July 3

Classroom Rules/Expectations of Behavior:

I think that I have very simple, straight-forward classroom rules and expectations. Here's a quick recap:

• Please be on-task during classroom time (visit later)
• No cell phones (as per school policy); if your parents really need to get in touch with you, they should call the office. Please don't bring cell phones to class, or if you do, please remember to turn them off!
• Please don't listen to music on MP3 players or iPods during class time, unless I have given you permission to do so.
• Be polite. You should be listening during class lectures or when your classmates have questions to ask (you might have some of the same questions).
• Be on time. If you are late, please enter the classroom quietly and apologize for being late. If the door is locked, I have started the lecture or there is a class presentation in progress; I will open the door and let you in as soon as possible.
• Clean up after yourselves. Please don't leave garbage on the floor. I like my classroom fairly neat and tidy.
• You may chew gum in class on the following conditions: don't chew like a cow, I don't want to see the gum or hear you chewing it, that's just gross.
• No hats indoors!
• Please make sure that a parent or guardian calls the school to have absences excused. If you miss a test due to an unexcused absence you will be assigned a mark of "zero".
• I will be contacting parent/guardians if you have unexcused absences.
  

Social 10-2

We did a lot of beginning of the semester/administrative tasks at the beginning of the class. I have sent you an e-mail, so please check your e-mail inboxes today when you get home. If you have a Hotmail account, you may have to check your junk mail folder and add me as someone that you want to get e-mail messages from. We went through different perspectives of globalization today, by looking at how various people and organizations define globalization. As you can see, there are many different perspectives on globalization. Some people feel that globalization is beneficial and others feel that globalization creates problems. Over the course of the semester, we will be looking what your perspective on globalization is, in other words, do you feel that it has more benefits or drawbacks? We also looked at various images, political cartoons and photographs that illustrated aspects of globalization as well. You have a couple of homework assignments tonight:

• You must find 20 items in your house (from categories such as electronics, clothing, household goods, food, cars, or miscellaneous) from 20 different countries
• Put these 20 different items into a chart format (as I wrote it on the blackboard)
• Please do not have more than 5 items from any one category
• Also, you must complete your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions for tomorrow

You also have some other important dates coming up:

• World Geography Test is on Monday, July 6th (please see study guide below)
• Chapter 1-2 Quiz is on Monday, July 6th (please see study guide below)
• Chapter 5-6 Quiz is on Thursday, July 9th
• Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday, July 9th (study guide to be posted later on the blog)

World Geography Test Study Guide:

The format for this exam is pretty straightforward, you will be given a blank map, labeled with numbers. You must be able to identify the countries that are labeled on the map. You will be given an answer sheet, and a list of countries that appear on the map. You need to be able to identify the countries. Here are the countries that you need to know the location of:

• NAFTA members (Canada, USA, Mexico)
• G8 countries (Canada, USA, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Russia)
• some EU countries (there are 27 countries in the EU, here's a hyperlink to the map of the EU)
• full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
• African countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan
• other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Jamaica, China, India, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq
  
  

Chapter 1-2 Quiz study Guide:

This quiz will be on Monday, July 6th. The format of this quiz is matching. There will be 16 key terms on this quiz. Please make sure that you know what the following key terms mean:

• globalization
• economic globalization
• social globalization
• political globalization
• outsourcing
• transnational corporations (TNCs)
• infrastructure
• media
• NAFTA
• individual identity
• collective identity
• multiculturalism
• Francophone
• Anglophone
• bias
• tradition
• consumer
• multiculturalism
• linguistic identity