November 17

Social 23

I had you create questions for tomorrow's Jeopardy! game today in class. I also gave you some class time to work on your WWI Research assignment. Once again, if you missed the class when this assignment was given to you, please get it from one of your classmates.
Upcoming important dates for Social 23 students:

• WWI Research Assignment is due on Wednesday, November 23rd
  
• WWI Unit Final is on Thursday, November 24th
  

In order to help you study for this exam, please use the following study guide...

Study Guide for WWI Unit Final:

1. Key People in World War I

2. Key Events of World War I

3. Causes of World WarI

4. Trench Warfare

more details to follow...

Social 10

Today, I gave you a reading that covered foreign aid. This reading gave you further details on: the Colombo Plan, CIDA, the Commonwealth, La Francophonie, NGOs, and arguments in favor of and opposed to on the following topics:

• the role of human rights in giving aid
  
• tied aid
  
• increasing or decreasing foreign aid
  

Upcoming important dates for Social 10 students:

• Sovereignty Unit Final is on Thursday, November 24th (this test was rescheduled)
  
• WWI/WWII Research Project is due on Wednesday, November 30th
  

To help you prepare for next week's Sovereignty Unit Final, please use the following study guide in your preparations...

Study Guide for Sovereignty Unit Final:

1. Key Concepts (you should be familiar with these terms and concepts):

• sovereignty
• independence
• nationhood
• nation-state
• national identity
• intervention
• international relations
• foreign policy
• "middle power"
• global community conflict
• cooperation
• collective security
  

2. Canada's Sovereignty (from PowerPoint presentation and reading booklet):

• political (constitutional) sovereignty (lots of details here)
• territorial sovereignty
• characteristics of a sovereign nation
• nation
• state
• nation-state
  

3. Canada's Role in WWI: (focus on the following issues)

• aims of Canada's involvement
• Canadian contributions
• consequences of the war as it relates to Canadian sovereignty

4. Attaining Independence:(importance of the following in relation to Canada gaining independence from Britain)

• Imperial War Cabinet's Resolution IX (from textbook and PowerPoint)
• Paris Peace Conference /Treaty of Versailles
• League of Nations
• Statute of Westminster (1931)
• Constitution Act (1982)

5. Canada's Role in World War II: (focus only one the following)

• what role did Canada play in WWII?
• Canadian contribution
  

6. Canada's Role in the Cold War (PowerPoint and Chapter 15):

• Canada's role in collective security arrangements (for example, NATO and NORAD)

7. Canada's Foreign Policy: (focus on the reading booklet and PowerPoint presentationon for this topic)

• what influences Canadian foreign policy?
• Canadian foreign policy goals/themes
• aims/objectives of Canadian foreign policy

8. Canada and the United Nations (PowerPoint presentation and Chapter 15):

• Canadian involvement in UN agencies
• Security Council/peacekeeping
• military actions: peacekeeping (examples) and peacemaking (examples)
• know the difference between peacekeeping and peacemaking

9. Canada in the World/ Canada and International Organizations:(readings)

• Commonwealth
• La Francophonie
• CIDA
• NGOs
• Canada's role in the developing world (foreign aid)
• bilateralism/multilateralism/internationalism
• acid rain issue/global environment

Please remember that this unit final will be 65-70 questions in length.