Thursday, March 03, 2016

March 3


You watched "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" today. Please complete an OPVL chart of the letters featured in the documentary.


You went through the "Great Depression in the USA" handout (pages 63-64), and "Democratic Socialism and the Mixed Economy" (pages 65-67). You were also supposed to complete the activities "The Welfare State: Case Study of Sweden" section of the workbook.


This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Friday, March 13th. This test covers material from Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4. 

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations: 
  • "The Development of Classical Liberalism"
  • "Responding to Classical Liberalism"
2. Be familiar with key concepts introduced in Chapters 3 and 4. 
3. The Industrial Revolution: 
  • understand fundamental economic, social and political changes that were caused by the Industrial Revolution
  • understand the connection between the Agricultural Revolution and the Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution
  • understand the differences, advantages and disadvantages of the cottage system and the factory system
4. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet 
5. Key beliefs of the various ideologies (review the spectrums briefly); also review this material from the "Responding to Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation: 
  • Adam Smith
  • laissez faire economics/capitalism (key ideas)
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Karl Marx (key ideas and beliefs associated with Marx, Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, withering away of the state, dictatorship of the proletariat, view of history, etc. ) and Friedrich Engels (see "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet)
  • Edmund Burke and classical conservatism
6. Some questions may require you to make connections between this year's material and what you learned in 10-1 and 20-1 as well 


You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today in the Blenheim Room, which took most of the class time.

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