1. Thursday, April 30 Welcome back! Please submit the first part of your test on the front table. Thank you! Bellringer: – Write a paragraph explaining what you learned about financial institutions in this unit. What sorts of questions should you ask when deciding where to put your money?

2. Financial markets The next section we tackle will be financial markets, including saving and investing, bonds, and the stock market. We will play the stock market game in this unit! Please begin preparing yourself by reading through Chapter 11 at p. 270. You may find it helpful to start a vocab list as you read.

3. Joining the stock market game Register for the stock market game here: http://new.howthemarketworks.com/re gister/37596http://new.howthemarketworks.com/re gister/37596 Register by creating an account. Once you log-in, you can go to “Join Contests,” and look up our contest, “Economics class,” via the search bar.