AP Macroeconomics (Daniel Burns)

This online course, taught by Daniel Burns for the 224-2025 school year, is a homeschooled 9th-12th grade level Macroeconomics class. The course uses all the materials from Dr. Richman's well-known course, including his games, syllabus, and website format. The class tuition fee is $675 for early bird registration before July 1st and $695 thereafter. There is no application or prerequisites, and all homeschooled 9th-12th grade students who pay tuition before the class fills up will be accepted. The course textbook is a free online version of Principles of Economics by Libby Rittenberg and Timothy Tregarthen (available in multiple formats). The lectures for the course are from The Great Courses economics lectures by Prof. Timothy Taylor and Macroeconomics Made Easy by Akila Weerapana. The class requires an average of 90 minutes per weekday from late August to late January, with one week off for Thanksgiving and two weeks off for Christmas. There will be continuing review assignments in February and March to help students prepare for the AP exam. The class is offered for any homeschooled student in 9th-12th grade. The class is rated as highly interactive and students are expected to log on to the website every weekday but not at any specific time and optional recorded Zoom meetings at least once per unit. The class is asynchronous. Students will grade and respond to each other's essays and play economics games on the class website.

The course covers important economists, how to predict the effects of government actions, vocabulary of economics, draw supply and demand curves, read economics graphs, recessions or inflationary spirals, and promote long-term growth. The class will have grade simulation games. Each game will be played twice for two weeks, for games during the year. The Business game, Guns or Butter game, Investment game, and Economic Warfare game. The course emphasizes economics theories and international trade, currency manipulations, spies, counterspies, international capital movements, and foreign trade. The course goal is that students become grade and fall in love with the subject. Since 2020, about 75% of the students have scored a 4 or 5 on the AP, compared to an average grade of 2.75 globally. Students are encouraged to watch the free online Economics 1 grade and Milton Friedman from PBS TV. The instructor a free online course using Dr. Richman's course, and a homeschooled a AP Macroeconomics from Dr. Richman. The instructor a AP Macroeconomics curriculum for a major curriculum publisher and is a College Board exam grader for AP Macroeconomics. The instructor has been a AP courses online, including Microeconomics, U.S. History, and U.S. Government. The instructor has a Master of Business Administration from Regent University and graduated from Patrick Henry College.

The course will run from August and have one week off for Thanksgiving and two grade off for Christmas break. The daily classes and assignments will end in late January, and a continue to review for the final a parents administer in April and the aP Macroeconomics exam in May.