The price of avocados is holding steady. What happens when the competition for labor to grow them intensifies? Learners consider this and other questions about supply and demand and the effects of monopolies using authentic College Board materials. 

Concepts

microeconomics, markets, the free market, competition, supply and demand, supply curves, test preparation

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Create scenarios to allow scholars to practice similar prompts
• Administer all or part of the resource give students more exam practice

Classroom Considerations

• Resource includes the free-response questions from the 2011 AP® examination

Pros

• Resource includes rubrics that make feedback easy
• Items are easy to adapt to a variety of lessons

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.10