April 27

Social 20

I gave you a booklet today entitled "The Making of Quarrels". Please make sure that you have completed the reading booklets that I have distributed so far. Don't forget that you have your Imperialism Unit Final on Monday. Have a great long weekend!

Social 10

We watched another video in class today. This one was called "Our National Parliament". While watching this video you were to take notes. If you missed today's class or even yesterday's class you need to get these notes from a classmate. Don't forget that your Political Cartoon assignment is due on Monday. You have two pop quizzes next week that you need to prepare for as well. Have a great long weekend!

April 26

Social 20

You watched a couple of videos today in class. One was called "Doomed Dynasties" and the other was "Clash of the Generals". I also gave you a small booklet with information on each of the major European powers on the eve of World War I.

Social 10

I collected your research projects today. As well we watched a fascinating video on "Democracy at Work", during which you took notes. Please start to prepare for next week's pop quizzes!Please check the April 24th post for information on the political cartoons assignment.

April 25

Social 10

You wrote your Sovereignty Unit Final today in class. Please don't forget that your WWI/WWII Research Project is due tomorrow. Also don't forget to find a political cartoon to analyze. That assignment is due next Monday (May 1st). For a starting point for this assignment, please see the April 24th post.
Here's some links for WWI and WWII Research projects: April 7th and April 8th

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 10 Students:

• WWI/WWII Research Project is due Wednesday, April 26th
• Interpreting Political Cartoons Assignment is due Monday, May 1st
  
  

Social 20

I delivered a presentation today on "The Causes of World War I". The version that I have sent to you by e-mail may look slightly different than the one I delivered in class. I assigned the following sections in Chapter 12 that I want you to read and take notes on:

• the Dual Entente
• Weltpolitik
• map on page 223
• page 224-225 foreign conflict
• Schlieffen Plan
• assassination (page 227-229)

I also gave you a reading booklet called "The Causes of World War I". Please read this booklet and highlight and make notes to yourself in the margins. I think that this booklet is an invaluable resource (don't lose it!).

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 20 Students:

• "Imperialism in Action" booklet is due on Wednesday, April 26th
• Imperialism Unit Final is on Monday, May 1st

April 24

Sorry for the later post tonight. For you soccer fans out there:
SWC 6 St. Francis 2 in Senior Boys Soccer.

Social 10

We finished off the Cabinet Selection Simulation today in class, so hopefully now you have a greater appreciation of how difficult it is to put together a cabinet, and how much you might be second-guessed in your selections. I also gave you a handout and assignment called "Interpreting Political Cartoons", if you missed today's class you need to get this handout from me. This assignment is due next Monday. You should be studying for your Sovereignty Unit Final tonight. You can find the study guide for this unit final here.

Here are some hyperlinks for analyzing political cartoons:

• Canadian Cartoon Tour (Professional Cartoonist Index)
• The Chronicle Herald (Halifax, Nova Scotia; Bruce MacKinnon)
• Calgary Sun (TAB)
• Patrick Corrigan Political Cartoons
• The Daily News (DeAdder)
• Aislin
• Ottawa Sun (Dewar)
• Cartoon Link
• MacKay Editorial Cartoons

That should give you a great start. Happy hunting!

Social 20

I delivered a short presentation on "The Imperial Age" and showed a video on "the Scramble for Africa". I will be sending out this PowerPoint presentation later tonight. I also announced a unit final exam date for your Imperialism final. This final will be next Monday. Here is the study guide for this exam:

Imperialism Unit Final Study Guide:

Please make sure that you that you have the following materials to study from:

• Chapter 10 in your textbook "The Imperial Age"
• "Imperialism in Action" booklet (the one that is due on Wednesday)
• "Motives for Imperialism" handout
• Imperialism notes (written on blackboard last Monday)
• "The Imperial Age" (PowerPoint presentation)

Here are the following topics for this unit final:

• What is imperialism?
• "Old" imperialism vs. "New" imperialism
• The role of the Industrial Revolution in Imperialism
• Imperialism in Asia
• Imperialism in Africa
• "Scramble for Africa" (map of Africa), study your map!
• Egypt and the Nile (Suez Canal, Muhammad Ali, importance of the Suez Canal)
• Central Africa-Congo (Belgian Congo, Livingstone, Stanley, Leopold II)
• The French in the Congo (Brazzaville, Timbuktu)
• The German empire in Africa
• Fashoda Crisis (French vs. British, know lots of details)
• Berlin Congress
• South Africa (know details of the invasion of Zululand, and The Boer War)
• Key People, Key Events in Imperialism
  
  
  

April 21

Social 10

We started a cabinet selection simulation today that we will finish on Monday. Have a great weekend, and please make sure that you work on your WWI/WWII projects. Don't forget to study for your Sovereignty Unit Final either!

