May 27

Social 20-1

I did a homework check on the Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions today. I started Unit 4 material today. I started a lecture on the History of French-English Relations in Canada today that I should be able to finish up tomorrow. Please make sure that you review the Development of Canadian Confederation and the Growth of Quebecois Historical Perspectives from your Social 20-1 coursebooks. You can find these two lectures in between pages 67 and 68 (I didn't renumber the page numbers in the booklet). Please check out the upcoming important dates below.

Key Dates for Social 20-1 Students:

• Social 20-1 Final Exam Part "A" is on Wednesday, June 5th
• Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, June 6th
• Social 20-1 Final Exam Part "B" is on Thursday, June 13th

Social 30-1

You had class time today to work on your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions. I've set the due date for this homework assignment at Wednesday, May 29th. Don't forget that you're writing your Unit 3 Final Exam this Wednesday, May 29th, please see the study guide below.

SOCIAL 30-1 UNIT 3 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Your Unit 3 Final Exam will be on Wednesday, May 29th.

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

May 29

IB 30/35

I continued the Social 30-1 review today. I finished off the structure of the American government (page 66 in your coursebook) and I also covered the structure of the Canadian system. We'll keep working on democratic systems tomorrow. I've decided to cancel the Political Systems Exam that I was going to give you on Thursday. We need the review time for the course. 

SOCIAL 20-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions. I went through a lecture on French-English Relations in Canada today, and tomorrow I will deliver my last lecture on Unit 4 material, which looks at regionalism in Canada. 

Your Unit 3 Final Exam is one week from today, on Tuesday, June 5th. Please see the study guide below.

Social 20-1 Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Please review all of the Unit 3 PowerPoint presentations (you can find them on the Social 20-1 wiki):

• "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism"
• "Canada's Foreign Policy"
• "Nationalism and Internationalism"

Please review all of the Unit 3 Key Terms from the Unit 3 Worksheet in addition to the key concepts that were introduced in the PowerPoint presentations. In addition to this, I would like to emphasize the following points with you:

• know the difference between multilateralism, unilateralism and bilateralism and know examples of each
• know the spectrum of foreign policy: internationalism, nationalism, ultranationalism, and supranationalism
• know the different foreign policy options
• know the 6 themes of Canadian foreign policy/Canada's foreign policy goals
• what influences foreign policy decisions?
• methods of foreign policy
• motivations for nations involvement or non-involvement in international affairs
• how can foreign policy promote internationalism?
• tied aid, bilateral aid, multilateral aid
• examples of INGOs and IGOs
• the United Nations (organization/structure, bodies, etc.)
• peacemaking vs. peacekeeping (and examples)
• different understandings of internationalism (types of internationalism)
• why do international organizations exist? purposes and examples

For your Final Exam Part "A",you should prepare arguments and evidence for an essay that is discussing the value conflict between the pursuit of national interest and the pursuit of international interest. You have 16 days until your Final Exam Part "B" (80 multiple choice questions). I pointed out that you have the study guide at the back of your Social 20-1 coursebooks. Most of the PowerPoint lectures are in the booklet. Please don't re-read the textbook to study! Please study from the coursebook. You should have nice notes in the booklet at this point in the course, it's just time to start going back and reviewing what you've learned. I listed off all of the key concepts from all four units, gave you a list of the lecture titles (most are in the coursebook), and gave you even more tips for review. 

SOCIAL 10-1

You wrote your Chapter 15-16 Test today. Tomorrow's debate topic is as follows: "BIRT globalization helps spread democracy and improve human rights in the world". On the Unit 4 page of the Social 10-1 wiki, you'll see that I've posted some articles with different perspectives on this topic, which should help you frame your arguments. 

May 30

Social 10-1

You wrote your Chapter 15-16 Test today. Hopefully within a week you'll get the results of this test back. Don't forget that we're doing the in class debate tomorrow on the following topic: "BIRT globalization helps spread democracy and improve human rights in the world". 

Social 20-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 13 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class today. I went through a lecture on "A History of French-English Relations in Canada". You can find a digital copy of the PowerPoint on the Social 20-1 wiki under Unit 4 Presentations. Your Chapter 14-15 Key Terms and Questions are due Thursday. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is next Tuesday (June 6th), please see the study guide below. 

Social 20-1 Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Please review all of the Unit 3 PowerPoint presentations (you can find them on the Social 20-1 wiki):

• "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism"
• "Canada's Foreign Policy"
• "Nationalism and Internationalism"

Please review all of the Unit 3 Key Terms from the Unit 3 Worksheet in addition to the key concepts that were introduced in the PowerPoint presentations. In addition to this, I would like to emphasize the following points with you:

• know the difference between multilateralism, unilateralism and bilateralism and know examples of each
• know the spectrum of foreign policy: internationalism, nationalism, ultranationalism, and supranationalism
• know the different foreign policy options
• know the 6 themes of Canadian foreign policy/Canada's foreign policy goals
• what influences foreign policy decisions?
• methods of foreign policy
• motivations for nations involvement or non-involvement in international affairs
• how can foreign policy promote internationalism?
• tied aid, bilateral aid, multilateral aid
• examples of INGOs and IGOs
• the United Nations (organization/structure, bodies, etc.)
• peacemaking vs. peacekeeping (and examples)
• different understandings of internationalism (types of internationalism)
• why do international organizations exist? purposes and examples