Thursday, February 26, 2009

February 26


All of today's class was spent writing your first in-class position paper in the Blenheim Room. You should hopefully get the results of this essay next week. Please remember that your civil rights movement questions are due tomorrow. You have a couple of exams next week that you should be studying for, you have a 31 multiple choice question Democracy Quiz on Monday, and a 66 multiple choice question Democracy Unit Exam on Wednesday. I gave you a study guide yesterday for these tests, please check this post for the study guide.


I finished off the PowerPoint presentation on "Contending Loyalties", and I have already sent it to your e-mail accounts, so please check your e-mail tonight. Your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow, and your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Monday. I took in your French Revolution DBA today as well. Here are some upcoming important dates for you:

  • Unit 1 Written Response Assignment I (three source analysis) is on Tuesday, March 3rd
  • Chapter 3-4 Test is on Thursday, March 5th (note the change of date, please see the study guide here)
  • Unit 1 Final Exam is on Monday, March 9th (the study guide will be published here on the blog a week before the unit exam)



We did a quick review of the techniques of dictatorship at the beginning of class, and then we looked at a comparison of fascism and communism, two forms of dictatorship. We then started one of our case studies for our study of dictatorship: Mussolini's fascist Italy. We started watching a biography of Mussolini, which we will finish tomorrow. I did a homework check on Activity 4, and I gave back your Chapter 4 booklets (Canada and the USA) today as well.

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