Wednesday, July 22, 2015

July 22


You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today. Please remember that your Unit 2 WRA II Essay is tomorrow, so you should be preparing for this essay today after school. Your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. You'll also be writing your Chapter 10 Test on Friday. Please see the list of upcoming important dates below. We covered the structure of the Canadian and American government, in other words, the differences between the parliamentary and presidential democracies. You might want to have another look at the electoral college system as well, especially since you are doing a comparative government assignment on the American presidential democracy.



  • Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Thursday, July 23rd
  • Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions are due on July 24th
  • Chapter 10 Test is on Friday, July 24th (please see the study guide below)
  • Unit 3 WRA I is on Monday, July 27th
  • USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due on July 27th
  • Chapter 9 Key Terms are due on July 27th
  • Unit 3 Final Exam is on Tuesday, July 28th (please see the study guide below)
  • U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment (questions 1-14) is due on Tuesday, July 28th
  • Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due on July 28th
  • Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, July 29th
  • Social Studies 30-1 Trial Final Exam is on Thursday, July 30th (last day of classes)


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!)

Your Unit 3 Final Exam will be on Tuesday, 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 notes/packages:
  • Democratic Systems
  • Non-Democratic Systems
  • types of dictatorships
  • techniques of dictatorships
  • Civil Rights Movement
  • authoritarian systems (China notes)
  • review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
  • re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act)
  • FLQ Crisis 1970
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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