September 23

IB 30/35

You went down to the Business Office to pick up the textbooks that you're going to need moving forward in the IB History course. We finished off the lecture on "The League of Nations" today. Please check out the Paper 2 page on the IB 30/35 wiki tonight, and go over your IB command terms, and prescribed content for tomorrow's quiz. The WW I Quiz will have 15-20 multiple choice questions and a short answer question. The rough draft of your IA is due on September 30th. 

SOCIAL 30-1

I went through the differences between argumentation and evidence today. Tomorrow, we'll talk about the recipe for success for writing WRA II Essays. Make sure that you have gone through the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution sections of the lecture on "The Development of Classical Liberalism" that I delivered last week.  

SOCIAL 20-1

We finished off the lecture on "The Development of Canadian Confederation" today. Tomorrow, we'll be talking Quebecois nationalism. Make sure that you work on your French Revolution DBA Assignment, it's due on Wednesday, September 25th (I've corrected this date on the blog). Your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions are due in one week. 

July 5

Social 30-1

You wrote the Unit 1 Final Exam today, and I've already posted the results in PowerSchool. I went through a PowerPoint lecture called "Responding to Classical Liberalism and Industrialization". As I lectured you were to take notes on the corresponding note-taking chart in your Social 30-1 coursebooks. You can also find this lecture on the wiki (available for digital download, and Google Slides version) as well as in your Social 30-1 coursebooks. You should review this lecture this weekend. Over the weekend you should read Chapters 3 and 4 in Perspectives on Ideologies, and work on the Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 Google Docs as well. You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today in class as well. You'll be writing the Unit 1 WRA II Essay (position paper) on Wednesday, and writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Thursday (please see the study guide below). Make sure that you have your myPass account all set up (myPass link) and that you are registered to write your Social Studies 30-1 Diploma Exams at Lord Beaverbrook. Part A of the Diploma is on Friday, August 2nd, and Part B is on Thursday, August 8th.

Upcoming Important Dates and Homework:

• Unit 1 WRA II Essay is on Wednesday, July 10th
• Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test (Chapters 3 and 4) is on Thursday, July 11th
• Read Chapters 3 and 4 by Monday's class (July 8th)
• Complete Chapters 3 and 4 Google Docs by Monday, July 8th

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, July 11th. 

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. 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 
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

5. 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 

October 2

IB 20 HOTA

We continued with our simulation of the Constitutional Convention today. Tomorrow will be the last period for this simulation, so a few of you who haven't spoken yet really need to speak up during tomorrow's session. Please remember that you must submit your point form research notes tomorrow at the conclusion of the simulation. Please remember that you are writing the American Revolution Test on Thursday, October 4th, please see the study guide below.

IB 20 - AMERICAN REVOLUTION EXAM STUDY GUIDE

There will be 20 matching and 45 multiple-choice questions.

Know the various Acts that took place before/during the Revolution:
* Stamp, Sugar Act
* Townshend Acts
* Intolerable Acts

Causes of the Revolution:
* French Indian War
* Significant events that led up to the Revolutionary War – chronological order
* Grievances of the colonies – taxation, representation

Know significant individuals such as:
* James Madison
* John Adams
* Thomas Jefferson
* Thomas Paine
* George Washington
* Samuel Adams
* Benjamin Franklin

The Revolutionary War:
* British vs. American military strategy
* Advantages and disadvantages of both sides
* The challenges of the Continental Army
* Battle of Saratoga - significance
* Battle of Yorktown - significance
* Phases of the progression of the war

Differences between First and Second Continental Congress

The Founding Documents of the United States:
* Declaration of Independence
* Articles of Confederation
* US Constitution
* Bill of Rights

Please read the sections in your History of the Americas textbook that relate to the American Revolution as well.

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam today in class. I will post the results on PowerSchool once this exam has been marked. Don't forget that you are writing the Unit 1 WRA I tomorrow.

Social 30-1

We continued looking at the Industrial Revolution and the ideologies that emerged in response to the classical liberalism and capitalism. We looked the welfare capitalism and modern liberalism, the Great Depression and Keynesian economics today. Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday.