AP Macro Pacing – Are We Going to Make It?

This has been a tough year overall – I know, everyone is experiencing the same thing.  Our district switched to a block schedule at the beginning of the school year.  I taught AP Micro in the fall.  We were remote the entire time.  We made it to the end of Unit 3.  I apologized to the students but told them I didn’t know what I would have done differently.  We were all stressed and I don’t think we could have pushed through any more curriculum than we did.

We started AP Macro in January.  Now we were used to virtual teaching/learning so we could push a little bit.  And we did.  But somehow here we are mid-April and we are just finishing Unit 4 – The Financial Sector.

I have a plan for Unit 5 – Long-Run Consequences of Stabilization Policies.  I’m going to teach it all in one lesson!  I made a PowerPoint of all the highlights from Unit 5, I’ll lecture through it.  Then we’ll practice:

  • combining fiscal and monetary policy
  • the Phillips Curve
  • the velocity of money
  • implications of deficit spending (national debt)
  • crowding out
  • conditions for economic growth
  • supply-side economics

 

Now to figure out what I’m going to do for Unit 6.

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