Your Next Chapter™ · Economics
Students don't memorize economics.
They learn to read the economy.
A portfolio-based economics course where every unit builds one real file — and the capstone turns a student into the economist.
A semester (0.5-credit) course for Grades 9–12, built by a practitioner and aligned to your state's economics standards.
One economy, six lenses.
Most economics courses ask students to memorize graphs and definitions. Your Next Chapter has them build a working file in every unit — then read one real economy through all six.
Unit E1
Scarcity & Choice
What's scarce, what it costs, and how four economic systems answer the same three questions.
Unit E2
Markets & Business
Supply and demand, prices, market structures, and how businesses actually make decisions.
Unit E3
Indicators & the Business Cycle
GDP, inflation, and unemployment — reading the economy's vital signs and where it is in the cycle.
Unit E4
Money & the Federal Reserve
What money is, how banks create it, and how the Fed steers the economy with monetary policy.
Unit E5
Government & Fiscal Policy
Taxes, spending, and deficits — the government's role in a market economy and the trade-offs it makes.
Unit E6
Trade & the Global Economy
Comparative advantage, exchange rates, and where a student's own corner of the world fits in.
The Capstone
Become the Economist.
Students pick one real economy, industry, or public issue they care about — EVs, student debt, the minimum wage, a country of their own — and read it through all six lenses, pulling forward the files they've built. They don't take a test on economics. They produce a complete economic analysis of something real.
Everything a district needs.
Nothing left to build. Every unit ships complete.
Curriculum core
Six units and a capstone, each with a lesson plan, a student book, and classroom handouts.
Six portfolio files
Trade-Off File, Market Map, Economy Checkup, Money Trail, Government File, Trade File.
Assessment tools
Rubrics, exit-ticket protocols, peer review, and formative checks built into every unit.
Teacher support
Onboarding guide, unit briefings, and a coaching-question library — no economics degree required.
Built to satisfy the standard.
Your Next Chapter: Economics covers your state's high-school economics standards in full — the Market, National, and International Economy domains. It's the companion to Your Next Chapter: Personal Finance: license both as two half-credit courses, or as one combined 1.0-credit course where your state allows it.