November 26

IB 20 HOTA

I started a lecture on "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" today. If you didn't print off a hard copy of these Google Slides and bring them to class today, please make sure that you do so tomorrow. I also split you into four large dictator groups, each assigned a different authoritarian dictator. You will be working in these groups to produce a final product and learn enough about your assigned dictator so that you can teach your classmates. We're studying Mao, Castro, Peron, and Nasser. If you missed class today, don't worry, you have been assigned a group. I will be posting the rubric and scope and sequence calendar for this unit on the wiki.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA II Essay today. You should get your results back next week.

Social 10-1

We looked at an example of a TNC today by watching a film called "The Age of Wal-Mart". While you watched this documentary you should have been filling out the film study question sheet. Please don't forget that you have your Chapter 10-11 Test on Wednesday, November 28th (please see the study guide below).

SOCIAL 10-1 CHAPTER 10-11 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

Please make sure that you review Chapters 10 and 11. Please review your answers to questions/activities from your Unit 3 worksheet, as well as the key terms (from Chapter 10-11 and from the PowerPoint presentations). This test is on Wednesday, November 28th. 

Please review the following two PowerPoint presentations:

• "Foundations of Economic Globalization"
• "Expansion of Economic Globalization"

You should know these key terms really well:

• Bretton Woods Agreement
• international monetary system
• fixed exchange rate
• gold standard
• floating exchange rate
• World Bank
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• centrally planned economy
• free market economy
• recession
• John Maynard Keynes
• Friedrich Hayek
• Milton Friedman
• totalitarian
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
• tariff
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

You should also be able to answer the following questions:

• What is economic globalization?
• How did 20th century world events shape contemporary economic globalization?
• What factors laid the foundations of contemporary global economics?
• What were the major global institutions that were created at the Bretton Woods Agreement?
• What are the major differences between the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek?
• What factors contribute to expanding globalization?
• How do international agreements and organizations contribute to expanding globalization?
• How do transnational corporations contribute to expanding globalization?
• How do communication technologies contribute to expanding globalization?
• What are the benefits of the WTO system?
• What are some criticisms of the WTO?

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.

IB 20 HOTA

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.

UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES FOR IB 20 HOTA:

• 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)

UNIT 5 TEST STUDY GUIDE: (FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEONIC AGE TEST) 

This test will have a mixed format: matching section, short answer section and a multiple choice section. This test will be written on Wednesday, October 24th. Please use the following study guide tips.

• study "The French Revolution" Google Slides presentation (on the IB 20 wiki)
• study "The Napoleonic Age" Google Slides presentation (on the IB 20 wiki; this presentation also contains information on the Congress of Vienna)

1. Study the following key terms, key events and key people associated with the French Revolution: (check the glossary of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age that is on the wiki; also check out the Timetoast timeline links on the IB 20 wiki)

• cahiers
• Law of Suspects
• Marat
• the “Plain”
• National Assembly
• the Directory
• Civil Constitution of the Clergy
• Danton
• Committee of Public Safety
• the Three Estates
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• Clergy
• Nobility
• Bourgeoisie
• “nobles-of-the-sword”
• “nobles-of-the-robe”
• “nobles-of-the-bell”
• corvée
• gabelle
• vingtièmes
• Levée en Masse
• National Convention
• September Massacres
• Reign of Terror
• Robespierre
• Parlement du Paris
• the Tennis Court Oath
• the National Guard
• the Marquis de Lafayette
• Paris Commune
• National Guard
• émigrés
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• Estates-General
• Republic of Virtue
• Revolutionary Tribunal
• Declaration of the Rights of Man

2. Other study tips:

• 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?)

3. Study the 19th century political spectrum (click on the graphic to enlarge it)

Social 30-1

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. 

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

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)

Social 10-1

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.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide

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?

November 30

SOCIAL 20-1

I went through the "recipe for success" for writing WRA II Essays. You'll be writing the Unit 2 WRA II Essay on Monday (December 5th). You'll be writing your Chapter 7-8 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide below.  Don't forget that your Unit 2 dossier research project is due on December 6th.

