November 18

IB 30

I continued lecturing today on the Paris Peace Conference and the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. We will continue to look at this topic next week.

Social 20-1

We finished watching "Gandhi", I really hope that you enjoyed this film. I am sending you a PowerPoint presentation this afternoon that covers plagiarism, which will be useful to you when you are putting together your Unit 2 Dossiers (they are due on November 29th). Your Chapter 7-8 Test is on Thursday, November 24th, please see the study guide here. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due Monday, November 21st. Your "Gandhi" Film Study is due on Tuesday, November 22nd, you must hand in the colonial background questions, the content questions and the thought questions.

Social 30-1

We started looking at Unit 3 material today. If you missed today's class you will have to get these notes from a classmate. We also watched a video from BBC World called "10 Questions About Democracy" (here is a link to the companion website if you'd like to hear what people had to say again). You are responsible for finishing the entire film study that went along with this video for Monday's class (I'll be doing a homework check on it, and in all likelihood, we'll be able to discuss some of the questions in the video). Your Chapter  8 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, November 24th. Please remember that you have your Unit 2 Final Exam on Tuesday, November 22nd, please see the study guide below. Please make sure that you complete the Political Compass survey (go to http://www.politicalcompass.org/, click on "Take the Test", answer the questions honestly, print off your results). I also gave back the results of your Chapter 7 Test as well today.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

It will be a 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
• 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

November 17

Social 30-1

You wrote your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam today. You will get the results back tomorrow. Your "Good Night, and Good Luck" film study was due today. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, November 22nd, please see the study guide here. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, November 24th. Your Unit 2 WRA II is on Monday, November 28th.

Social 20-1

We continued watching "Gandhi" today. We will finish it tomorrow. Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 7-8 Test is next Thursday. Please see the study guide below.

Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:

This test is on Thursday, November 24th. 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" (see the Genocide Watch website: http://www.genocidewatch.org/)
• "Contemporary Examples of Genocide" (I will send this to you on November 17th)

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:
genocide:

• crimes against humanity
• war crimes
• the Holocaust
• ethnic cleansing
• lebensraum
• Weimar Republic
• Final Solution
• decolonization
• successor state
• self-determination
• Wansee Conference
• Nuremberg Trials
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Mohammed Ali Jinnah
• home rule
• 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 30

You wrote your WWI Matching Quiz today, which took a fair bit of time. We started looking at Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and the key players at the Paris Peace Conference today. I also gave back the Paper 3 that you wrote on the Civil War and Reconstruction period today.

November 16

Social 20-1

We started our film study of 'Gandhi" today. We will continue this film tomorrow in class.

Social 30-1

Today was a work/study period. I gave you the Chapter 8 Worksheet, but I think that most of you opted to study for your Cold War Test which is tomorrow, please see the study guide here. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on November 22nd, please see the study guide below.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

It will be a 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

IB 30

You wrote a cartoon analysis today for the first 20 minutes, and then I proceeded with the PowerPoint presentation on Canada and Latin America's role in WWI. I have posted this presentation on the wiki because you will need it for your matching quiz tomorrow. There are 39 key concepts in this matching quiz. We'll finish off discussing Latin America's role in WWI tomorrow.

I've mentioned this a few times in class, but I guess it's better late than never! Here is a link to a website that discusses J.R.R. Tolkien's experiences in the Great War, and how that influenced his writing of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, specifically the Journey through the Dead Marshes. The Great War was also a time when some of our most famous landscape artists came to the forefront, I'm referring to the Group of Seven, of course. Can you see some similarities in the pictures that I'm posting below?














I guess my point is that art is based on personal experience, and these artists were heavily influenced by their experiences in the Great War.

November 15

IB 30

We went through the short presentations on the battlefield role of Canada and the United States in the First World War today. That was a lot of material to push through, so if you missed some of the details please check the charts out on the IB 30/35 Wiki (see link on the right hand side of the blog) under "Collaborative Notes". We'll be looking at the Battle of Passchendaele and the 100 Days tomorrow. Either on Wednesday or Thursday, expect to write a matching quiz on World War I. It covers key terms, key events, key people and key organizations in WWI, and it consists of 39 matching items. We should be getting into Latin America's role in the Great War by Thursday, and then proceed on to Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points and the Paris Peace Conference by Friday.

Social 30-1

We continued watching "Good Night, and Good Luck" today. The film study for this is due on Thursday. "Good Night, and Good Luck" contains a few powerful scenes that I will post here on the blog.



This film explores a lot of issues that are relevant to today. You also have to understand the political climate at the time in the United States to fully understand the movie. Many Americans were drawn to communism in the 1930s due to the effects of the Great Depression, especially academics and those in the labour fields. In the movie they made reference to friends and spouses that had attended meetings long ago. The "Red Scare" caused a huge backlash against those sympathetic to communism or the USSR. Remember, during WWII the Soviet Union was an ally, and many people may have attended meetings out of curiosity. The junior Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy in 1950 charged there were communist sympathizers in the U.S. State Department. Hearings were held, charges were discovered to be unfounded. McCarthy continued accusing communist infiltration in the Democratic Party. McCarthy became the chairman of the House Subcommittee on the investigation of un-American activity (HUAC). On December 2, 1954, McCarthy’s actions were called into question and his accusations were deemed unfounded. On Murrow's show "See it Now", he begins to publicly go after McCarthy. A very public feud develops when McCarthy responds by accusing Murrow of being a communist. Murrow is accused of having been a member of the leftist union Industrial Workers of the World, which Murrow claimed was false.
In this climate of fear and reprisal (which we now refer to as McCarthyism), the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity ultimately strikes a historic blow against McCarthy. Historical footage in the movie also shows the questioning of Annie Lee Moss, a Pentagon communication worker accused of being a communist based on her name appearing on a list seen by an FBI infiltrator of the American Communist Party. In the first half of the film Murrow talks about how McCarthy didn't create the political climate and anti-Communist hysteria sweeping the country, but that he capitalized on it for political gain very effectively. As David Strathairn (playing Murrow in the film says, "We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate responsibility.") The film is framed by the performance of the speech given by Murrow to the Radio and Television News Directors Association in 1958, in which Murrow harshly admonishes his audience not to squander the potential of television to inform and educate the public. I found this short video on YouTube that spliced together Edward R. Murrow's speech that appears at the beginning of the film and continues at the end of the film. I find that this speech has relevance even today when you talk about the level of discourse in the media.




Your Chapter 7 Test (The Cold War) is on November 17th, please see the study guide below.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 20-1

Today was a work period in preparation for our film study of "Gandhi". You looked at a history reading of India, including colonial background information, and information on Hinduism and Islam. This information will be key to understanding of the movement to "home rule" for India that we will see in the film. Part 1 of the booklet is due tomorrow, this covers questions 1-4 in that section. Your Chapter 7-8 Test is on Thursday, November 24th, I will post the study guide for this test on November 17th. Your Unit 2 WRA I (3 Source Analysis) is on Friday, November 25th.

November 9

Social 20-1

We started an in-depth study of the Rwandan genocide by starting our film study of "Shake Hands with the Devil". Before we started the film you were to read over the other information in the film study booklet. You should be able to finish this film tomorrow in class.

Social 30-1

We finished some of the topics in the Cold War today, by looking at arms reduction talks and agreements, and by discussing trends that have emerged in the post-Cold War world. I also showed you a short YouTube video of all of the atomic tests/explosions since the Trinity test in 1945 to the late 1990s. Please re-read in the textbook the section on the Second Red scare and McCarthyism. Tomorrow, you'll start a film study on "Good Night, and Good Luck". It might be a good idea to check out this link on Edward R. Murrow as well.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

IB 30

We continued our examination of the American role in World War I today, with me finishing off my PowerPoint lecture, and watching a short video on the Great War from an American perspective. Please remember that we are having the presentations on the Canadian and American battles in WWI on Tuesday. Make sure that you add your contributions on the wiki for your assigned battle in WWI by Remembrance Day.

