February 27

Social 10

I showed you a couple of videos from the CBC News in Review series, the first one was a retrospective of the 1970 October Crisis, and the other was on the 1995 Quebec Referendum. I then gave you the remainder of the period to work on gathering information for your French-English Relations Timeline assignment. I also collected your Regionalism booklets.

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 10 Students:

• Regional Brochure is due Thursday, March 1st
• French-English Relations Quiz is on Friday, March 2nd
• Regionalism Unit Final is on Monday, March 5th
• French-English Relations Timeline Assignment is due on Tuesday, March 6th
  

Social 33

We finished off one of our last concepts in democratic systems, that being proportional representation. We also started dictatorial systems in dramatic fashion. If you missed today's class, you missed out. I gave you some "Notes on Dictatorships" and some other handouts on "techniques of dictatorships". We'll be talking about the techniques of dictatorships in subsequent classes.

Democracy Unit Final Study Guide

1. Key Concepts/Key People/Key Terms:

• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• political spectrum
• radicals
• moderates
• liberals
• conservatives
• reactionaries
• absolute monarchy
• dictatorship
• democracy
• fascism
• communism
• anarchy
• rule by many
• rule by few/elites
• direct democracy
• representative democracy
• first past the post
• proportional representation
• universal suffrage
• majority rule
• minority rights
• Canadian Constitution
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• political parties
• media
• interest groups

2. Advantages/Disadvantages of Direct Democracy (ppt)

3. Advantages/Disadvantages of Representative Democracy (ppt)

4. Techniques/Characteristics of a Democracy (ppt)

5. Canadian Political System:(handouts)

• executive, legislative, judicial branches of government (roles)
• Prime Minister and Cabinet (which branch? what roles/responsibilities do they have?)
• Leader of the Official Opposition (roles/responsibilities)
• the Queen and the Governor General (roles/responsibilities)
• MPs in the House of Commons (roles/responsibilities)
• the House of Commons and the Senate (which is elected? which is appointed? what is the purpose of the Senate? which branch do they belong to?)

6. American Political System:(handouts)

• executive, legislative, judicial branches of government (roles)
• checks and balances in the U.S. system of government
• separation of powers
• President and Cabinet (which branch? what roles/responsibilities do they have?)
• the House of Representatives/Congressmen (roles/responsibilities)
• the Senate/Senators (roles/responsibilities)
• different terms in office, voting methods for President (4 yrs), House of Representatives (2 yrs), and the Senate (6 yrs) --WHY?

7. Political Spectrum (know it VERY well), print off Ideology notes from the blog (check under Social 33 links)

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 33 Students:

• Democracy Unit Final is on Tuesday, March 6th