Please note the following upcoming key dates: 

• Chapter 7-8 Test is on Thursday, December 1st (the study guide is below, scroll down to find it)
• Unit 2 WRA II is on Monday, December 5th
• Unit 2 Dossier Assignment is due on Tuesday, December 6th
• Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, December 12th 

CHAPTER 7-8 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is on Thursday, December 1st. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3-4 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "The Holocaust"
• "8 Stages of Genocide" 
• "Contemporary Examples of Genocide"

Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:

• 36 Questions About The Holocaust
• Turning Points in History: The Atomic Bomb (film notes)
• White Light/Black Rain (film notes)
• Shake Hands with the Devil (film notes + package)
• Unit 2 Worksheet (chapter questions for Chapter 7 and 8)
• make sure that you have read Chapters 7 and 8!

1. Please study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• crimes against humanity
• genocide
• war crimes
• the Holocaust
• ethnic cleansing
• lebensraum
• Weimar Republic
• Final Solution
• decolonization
• successor state
• self-determination
• Wansee Conference
• Nuremberg Trials
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Jawaharlal Nehru (1st PM of India)
• Mohammed Ali Jinnah (1st leader of Pakistan)
• home rule (desire for self-government for India)
• Hutu
• Tutsi
• Romeo Dallaire
• Manhattan Project
• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki
• Robert Oppenheimer
• FDR
• Harry Truman
• Potsdam Conference
• Slobodan Milosevic

2. You should be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 2 worksheet from Chapter 7 and 8.

IB 20 HOTA

We watched a documentary from the BBC 20th Century History series, the episode was called "Stalin and the Modernization of the USSR". I continued with the "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" PowerPoint, but you'll have to go through the rest of the lecture. Please keep on the look out in your e-mail inboxes for links to a series of Google Docs. Some of you will be able to edit the documents, whereas others you will only be able to view them. The Google Docs will require you to do some reading from the Authoritarian States textbook on Hitler and Stalin. 

November 23

Social 20-1

We finished off "Shake Hands with the Devil" today. The post-viewing questions are due on Monday, November 28th (you don't have to do the pre-viewing questions). You had the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions, which are due tomorrow (November 24th).

Please note the following upcoming key dates: 

• Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow
• Unit 2 WRA I is on Monday, November 28th
• "Shake Hands with the Devil" post-viewing questions are due on November 28th
• Chapter 7-8 Test is on Thursday, December 1st (the study guide will be posted this Thursday)
• Unit 2 WRA II is on Monday, December 5th
• Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, December 12th 

IB 20 HOTA

I started a PowerPoint lecture today called "Joseph Stalin and the USSR", a copy of this lecture is on the IB 20 wiki under "Dictatorships". You also got your textbooks for this unit. I'll keep chipping away at this massive presentation tomorrow after you write the current events quiz. Please remember that you have your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment due on Monday, November 28th.

Political Systems Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions. Please review the PowerPoint "Types of Political Systems". If you remember, I went through the democratic systems featured in this presentation (USA and Canada), but told you to study the non-democratic systems on your own. You're responsible for both democratic and non-democratic systems for this test.  

You're responsible for understanding the following key terms:

• authoritarianism
• consensus decision-making
• direct democracy
• military dictatorship
• oligarchy
• one-party state
• party solidarity
• representations by population
• proportional representation
• representative democracy
• responsible government
• democracy
• single-member constituency (first past the post)
• the Senate (Canada)
• the House of Commons
• the House of Representatives
• the Senate (USA)

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 

December 4

Social 30-1

I went through some additional notes for page 267 in your Social 30-1 study booklets. We also talked a little about the controversy and debate that is taking place in Alberta Legislature surrounding Bill 10 and Bill 202. Here is a link to an article with some videos about both Bill 10 and Bill 202.

Here are some very important due dates for next week:

• USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due on Monday, December 8th
• US Civil Rights Movement Essay Outline is due on Tuesday, December 9th
• Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, December 10th
• Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, December 11th

IB 20 HOTA

I continued with the Joseph Stalin and the USSR PowerPoint lecture today. I also showed you the Stalin and the USSR PDF that Ms. Breadner put up on the IB 20 wiki from an IB companion textbook for Topic 3 on the Paper 2. You must complete questions in both work sections from the "stalinandtheussr" PDF document that you can find on the IB 20 wiki under Unit 7 Dictatorships.

