1. English 200 Monday, 4-27-15 through Friday, 5-1-15 Monday, 4-27-15: Presentations Tuesday, 4-28-15: Intro, Freakonomics Wednesday, 4-29-15 through Friday, 5-1-15: Chapter 1, Freakonomics, Discuss and begin working on Final Paper Counting Today: 24 School Days!!

2. English 200 Monday, 4-27-15 through Friday, 5-1-15 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Counting Today: 23 School Days!!

3. English 200 Monday, 4-27-15 through Friday, 5-1-15 What is Freakonomics? Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life The conventional wisdom is often wrong Dramatic effects often have distant, even subtle causes “Experts” use their informational advantage to serve their own agenda Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so

4. English 200 Monday, 4-27-15 through Friday, 5-1-15 What is Freakonomics? Freakonomics aims to explore the hidden side of everything Freakonomics understands that there is a difference between correlation and cause https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPkMQa E1liE

5. English 200 Monday, 4-27-15 through Friday, 5-1-15 What is Freakonomics? Think like a Freak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M Pl2yJKwi4I

6. English 200 Monday, 4-27-15 through Friday, 5-1-15 What is Freakonomics? Freakonomics begins in asking questions and then works to unravel the complexities of correlation and cause in order to develop an answer to these questions.

7. English 200 Monday, 4-27-15 through Friday, 5-1-15 What is Freakonomics? Your task: Identify five questions of which you do not know the answer but would like to know the answer

8. English 200 Monday, 4-27-15 through Friday, 5-1-15 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Counting Today: 21 School Days!!

9. English 200 Monday, 4-27-15 through Friday, 5-1-15 Thursday, 4-30-15 and Friday, 5-1-15 What is an incentive? Identify at least 10 incentives that are working in your life? Describe some ways in which as school teacher might be able to improve the scores of his or her students on a standardized test. Describe what it means for a Japanese sumo wrestler to be “on the bubble” and what incentives this wrestler and his opponent

10. English 200 Monday, 4-27-15 through Friday, 5-1-15 Thursday, 4-30-15 and Friday, 5-1-15 Is cheating ever justified? In all honesty, describe the ways cheating is used in our culture. Incentives – “a means of urging people to do more of a good thing or less of a bad thing” EconomicSocialMoral