Introduces students to market structure, including information on competition, market pricing, monopolies, oligopoly, price wars, cartels, and government interventions using real-life examples from the public and private spheres.
Discusses the major components of international commerce, covering topics such as trading models, balance of payments issues, tariffs, subsidies, quotas, trading blocks, and the GATT treaty.
Describes the difference between elastic and inelastic demand, using a competitive seafood market and a monopolistic ferry service as examples and graphing the revenue gains and losses from price increases and decreases for each.
Explains the concept of economic scarcity, discussing natural resources, resource use, factors of production, producer and consumer goods, free goods, needs and wants, rationing by vouchers, and opportunity cost.
Explores the elements of Roald Dahl's characters through interviews with the author, readings from his books, animated scenes from his plots, and captioned demonstrations of his various writing devices. Examines Dahl's four rules of writing: make your readers laugh, make your readers squirm, enthrall your readers, and excite your readers.
Presents a dramatic reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg, a clash that changed the course of the Civil War, and includes a reading of Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address.".
Explores the elements of Roald Dahl's characters through interviews with the author, readings from his books, animated scenes from his plots, and captioned demonstrations of his various writing devices. Examines Dahl's four rules of writing: make your readers laugh, make your readers squirm, enthrall your readers, and excite your readers.
Explains how Roald Dahl created interesting children's characters through the use of exaggeration, metaphors, and similies. Also explores the characteristics of good and evil figures in children's books. Includes interviews with Roald Dahl, readings from his books, animated scenes from his plots, and captioned demonstrations of his various writing devices.