July 14

Social 30-1

I'm sorry that I wasn't able to post on the blog on Friday, I really had to get out of the city to get to my family reunion. Today was a really bad to miss because we covered so much content. I gave you some time to read, highlight, and annotate the Karl Marx Notes(p. 94-96 in the Social 30-1 blue study booklets), the Lenin Notes (p. 97-98), the Joseph Stalin Notes (p. 99-101), and the Russian History Notes (p. 104). We watched the A & E Biography "Joseph Stalin: Red Terror". While you watched this video, you were supposed to complete the film study on page 115 of your study booklet.

We also went through the Command Economy (p. 105-106), the Structure of the Soviet Economy (p. 107-109), the Soviet Economic System (p. 110-114). I wrote Soviet Leaders Notes on the whiteboard, so if you missed class today, please get these notes from a classmate. I were also supposed to go through Changes to the Soviet System After Stalin (p. 116-117) and Gorbachev to Collapse Notes (p. 118-121). Your homework tonight is the Economic Planning in the USSR (p. 122-129) section of your study booklets. I did a homework check on your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions.

Upcoming Important Dates:

• Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test is on Tuesday, July 15th (please see the study guide below, scroll down to find it)
• Economic Systems Exam is on Wednesday, July 16th (please see the study guide below, scroll down to find it)
• Chapter 5 Test is on Thursday, July 17th (please see the study guide below, scroll down to find it)

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be on Tuesday, July 15th

• 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
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession

Economic Systems Exam Study Guide:

This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 70 multiple choice questions. This exam will be administered on Wednesday, July 16th.

• Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that I have sent you for Unit 2
• In Chapter 5, just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
• 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), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
• characteristics of a mixed economy
• nationalization
• privatization
• 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 (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
• advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
• neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
• characteristics of a centrally planned economy
• advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR (again, you'll get these notes tomorrow)

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Thursday, July 17th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes (see wiki)
• Lenin notes (see wiki)
• Stalin notes (see wiki)
• Soviet Economy notes
• Soviet Economic System notes
• Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
• Gorbachev to Collapse notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• Characteristics of Democracy
• Characteristics of Dictatorship
• Democratic Systems notes
• Non-Democratic Systems notes
• Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
• A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
• Totalitarianism notes
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
• do a brief review of the political and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!

• centrally planned economies
• initiative
• FDR and the New Deal
• Reaganomics
• consumer sovereignty
• invisible hand
• Keynesian economics
• laissez faire economics
• War Communism
• Five Year Plans
• mixed economies
• indicative planning
• proportional representation
• democracy
• dictatorship
• political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
• status quo
• egalitarianism
• conservative
• reactionary
• liberal
• radical
• SA
• Hitler
• Bolshevik
• fascism
• communism
• indoctrination
• controlled participation
• terror and force
• direction of popular discontent
• democratic socialists
• supply-side economics
• authoritarian
• tyrant
• totalitarian
• totalitarianism
• ultranationalism
• nationalization
• privatization
• propaganda
• progressive taxation
• Marx
• Lenin
• utopian socialism
• Gorbachev
• martial law
• Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
• referendum
• collectivization
• modernization
• classical liberal
• laissez faire free market economy
• mixed economy
• planned economy
• (review your economic political quadrant model)
• Das Kapital
• Mein Kampf
• The Wealth of Nations

May 28

Social 10-1

If you missed class today you missed notes on the Canadian Bill of Rights, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, civil rights, entrenchment of rights, UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the War Measures Act. Please get these notes from a classmate. I also had you do an exercise on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which I did a class check on. Your Chapter 17 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. See you Monday! Enjoy your long weekend!

IB 20 HOTA

I showed you Part 1 of the A & E Biography of Hitler called "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". You should be reading and studying the "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" PowerPoint, and the Hitler Paper 2 Review PowerPoint this long weekend. You will be writing a Paper 2 Topic 3 on the Origin and Development of Authoritarian and Single Party States on Thursday, June 5th.