Social 20

I gave you a booklet that we'll call "Imperialism in Action". The booklet is due on Wednesday, April 26th. I also collected your Chapter 6 questions today. Have a great weekend. The following map might useful to you:

April 20

Social 20

I will be giving you the results of your tests tomorrow. I will be throwing out some of the questions from the unit final because there were some repeat questions. We will be looking at "Imperialism in Action" tomorrow.

Social 10

I gave you a presentation today on "Politics and Government" (part 2). I will be sending this presentation out shortly, but you may not receive it tonight because I want to add in the slides that were deleted today when the network went haywire. Please start working on learning those key terms that I sent you yesterday, your first pop quiz will be on those key terms. Please read in Chapter 1 of your text the following pages: p.10-15, p.17, p.19-20, p.24, p. 26-27. Make sure that you copy down the key terms on page 12 into your notes.

April 19

Social 20

You wrote your "Industrialization and Ideologies" Unit Final today.

Social 10

I delivered a presentation today entitled "Politics and Government in Canada", I will be sending this presentation out tonight. Please check your e-mail tonight for a few documents and this presentation. Also, I want you to copy out the diagram on page 39 in your textbook into your notes. I also want you to take notes on "How a Bill Becomes a Law", there's a diagram in Chapter 2 in your textbook that you also need to get into your notes.

April 18

Social 10

We tied up some loose ends today on our Sovereignty unit. I will be sending you the Chapter 15 questions tonight. You should finish these questions tonight for homework if you didn't finish them in the class time that was given. As well, please complete the map on Canada's peacekeeping operations. You will also see the study guide for the Sovereignty Unit Final in this posting. This unit final is on Tuesday, April 25th.

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 on 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 PowerPoint presentation 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:(reading booklet, text)

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

This unit final consists of 65 multiple choice questions.

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 10 Students:

• Sovereignty Unit Final: Tuesday, April 25th
• WWI/WWII Research Project is due Wednesday, April 26th
  

Social 20

I gave you a reading today on the motives for imperialism. Please make sure that you read and highlight this booklet. Here are some upcoming important dates that you should be concerned with:

• Chapter 10 questions #1-9 are due on Thursday, April 20th
• Africa map is also due on Thursday, April 20th
• Industrialization and Ideologies Unit Final is Wednesday, April 19th

The following map may help you complete the map assignment:

April 17

Social 10

I delivered a presentation on "Canada's Foreign Policy" today. I will be sending this presentation out this evening. I also distributed a booklet on "Foreign Aid", so if you missed today's class you need to get this handout from me tomorrow.

Social 20

We went over the chart that I had assigned prior to the long weekend at the beginning of class. We started a new unit today called Imperialism. I assigned Q1-9 from Chapter 10. I will set a due date for these questions very soon. Your priority should be on studying tonight.

April 13

Social 20

You wrote your Industrial Revolution Quiz today. I am posting the study guide for your Industrialization and Ideologies Unit Final today; this test will be on Wednesday, April 19th.

Industrialization and Ideologies Unit Final Study Guide:

Use the following materials in your study preparations:

• Use the two PowerPoint presentations that I sent to you ("The Industrial Revolution" and "The Ideological Reaction to Industrialization")
• Use your Chapter 6 questions/answers
• Use the PDF files that I sent to you ("The Industrial Revolution" and "Enclosure Acts")
• Use the Chart "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization"
• 3 booklets: Industrial Revolution, Problems/Benefits of Industrialization, Philosophies of Industrialism
  

1. Key Names, Key Terms (text, booklet)
2. Know your "-isms"! Key Ideas, Key People, Reaction to the Industrial Revolution (text, ppt, chart)
3. Causes/Results of the Industrial Revolution (ppt, booklet)
4. Changes to society because of the Industrial Revolution (ppt, PDF, booklet)
5. Why did England industrialize first? (ppt, booklet)
6. Political spectrum: conservative, liberal, radical, reactionary
7. Agricultural Revolution (text, ppt, PDF)
8. Enclosure Acts (ppt, PDF)
9. Positives/Negatives of the Industrial Revolution/industrialization (booklet)
10. Karl Marx: "scientific socialism", Communist Manifesto, dialetic-class struggle (ppt, text, booklet)
    

Please enjoy your long weekend!

