July 17

SOCIAL 30-1

You wrote the Chapter 5 Test at the start of class. I've already posted the results of this test in PowerSchool. We finished off "The Origins of the Cold War" PowerPoint lecture today as well. We also covered key concepts and events from the Berlin Blockade and Airlift to the Korean War to the Cuban Missile Crisis. 


Please have a look at the other key dates below (and study guides).

UPCOMING KEY DATES:

• Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, July 22nd (see study guide below)
• Unit 3 WRA I is on Tuesday, July 23rd 
• Chapter 10 Test is on Wednesday, July 24th
• Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, July 25th
• Trial Final Exam is on Friday, July 26th

SOCIAL 30-1 UNIT 2 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, July 22nd. It will be a 50 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:

• study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
• study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
• study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
• 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
• techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
• modern liberalism
• features of the Nazi state
• Hitler's rise to power
• 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 (chart)
• Totalitarianism notes
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
• do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model

February 21

SOCIAL 10-1

We finished our film study of "Bend it Like Beckham", the film study booklet questions are due tomorrow. I collected your infographic assignments today as well. Don't forget that you're writing your Chapter 1-2 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide below. The Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. 

CHAPTER 1-2 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

1. Study your Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms
2. Review the case studies from the textbook in Chapters 1 and 2, specifically the Metis, the Francophones, the Hmong, and the Maori
3. Be prepared to answer any of the "Questions for Inquiry" from Chapters 1 and 2 (they are on the following pages: p.9, p.14, p.20, p.29, p.35, p.39):

• How does globalization affect economic aspects of people's lives?
• How does globalization affect social aspects of people's lives?
• How does globalization affect political aspects of people's lives?
• What is the difference between individual and collective identity?
• What is the relationship between identity and language?
• How does cultural exchange shape people's identities?

4. Make sure that you can answer all of the chapter questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet

SOCIAL 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 1-2 Test today. Hopefully, you'll get your results back on Friday. We'll be moving on to Chapter 3 material tomorrow, including contending loyalties.

IB 30/35

I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series, today's episode was called "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Khrushchev". I also gave you a booklet with maps and articles on the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

When I stopped today's video when Sputnik was launched I also started talking about how some people think that the Apollo moon landing was a hoax. I said that I'd seen a video on the subject and how the conspiracy theories can be refuted by looking at how difficult it would have been to fake the lunar landing, I'm embedding the video below:

February 29

IB 30/35

We watched Episode 10: Cuba from the CNN Cold War series today. As you watched this video, you should have taken notes on key events from the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis is your go-to example of brinkmanship. I also talked about mutually assured destruction (MAD), balance of power, and deterrence today.

Social 10-1

You had time today to work on preparing for Friday's debate on the following topic: BIRT globalization is beneficial to the world's cultures. I hope that you used your time wisely.

Social 30-1

You had class time to work on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions today (they are due on Wednesday). Hopefully you used your time effectively.

February 22

IB 30/35

I showed you an A & E Biography of Fidel Castro, and then I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series on the Cuban Missile Crisis called "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Khrushchev". Next Monday, we'll be re-examining the Cuban Missile Crisis. Please remember that you are writing a Paper 2 on Friday on the origins of the Cold War. We are having TOK presentations on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday this week. We're starting these presentations on Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. I've included a link on the TOK page on the IB 30/35 wiki for the TOK presentation schedule.

Social 10-1

We started a film study of "Bend it Like Beckham" today. While you watched the film, you had questions in a film study booklet to complete. We'll continue the film on Wednesday. I did a homework check on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions.

Social 30-1

At the beginning of class, I did a homework check on your Chapter 3 Key Terms. Please remember that your Chapter 3 Questions are due tomorrow. I did some review of concepts that I've already taught you, namely the economic-political grid, the principles of individualism and the principles of collectivism. I taught you the following concepts today (if you missed today's class, you need to get the notes from a classmate): basic economic problem facing all societies (scarcity), the basic economic systems (command economy, mixed economy, and market economy), basic economic values, the basic economic questions, the law of supply and demand, and finally the boom and bust cycle.

July 20

Social 30-1

I covered a few more topics from "The Origins of the Cold War" PowerPoint presentation, namely the Korean War (1950-1953), the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). I showed you a short documentary video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Khrushchev". While you were watching this video, you should have been taking notes. We then talked a little bit about the lead into the Vietnam War (pages 193-194 in your Social 30-1 study booklets). I then showed you a movie called "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam". I did the homework check on the Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions today as well. We started "Good Night, and Good Luck" today, but we didn't finish it. We'll finish this film study off tomorrow.

UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES:

• Vietnam War Assignment is due on Tuesday, July 21st
• Unit 2 Final Exam is on Wednesday, July 22nd (please see the study guide below)
• Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Thursday, July 23rd
• Chapter 10 Test is on Friday, July 24th (please see the study guide below)

VIETNAM WAR ASSIGNMENT

A. PEOPLE
Identify and explain the role each played in the Vietnam War
1. Ho Chi Minh
2. Ngo Dinh Diem
3. Lyndon B. Johnson
4. Richard M. Nixon
5. Viet Minh
6. Viet Cong
7. Le Duc Tho
8. Henry Kissinger
9. William Westmoreland
10. "Draft Dodger"

B. CONCEPTS/TERMS
Explain the significance of the following with regards to the Vietnam War (identify participants or individuals if appropriate)
1. Ho Chi Minh Trail
2. defoliation
3. "search and destroy" mission
4. "Vietnamization of the war"
5. Gulf of Tonkin Incident
6. My Lai Massacre
7. domino theory
8. Kent State University protest (May 4, 1970)
9. Tet Offensive (January 1968)
10. Geneva Agreement (1954)

C. ISSUES
Provide the information requested
1. The predominant religion of Vietnam
2. The battle which marked the end of French colonial rule in Indo-China
3. The scandal which led to the only resignation of an American President
4. The Vice President who replaced the President after his resignation
5. Why was November 1963 a "bad month" for the governments of South Vietnam and the United States?

SOCIAL 30-1 UNIT 2 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, July 22nd. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:

• study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
• study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
• study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
• 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 booklet
• techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
• modern liberalism
• features of the Nazi state
• Hitler's rise to power
• 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 spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model

CHAPTER 10 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions. Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism". You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Worksheet. 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 (again!)

April 16

Social 30-1

I showed you a couple of videos today, the first one was about the construction of the Berlin Wall, and the lengths to which the East German government went to prevent its' citizens from escaping to the West. I also recommended a German movie to you today called "Goodbye Lenin!" (please see below). I then showed you a short documentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Khrushchev", which gave you some historical context for the crisis. You then had the remainder of class to work on your Cold War Events charts in your Social 30-1 workbooks.

Social 20-1

 

Your Unit 2 Inquiry Project is due on Monday, May 4th.

March 19

Social 30-1

I went through a short PowerPoint presentation called "Economic Models Explained by Cows" at the beginning of class. I then had you copy down some jot notes on the board on the leaders of the Soviet Union (from Lenin to Gorbachev). You must go through the following notes in your Social 30-1 study booklet:

• Changes to the Soviet System After Stalin (pages 116-117)
• Gorbachev to Collapse (1985-1991) on pages 118-121
• You were to also read, highlight and answer the questions in the Economic Planning in the USSR (pages 122-129); I'll do a homework check on this work when we come back from Spring Break (probably the Wednesday when we get back)

I'm moving the Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test to Tuesday, March 31st. Please see the study guide below.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be on Tuesday, March 31st

• 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 and in your study booklets
• 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

Social 20-1

I was somehow able to power through the PowerPoint presentation on ultranationalism in the Interwar Years in Germany, Italy and Japan. Enjoy your Spring Break.

November 6

Social 20-1

You finished off the film "White Light/Black Rain" today. Afterwards, Mr. Fitz should have led you in a class discussion on whether the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be considered a war crime. You're going to be in the Library tomorrow for your Unit 2 Research Project.

Social 30-1

You watched a video that covered the construction of the Berlin Wall today. You also started to look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, with some handouts, and by watching a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Khrushchev".

IB 30/35

You wrote a matching quiz on the Emergence of the Americas unit, specifically World War I. Afterwards, you tied up some loose ends on the Treaty of Versailles, and its ratification in the USA. Please remember that tomorrow you will be writing the Emergence of the Americas Unit Test.

April 16

IB 30/35

You hopefully finished off looking at the LBJ administration today. If Mr. Johnson didn't start the Nixon administration with you today, hopefully he will tomorrow.

Social 20-1

Today was spent doing research in the library for your Unit 2 Research Project. This is the first and only day for research that you will get in class, so hopefully you used your time wisely. These projects are due on April 30th.

Social 30-1

You watched a video on the construction of the Berlin Wall today, as well as watching another video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Khrushchev". Please remember that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday.