Notgrass Exploring Economics Bundle 9781609991692

Exploring Economics Bundle

By Ray Notgrass, Publisher: Notgrass History

ISBN-13: 9781609991692

From the Notgrass Company, Exploring Economics features:

• Provides an overview of the economic history of the United States for one half-year credit in economics with the option for one half-year of credit in English.
• Explains economics in the author’s narrative, conversational style
• Surveys Biblical teachings on money and finance—Learn to become a better steward of the money God provides.
• Gives a clear explanation of terms and concepts used in economics.
• Discusses economic issues confronting us today.
• Puts our participation in the national and world economies on a personal level.
• Reasserts the importance of the free market system.
• Enables students to take part in the economy with knowledge and faith.
• There are seventy-five lessons divided into fifteen units of five lessons each.
• For your second-semester social studies course, why not try Notgrass Exploring Government!

The Exploring Economics Bundle includes one of each of the following items.

• Exploring Economics Student Textbook [ISBN-13: 9781609990947]
• Making Choices: Reading in Economics [ISBN-13: 9781609990954]
  Supplements the lessons with readings from this collection of historic and modern documents, essays, and speeches.
• Exploring Student Review Pack [ISBN-13: 9781609990930]
  Includes one of each of the following items:
  • Student Review 9781609991043
  • Quiz and Exam Book 9781609991029
  • Answer Key 9781609991036
• Exploring Economics Literature Package [Books necessary for the optional English Credit]
  • Silas Marner 9780486292465|By George Eliot
    ISBN-13: 9780486292465 Used in Units 1-3
    As a young man, Silas Marner shut himself off from the world after being wrongly accused of theft and losing the girl he loved. Much later in life, the lonely, embittered weaver experiences two jolting events: he is robbed of his meager hoard of gold and he becomes the guardian of Eppie, a little orphan girl who makes her way to his cottage one wintry night. Eppie grows into a charming young woman who cares for the alienated Silas, helping him find love and hope in his life.
    First published in 1861, this classic English novel by George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans) is widely admired for its brevity and perfection of form. It has also long delighted students of literature and general readers alike with its masterly portrait of moral and psychological behavior in Victorian England, and with its mystery, intrigue, and heartwarming denouement.
    Reprint of the William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1861 edition. Paperback
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham 9780140390308
    By William Dean Howels Used in Units 4-7
    William Dean Howells’ richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age. After establishing a fortune in the paint business, Silas Lapham moves his family from their Vermont farm to the city of Boston, where they awkwardly attempt to break into Brahmin society. Silas, greedy for wealth as well as prestige, brings his company to the brink of bankruptcy, and the family is forced to return to Vermont, financially ruined but morally renewed. As Kermit Vanderbilt points out in his introduction, the novel focuses on important themes in the American literary tradition: the efficacy of self-help and determination, the ambiguous benefits of social and economic progress, and the continual contradiction between urban and pastoral values.
    Paperback
  • The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy 9781118950142 By Pietra Rivoli Used in Units 8-11 A critically-acclaimed narrative that illuminates the globalization debates and reveals the key factors to success in global business. Tracing a T-shirt’s life story from a Texas cotton field to a Chinese factory and back to a U.S. storefront before arriving at the used clothing market in Africa, the book uncovers the political and economic forces at work in the global economy. Along the way, this fascinating exploration addresses a wealth of compelling questions about politics, trade, economics, ethics, and the impact of history on today’s business landscape. This new printing of the second edition includes a revised preface and a new epilogue with updates through 2014 on the people, industries, and policies related to the T-shirt’s life story.
    Paperback
  • Mover of Men and Mountains 9780802438188
    By R. G. LeTourneau Used in Units 12-15 This is the story of how an engineering genius put faith into action and reaped big rewards. Despite early failures, R. G. LeTourneau rose to eminence in the competitive world of manufacturing and construction. Although his competitors thought him insane, history has proved that his inventive genius was decades ahead of its time. His combination of enterprise and Christian commitment led to his sponsoring many works involving missions and education, including LeTourneau College, a Christian liberal arts and technical school in Longview, Texas.

Download samples at the publisher’s website:

• Exploring Economics Sample Pages 
• Making Choices: Readings in Economics Sample Pages 
• Student Review Pack Sample Pages
• Guide for Parents and Answer Key

Choose to add an optional half-year credit in English by reading these books in the Literature Package and completing the writing assignments.

In the literature guide that comes with the set, the authors have written a synopsis of each book, why it is important, and includes notes to parents.

Grades 9-12, One-semester course.

List $134.94

Price $123.00