I'm going to give you a little advice for writing your Paper 2 on Thursday. Some of this advice applies to the actual Paper 2 Exam that you will be writing in May 2015. The actual Paper 2 Exam consists of five topics, you'll deal with three of them in Grade 11 and 12. The topics that we cover are Topic 1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War, Topic 3: Authoritarian and Single-Party States, and Topic 5: The Cold War. You'll deal with Topic 1 and Topic 5 next year. The Paper 2 that you write on Thursday deals only with Authoritarian and Single-Party States. On the actual Paper 2 Exam, each of the five topics will have six questions, and you will have to answer two of them. For Thursday's Paper 2 you just have to answer one of the questions.

• For each topic on the Paper 2 Exam, three out of the six questions will be 'named' questions. This means that in Topic 3, three of the questions will refer to particular states or leaders. (ex. Analyze the methods used by either Castro or Mao to maintain his position as the ruler of a single-party state.)
• For each topic on the Paper 2 Exam, two out of the six will be 'open-ended' or general questions. This means you can choose any suitable example that you have studied. (ex. Examine how and why one leader of a single-party state was able to make a successful bid for power.)
• For each topic on the Paper 2 Exam, one out of the six will ask about 'social, economic or gender issues'. (ex. Discuss the role and status of women in two single-party states, each chosen from a different region.)

Make sure that you know what your IB command terms mean (ex. analyze, compare and contrast, discuss, evaluate, examine, to what extent).

For the upcoming Paper 2 on Thursday, make sure that you review Hitler and Stalin.

The themes that you should study for Topic 3 are as follows:

Origins and nature of authoritarian and single-party states
This theme asks you to look at the rise to power of authoritarian and single-party state leaders or the emergence of authoritarian or single-party states. You need to consider what kind of circumstances made it possible for this to happen and what kinds of methods were used by the leader to take power.

Establishment of authoritarian and single-party states
This theme asks you to look at the leader or the state once power has been assumed and other political parties or groups have been suppressed. You need to consider how power is maintained, probably through the use of popular policies and/or terror.

Domestic policies and impact
This theme asks you to look at the way the state is actually structured and what kind of policies are carried out. You need to consider what kind of programme is put into practice and how economic and social policies are created and implemented. You will also need to know something about the role of women, attitudes towards religion and the kind of culture that developed inside the state.

Other pieces of advice:

• choose your question carefully
• on the actual Paper 2 Exam, you'll only have about 45 minutes to write each answer (remember you answer two questions for a 90 minute exam)
• make sure that you do a quick plan for your essay (if it's a compare and contrast question, set up a chart with similarities that two leaders had in common, and their differences in the other column)

Do's:

• Do read the question very carefully and make sure that you can answer it. If a specific time period is mentioned, do you have enough material to cover it all? If the question asks about social and economic policies, do you know enough about both?
• Do answer the question that is asked on the exam paper and not a similar one you prepared earlier!
• Do plan your answer and include this plan on your exam answer sheets.
• Do begin with an introduction and always refer to the question in the introduction.
• Do define any key words such as 'totalitarian' or 'authoritarian' if the question mentions these.
• Do use a comparative structure if the question asks you to compare and contrast.
• Do include DATES! When you are writing about why something happens, you will usually need to refer to what came before (cause and effect), and so knowing the order in which events happen is very important.
• Do refer to the question in each paragraph, to make sure that your answer stays focused.
• Do finish with a conclusion that sums up your arguments.
• Do include some reference to different historical interpretations, if this is appropriate.

Don'ts:

• Don't write down everything you know about a topic; you need to select only relevant material.
• Don't leave out facts and dates. Your arguments need to be supported, so saying that Castro used guerrilla tactics to come to power is fine, but you need to support this statement with evidence of how he did this.
• Don't just list what historians say about a topic; use historiography to support your arguments not replace them.
• Don't use quotations to replace your arguments. If you use quotations, explain why and link them to your arguments.
• Don't use 'I think ... ' or 'In my opinion ... ' but instead write, 'It is clear that..,' or 'Given the evidence. it can be seen that., .' Try to keep an 'academic' tone to your writing.

