-worksheet
career-research-worksheet

Pages 470 to 473

Adam Davidson on
Hollywood and the
Future of Work

Tim O'Reilly on
Technology and Work

Written Summary of results

Pallotta on Charity and

the Culture of the NonProfit Sector
*Budgeting

Text Book Reading

Saving Unit

Budgeting
Page 462-464

How to Save $1 Billion

Without Even Trying.

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PERSONAL FINANCE
Text Book Reading
Financial Literacy Units

Create your college budget

Income/Expenses
*Creating personal credit rating
and Consumer Protection

Credit Scores Unit

Consumer Protection Unit

*Banking/Savings/Opening a
bank account

Text Book Reading

Saving Unit
Banking Unit
Text Book Reading
Payment Types Unit
Credit Scores Unit

*Personal Debt/Credit Cards &

Interest Rates

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Shopping for Food and

Clothes
Pages 476 to 478
Avoiding Telemarking
Fraud and Swindles
Page 462
Consumer Rights and
Responsibilities
Pages 473 to 474
Paying for College
Page 474 to 476
Buying and Financing a
Car
Page 464 to 466

Taxes
*Insurance /car/life/health

Text Book Reading

Insurance and Taxes Unit

Buying Insurance
Pages 466 to 469

Robert Aronowitz on
Risky Medicine

*Investing 401K

Special project
Investing Unit

Chapter 16 Pages 428 to

458

Campbell Harvey on
Randomness, Skill, and
Investment Strategies

Entrepreneur
Chris Anderson on
Makers and

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PERSONAL FINANCE
Text Book Reading
Financial Literacy Units

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Manufacturing
Sam Altman on Startups, Venture Capital, and
the Y Combinator
*Financing Higher Education

Text Book Reading

Higher Education

Final reflection

Acquired knowledge and

application

Web links
Online units
http://everfi.com/k12/everfi-k-12-finliteracy/
4 Ways to Optimize Your Indeed Resume
Free College and Career

Career Test Free Online and Job Quiz Aptitude Test

Five basic personal finance lessons every high school student should learn
6 Personal Finance Lessons All High School Graduates Should Know
http://www.mrci.com/web/online-explanation-pages/symbols-a-codes.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/

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Create a PDF of work.

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PERSONAL FINANCE
Text Book Reading
Financial Literacy Units

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