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Unit 2 ~ Business Organizations


[|Shift Happens] - video

Web Resources:

[|**NYSE**] [|**Nasdaq**] [|**Yahoo Finance**] [|**Google Finance**] [|**MSN Money**]

[|Stock Terms] - Use this website to define all of the key terms for a stock quote

- Complete this paper using the one stock that you wish to purchase

- Directions and Grading for Stock Activity

[|**Stock Game**]: Here are the directions to start your stock group 1. Go to website 2. Click on signup tab - the group needs to choose a leader and create an account - go to email account at home and activate registration - the group will create a password - login name is the email address of the leader 3. Join a game - once you are logged in there is a Find a Game tab - click on that - there is a search game: search **keefercp2018** - click on that game - Enter password - **falcon18** to join


 * You are now a member of the class and can begin trading stocks***

__**Journal Entries**__ - in a separate word document answer the questions for each week, save the document and print it. - (Journal **Due: March 28th)**

Week 1: Give some explanation for each. 1. What are the stocks that your group chose to buy (min. 3)? 2. Why did you buy these stocks (discuss this with your group members)? 3. What are your goals for this game and what do you plan on learning? 4. What are some of your questions or concerns about the stock market?

Week 2: 1. What trades did you make this week? Why did you buy or sell your stocks? 2. Define - Dow Jones and Nasdaq. Look on google finance or yahoo finance at the Dow Jones and Nasdaq graphs/numbers: How have these markets been doing in the past couple weeks? Explain 3. Do you think that those markets affect your group’s numbers for the game? Why or Why not?

Week 3: 1. What trades did you make this week? Why? What is your portfolio value today? Are you making a profit or loss? 2. What area of the market (ex: tech, agriculture) are you making the most money and losing the most money? Explain why? 3. Look up some related stocks to the one's you purchased (ex: bought - coke, related - pepsi) on google or yahoo finance - are these stocks doing the same as yours, or are they doing better/worse than yours? Should you buy these instead or do you think you made the right choice? Explain. 4. What is a bull market? Bear market (look it up)? Which one do you think we are in over the past year – use the Dow Jones and Nasdaq graphs to help answer the last question

Week 4: 1. What were the final trades your group made this week? Did you do anything differently knowing that it was the end of the game? 2. What is the Security and Exchange Commission? What is a non-profit organization? 3. Now that you have been playing the game for a while, what would you have done differently in the beginning? Why? What is something that you have learned from playing this game? 4. What advice would you give next year’s seniors for playing the stock market game? Any hints on how to play or do well?


 * __Ch.3 Sec.2 + 3__**

[|Media Conglomerate]


 * [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/image/bmp.png width="32" height="32" link="file:keeferhonecon/Image.bmp"]] [[file:keeferhonecon/Image.bmp|Image.bmp]] -** open this picture and answer the two questions that are asked about Conglomerates

[|McDonalds - multinational example]




 * [[image:http://keeferhonecon.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="file:keeferhonecon/Nonprofit Org chart (2).doc"]] [[file:keeferhonecon/Nonprofit Org chart (2).doc|Nonprofit Org chart (2).doc]] -** complete chart for ch.3 sec.3

Corporation Project - - Directions and Rubric for Corporation Project