Monday, March 03, 2014

March 3


I did a homework check on your Vietnam War Assignment at the beginning of class today. You watched an excerpt from the Oliver Stone film "Born on the Fourth of July". We'll continue our examination of the Vietnam War tomorrow by watching a documentary film.

We continued practicing how to write a WRA I three source analysis assignment. You had some time to peer edit the first paragraph of your WRA I, and then you wrote the remainder of the WRA I today. I'll try to give you some feedback on the WRA I prior to Thursday. You have your Chapter 3-4 Test this Wednesday, please see the study guide here. On Tuesday, March 11th you will writing your Unit 1 Final Exam. Please see the study guide below for this major exam.

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Tuesday, March 11th. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice.For this multiple choice test, 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! (see comments above)
4. Please review the "Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization" PowerPoint (it's on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations).


I finished off the "French and Indian War" PowerPoint lecture today, which I will post on the wiki under the Colonial Period. I also started "The American Revolution" PowerPoint today, and I'll continue it tomorrow. If you're looking for this PowerPoint, you can find it on the IB 20 wiki under Unit 4: Independence Movements. Please make sure that you bring your duotangs and your History of the Americas textbook too.

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