Monday, October 22, 2018

October 22

Sorry missing a couple of days posting there. I got really busy in the lead up to our Model UN conference. Here's what you missed if you missed class today.



You wrote your WRA I on the French Revolution today. I will give back the Paper 3 essays tomorrow, and I should be able to upload those marks into PowerSchool soon enough. Remember, we're in the Blue Lab tomorrow to do some more work on your IA. You also have your French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Test on Wednesday, you can find the study guide below. your French Revolution DBA Assignment is due tomorrow as well.


  • IA research session, Blue Lab booked Tuesday, October 23rd
  • French Revolution DBA Assignment is due October 23rd
  • French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Test is on Wednesday, October 24th (please see the study guide below)

  • know the causes of the French Revolution (short term, long term, economic, political, social, intellectual)
  • know the structure of French society during the Old Regime
  • know Napoleon's domestic policy
  • know Napoleon's foreign policy (Continental System in particular)
  • know key battles in the Napoleonic Wars (results of the Battle of Trafalgar, Russian campaign, the Battle of Leipzig, and the Battle of Waterloo)
  • know chronology of key events in the French Revolution
  • know the chronology of key events in the Napoleonic Age
  • know the key players at the Congress of Vienna (country and representatives)
  • what were the major decisions of the Congress? what were the guiding principles at the Congress of Vienna
  • know the 19th century political spectrum (please see the graphic below; values and characteristics of the various positions on the spectrum; what groups are represented on the various positions on the spectrum?; what phases/accomplishments of the French Revolution are represented on the spectrum?)




I showed you the A & E Biography on Joseph Stalin today, and you should have answered the film study questions in your Social 30-1 coursebook as you watched it. We also went through some advantages and disadvantages of the command economy, and revisited the techniques of dictatorship. Don't forget that you are your writing the Market and Mixed Economy Test tomorrow, please see the study guide below. 


This exam will be on Wednesday, October 24th

  • Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
  • supply-side economics
  • boom and bust cycle/business cycle
  • laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
    self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
  • basic economic problems/questions
  • advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
  • causes of the Great Depression
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
  • nationalization
  • democratic socialism
  • welfare capitalism
  • Keynesian economics
  • the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
  • demand-side economics
  • neo-conservatives
  • monetarism
  • trickle down economics
  • supply-side economics
  • Thatcherism and Reaganomics
  • Milton Friedman
  • Friedrich Hayek
  • how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (percolator)
  • how supply-side economics deals with a recession (coffee pot)


We talked about the "Legacies of Historical Globalization" today in class. One week from today, you will be writing your Chapter 7 Test. Please see the study guide below for this test.

You will write this test on Monday, October 29th. This chapter test  will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and a short answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:
  • historical globalization
  • the Silk Road
  • international trade
  • the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
  • mercantilism
  • capitalism
  • free market
  • Adam Smith
  • entrepreneur
  • communism
  • industrialization
  • the Industrial Revolution
  • cottage system
  • physiocrats
  • exploitation
  • imperialism
  • Eurocentrism
  • ethnocentrism
  • European imperialism
  • "old" imperialism
  • "new" imperialism
  • colony
  • protectorate
  • sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

  • What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
  • What values are associated with capitalism?
  • Whose values did industrialization effect?
  • Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
  • What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
  • In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

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