September 8

Social 20-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation called "Nation and Identity" today. I will be sending to this to you today, so please check your e-mail and print it off 4-6 slides per page (see instructions below). Your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, September 10th. You also have a World Geography Test on Friday, September 17th, please see the study guide below.

Social 20-1 World Geography Test Study Guide

This test will take place on Friday, September 17th. It is simply a country identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:

• any of the EU countries (there are 27 countries in the EU, a map of the EU is in your textbook on page 265)
• any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
• any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
• full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
• to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
• other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica, Serbia, Georgia, China,
  India, Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq,
  Israel
• **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**

Geography Games

• World Geography Games
• Test Your Geography Knowledge
• Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below:

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "Identity and Ideology" that I have already sent to your e-mail accounts. Please print off both of the PowerPoint presentations and bring them to class tomorrow for homework check marks. Your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 1-2 Test is on Wednesday, September 15th (please see the study guide below). Please print off the Ideology Notes from the Black Gold school district. One week from today you have your Chapter 1-2 Test. This is the only test this semester that will have matching and short answer on it. Please see the study guide below.

Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Wednesday, September 15th. It is a mixed format test, it will have a matching section and a short answer section. Here is what you should review/study for this test:

• Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms/Concepts and the Supplementary Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
• be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (hopefully you have quality answers to study from!)
• you must know the 19th century political spectrum and the 20th century political spectrum
• know similarities and differences between communism and fascism
• be able to label political and economic spectrums and the values associated with these ideologies
• be able to label the political-economic grid and know examples of the ideologies in the quadrants (study the Ideology Notes and the notes I gave you in class)
• know the differences between individualism and collectivism, be able to apply your understanding of these concepts
• know the key ideas associated with Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (for example, view of the nature of human beings, etc.)

February 4

Social 30

I quickly went through the collectivism and individualism charts that were in "The Many Shades of Opinion" booklet. I also gave you another booklet with diagrams of the Political Spectrum (similar to the diagrams that I had in the presentation "Introducing Government"). I gave you a reading called "How a Liberal and Conservative Might View the Same Event", with a question sheet. I gave you time to work on this activity in class before giving you the Chapter 1 and 2 Questions. I will give you the Chapter 3 Questions tomorrow. The Chapters 1-3 Questions will be due on Monday February 9th. If I were you, I would complete at least the Chapter 1 Questions tonight.

Social 33

I went through a very short presentation called "Ideology, Individualism and Collectivism". Once we have the e-mail list working I will send it to you. We then did various activities surrounding individualism and collectivism. Your first short quiz in Social 33 will be on individualism and collectivism, so make sure that you understand these two very important concepts. Tomorrow, we will talk about the political spectrum.

Social 20-1

I finished the presentation "Nation and Identity" today. I have sent this presentation to you already, so please check your e-mail. I handed out the Unit 1 Worksheet and assigned Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions for homework, due on Friday. You have a World Geography Test on February 14th. I will post the study guide for this test below.

Social 20-1 World Geography Test Study Guide:

This test will take place on Wednesday, February 18th. It is simply a country identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:

• any of the EU countries (there are 27 countries in the EU, a map of the EU is in your textbook on page 265)


• any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO!)


• any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom


• full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador


• to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe


• other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica, Serbia, Georgia, China, India, Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel


• **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**

Please use the following links for studying for this test:

• World Geography Games


• Test Your Geography Knowledge


• Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)
  

September 9

Social 10-1

I went through the study for your World Geography Test (please check out the geography games links below), which will be happening on Friday, September 12th. This test will be strictly identification of countries on a map of the world. I gave you a list of countries and told you to know where certain world capitals and capital cities were located. If you missed class today, you need to get these notes from a classmate since it's a fairly lengthy list of countries to put on the blog. Here's what the test will look like: you will have a map of the world split into two parts (front and back of the test sheet), the countries will be numbered off, on a sheet of loose leaf you'll write down your answers (identify the countries and cities). Please remember that your Global Connections Map is due tomorrow. Today, I also gave you your first writing assignment, you are to do a rough draft of your first paragraph tonight. If you do a rough draft of the entire informative essay for tomorrow's peer editing session that would be great. Please respond back to my original e-mail message (some of you haven't done this yet). I'll be sending out a rubric for this writing assignment by e-mail tonight, so check your e-mail. Remember the focus of this informative essay is "What are my effects on the world?" You should be examining the social, economic, political and environmental impacts that you have on the world, and positive and negative impacts that you may be having on the world. Here's a link to an article about the connection between the PS2 and coltan (I mentioned this in class. Something to think about. As consumers, are we always completely aware of what's going into the products that we buy? Also, here's a link to an article on Chiquita.

Social 20-1

I continued moving through my presentation on the French Revolution. Today, we looked at some causes of the French Revolution (your textbook refers to these as factors that contributed to French nationalism). Tomorrow I'll probably finish off that presentation by looking at the Key Events of the French Revolution. I gave you some class time to go work on the Chapter 2 Key Concepts (you'll be able to work on them tomorrow as well). You will have a World Geography Test on Friday, please see the study guide below. I'm also posting some links to some geography games as well.

Social 20-1 World Geography Test Study Guide

This test will take place on Friday, September 12th. It is simply a country identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:

• any of the EU countries (there are 27 countries in the EU, a map of the EU is in your textbook on page 265)
• any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
• any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
• full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
• to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
• other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica, Serbia, Georgia, China,
  India, Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq,
  Israel
• **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**

Geography Games

• World Geography Games
• Test Your Geography Knowledge
• Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)