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04 to 08 MAY 2015

LIVING ON YOUR OWN

 

GOALS: Help students understand the costs of living on their own, provide practice in setting up budgets that include such costs, and develop the skills and knowledge necessary to interpret and evaluate lease and rental agreements.

 

Lesson Objectives:

• Set up a budget that includes rent, moving expenses, and the expenses associated with setting up a household

• Understand the rights and legal responsibilities of a tenant

• understand the rights and legal responsibilities of a landlord

• Read and interpret various clauses in a lease

 

 

04 MAY 2015 - May the Fourth Be With You

TODAY: Worksheet - Estimate the cost of the furnishings in your bedroom

DUE AT THE END OF CLASS TODAY - PLACE IN 2BGRADED BASKET FOR YOUR CLASS PERIOD.

NOTE: Items not completed in class become HOMEWORK and are due at the beginning of the class period tomorrow.

 

 

05 MAY 2015 - Cinco de Mayo

In-Class discussion: What are the items needed to set up an apartment?

What do you NEED? Why?

What do you have in personal inventory?

What would you need to purchase?

 

TODAY: Worksheet - with your roommate(s), determine the costs of the furnishings you would need to purchase to be able to survive. You will write an itemized list by room of the things you need then you will research how much those items will cost if you purchase them. BE SURE TO LIST WHERE you are purchasing items or if they come from personal inventory - then who is contributing what.

NOTE: Items not completed in class become HOMEWORK and are due at the beginning of the class period tomorrow.

 

 

06 MAY 2015 - Wednesday

In-Class discussion: What are real costs associated with living independent?

Will you own a car or need to take the bus to get to and from places?

Remember, you will go more places than just work and home. You will need to go to the grocery store, perhaps somewhere like WalMart, and may want to have some entertainment as well.

 

Worksheet - 4 brief questions regarding your itemized list of things from your worksheet, asking you about costs, etc. Complete sentences are not necessary but are appreciated.

 

Using the WORKSHEET you did yesterday, please answer the following worksheet's questions:

 

Worksheet "select an apartment"

WORKING WITH YOUR ROOMMATE(S), Answer the questions on the worksheet

Average monthly rent using Camden's Online Apartment Finder

(MAKE SURE YOU GET THE ADDRESS OF YOUR NEW APARTMENT!!!)

NVEnergy is who Las Vegas uses for electricity

Southwest Gas is who Las Vegas uses for natural gas services

Las Vegas Valley Water Authority is who Las Vegas uses for water

 

Worksheet "set up a budget to begin living on your own"

WORKING WITH YOUR ROOMMATE(S), determine the costs of:

Average monthly rent using Camden's Online Apartment Finder

First and last month rent combined - this is an upfront cost

Security deposit

Pet deposit - IF you apartment community allows pets

Utility Deposit (NV Energy)

Las Vegs Valley Water District deposit - if applicable

Trash service deposit - if applicable

Moving truck expenses (if you don't have a family with a truck)

 

How are you going to get to work? Ride the bus? Own a car?

What do you eat on a regular basis? Look up the costs of a week's worth of food and project what it will cost per month to feed you. Remember, you will eventually want more complete nutrition so TopRamen every day for 3 meals a day won't work.

 

If you're going to go to college, work and have your own place, you will not be able to have a 2nd job because college will be your 2nd job. You will need to look online and see how much it costs to go to UNLV or CSN and figure out your monthly tuition payment, books, etc. to be able to plug that in as well.

 

YOUR JOB/S: Assume that since you will be just out of high school, you aren't going to be the CEO of anything because that simply doesn't happen.

You may assume you have one job that pays you $8.35/hour and that you work an average of 30 hours weekly. If you have a 2nd job, understand it will likely pay the same but you'll be capped at working 20 hours

 

NOTE: Items not completed in class become HOMEWORK and are due at the beginning of the class period tomorrow.

 

 

07 MAY 2015 - Thursday

In-Class discussion: Apartment Leases

You will learn how to read a lease and determine if it is a reasonable lease and something you should sign or if too many provisions have been written into the lease in the favor of the landlord, making it a one-sided relationship that acts against the tenant.

 

TODAY: Worksheet - answer some brief questions about the lease on the back between Alice and Tim.

Worksheet - answer some brief questions about the lease on the back between Jim and Sarah.

NOTE: Items not completed in class become HOMEWORK and are due at the beginning of the class period tomorrow.

 

 

08 MAY 2015 - Friday

TODAY: QUIZ on all work form this week