March 6

IB 20 HOTA

You wrote your Thirteen Colonies Quiz today, and we finished watching "The American Revolution" documentary. We then started watching "The Patriot". We'll continue with this film tomorrow, and probably finish it off on Monday. Tomorrow is Friday, so chances are you'll have a current events quiz. Please keeping adding content to the wiki on the current events page.

 

Social 10-1

As a class, we went through the sample WRA I that you wrote a couple of days ago. I will post the finished product on the wiki today and share the page with you this evening. You will be writing your Unit 1 WRA I tomorrow. Please remember that your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Tuesday, March 11th, please see the study guide below.

Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

 

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).

 

 

IB 30/35

We continued our examination of the Cold War today by watching the CNN Cold War series video called "Backyard 1954-1990" which covered U.S. intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean during the Cold War era. If you want notes on this topic, please go to Collaborative Notes on the wiki, and find the link to the American Interventionism in Latin America page. Please remember that you're writing a Social 30-1 WRA I assignment on the Cold War on Monday.