February 12

Social 33

I went over a couple of items today. First, we dealt with the range of political ideas spectrum that I gave you in Friday's class. Next, I delivered a presentation to you called "Introduction to Democracy". I will be sending this presentation to you. Please read Chapter 4 tonight!! If you don't get any of these presentations, then please send me an e-mail and I will respond and send them to you directly. Please remember that you have a test tomorrow. Here is the study guide:

Introduction to Political Systems Test Study Guide:

1. Key Concepts/Key People:

• ideology
• government
• politics
• to govern
• economics
• individualism
• collectivism
• fascism
• conservatism
• liberalism
• radical
• conservative
• reactionary
• liberal
• absolute monarchy
• democratic socialism
• communism
• representative government
• Thomas Hobbes (ideas/beliefs)
• John Locke (ideas/beliefs)
• norms
• mores
• rule by few/elites (dictatorships)
• rule by many (democracies)

2. Political Spectrum:

• similarities/differences between groups
• values supported by each group (radical, liberal, conservative, reactionary)
• placement on spectrum of various groups

3. Forms of Government:

• advantages/disadvantages of each type of government that we have examined (absolute monarchy, democratic socialism, communism, representative government, fascism)
  

Test Format:
30 multiple choice questions
1 writing assignment (letter to the editor on a particular issue, information is given to help you write your letter)

Social 10

Today we continued our work from the Regionalism booklet. You should have completed Part "B" of "The Effect of Climate and Physiography" during class time. I also think that you should have filled in some of the gaps on your "Physiographic Regions Chart" from the Canada Today textbook. Ideally, you should be working on "Population Distribution" and the "Location of Population and Manufacturing in Canada" from the booklet. If you're not there yet, you're officially behind.