Moore Materials

This unit gives students an immersive, in-depth, and hands-on opportunity to apply the "real-world" learning they crave in the classroom. This is an ELA-centric unit that has cross-curricular math elements as well. Students can explore the issues of low-, mid-, and high-SES profiles with the capability of delving into the complications of disparity of wealth, privilege, and restrictions to social mobility. The profiles students will role-play are based off of real people and case studies, and

After students open their profile folders to determine what kind of financial setback they have encountered, and ask the teacher for their 5- and 10-year APR% based on their profile's credit score, they may use this worksheet to determine the interest rate for each loan.