Monday, March 14, 2011

March 14


I went through a sample outline for a Unit 1 Essay today. I have sent this outline to you already. You have your Unit 1 Essay tomorrow, please go directly to the Blenheim Room. The outline I went through today was for a different text-based source, but it was very similar to the one that you will be writing on tomorrow. I also gave you the Unit 2 Worksheet today. We'll start Unit 2 material on Wednesday.


I did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today, and I returned your Analyzing Political Cartoon Assignments as well. You wrote your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test today. Next Monday (March 21st), you will be writing your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test, please see the study guide below. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms are due on Wednesday.

  • Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
  • supply-side economics
  • boom and bust cycle/business cycle
  • laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
    self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
  • basic economic problems/questions
  • advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
  • causes of the Great Depression
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada)
  • nationalization
  • democratic socialism
  • welfare capitalism
  • Keynesian economics
  • the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
  • demand-side economics
  • neo-conservatives
  • monetarism
  • trickle down economics
  • supply-side economics
  • Thatcherism and Reaganomics
  • Milton Friedman
  • Friedrich Hayek
  • how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (handout)
  • how supply-side economics deals with a recession (handout)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

In the essay we are doing tomorrow...first person is not allowed am I right?

Kevin Gilchrist said...

In the essay we are doing tomorrow...first person is not allowed am I right?

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That's right, it's a formal English essay, so no first person, no slang, no contractions.

Anonymous said...

for our essay tomorrow, can we say that we should agree to some extent?!

Kevin Gilchrist said...

for our essay tomorrow, can we say that we should agree to some extent?!
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Take a definite stand, don't be wishy washy and try to play on both sides. Pick a side, take a position, argue it with supporting arguments and evidence.