Title: A Bluestocking Guide: Economics

ABOUT BLUESTOCKING GUIDES

Bluestocking Guides are designed to reinforce and enhance a student’s understanding and retention of the subject matter presented in the guide’s corresponding primer.

Each Bluestocking Guide contains the following types of questions and assignments:

Comprehension Questions relate to specific chapters within the primer and are designed to help ensure the student has understood key points presented in the corresponding chapter. Comprehension Questions include:

• Definition
• True/False
• Short Answer/Fill-in questions

Application Exercises are given for certain chapters. Generally, these ask the student to apply the knowledge learned from the corresponding chapter of the primer to “real world” situations. This way, the student may personalize the information to better retain and apply the knowledge gained from the primer.  Application Exercises include:

• Essay assignments
• Research projects
• Thought questions to facilitate student-instructor discussion

Suggestions for further study (books, movies, etc) are also given for certain topics to encourage students to continue to expand on the knowledge gained in the primer.

A comprehensive final exam is included.

Answers are located in the back of the study guide. Note: answers to some questions/exercises do not always have definitive answers, in which case the notation “answers will vary” will appear.

In addition to assisting the student in the retention of the subject matter, the study guide will serve as documentation of course completion.

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All Bluestocking Guides are student study guides and are consumable and not reproducible.

SPECIFIC TO A BLUESTOCKING GUIDE: ECONOMICS

When using both primer and study guide, you will start with A Bluestocking Guide: Economics and begin reading Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? about 40 pages into the study guide when instructed to do so.

A Bluestocking Guide: Economics contains additional articles, written at varying reading levels, that expand on the concepts presented in the primer as well as an economic timetable that can be used to fill in the economic history that is usually missing from history books, historical fiction, historical movies, documentaries, etc.

Also includes suggested activities, articles that expand on the concepts presented in Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?, and a list of recommended movies and documentaries that contain good economic history, and a list of websites with good economic content.

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CURRICULUM PACKAGES

This title is included in the following curriculum packages:

•Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship Course for Middle School Students

•Economics Course for High School Students

•Nature of Government and Civics Course for High School Students

•Economics and Nature of Government Course for High School Students

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COMMENTS ABOUT BLUESTOCKING GUIDES

“Bluestocking Guide: Economics is a sort of workbook/test book/extra study guide to go along with Whatever Happened to Penny Candy. It includes extra articles to further study and understanding of each chapter in the ‘primer’ (which is Whatever Happened to Penny Candy), as well as discussion questions and tests. The tests include everything from short answers and definitions to multiple choice and essay questions. Further reading lists, charts and diagrams are included, too. … You could read the primer without using this book, but it really helps round out the course.” 

—Cindy West (commenting about previous editions), The Curriculum Choice, http://thecurriculumchoice.com

“The Study Guide is one of the best such works that I have seen. [Jane Williams has] made a good selection of readings and arranged them in a logical sequence for children of various ages.” 

—Bettina B. Greaves, Resident Scholar, The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., (commenting about a previous edition)

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EDITION INFORMATION

Both A Bluestocking Guide: Economics and its corresponding primer, Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?, have been published in multiple editions. Below is information on the current, and previous, editions of these two books, and which editions of the Guides/Primers match each other.

Current Edition of A Bluestocking Guide: Economics

The current edition of A Bluestocking Guide: Economics is the fifth edition (ISBN 978-0-942617-65-8).

This matches the seventh (the most current) edition of Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (ISBN 978-0-942617-64-1).

Previous Editions of A Bluestocking Guide: Economics

Fourth edition (ISBN 978-0-942617-63-4) matches the sixth edition of Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (ISBN 978-0-942617-62-7).

Third edition (ISBN 978-0-942617-57-3) matches the fifth and fourth editions of Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (ISBN 978-0-942617-52-8 and ISBN 978-0-942617-31-3 respectively).

Second edition (ISBN 978-0-942617-36-8) matches the fourth edition of Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (ISBN 978-0-942617-31-3).

First edition (ISBN 0-942617-30-4) matches the third edition of Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (ISBN 978-0-942617-15-3).