Monday, January 04, 2016

January 4


I gave you back your Unit 3 WRA I three source analysis assignments. I split you into four different groups today and invited you to edit a WRA II Essay outline in Google Docs. Please make sure that you finish up some of the edits on your group's Google Doc in the next couple of days. We'll be working on some WRA I three source analysis assignments tomorrow. On Wednesday, you're writing your Unit 3 Final Exam, please see the study guide below.


Your Unit 3 Final Exam will be on Wednesday, January 6th.

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



We spent the entire class doing a review of material that I taught you in Prescribed Subject 1, in particular to make our own concept map of the causes of World War II. We reviewed key events/concepts in the Interwar Years. We'll continue looking at WWII for the rest of our classes in January. After the exam break we'll cover the tail end of the war, looking at the usage of the atomic bombs on Japan.


I gave you back your Unit 3 WRA II Essays today. We spent the rest of the period in the Blenheim Room. This class period was an opportunity to work on your Unit 4 projects. We'll start presenting these projects on Friday. You'll have class time to work on these projects again tomorrow. Please remember that the Part A of your Social 10-1 Final Exam is on Thursday, January 7th.

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