Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum
Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum is PACKED full of great books, videos, recipes (for cooking on a budget), and more to make government, economics, and personal finance topics come alive for students! This is NOT the typical boring high school government and economics curriculum. Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum is designed to engage and inform in a way to help students retain and enjoy what they are learning. It’s not just for students! Adults can enjoy and learn from it, too!
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Prerequisites: None
Approximate Daily Time Commitment:
About 1 hour depending on activities that are chosen
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Grade Level / Age
Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum is suggested for:
● Grades 9-12
● Approximate ages
13-18
What You Get
Government, Economics, and Personal Finance comes with:
✔ A printable PDF schedule
✔ An editable schedule in Microsoft Word format
✔ Access to an online version of the schedule*
✔ A FREE online textbook with embedded videos.
✔ A workbook with answer key
✔ A printable PDF schedule
✔ Printable vocabulary flashcards
*Access to the online version of Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum schedule is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed due to various potential circumstances.
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Homeschooling with Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum is
rich, fun and flexible!
Throw out that boring old government textbook and those dusty books about economics! Guest Hollow covers these important topics plus personal finance in a way that’s engaging and potentially life changing. We feel these topics are critical for students to understand and have put together a curriculum that breaks the mold. Learn about government, economics, and personal finance the Guest Hollow way!
In this curriculum, students will learn about:
- Economic principles and theories (the Austrian School perspective is promoted, but other theories are discussed)
✦ Microeconomics
✦ Macroeconomics - Economic history including some of the U.S. government’s economic policies and their effects
- American Government and Civics
✦ How the U.S. government is structured and how it works
❖ The Constitution and American federalism
❖ Civil liberties and rights
❖ The politics of public opinion
❖ Voting and elections
❖ The media
❖ Political parties (and their economic approaches)
❖ Interest groups and lobbying
❖ Congress and the presidency
❖ The courts
✧ Multiple Supreme Court decisions are discussed with historical context for some of them
❖ Local governments and bureaucracy
❖ Domestic and foreign policy - Personal finance topics
✦ Managing money, saving, budgeting, entrepreneurship, investing
✦ Basic concepts like writing checks, paying bills, comparison shopping, etc.
✦ Cooking on a budget – Students will cook a variety of budget-friendly recipes! - Fallacies and critical thinking
- Students will also read a variety of dystopian literature. The dystopian novels chosen for this year clearly illustrate what life would be like without the current system of rights the U.S. Constitution affords and why it’s so important to be educated about and involved in civics.
We believe government, economics, and personal finance are critical for students to understand. These topics will help students make decisions as adults that have the potential to affect their lives, the trajectory of their future families, and even the United States.
This triad of topics impacts nearly every aspect of our lives! Students need to learn how to stay informed, get involved, and make good decisions. Our curriculum is designed to give them the tools they need to be proactive citizens, to understand their rights afforded by the U.S. Constitution, and how to work toward a secure financial future.
Learn how to make a difference!
In the 21st century, so many students and adults are ignorant about basic civics, how the U.S. government functions, how to get involved in making decisions for the country’s future, how the economy works, and how to properly handle their own finances. Our kids NEED to know this material to understand so many of the things going on in our country that directly affect us as U.S. citizens and how to make choices for financial stability and security.
Guest Hollow’s Government, Economics, and Personal Finance Curriculum brings these topics to life in a way that is understandable and even fun!
You get a free textbook!
We offer a FREE online textbook for the government portion of our curriculum. You can access it here. The online textbook is used as a *spine book for government. *A spine book is used as a launching point (or backbone) for your studies.
We’ve worked very hard to present information about U.S. government and civics along with hand-picked videos, illustrations, and photos in our online book to make U.S. government understandable and interesting, even for reluctant learners.
Does this curriculum come with ____________?
✘ books?
No, you need to purchase the other scheduled books separately. Learn more.
However, you do get access to a FREE online textbook with embedded videos! You also get a set of printable vocabulary cards for the online textbook.
☑ a printable book list?
Yes. We provide a book list with a handy checklist to help you plan what you want to buy or borrow and in what format. We also let you know when each book is scheduled in, so you can arrange to check out books from the library before you need them!
☑ a schedule?
Yes. You get the same weekly schedule in 3 different formats: PDF, Microsoft Word, and online*. Just open it up and you are ready to learn!
*Access to the online version of the curriculum schedule is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed due to various potential circumstances on our end and yours including but not limited to various computer, device, and internet configurations.
☑ a supply list?
Yes. Recipe ingredients and more are listed at the beginning of your schedule week-by-week.
✘ a teacher’s manual?
No. The schedule is all you need!
✘ tests?
No. There are no tests with this curriculum.
☑ a workbook?
Yes. You get a printable 130-page full-color workbook with the purchase of this curriculum as well as a separate answer key. The workbook includes study questions for the online government textbook as well as some of the other scheduled books for economics. You also get a set of printable vocabulary cards for the online textbook.
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