Lindenmeier, Jessica | HS Social Studies
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Welcome to Fall Courses with Aspire - Deer Valley's Online Academy!
**Your course will be available at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 1st.**
I am so excited to be your online teacher this Fall!
Learning Lab:
- Aspire is excited to utilize our new space at the Innovation Center and invite students to attend our in-person learning labs! Students can come in to ask questions, get personalized assistance with their coursework, or just have a quiet space to work!
- The Learning Lab is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 11:30-5:30 PM. 20402 N 15th Avenue Phoenix, AZ, 85027. (Closed in the summer).
AI Guidance | Academic Integrity Statement:
- To be college-, career-, and community-ready, students in the Deer Valley Unified School District are expected to demonstrate academic integrity. Academic integrity is all about being honest and fair in your schoolwork. It means doing work that is entirely your own and giving credit to others (including generative Artificial Intelligence tools) through proper citation when you use their ideas or words.
- If you have questions about the guidelines for academic integrity, you should discuss them with your teacher.
Please see the Class Expectations for your course and the Course Calendar Page for your Pacing Calendar.
Class Expectations
There are a few things you should keep in mind for the class.
1. You access the course through www.dvusd.instructure.com with your Novell log-in. Email me before class if you need me. Once class starts, I prefer you use the Canvas messaging system so I can get back to you straight away.
2. You need to print your printable calendar! Due dates are twice a week, so this gives some flexibility, but my greatest tip for success: do not get behind on due dates! They sneak up so quickly! Take a look at your week ahead of time and plan out when you will complete each assignment as assignment times vary.
3. Due dates are not suggestions and consistently turning work in late is a recipe for failure. Please manage that time wisely!
4. Always complete the lessons, whether that is chapter reading/notes or my own lessons. The textbook will always be embedded in the course so you do not need to check out a textbook. Review the Aspire Plagiarism Policy and the DVUSD AI Guidance located in your introduction module before submitting coursework.
5. Last, know that I am always here to help! Please communicate whenever you need me. I love my subjects, but I teach because I have a passion for teaching you, the students!
Economics
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Course Description
Using inquiry in economics, high school students explore the economic reasoning process to make informed decisions in a wide variety of contexts. Economics is grounded in knowledge about how people, institutions, and societies choose to use resources to meet their wants and needs. The study of economics can be approached from many angles and perspectives with a focus on inquiry. A comprehensive economics course should include content from the following topics:
- Financial Literacy/ Personal Finance including but not limited to budgeting, saving, spending, investment, credit, banking, and insurance
- Economic Reasoning including but not limited to the concepts of scarcity, factors of production, opportunity costs, and cost-benefit analysis
- Economic systems including but not limited to command, mixed, and free market, and economic philosophers and theories, including but not limited to Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
- Exchange and Markets including but not limited to supply and demand, private property rights, competition, incentives, entrepreneurship, prices, the invisible hand, competition, and institutions in the private and public sector
- The National Economy including but not limited to fiscal and monetary policy, GDP, unemployment, inflation, economic growth, and distribution of wealth
- The Global Economy including but not limited to trade, tariffs, and exchange rates
Course Assignments are weighted as follows:
80% - Assessments
20% - Coursework
0% - Practice
Automatic Zeros go into the grade book for all late work.
AP World History 1
Course Description:
In AP World History: Modern, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from 1200 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time. The course provides six themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: humans and the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, and technology and innovation.
Course Units:
Unit 0: Intro to World History
Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
Unit 2: Networks of Exchange
Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Course Pacing Calendars
I highly recommend that each student prints their course calendar and paces themselves according to it. The due dates are usually Tuesdays and Fridays. It helps so much with time management if you print this calendar and use it as a checklist. Complete the assignments for each day every day. Your calendar is available here, on your course home page, and in your announcements. Pay attention to the Due and Close Dates.
Due Date/Close Date Fall 2024 Calendar
Printable Calendars:
About the Teacher
My name is Mrs. Jessica Lindenmeier and I am very excited to be your Social Studies teacher! This is my 15th year in the Deer Valley Unified School District. I earned my B.A. in Secondary Education History from ASU (fear the fork!) and I completed my Master's in Educational Leadership and Administration from GCU in 2016. I serve as our K-12 Intervention Specialist for Aspire during the day but I have been part of our full-time teaching staff for four years prior to taking on this role and love teaching part-time with Aspire. Before my time with our online school, I taught many Social Studies subjects at Sandra Day O’Connor High School and Mountain Ridge High School. In all my spare time (haha) I love watching TV dramas (yes, I know, I am admitting my sad addiction), reading books, going to the gym, and I especially love hanging out with my family. I have a husband, an eleven-year-old boy named Isaac, and an eight-year-old little girl named Ellie. They are my life!
I am looking forward to a great semester!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Lindenmeier