Social 10

I have marked your WWI/WWII Quiz. For the most part the results were very good. You wrote your first in-class position paper today. Please enjoy your long weekend! You deserve a break!

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 10 Students:

• Sovereignty Unit Final: Tuesday, April 25th
• WWI/WWII Research Project is due on Wednesday, April 26th
  
  

April 12

Social 20

I gave a presentation today on "The Ideological Reaction to Industrialization". I have already sent this presentation to you. I also sent you some notes on the Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution. I also sent you a chart that will help you to summarize the various ideologies that were discussed in Chapter 6. You have your Industrial Revolution Quiz tomorrow in class.

Social 10

You wrote your WWI/WWII Quiz today in class. Hopefully, you will get the results from this quiz tomorrow. You have your in-class position paper tomorrow, please come prepared!

April 11

Social 10

We played a review game of Jeopardy! today in anticipation of your WWI/WWII Quiz tomorrow. Keep studying. I also handed out the essay question sheet and an essay outline sheet. If you missed today's class, please send me an e-mail and I will send it to you. You need to prepare tonight for Thursday's in-class position paper. If you have any questions, please see me in tutorial tomorrow morning.

Social 20

I went over some basic economic theory today in class. This lecture and notes that took from the board will form the basis of the ideological reaction to industrialization that we will be getting into tomorrow. Don't forget that your Chapter 6 questions (Q1-19) are due tomorrow. Your Industrial Revolution Quiz is on Thursday, please see the April 6th post for the study guide. Here's the hyperlink to the Cotton Millionaire Game (read the instructions, and then click on "play the game").

April 10

Social 10

Today you had opportunity to start research on your WWI and WWII research project. This was your first and last class period to conduct research in the library. I hope that you find time between now and the assignment's due date to visit the library again to do some more research on your selected topic.

Due Date for WWI/WWII Research Project:

This assignment is to be completed by Wednesday, April 26th. If you are completing this project in digital format (PowerPoint or film), please burn your project to a CD-R or DVD-R (if it's a movie, the DVD format may be best depending on the size of the file).

Social 20

I went over the answers to the Industrial Revolution booklet's "word ladder" at the beginning of class, and then gave you another booklet. We went over the positives and negatives of the Industrial Revolution. I also assigned the following questions from Chapter 6 which are due on Wednesday of this week: Q7-19 are to be completed.

April 8

WWI and WWII Research Project Links:

• Juno Beach - The Canadians On D-Day
• CBC Archives: D-Day
• Military History Online
• Veterans' Affairs
• The Fall of Hong Kong
• Canada's Air Force: WWII
• The Canadian Encyclopedia: WWII
• Historica
• Encyclopedia of the Second World War

April 7

Social 10

I delivered a presentation on the Cold War today in class. I will be sending that to you tonight. A lot of the following links are for WWI. I will post some more for WWII tomorrow.

WWI and WWII Research Project Links:

• Veterans' Affairs Canada (Youth and Educators)
• Library Archives Canada
• Canada's Digital Collections
• Jack Turner's War (a photographer in WWI)
• First World War.com
• Photos of the Great War
• Canadian War Museum
• Battle of Vimy Ridge (Canadian War Museum)
• The Great War (PBS website; American, but lots of valuable information, photos, maps, timeline)
• Canada and the First World War (war diaries, "we were there", a fantastic website, lots of information and first person accounts, excellent primary sources!)
• Veterans Affairs Canada: Canada and the First World War
• Courage Remembered: The World Wars Through Canadian Eyes
• Popular Songs During WWI (from Veterans Affairs)
• An Archival Look at WWI (from Queen's University, covers the Canadian Home Front, Women in the War, WWI Warfare, Warfare Technology)
• Trenches on the Web (not completely Canadian, but very useful)
• NFB Educational Resources: Images of a Forgotten War (WWI; lots of great materials here) and D-Day (WWII)
• For King and Empire: Canada's Soldiers in the Great War (archives, battlefields, resource center, culture and the Great War)
• The Archives of Ontario Remembers our War Heroes (WWI site)
• Canadian Veterans Interviews (caution: language warning, soldiers talking about their experiences in WWI)
• Diaries and Letters: Their Story Must be Told (WWI letters and diaries, excellent primary source material)
• Encyclopedia of the First World War (not a Canadian website, but it contains an incredible amount of information!)
• Canvas of War: Masterpieces from the Canadian War Museum (WWI and WWII)
• B.C. Archives: War Posters of WWI and WWII (lots of great posters here, with some explanations)
• Canadian War Poster Collection (Amazing! Tons of WWI and WWII posters, indexed by artist, it is a searchable database. Search Suggestion: Click on War dropdown menu and select WWI, then click on a Category from the drop down menu - to view posters)
• Archives of Ontario: Canadian Posters from the First World War
  (most posters have at least three different sizes)
• Royal Alberta Museum: The Poster Virtual Museum (WWI posters, please make sure that you select Canadian posters, this collection has Allied war posters)
• Art of the First World War
• War Artists from the First World War
• WWI Aces of Canada
• Newfoundland and the Great War
• Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War (lots of primary source material, PDF files, great site)
• Propaganda Critic (An American website that examines the following: what is propaganda? propaganda techniques)

