Wednesday, February 03, 2010

February 3


Today was mostly a work period for you to complete the Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet. These key terms and questions are due tomorrow. Tomorrow we'll look at important thinkers in the Age of Reason as an introduction to the intellectual causes of the French Revolution. I will deliver a lecture/PowerPoint presentation on the Enlightenment, and then on Friday you will have a matching quiz on the key Enlightenment thinkers introduced in the lecture on Thursday.


I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "Identity and Ideology" which I have sent to you already. If you didn't receive this presentation, please send me an e-mail and I will send it off to you. You have a couple of pieces of homework, tonight, please print off the Ideology Notes from the Black Gold school district. Also, you should be working on your Chapter 1 Questions tonight (they are due on Friday). Also, you should print off the "Introducing Government" PowerPoint presentation and bring it to class tomorrow to receive homework check credits for it. One week from today you have your Chapter 1-2 Test. This is the only test this semester that will have matching and short answer on it. Please see the study guide below.


The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Wednesday, January 10th. It is a mixed format test, it will have a matching section and a short answer section. Here is what you should review/study for this test:

  • Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms/Concepts and the Supplementary Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
  • be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (hopefully you have quality answers to study from!)
  • you must know the 19th century political spectrum and the 20th century political spectrum
  • know similarities and differences between communism and fascism
  • be able to label political and economic spectrums and the values associated with these ideologies
  • be able to label the political-economic grid and know examples of the ideologies in the quadrants (study the Ideology Notes and the notes I gave you in class)
  • know the differences between individualism and collectivism, be able to apply your understanding of these concepts
  • know the key ideas associated with Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (for example, view of the nature of human beings, etc.)

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