Day 1
Welcome back!
Warmup: New list on Vocabulary.com! Your new list is the SAT list #2. Remember, you'll have a quiz on Friday!
Today we watched a short program hosted by comedian Drew Carey. The program was about the cost of life and living and the middle-class in America.
You will need to answer questions afterward. ALL questions must be answered in ACE format or you get a zero.
Living Large Questions
Homework
Welcome back!
Warmup: New list on Vocabulary.com! Your new list is the SAT list #2. Remember, you'll have a quiz on Friday!
Today we watched a short program hosted by comedian Drew Carey. The program was about the cost of life and living and the middle-class in America.
You will need to answer questions afterward. ALL questions must be answered in ACE format or you get a zero.
Living Large Questions
- What are the differences between middle-class, rich, and poor in America?
- What are some different kinds of things that we associate with a comfortable middle-class lifestyle?
- List three goods and services that the typical middle-class American family can afford today that were either not available at all in 1970 or only available to the rich.
- Is the video trying to show that everyone in America is doing well? What misconception is the program intended to correct?
- By interviewing “boys with their expensive toys” is Drew Carey suggesting that all middle-class people spend their money on fancy cars, boats, and jet-skis? What point is he making?
- How does the economist Michael Cox compare the cost of various goods and services over the past several decades? Why doesn’t he use money as the basis of comparison?
- Do you think that the middle class is struggling today? Why/why not?
- Are middle-class Americans today better off or worse off than when your parents were growing up?
- How accurately do people compare past and present conditions? How could nostalgia for the past affect the comparison of past and present conditions?
- Imagine that a full time worker is given the option of receiving a 20% raise or receiving Fridays off with no reduction in pay. Do you think everyone would make the same choice? Which choice do you think would be most popular? Explain factors that might lead a person to make each of the choices.
Homework
- Finish your Living Large questions; due at the start of class tomorrow.