Monday, September 29, 2008

September 29


I collected your "Bend It Like Beckham" film study booklets at the beginning of class (you get homework check marks for this, and I mark it too). I also collected your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions, which you will get back tomorrow. Most of the period was spent writing your first Part A In-Class Writing Assignments. You will be writing more of these as the semester progresses. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam this Thursday, October 2nd. The study guide is below.


Unit 1 Final Exam will be Thursday, October 2nd. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

Please study your key terms from Chapters 1-5, and the topics covered in that unit.
1. Key Terms/Key Concepts in Unit 1:

  • globalization
  • pluralistic society
  • transnationals
  • society
  • “the global village”
  • United Nations
  • G-8
  • La Francophonie
  • NATO
  • individual identity
  • collective identity
  • traditions
  • minority group
  • official bilingualism
  • universalization of pop culture
  • hybridization
  • media transnationals
  • media consolidation
  • CBC/SRC
  • Official Languages Act
  • CRTC
  • Canadian Content (CanCon)
  • homogenization
  • monoculture
  • assimilation
  • marginalization
  • accommodation
  • secularism
  • integration
  • cosmopolitan
  • acculturation
  • cultural revitalization
  • Charter of Rights and Freedoms

2. Know your case studies extremely well!
3. Be able to apply key concepts! (see comments above)
4. Please review the "Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization" PowerPoint (it's on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations)



We started in on Unit 2 material today, we looked at the Causes of World War I. I delivered a presentation/lecture on this topic, and then showed a short video on the "Doomed Dynasties" of Europe. Keep in mind that the three absolute monarchies of Europe that were featured in the film, the Romanov Dynasty in Russia (led by Tsar Nicholas II), the Hohenzollern Dynasty in Germany (led by Kaiser Wilhelm II) and the Hapsburg Dynasty in Austria-Hungary (led by Franz Joseph II) do not survive after the war. Tomorrow, you have your first Part A In-Class Writing Assignment. The three sources will all connect to one of the major themes that we've studied so far. I would look at big concepts like the differences between nation, nation-state and nationalism, understandings of nation, the differences between ethnic and civic nationalism, factors in the development of French nationalism (in other words, causes of the French Revolution), Napoleon's contributions to French nationalism, and the various contending loyalties: nationalist and non-nationalist contending loyalties.



One week from today, you will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam. It is 75 multiple choice questions. Make sure that you have read Chapters 1-4 in Exploring Nationalism. Please make sure that you know the key concepts from Unit 1 (see below). Also review the PowerPoint presentations that you should have in your notes. They are also on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations. These are the presentations that you should review:

1. Nation and Identity
2. The French Revolution
3. The Napoleonic Era
4. Contending Loyalties

Know the key concepts from the Unit 1 Worksheet (a lot of them have been defined on the wiki by your classmates, check under Unit 1 Key Terms). If you know the key concepts you'll be able apply them to test.

  • nation
  • nation-state
  • nationalism
  • patriotism
  • self-determination
  • sovereignty
  • sovereign
  • civic nation
  • civic nationalism
  • ethnic nationalism
  • collective consciousness
  • French Revolution
  • Estates-General
  • Louis XVI
  • First Estate
  • Second Estate
  • Third Estate
  • cahiers de doléances
  • Ancien Régime
  • bourgeoisie
  • feudal system
  • philosophes
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man
  • National Assembly
  • Tennis Court Oath
  • constitutional monarchy
  • Jacobins
  • Girondins
  • National Convention
  • levée en masse
  • Robespierre
  • Danton
  • Marat
  • Reign of Terror
  • Napoleon
  • Napoleonic Code
  • Continental System
  • contending loyalties
  • cultural pluralism
  • reasonable accommodation
  • sovereignists
  • federalists
  • royal commission
  • expressions of nationalism
  • non-nationalist loyalty
  • alienation
  • segregation

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

for 'Understandings of Nation' for the writing thingy tomorrow...what does that exactly mean? like what do we study for that? Same thing for Contending nationalist and non-nationalist loyalties.

Social 20-1

Anonymous said...

How much time do we ge for writing the essay? I assume it is 45 minutes. And what will we do in the reamining time? Do ESL (or former ESL students)receive extra time?

SS 20-1

Anonymous said...

If we have stdudy notes for the Part A writing assignment, are we able to use them when brainstorming?

Social 20-1

Anonymous said...

Also commenting above...when you brainstorm can you keep those notes when writing?

Anonymous said...

didn't you say that nearly all of the protesters in the Oka Crisis were found not guilty? it says on the wiki that nearly all of them were found guilty....

Social 20-1

Anonymous said...

Do we just really need to know the definition of contending loyalties or do we also need to know examples? like Quebec and Frist Nations?

Social 20-1

Kevin Gilchrist said...

for 'Understandings of Nation' for the writing thingy tomorrow...what does that exactly mean? like what do we study for that? Same thing for Contending nationalist and non-nationalist loyalties.

Social 20-1

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Check the text, Chapter 1 or look at the wiki under Collaborative Notes.

Kevin Gilchrist said...

How much time do we ge for writing the essay? I assume it is 45 minutes. And what will we do in the reamining time? Do ESL (or former ESL students)receive extra time?
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You get 45 minutes to write. If you have an IPP that says that you require extra time, you get it. ESL doesn't get extra time. You might as well get used to it, universities don't give you extra time.

Kevin Gilchrist said...

If we have stdudy notes for the Part A writing assignment, are we able to use them when brainstorming?

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No, it's not open book.

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Also commenting above...when you brainstorm can you keep those notes when writing?

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You write your brainstorming notes on the question sheet. You hand that in with your written work. You don't write anything on loose leaf other than your actual written assignment (I explain all of this in class).

Kevin Gilchrist said...

didn't you say that nearly all of the protesters in the Oka Crisis were found not guilty? it says on the wiki that nearly all of them were found guilty....
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My presentation should read "almost all were found not guilty".

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Do we just really need to know the definition of contending loyalties or do we also need to know examples? like Quebec and Frist Nations?
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Knowing some examples won't hurt.

Anonymous said...

Whats an IPP?

Anonymous said...

Never mind i got what IPP is

Anonymous said...

so what is 3 examples of contending loyalties in the oka crissis

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