Introductions and conclusions - don't neglect these!

Introduction

There is no formula for a good introduction. While some students will state very clearly how they will structure their answers, others may simply give some relevant background and their thoughts on the question. Examiners will want to know that you have understood the question and have grasped its implications. Think of it as a 'first impression', leading the examiner to think 'Good, they are on the right track'. Also, if you are answering an 'openended' question that may, for example, ask about the rise to power of a leader, then you can state here what time period you will focus on. In the case of Nasser, for instance. would you begin in 1952 or 1948 or earlier? Also, are there terms that need to be defined? If so, it is a good idea to do this in the introduction.

Conclusion
Here is your chance to make a 'lasting impression'. You will need to summarize your arguments concisely, but not by repeating them one by one, this is tedious add much to the answer. If you have a nice quotation that is relevant (make sure it is!) and sums up your argument, then use it in the conclusion. It may spark the marker's interest and leave a good impression.

IB 30/35

I lectured from the "Responding to Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint today. I also briefly talked about the boom and bust cycle, Keynesian economics and economic systems. Please make sure that you are ready for the Economic Systems Exam on Monday, June 2nd, please see the study guide here.

May 27

IB 30/35

I went through part of the "Development of Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation with you today. Please make sure that you review the rest of it (the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution parts). Continue to study the Unit 2 material. You have your Economic Systems Exam on Monday, June 2nd, please see the study guide below.

Economic Systems Exam Study Guide:

This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 70 multiple choice questions. This exam will be administered on Monday, June 2nd.

 
• study all of the following PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki for Unit 2:

                   - The Development of Classical Liberalism
                   - Responding to Classical Liberalism
                   - The Evolution of Modern Liberalism
                   - 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism

• focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise) from the IB 30/35 wiki 
• 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), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism); this is on the IB 30/35 wiki as well under Social 30-1 Unit 2
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
• characteristics of a mixed economy
• nationalization
• privatization
• 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 is on the wiki)
• 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 (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
• advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
• neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
• characteristics of a centrally planned economy
• advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
• Marx notes
• Lenin notes
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• Stalin notes 
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes

IB 20 HOTA

I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia". I also talked a little bit about historiography surrounding Stalin today. We're starting our examination of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany tomorrow. Please make sure that you have read and studied the "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" PowerPoint presentation. Over the long weekend that you'll have coming up (remember, no school on Thursday or Friday this week due to graduation and PD Day) please study the Adolf Hitler Paper 2 PowerPoint presentation that I posted.

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 15 Key Terms and Questions today. Your Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "Quality of Life, Human Rights and Democratization". I'll try to post this presentation on the wiki in the next couple of days.

May 26

This week is going to fly by...

IB 30/35

You wrote your Social 30-1 Unit 1 Final Exam today. You'll get the results of this test and your Chapter 1-2 Test tomorrow (please remind me). Please start studying the Unit 2 material that is up on the IB 30/35 wiki.

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam today. I also gave you the Unit 4 Worksheet. The Chapter 15 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. If you missed class today, and it was an excused absent you will have to write the Unit 3 Final Exam tomorrow. I have posted the Unit 4 Worksheet on the wiki (under Unit 4 Handouts), so you have no excuse not to keep up with your textbook work.

IB 20 HOTA

You wrote a current events quiz. I showed you the A & E Biography of Stalin as well. I gave you back your Unit 6 Paper 3 essays today as well. Please make sure that you study the "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" PowerPoint presentation

May 23

Sorry, I forgot to post on the blog yesterday....

IB 30/35

You wrote your Social 30-1 Chapter 1-2 Test on Friday. I have marked these tests already, so you can get the results on Monday. You will be writing your Social 30-1 Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, May 26th. Please make sure that you study for this exam using the study guide below. Make sure that you check out the Social 30-1 review materials on the IB 30/35 wiki for Unit 1. Especially the Social Studies 30-1 Unit 1 Review Prezi when you think you're ready to review the unit.

Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Monday, May 26th. Make sure that you study the following:

• Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms (please see the Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide for a list of terms)
• Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file, on the IB 30 wiki)
• Study the 19th Century Political Spectrum
• Study the 20th Century Political spectrum
• Study the political-economic grid
• Know the values and ideas associated with the various ideologies (on the 19th century and 20th century spectrums)
• Study the Individualism and Collectivism booklet (this is on the IB 30/35 wiki under Social 30-1 Unit 1 materials)
• you need to be able to apply your knowledge and understanding of these concepts/ideas
• there are a lot of source-based questions on this exam! (there are references to Nazi Germany, the USSR, and other topics that we covered in Unit 7 and 8 last year in IB 20, and from earlier this year in IB 30/35)

Social 10-1

We played a Unit 3 Review Game on Friday. Sorry for all of the technical issues with the game. Please remember that you have your Unit 3 Final Exam on Monday. Please see the study guide below.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Please make sure that you have read Chapters 10-14. Please make sure that you have the following PowerPoint presentations, and that you study from them:

• "Foundations of Economic Globalization"
• "The Expansion of Economic Globalization"
• "Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Globalization"
• "The Impact of Economic Globalization on Environments"
• "Globalization and Sustainability"

Make sure that you have reviewed the Key Terms from Unit 3 (all the terms listed on the Unit 3 Worksheet, plus the extra key terms that appeared in the PowerPoint presentations). The Unit 3 Final Exam will consist of 50 multiple choice questions.

IB 20 HOTA

You wrote your Unit 6 Paper 3 on Friday. You have homework this weekend. Please print off the Stalin reading PDF file (the first document on the chart under Unit 7 Dictatorships) and answer the questions on a separate piece of paper. This assignment will be due on Monday. You'll have a current events quiz on Monday (we didn't have time on Friday), and we'll watch the A & E Biography of Joseph Stalin too.

May 22

IB 20 HOTA

I gave you a reading package today that included diagrams of various political and economic spectrums, as well as a set of "Ideology Notes" from the Black Gold School District. Please make sure that you finish reading all of these notes before Monday's class. I finally started the PowerPoint lecture on Joseph Stalin and the USSR today. You can an electronic or hard copy of this presentation from the IB 20 wiki under Unit 7: Dictatorships. I will give you a current events quiz on Monday, and then I will continue with this lecture. Please remember that you will be writing your Unit 6 Paper 3 tomorrow. Make sure that you are contributing to the group task questions on the wiki to prepare for the Paper 3.

Social 10-1

You continued writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay today. You needed to send it to me by e-mail and print off a hard copy as well. Please remember that you are writing your Unit 3 Final Exam on Monday, May 26th. Please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

IB 30/35

Welcome back to class! We started reviewing for the Social Studies Diploma Exam today. As I said in class, most of what we'll be doing is content review, exams and preparing you for the written portion of the exam.

Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Friday, May 23rd. 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:

• ideology
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• representative democracy
• individualism
• collectivism
• private property
• public property
• ideology
• radical
• liberal
• moderate
• conservative
• reactionary
• communism
• socialism
• liberalism
• conservatism
• fascism
• adherence to collective norms
• economic freedom
• economic equality
• rule of law
• competition
• individual rights and freedoms
• cooperation
• self-interest
• Adam Smith

Other Study Tips:

• you must know the 19th century political spectrum and the 20th century political spectrum
• know similarities and differences between communism and fascism
• what are the differences between communism and socialism
• 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.)

Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Monday, May 26th. Make sure that you study the following:

• Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms (please see the Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide for a list of terms) 
• Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file, on the IB 30 wiki)
• Study the 19th Century Political Spectrum
• Study the 20th Century Political spectrum
• Study the political-economic grid
• Know the values and ideas associated with the various ideologies (on the 19th century and 20th century spectrums)
• Study the Individualism and Collectivism booklet
• you need to be able to apply your knowledge and understanding of these concepts/ideas
• there are a lot of source-based questions on this exam! (there are references to Nazi Germany, the USSR, and other topics that we covered in Unit 7 and 8 last year in IB 20, and from earlier this year in IB 30/35)

October 17

Social 30-1

You watched an A & E Biography of Joseph Stalin and completed a film study while you watched the film. I also started a PowerPoint lecture on 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism. Please remember that your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. You have your Market and Mixed Economy Test coming up on October 22nd, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 20-1

I showed a documentary from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?", you also completed an activity called "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" You are writing a Unit 2 WRA I three source analysis assignment tomorrow. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on October 22nd.

