The Money Book for the Young Fabulous and Broke

Read the book "The Money Book for the Young Fabulous and Broke" and summarize each chapter of the book in a word document. Upload your chapter summaries to Moodle or to your CCIU Google Doc (you must share the doc with me).

Then develop a 2 year financial plan based on your reading. Use Excel Spreadsheet in Google Docs to layout your plan. OR use Microsoft Office Word and excel also summarize your plan in writing.

Use the link below to guide you in your process.

Do some research:
Earning: What are your potential earning in your career/technical fields after you graduate high school?
http://www.bls.gov/k12/index.htm

Withholding: Federal and State Tax
http://www.irs.gov/individuals/employees/article/0,,id=130504,00.html

Read: All Financial Matters about budgeting money
http://allfinancialmatters.com/category/budgeting/

Browse some of the these links to help you decide:
http://allfinancialmatters.com/links/

Savings: Will you invest in traditional methods of savings? Money Markets Accounts? Roth IRS? Read more about several ways to invest your money.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/money101/

Financial Planning for Teens: A 5-STEP PROCESS http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3831/is_200205/ai_n9036382

PHOTOBOOTH REFLECTION: Reflect on your experience financial planning and connect it to the reading.  Look at a classmates plan. Is your plan similar to your classmates? If so how? and if not what is different? Is there something you did not think about? Make suggestions to your classmates. What should they consider from your research?

REMEMBER: Upload your final project to the Moodle Assignment (chapter summaries and a written plan including excel spreadsheet). OR USE GOOGLE DOCS to complete your work and SHARE your project with me. OR EMAIL works too!

Information/Revolution

Respond to Information R/evolution.

Define “Information R/evolution” and discuss what you learned about storing, creating, accessing information that makes it different from the old way?