Tuesday, May 02, 2006

May 2


You wrote you first pop quiz in the Politics and Government theme today. You'll have another one VERY soon on the floor plan of the House of Commons and "How a Bill Becomes a Law".We also did a mock election in class today. I have sent out the Internet based assignment to your e-mail accounts, so let me know if you didn't receive it. This assignment is due on Thursday.


1. Key Concepts/Key Terms (see outline)

  • most of these concepts can be found in the PowerPoint presentations that I delivered with this theme
  • also check out the Parliamentary Key Terms (know the basics!)

2. Structure and Function of Government (see outline):

  • focus on PowerPoint presentations!
  • study from notes that you took from the videos!
  • executive, legislative, judicial branches
  • BNA Act (1867)
  • Constitution Act (1982)
  • powers and responsibilities of the branches of government
  • federalism/federal system
  • how a bill becomes a law
  • House of Commons and Senate
  • roles of the constitutional monarchy (Queen, Governor General, PM and Cabinet)


3. The Role of Pressure Groups and the Media (focus on second PowerPoint presentation) in the Government



We did a simulation today on the outbreak of World War I. I hope that you enjoyed it.

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

whats on the "how a bill becomes a law" quiz

Kevin Gilchrist said...

I've said in class, I don't know how many times what's on this pop quiz. I even told you in this post what's on it. Read carefully.

Anonymous said...

Spiderman, Spiderman...
Quotes V For Vendetta.
"People should not be afraid of their government, the government should be afraid of the people..."

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Now if I had some Social 20 students online they could probably tell you which philosophe that sounds like.

Anonymous said...

Hmmmm sounds like Voltaire

Kevin Gilchrist said...

"When legislators try to destroy or take away the property of the people, or try to reduce them to slavery, they put themselves into a state of war with the people who can then refuse to obey the laws. When legislators try to gain or give someone else absolute power over lives, liberties, and property of the people, they abuse the power which the people had put into their hands. It is then the privilege of the people to establish a new legislature to provide for their safety and security."
-John Locke

Sound familiar?

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Voltaire would sound something like this,"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Anonymous said...

that's so cool

that simulation today was pretty awsome too..very very helpful -thanks Mr. Gilchrist!

Anonymous said...

For this assignment, how do we hand it in.. should we email it back to you or print it off for class on thursday?

Anonymous said...

GAMBATTE KUDASAI STUDENTS!

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Please print it off for class on Thursday. Muchas gracias.

Anonymous said...

OO Mr. G goes to the spanish now.

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Nihongo wakarimasu ka. Sugoi!! Konban, Kanada no keisei o yoku benkyou shite kudasai. Ashita, poppu kuizu arimasu yo. Gambatte ne.

Anonymous said...

okay...unfortunately my japanese ends at gambatte kudasai...

sorry...

oh and hai!

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Zannen desu ne. (That's too bad)

Anonymous said...

thank you.

can you explain what the other paragraph meant?

Anonymous said...

OO I THINK I UNDERSTOOD SOME OF IT!

something to do with a pop quiz and Canada

poppu kuizu = pop quiz

Kanada = Canada

clever..i know

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Nihongo wakarimasu ka. Sugoi!! Konban, Kanada no keisei o yoku benkyou shite kudasai. Ashita, poppu kuizu arimasu yo. Gambatte ne.

Do you understand Japanese? Incredible! Tonight, please really study Canada's government/administration. Tomorrow you have a pop quiz. Please fight on! (This pop quiz is for Social 10 students)

Kevin Gilchrist said...

That's the beauty of Japanese, if you speak English you know a lot of Japanese words. They just take an English word and put a Japanese spin on it. There are lots of cognates.

Anonymous said...

wow..very interesting..

it seems that i mistakenly answered your question "Do you understand Japanese" in the post after yours.

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Too bad I'm not teaching Japanese. This blog could be useful for that too.

Anonymous said...

私は疲れている!!!!!!!

Kevin Gilchrist said...

I hope that you went to bed soon after this post then. How did you post in Japanese? Do you have a Japanese word processing program? Did you copy and paste from somewhere?

Kevin Gilchrist said...

おはようございます。Neat. I just copied and pasted from my Japanese word processor. I didn't know that I could do that. Cool!

Anonymous said...

i have program that can swicth eng to jap