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Extra Help: Thursdays or lunch
Welcome to the 8th Grade Business and Entrepreneurship cycle class. In our course, students will think and act like both indispensiible employees and innovative business owners.
We will begin in the back of the room at our scale model of the Great Falls of the Passaic River. In 1791 Alexander Hamilton envisioned these falls as the birthplace of the growing number of corporations that would lead the future of the new American nation. On the first day of class, students will use Design Thinking to create working water-powered machines based on the public-private partnership businesses of Hamilton's Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.
Students will create their fuiure resumes to show the possible path they will take to starting a business of their own. Logos will be designed for each business. Their businesses will be used to explore how each part of Hamilton's financial plan created our modern economic system. Banks, the Federal Reserve, public and private debt, stock markets, national currencies and government support of private business will all be part of the journey of each student's business idea. Throughout the class, key concepts of financial literacy will be taught and reinforced.
Each business will investigate marketing approaches, interview employees and even the navigate the basics of customer service.
No supplies are needed for this class. Assignments will all be managed on Google Classroom.