Social 20

Today we watched parts of the silent movie classic "Modern Times". There's no homework this weekend. Don't forget that you have an Industrial Revolution Quiz on Thursday.

April 6

Social 20

I gave you a booklet today in class which should be viewed as additional material on the Industrial Revolution. You must complete all questions, charts and activities in this booklet by Monday, April 10th. Please remember that your Chapter 6 questions are due tomorrow, you are responsible for Q1-6 on page 110.

Industrial Revolution Quiz Study Guide

This quiz will be held next Thursday, April 13th. Here is the study guide:

1. Causes of the Industrial Revolution
2. Results of the Industrial Revolution
3. Why did England industrialize first?
4. What is the Agricultural Revolution?
5. What is the Enclosure movement?
6. What are the problems and benefits of industrialization?
7. Key terms, key people associated with the Industrial Revolution

Format for this quiz:

• Matching Section
• Multiple Choice Section
• Short Answer Section
  
  
  

Social 10

We watched an excerpt of "Saving Private Ryan" to get an idea of what the Normandy invasion was like in June of 1944. The expectation is that you have read all of the WWI and WWII chapters in the textbook (Chapters 7-9, and Chapters 12-14). You homework assignment is as follows: send me an e-mail with three (3) Jeopardy! style questions tonight. We'll be playing a game of Jeopardy! in class on Tuesday in anticipation of your WWI and WWII Quiz.

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 10 Students:

• Monday, April 10th: Library research for WWI and WWII Research Project
• Tuesday, April 11th: In-Class Position Paper topic distributed
• Wednesday, April 12th: WWI and WWII Quiz
• Thursday, April 13th: In-Class Position Paper

April 5

Social 20

You wrote your Nationalism Unit Final today in class. If you missed today's class you will have to make arrangements to write this test. Please make sure that complete tonight's homework assignment, that being the crossword puzzle and word search. Feel free to post comments on the blog if you get stuck on either puzzle.

Social 10

After giving you a pop quiz on yesterday's Speech from the Throne, I had you start reading Chapter 14 and finding the key terms from this chapter. Please check your e-mail tonight for the messages that I sent out last night.

April 4

Social 10

I delivered a presentation on "Canada's Role in WWII" at the start of class today. I will be sending this presentation out tonight. Please make sure that you read Chapter 13 and take note of the key terms in that chapter tonight. Here's the hyperlink to the NFB. Click on "D-Day". There are a couple of short films that you could watch.

Social 20

I gave back your in-class position papers today in class. For the most part they were well done. There is still room for improvement though. I delivered a presentation on the Industrial Revolution as well today, which I will be sending out to you tonight.

April 3

It will be just a short post tonight...

Social 10

I will be sending out today's presentation later tonight. The topic for this topic was the Interwar Years and the Road to WWII. Please make sure that you read Chapter 12 in the textbook, and continue compiling your key terms from that chapter. I checked the availability of the Blenheim computer lab for our in-class position paper and it looks like we'll have to write in the classroom, the lab is booked solid for the next two weeks. I'll be giving you the essay topic handouts early next week.

Social 20

I delivered a presentation on "The Age of Bismarck" in class today, and I gave you some puzzles on Bismarck. Please study for Wednesday's unit final.