Business+Management

What a great start to a new year!! We have just finished up our first lesson about the importance of management, types of businesses and entrepreneurship. The test went awesome. Most of the students scored a "B" or higher. We began a new lesson today about the evolution of management and how the United States, once an agriculture economy, became an industrialized nation. We watched a few snipets on the history of the Industrial Revolution and began outlining the chapter for notes. Since we talked a large amount of the time about monopolies, we will test our skills tomorrow with a game of Monopoly. Some students who have played before had not actually realized the point of the game, which is to monopolize the board. We will have to see who our Rockefellars, Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Carneiges will be in our class! Students can expect a test over the material covered today on Friday, Sept. 3rd.

I also had the fun of introducing "Undercover Boss" to the students at the end of last week. They loved it! I could have told them that ahead of time that they would because all of my students have enojoyed it in the past. If you have not seen the show before, it is about CFO's and Senior Executives who go undercover in their businesses to see how the things they are implementing from the top actually play out in real life. It's a great opportunity for the students to see first hand how a business works and continue to become familiar with business terms and the use of business vocabulary.