Wednesday, December 05, 2012

December 5

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "Quality of Life, Human Rights and Democratization". I have sent this presentation to your e-mail accounts already. You also had some time to work on Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions today. Please remember that you have your Unit 3 Final Exam on December 10th. Please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).
I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia". While this video was playing you should have been taking extensive notes on the Five Year Plans and collectivization. We continued with the "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" PowerPoint presentation. I will not finish this presentation in class, you are responsible for the rest of the material in the presentation. I also talked a little bit about historiography as well, by going through the PowerPoint presentation "Stalin and the Historians", which is on the IB 20 wiki.
I went through a PowerPoint presentation today on "The Great Depression in Canada". This presentation is already up on the IB 30/35 wiki. We may continue with the Great Depression in Canada tomorrow, but we should be transitioning into Latin America as well. I am going to put up some more information on the wiki on the Great Depression in Canada so you can complete an activity over the long weekend. What I'd like you to do is answer the following in chart format: Compare and contrast the Canadian and American governments' response to the effects of the Great Depression. You will be looking for similarities and differences in approach between Herbert Hoover's administration, FDR's New Deal and R.B. Bennett and Mackenzie King's response. This is preparation for the IB History Exams in May 2013.

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