July 24

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA II Essay at the start of class today. I am going to try and get those essays back to you by Thursday. I recommend you to read, highlight and annotate the notes on "The Modern History of China". China is our case study for an authoritarian regime, so it's a good idea to familiarize yourselves with some history of the country, other than what is in your textbook. I also assigned the Civil Rights Movement Assignment (due Thursday). Don't forget that your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due tomorrow. When we came back to the classroom after the break we looked political challenges to liberalism by looking at political concepts associated with the American and Canadian political systems and how they either reflect or inhibit the will of the people. I also showed you a documentary on Vladimir Putin (please see below). The Russian Federation is an example of an oligarchy. You might also want to check this out: Why Putin is the most powerful man in the world.

We also started studying the concept of illiberalism by looking at Canadian history. Make sure that you check out the Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII PowerPoint notes in the Social 30-1 coursebooks. We also looked at the FLQ Crisis (1970). You should be aware that in both of these instances that the War Measures Act (1914) was used to wipe of the civil rights of Canadians. In the case of the FLQ Crisis, those rights were guaranteed in the Canadian Bill of Rights (passed in 1960). I showed you a documentary from the History's Turning Points series on the FLQ Crisis. Check below the video for the upcoming important dates in Social 30-1.

UPCOMING KEY DATES:

• Chapter 10 Test is tomorrow (Wednesday, July 25th) (see study guide below)
• USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment (due on Wednesday, July 25th)
• Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, July 26th (see study guide below)
• Civil Rights Movement Assignment (due on Thursday)
• Trial Final Exam is on Friday, July 27th (study guide is the same as for the Diploma Exam, it's at the back of your Social 30-1 coursebooks)

CHAPTER 10 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

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 Key Terms and Activities Google Doc. 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!)

SOCIAL 30-1 UNIT 3 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

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