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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Thursday December 8th: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Credit Card Search: <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Go to the following website to learn about different Canadian Credit cards. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">http://canada.creditcards.com/best-canadian-credit-cards.php <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">1. Find 2 credit cards that have an annual fee. Name them and tell how much the fee is.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">2. Find 2 credit cards that have no or $0 annual fee. Tell the name of these 2 cards.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">3. APR is the annual interest rate that you are charged on the money you owe. Select 3 cards - state the names of the cards and what the APR (%) is for each.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Read the following article and answer the questions that are after each paragraph. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Monday Nov 28th: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Volk, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Here is what we spoke about on Friday (I rewrote your note that you typed out here): <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A credit card is when you borrow money from the bank. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Intereset is the fee (a payment) you make to the bank for borrowing their money. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A debit card is when you save up your own money and use it to buy something. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A credit card can be good if you don't have enough money saved up yet to buy what you need. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">A credit card can be bad because if you can't pay the money back right away, you end up paying back the bank more money than you borrowed (that's the interest). <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The more money you borrow and the longer it takes to pay it back, the more interest you have to pay.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Watch this video below that gives a formula for calculating interest: media type="youtube" key="r3-lyBGlJ98" height="315" width="560" <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Then get Miss S's flash drive and download the practice questions onto your braille note and give them a try!