Wednesday, July 23, 2014

July 23


You wrote your Unit 2 WRA II Essay today, which took up all of the time up to the break this morning. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions. Your Chapter 9 Key Terms are due tomorrow, as is your USA-Canada Political Comparison chart assignment. You must hand in your chart assignments tomorrow. You are writing your Chapter 10 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide below. I also covered the War Measures Act, the FLQ Crisis, and illiberalism. After the test tomorrow we'll be looking at 9/11 and post-9/11 anti-terrorism legislation. I showed you a video from the Turning Points of History series on the FLQ Crisis. As you were watching this video, you should have been filing in the blanks on pages 268-269 in your study booklets.



  • Chapter 10 Test is on Thursday, July 24th
  • Chapter 9 Key Terms are due tomorrow (July 24th)
  • USA/Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due on July 24th
  • Unit 3 WRA I three source analysis is on Friday, July 25th
  • Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due on July 25th
  • Unit 3 Final Exam is on Monday, July 28th
  • U.S. Civil Rights Assignment is due on July 28th
  • Social 30-1 Trial Diploma Exam is on Wednesday, July 30th (the study guide is in your study booklets, p. 333-342)

This test is on Thursday, July 24th. This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions. Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism". You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Worksheet. Please review the following as well:
  • Democratic Systems (handout notes)
  • Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
  • Structure of Canadian Government
  • Structure of American Government
  • similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
  • types of dictatorships
  • techniques of dictatorships
  • authoritarian systems
  • proportional representation concept
  • first past the post system
  • review political and economic spectrum (again!)

This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Monday, July 28th. Please study the following material:

  • make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
  • study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
  • "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)

Review the following handouts/notes/packages:
  • Democratic Systems (p.134-137)
  • Non-Democratic Systems (p. 138-141)
  • types of dictatorships (p. 142-143)
  • techniques of dictatorships (p. 142- 143)
  • Civil Rights Movement (study your notes from the Civil Rights Movement Assignment, p. 248-249)
  • authoritarian systems (China notes/booklet, p. 250-255)
  • review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
  • re-read the notes on rights from your study booklets on p. 267 (civil rights, human rights, Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act, etc.)
  • FLQ Crisis 1970 film study and document analysis booklet (p. 268-273)

Know the following key concepts/key events/key terms/key people:
  • assimilation
  • self-interest
  • humanitarianism
  • Indian Act
  • residential school system
  • enfranchisement
  • the White Paper
  • the Red Paper
  • “war on terror"
  • authoritarianism
  • consensus decision-making
  • direct democracy
  • military dictatorship
  • oligarchy
  • one-party state
  • party solidarity
  • representation by population
  • proportional representation
  • representative democracy
  • responsible government
  • democracy
  • single-member constituency (first past the post)
  • the Senate
  • the House of Commons
  • the House of Representatives
  • the Senate
  • mixed-member proportional system
  • lobby groups
  • American Bill of Rights
  • Anti-Terrorism Act
  • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  • emergency and security legislation
  • illiberal
  • language legislation
  • Bill 101
  • Bill 178
  • Bill 86
  • Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
  • respect for law and order
  • terrorism
  • rendition
  • the War Measures Act
  • enemy aliens
  • internment
  • the Emergencies Act
  • USA PATRIOT Act
  • consumerism
  • environmental change
  • extremism
  • pandemics
  • postmodernism
  • global warming
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • World Health Organization (WHO)
  • drought

No comments: