Wednesday, September 23, 2009

September 23


We finished watching "Bend It Like Beckham" today, your film study is due tomorrow, I will take it in for homework check marks. Please remember that you have your Chapter 3-4 Quiz on Friday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). You have your Unit 1 Written Response Assignment I (three source analysis assignment) on Monday, September 28th. I will be teaching you how to write these in-class writing assignments in tomorrow's class. This type of writing assignment will be the same style as Part A of your Final Exam in Social 10-1. Your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday, October 1st, please see the study guide below.



Unit 1 Final Exam will be Thursday, October 1st. 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!




  • "Bend It Like Beckham" Film Study is due tomorrow (Thursday, September 24th)
  • Chapter 3-4 Quiz is on Friday, September 25th
  • Unit 1 Written Response Assignment I is on Monday, September 28th
  • Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday, October 1st



I did a homework check on your "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklets today. I then went through some notes on the board to show the connection between industrialization, classical liberalism and laissez faire economics and reform movements. I focused on welfare capitalism and modern liberalism today as a transition away from classical liberalism, and what brought about these changes. I gave you a handout that covered the emergence of welfare capitalism and modern liberalism and the Great Depression (we'll be looking at the Great Depression in greater detail tomorrow). We also started to look at Keynesian economics (demand-side economics) today. I walked you through monetary and fiscal policy (we'll be going into more detail with this as well), and a government's response to the boom and bust cycle using Keynesian economic theory. I will be sending today's handouts to you tonight by e-mail. Please remember that your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday.

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