November 8

IB 30

We started looking at the role of the United States in World War I today. You have a two-part homework assignment tonight: the Zimmermann Telegram source analysis questions, and Woodrow Wilson's speech before Congress on April 2, 1917 questions.

Social 30-1

We watched "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam", which took most of the class. Please remember that your Vietnam War Assignment is due tomorrow.

Social 20-1

We finished watching "Scream Bloody Murder" today. I also gave you a booklet on a few contemporary examples of genocide from the 20th and 21st centuries. Please read it. We set the due date from your Unit 2 research project as Tuesday, November 29th.

November 7

IB 30

We continued looking at the First World War today. We watched a short video from the CBS Series on the Great War called "Clash of Generals". I finished the PowerPoint presentation that I started last week which covers some of the key battles of WWI and the end of the war. Remember, I've been going through the "big picture" of the Great War, and then tomorrow we'll start looking at the role of the United States in the war. I'll post the PowerPoint presentation on the wiki this afternoon.

Social 20-1

Today was a research period for your Unit 2 Research Project. This will be the only class period that you will have to do research. We'll set a due date for this project tomorrow in class.

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on the Southeast Asia package and the Cold War Events Notes booklet today in class. We watched a part of "Born on the Fourth of July" today as well. Please remember that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. I gave you a booklet last week on the Vietnam War that contained the Vietnam War Assignment. This assignment is due on Wednesday. You are responsible for the A-C sections on the front page with this assignment (please see 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?

As we will see, public support for the Vietnam War changes over time as more and more American soldiers are killed. We see a growth in the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, and the media also played a role in the turn of popular opinion against the war. I REALLY recommend that you have a look at the this series of photographs from the Vietnam War era, pretty powerful imagery (make sure that you read the captions too). Here is a link to the NPR that explains the story behind the photograph below, definitely worth the time to read or listen to the podcast, and make sure that you look at the photo gallery of Eddie Adams' photographs of the Vietnam War.


There are certain iconic images associated with the Vietnam War. Here is another:

The above photograph is of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, O.Ont (born in 1963), she is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the child subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The iconic photo taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut shows her at about age nine running naked on the street after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack. Contrary to popular myth, the US Air Force were not involved in the attack, and only two US troops were within 60 miles (97 km) of the scene, neither of whom had any say in the bombings. Still, it is a powerful image associated with the war.

I'm posting the study guide for your Chapter 7 Test (Cold War Exam) below. You have a lot of review and studying to do, that's why I'm posting this study guide so far in advance (this test is on November 17th).

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

November 4

IB 30

We continued our examination of World War I today by watching a short video on the nature of warfare in the Great War from the CBS News Series on WWI called "The Trenches". I also continued with my PowerPoint lecture on the Causes of World War I, which I will post on the wiki this weekend. I also started looking at the concept of total war and specific battles within World War I. Next week, we'll look at Canada's role in the First World War as well as the role of the United States and Latin American countries in the conflict. Make sure that you keep up with the material covered in class, you may be assessed on it at any time.

Social 20-1

We continued watching "Scream Bloody Murder" today, and we will continue with this documentary on Tuesday. We also decided on projects for the Unit 2 Research Project. On Monday, please come to Room 111, then we will proceed down to the library.

Social 30-1

Hopefully you were able to put to good use the time that you were given in class today. Here's a list of when upcoming assignments are due:

• Cold War Events Booklet is due on Monday, November 7th
• Southeast Asia Package is due on Monday, November 7th
• Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, November 8th
• Vietnam War Assignment is due on Wednesday, November 8th

November 3

Social 30-1

I gave you some more time to complete your Cold War Events booklets, by giving you about 30 minutes to work with the Cold War and After books. I gave you some notes on the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis, and at the end of class you had some time to read them over. I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series on the Cuban Missile Crisis called "Mr. Kennedy and Khrushchev". Please remember that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday.

