March 24

Konnichiwa.
We split our time today between working on Romeo & Juliet projects and studying for the upcoming Chapter 6-8 Test. I gave you the study guide for this test, here it is:

Topics:

• Labour Movement
• Labour Unions
• Collective Bargaining process
• Binding Arbitration
• Corporations (Here's a good hyperlink for this topic, direct from the Social Studies Web click here)
• Stock Market
• Trust Companies
• The Great Depression
• F.D.R. and the New Deal
• Business Cycle (Here's the hyperlink for the Business Cycle from the Social Studies Web)
• Consumption
• Consumers/Consumerism
• Consumer Movement

Key Terms:

• labour movement
• collective bargaining
• indentured servants
• closed shop
• suffragette
• bargaining in bad faith
• mediate
• mediator
• arbitrator
• prosperity
• depression
• recession
• F.D.R.
• business cycle
• boom
• bust
• stocks
• corporation
• stock market
• consumption
• binding arbitration
• migrant workers
• humanitarianism
• merger
• dues
• blue collar workers
• aggregate
• equity
• the Great Depression
• the New Deal
• consumer
• consumerism
• inflation
• union
• mechanization
• specialization

Here are some upcoming important dates:

• March 25th-April 10th: Spring Break
• Chapter 6-8 Test: Friday, April 15th
• Romeo & Juliet projects are due on Monday, April 18th

Some of you still haven't sent me your American Entrepreneur PowerPoint projects. Please send them to my Yahoo! e-mail account address (which I gave you in class).

Please enjoy your Spring Break! See you in two weeks!