This one-semester course covers the financial concerns of the country, businesses, and the home, with Scriptural principles are applied to all areas. Included are discussions of the laws of supply and demand, circular flow of income and products, the use of money, banking, and government intervention, the promotion of free-market ideals, business competitions, unemployment, productivity, and inflation. Each lesson includes a “personal finance” spotlight. Students will follow a stock on the stock market, research the life of an entrepreneur, and learn how to manage a checking account.
SPECIAL NOTE #1: Tuition includes a user license for Yellowdig, an internal communications platform for students to use within Canvas. Yellowdig promotes deeper discussion and critical thinking skills.
Please view prerequisites and required supplies below.
Yellowdig, an internal communications platform for students to use within Canvas (included in registration)
Becky Frank has been steeped in American History from her early days growing up on the family farm in Northeastern North Carolina. Although Barrow Creek Farm has been in her family since the 1680s, her parents were the first to live on it in three generations. On the farm she learned to milk cows, sheer sheep, and drive a tractor.
After an internship at Historic Edenton, she received a B.S. in Public History from Appalachian State University in 1992. Answering God’s call to teach in a classroom setting, she added teacher certification from East Carolina University to her degree in 1998. Becky then taught social studies in Gates County, North Carolina where her classes included U.S. History, World History, Economics, Government, and Humanities. In 2003 she married her husband John and left the classroom to start a family.
Becky has been teaching online for more than 10 years. She also homeschools her three children and is an active leader in the Children’s and Youth’s ministry at her church. She also enjoys gardening, cooking, scrapbooking and long walks with her kids and the family dog. Sharing the heritage of our great country is one of her passions as well. Her lifelong dream is to return to the family farm and make a portion of the acreage a living history site.
Michele –
My son gained a true excitement and interest in Economics because of this class. Ms. Frank made it interesting, and the tie to personal finance connected the more broad concept of econ to every day life.