Tuesday, February 22, 2011

February 22


I went through a PowerPoint presentation today that covered content from Chapters 4 and 5 in your textbook. I will be sending it to you by e-mail tonight. It is also available for viewing on the wiki as well under Unit 1 Presentations. Please remember that you have your Chapter 1-2 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide here. Also, please remember that your Illustrated Concept Map Assignment is due on Thursday. Please check the February 16th post for advice on how to cite your image sources in APA format.


I gave you back your Unit 1 essay marking sheets today and your most current mark in 30-1 as well. If you want to discuss your essay with me, it must be during tutorial time (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 8:15 to 8:45). I went through various concepts today: I reviewed the political-economic grid once again, then we looked at liberalism and make connections between the principles of liberalism and the economic and political foundation of classical liberalism. We also started looking at basic economics, basic economic systems, basic economic questions and basic economic values associated with the economic spectrum. We'll look at the business cycle tomorrow as well as the ideological response to classical liberalism and industrialization.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I tried to update the blog today but when I type stuff the spacing kind of got all strange, and I didn't want to keep trying to fix it as it would spam people's inboxes.

Is there any known reason as to why the spacing is so obscure?

Anonymous said...

I have a couple of questions about the Ch1-2 test tomorrow:
1.What are the differences between the organizations, UN, NATO, G-8 and La Francophonie?...How can I distinguish them?
2.When looking at the different groups you told us to know like the Hmong, Maori, Francophone and Metis....What exactly do we need to know about each of these groups?
Thank You

Kevin Gilchrist said...

I tried to update the blog today but when I type stuff the spacing kind of got all strange, and I didn't want to keep trying to fix it as it would spam people's inboxes.

Is there any known reason as to why the spacing is so obscure?

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I've found that the editor for the wiki can be a bit tempermental when you copy and paste things into it from Microsoft
Word.

Kevin Gilchrist said...

I have a couple of questions about the Ch1-2 test tomorrow:
1.What are the differences between the organizations, UN, NATO, G-8 and La Francophonie?...How can I distinguish them?
2.When looking at the different groups you told us to know like the Hmong, Maori, Francophone and Metis....What exactly do we need to know about each of these groups?
Thank You

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I'll try to answer your questions quickly here.
1. There's lots of differences between the UN, NATO, G8 and La Francophonie. At this point in the course, just know the basics about each international organization (basic facts) so that if they show up in the matching section you can distinguish between descriptions of the various organizations.

2. I can't give away that much about the test. Just make sure that you know a lot about each of these groups.