Friday, October 21, 2005

October 21


I delivered a short presentation today on Canadian sovereignty. This presentation dealt with the concepts of nation, state, nation-state, and sovereignty. It also covered some of the history of Canada's struggle for territorial and constitutional sovereignty. Additionally, in the presentation there was a concept map which covered the characteristics of a sovereign nation. I also gave you a substantial readings package which is due on Monday. I collected your position paper outlines today as well.


I talked a little bit today about the connection between industrialization, imperialism, nationalism, and international conflict. We started imperialism in Africa, by reading in Chapter 10 pages 192-197 and questions from page 194, Q2-3 and Q2-3 on page 197.
Upcoming important dates for Social 23 students:

  • Industrial Revolution Research Assignment is due on Tuesday, October 25th
  • Industrial Revolution Test is on Thursday, October 27th

Here are some interesting links related to the Industrial Revolution:




1. Key People

  • James Hargreaves
  • Richard Arkwright
  • Samuel Crompton
  • Eli Whitney
  • James Watt
  • Henry Bessemer
  • Jethro Tull
  • Charles Townshend
  • Adam Smith
  • Robert Owen
  • Karl Marx

2. Key Terms:

  • domestic system/cottage system
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Agricultural Revolution
  • Das Kapital
  • Wealth of Nations
  • laissez faire
  • corporation
  • Enclosure Acts
  • utopian socialists

3. Benefits of the Industrial Revolution

4. Problems Caused by the Industrial Revolution

5. Why did England industrialize earlier than other European countries?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

umm for that powerpoint u sent us...i dont know why but a lot of things seems to be missing. I was just wondering, if you can sent it to me again, or maybe its just my computer

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Sure Will. I'll send you both PowerPoints related to the Industrial Revolution right away. I'll send it in a few minutes, so at about 7:30, okay?

Anonymous said...

hi, is it possible that you could send the Social Studies 10 Canadian sovereignty out again to your 10-3 class? I've talked to a some my classmates, and including myself, there are things missing on the last few pages for us
thanks so much

Anonymous said...

yea wut the person said above there...when i got your presentation...some pages were missing and yea..there were blank..can you plz send again...thanks!

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Hi everyone. I sent out the Canadian sovereignty PowerPoint again to Social 10-3 as per the request above. I will send it out to Social 10-1 again as well. There's only 11 slides in this presentation, so keep that in mind.