Financial Speech (cont.)

Q: "The art is not in making money, but in keeping it." - Proverb

Target: Continue presentations related financial lessons learned.

• Good things!
• Continue with presentations

Financial Speech

Q: What do you hold on to enjoy at a later date?

Target: Remembering to follow your opening and closing lines.

• Humor!
• Deliver speech on "An Important Financial Lesson I've Learned" or "What Money Means to Me"

Have a great weekend!!

Speech Preparation

Q: What does the ability to save money have to do with being a leader?

Target: Focus on the most important financial aspect to you.

• Rule of 72 revisited
• Speech topics to choose from: "An Important Financial Lesson I've Learned" or "What Money Means to Me"

Saving

Q: Why are Americans saving less than they used to?

• Current Events
• Saving
• Rule of 72
• How to earn $1M

Budgeting (cont.)

Q: Why is having a budget so important to individuals and families?

• Budgeting exercise (completed)
• Savings

Budgeting

Q: Why is buying home considered an investment when buying a car is not?

Target: Understand the dynamics of making a family budget.

• Good things!
• Buying a home versus renting
• Budgeting Exercise

Budgeting

Q: "The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." - Anonymous

• Humor!
• Complete car purchase exercise
• Budgeting

Car Purchase

Q: Do you think Americans are obsessed with automobiles?  Why or why not?

• Computer instructions
• Research on purchasing a car

Debt & Credit (cont.)

Q: What do interpersonal skills have to do with managing money?

• Current events
• Continue discussion of credit cards (examples)
• Student self-description
• Buying a car

Debt and Credit

Q: What does the wise use of credit have to do with being a good leader?

• Good things!
• Business
• Debt and credit

Free Enterprise

Q: How could the way you handle your money show others what your principles are?

• Good things!
• What is "free enterprise"
• Discussion questions
• Competition, Social Services, and True Wealth

HW: Read Lesson 28

Short Test Day!

Q: What is the most useful thing you have learned so far in this course?

• Turn in your Journal
• Test!

Presentations (concl.)

Q: "The deterioration of of every government begins with a decay of the principles on which it was founded." - C. L. de Montesquieu

• Continue presentations
• Test tomorrow!

 Remember: Bring workbooks tomorrow!

Begin Speeches

Q: “Important principles may and must be inflexible.” - Abraham Lincoln.
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”- Former Senator Everett Dirksen

Target: To present something Important to you or a valuable lesson you've learned.

• Instructions for Speech Evaluations
• Begin Speeches

Values, Standards, and Principles

Q: Why is serving others the best motivation for leadership?

• Good things!
• Return papers
• Preparing for speeches
• Write a mission statement based on your principles