Black Friday

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Black Friday begins the day after which holiday?

1. Memorial Day
2. Christmas
3. Halloween
4. Thanksgiving

The term Black Friday originated in what U.S. city?

1. Miami
2. Los Angeles
3. New York
4. Philadelphia

Police officers in Philadelphia were first to link Black Friday to the post-Thanksgiving period in the 1950s. Large crowds of tourists and shoppers came to the city the day after Thanksgiving for the Army-Navy football game, creating chaos, traffic jams and shoplifting opportunities. Police officers in the city weren't able to take the day off work and instead had to work long shifts to control the carnage, coining the phrase Black Friday to refer to it.

Why is Black Friday black?

1. It's dark outside when people go to shop
2. Shoppers end up black and blue
3. from debit (red) and credit (black)
4. it means disaster and has been used in history before, in different situations

Black Friday represents the point in the year when retailers begin to turn a profit, thus going from being "in the red" to being "in the black"

Discussion:

- Do you like Black Friday? why/why not?

- Do you think that people would receive less gifts if Black Friday didn't exist?

- Would you sit/stand outside of a store in the middle of the night so you could get a good price on something?

Black Friday: write 100 words and include a picture. 

1) Choose a product that you would like to have (latest phone, new shoes)

2) Describe why you want to buy this product (what are you going to use it for, the way it looks, other people have it)

3) Describe what the advertisement looks like and what you like about it. 

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