Stock Market Assignment
Modern American History Spring 2007
Objective
To acquaint each student with the stock market, its functions, and the positives and negatives of investing.
Instructions
1. Random groups of 3-4 will be assigned.
2. Each group will be given $1000 fictional dollars to invest in the stock market, with a $10 grace amount.
3. Each group will look at the stock report in the newspaper or online and select five companies in which
you will invest your money.
4. Then, spreading the thousand dollars out among the stocks, buy as many shares as you can of each. It is completely up to you how many shares of each stock you buy until you reach your $1000 ceiling.
5. You will make a chart to track your stocks. (The poster board will be provided)
6. The chart will remain in the classroom. Each day at the beginning of class your group will fill in the stock prices for that day.
7. You will observe your selected stocks for one week, starting tomorrow (1/17) and ending next
Tuesday (1/23).
8. Together with your group, you will write a one page summary of how your stocks performed.
9. You will each be required to write a one page summary about your thoughts on the activity and what you learned from it.
This is what your chart should look like:
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Stock Name |
# Shares Owned |
Initial Price |
Wednesday 1/17 |
Thursday 1/18 |
Friday 1/19 |
Monday 1/22 |
Tuesday 1/23 |
Final Value |
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+/- money |
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EXAMPLE:
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Stock Name |
# Shares Owned |
Initial Price |
Wednesday 1/17 |
Thursday 1/18 |
Friday 1/19 |
Monday 1/22 |
Tuesday 1/23 |
Final Value |
+/- percentage |
+/- money |
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Globodyne |
10 |
$21.00 |
$21.25 / + $.25 |
$21.14 / - $.11 |
$22.01/ + $.97 |
$22.15/ + $.14 |
$21.97/ - $.18 |
$219.70 |
+ 4.6% |
+ $19.70 |
This assignment will be worth 100 points.
50 for the chart.
25 for the group paper.
25 for each individual paper.
This assignment will be due Wednesday, January 31st
Any late papers will result in a zero grade.
Thursday, January 25th - Depression Quiz - 50 points - More info to come later
Friday, January 26th - Depression Food Day - 15 points - students are to make a depression era food from the list provided by the teacher
Friday, February 9th - Letters to Politicians - 25 points - students were provided a list of politicians and their addresses and are required to write a letter to one of the people on the list about a specific issue
Due Tuesday, February 13th - questions from the book - 20 points
Friday , February 16th - New Deal Test - 100 points
Due Friday, February 23rd - New Deal comparison to today - 20 points
Due Monday, March 5th - World War II Map - 30 points
Due Monday, March 5th - Article summary about women in the military - 15 points
Friday, March 9th - World War II Test - 100 points - more details to come later
Due Tuesday, March 13th - Interview with someone who lived during the Depression and or World War II - 50 points
- students are to interview someone from thhat time period to discover what life was like. There are no specific guidelines to
the assignment other than to talk to elderly people and get their impression of times past.
Tuesday, March 20th - Citizenship - 50 points>
TOTAL FOR THE THIRD MARKING PERIOD: 575 points