IB 30/35

You wrote your Civil War and Reconstruction Test today, and you are writing on your Paper 3 on this topic tomorrow.

March 18

IB 30/35

IB Diploma students attended a play in the school's theatre with their English classes, whereas the Certificate students all met in Room 111 and we played a Cold War review game. Please remember that you have a Cold War Exam on Wednesday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 30-1

You watched an A & E Biography of Joseph Stalin today and completed a worksheet that went along with the documentary. You were also given some handouts on the Soviet Economy. Your Market and Mixed Economies Test is on Wednesday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 20-1

I missed a bit of today's class today because I had a meeting downtown. You were given some notes on the rise to power of Adolf Hitler. You then watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?" I also gave you a reading booklet with GCSE material called "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" You'll get some class time to go over this activity. On Wednesday you have a Unit 2 WRA I, review the notes you have on how to write a three source analysis assignment.

December 5

Social 10-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "Quality of Life, Human Rights and Democratization". I have sent this presentation to your e-mail accounts already. You also had some time to work on Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions today. Please remember that you have your Unit 3 Final Exam on December 10th. Please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

IB 20

I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia". While this video was playing you should have been taking extensive notes on the Five Year Plans and collectivization. We continued with the "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" PowerPoint presentation. I will not finish this presentation in class, you are responsible for the rest of the material in the presentation. I also talked a little bit about historiography as well, by going through the PowerPoint presentation "Stalin and the Historians", which is on the IB 20 wiki.

IB 30/35

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today on "The Great Depression in Canada". This presentation is already up on the IB 30/35 wiki. We may continue with the Great Depression in Canada tomorrow, but we should be transitioning into Latin America as well. I am going to put up some more information on the wiki on the Great Depression in Canada so you can complete an activity over the long weekend. What I'd like you to do is answer the following in chart format: Compare and contrast the Canadian and American governments' response to the effects of the Great Depression. You will be looking for similarities and differences in approach between Herbert Hoover's administration, FDR's New Deal and R.B. Bennett and Mackenzie King's response. This is preparation for the IB History Exams in May 2013.

December 4

IB 30/35

I went through a PowerPoint presentation on "The New Deal" today. As I went through this lecture, you were to fill in accompanying charts. You also had time to look at what critics of the New Deal had to say and complete the chart for this activity as well. The challenges to the New Deal questions and chart are due tomorrow. I also highly recommend that you read Chapter 6 and 7 in the Modern America textbook as well.

IB 20

You watched an A & E Biography today called "Joseph Stalin: Red Terror", and while this video was playing you should have been taking notes on it. I continued with the PowerPoint presentation "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" today. Tomorrow we'll look at the Five Year Plans in greater detail. By Thursday, we will be starting our examination of Adolf Hitler.

Social 10-1

You had the entire class today to work on your Chapter 15 Key Terms and Questions, which are due tomorrow. We also held a vote on whether or not we should have an in-class debate on Thursday, and by a narrow margin of 15 No votes to 13 Yes votes, we will not have a debate. Please see your Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide below. This test is on Monday, December 10th.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Please make sure that you have read Chapters 10-14. Please make sure that you have the following PowerPoint presentations, and that you study from them:

• "Foundations of Economic Globalization"
• "The Expansion of Economic Globalization"
• "Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Globalization"
• "The Impact of Economic Globalization on Environments"
• "Globalization and Sustainability"

Make sure that you have reviewed the Key Terms from Unit 3 (all the terms listed on the Unit 3 Worksheet, plus the extra key terms that appeared in the PowerPoint presentations). The Unit 3 Final Exam will consist of 50 multiple choice questions.