Thursday, July 24, 2014

July 24


You wrote your Chapter 10 Test today. I did a homework check on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and I took in your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment. Your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow, and if you're wondering, your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Monday, July 28th. Your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on July 28th as well. You will be writing your Unit 3 Final Exam on Monday (please see the study guide below), and your Social 30-1 Trial Final Exam is on Wednesday, July 30th (the study guide for the Trial Final is in your blue workbooks, p. 333-342). I showed you a documentary today called "9/11: The Day that Changed the World".

You should check out the following readings in your workbooks on post-9/11 anti-terrorism legislation and 9/11 itself:

  • 9/11: The Day that Changed the World (CBC News in Review-pgs. 276-278, don't do the questions; also, pgs. 280-282, don't do the Activity)
  • Terror Since 9/11 (pg. 285-286, don't do the questions)
  • The Patriot Act (pgs. 287-296; I'm not sure why I have this reading in the booklet twice)
  • Anti-Terrorism Act (pgs. 297-300)
  • Permanent 'War' Threatens Freedoms (pgs. 308-309)



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

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