Social 20-1

I went through part of a PowerPoint presentation from the Genocide Watch website called "The Eight Stages of Genocide", and as I was going through it you were to take notes on the lecture. You can find a link to the Genocide Watch website under Social 20-1 Links if you are interested in looking at the entire PowerPoint lecture again. We started watching a CNN Special called "Scream Bloody Murder" that covers genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries. As you are watching this video you are strongly encouraged to take notes on these examples of genocide.

IB 30

I did a quick homework check on the material from the History of the 20th Century textbook and the analysis of the editorial cartoon that illustrated the responsibility of WWI. You spent most of the period working on your IA in the library.

November 2

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We finished watching "White Light/Black Rain" today in class, and completed the film study sheet that goes along with this video. Tomorrow we will look at contemporary examples of genocide.

Social 30-1

Today was a busy day since we started working on the Cold War Events booklet by using Perspectives on Ideology and the Cold War and After booklets. You will get some class time tomorrow to work on these booklets as well. We watched a video from the History's Turning Points series on the Korean War and another video on the construction of the Berlin Wall. We'll continue our historical progression through the Cold War by examining the Cuban Missile Crisis tomorrow. Please remember that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday.

IB 30

We had a brief discussion on current events, namely Palestine's inclusion in UNESCO and the Israeli government's reaction to this, the Greek referendum issue, and current developments in the Occupy Calgary situation. We then switched gears and finished watching the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand episode of the BBC series "Days That Shook the World". We then continued looking at the techniques and practices of the First World War, specifically trench warfare. We'll continue this topic on Friday. Please come to Room 111 tomorrow, then we'll go down to the library to work on your IA, so make sure that you have your Internal Assessment materials. Tonight's homework is the following:

• Read pages 204-215 in the 20th Century World History textbook
• Complete the three questions under the chart on page 215
• Complete the cartoon analysis sheet on the WWI cartoon (see below)

(click to enlarge)

November 1

IB 30

Mr. Johnson and I split our large IB group into two groups today, so from now on students assigned to me will meet in Room 111. We started looking at the Causes of World War I today, with a PowerPoint lecture on this topic. We also started watching a video on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand from the BBC series "Days That Shook the World". We'll finish this video tomorrow, and the proceed to look at techniques and practices in the First World War. For homework tonight, it is recommended that you read pages 204-215 in your 20th Century World History textbook.

Social 30-1

We watched a couple of videos today from the BBC 20th Century History series: "The Road to Berlin" which explored the end of WWII in Europe, and "Cold War Confrontation" which looked at the division of Germany, the Berlin Airlift and the Korean War. I gave you a timeline of key events in the Cold War that you must memorize. I also gave you a Cold War Events package that included a chart of key events in the Cold War and associated key concepts of the Cold War that must be completed using a supplementary book that you will have access to tomorrow. Tomorrow we will be looking at the Korean War in greater detail, and then you will have some more time to work on your Cold War Events notes.

I would like you to go to the World War II Behind Closed Doors website tonight, and read the sections on the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference. This is an excellent site, with tons of information, maps, video clips, timelines and archival footage and re-enactments as well. You do need to really make sure that you understand the Yalta Agreements and the Potsdam Declaration (among other things) and this is a great site to do this. Episode 3 is the one that contains most of the information that you would need to read and watch. There's a great little video clip on this website called "Stalin's Distrust of the West" that might help you see WWII from the Soviet perspective and why the Soviets might wish to extend control over Eastern Europe and be so distrustful of their wartime allies. You can find this video clip in Episode 3 (Dividing the World), scroll down and click on the video clip on the right called "Stalin's Distrust of the West". It's a short little clip, but you'll get the idea. We'll continue our look at the Cold War tomorrow.

Social 20-1

We watched a video today on the development of the atomic bomb from the "History's Turning Points" series. After watching the video you were to copy down the notes that I had written on the board based on the topics covered in the video. If you missed today's class, you'll have to get these notes from a classmate. We then started a film study of the HBO documentary "White Light/Black Rain". We will finish this video off tomorrow.

October 28

Social 20-1

I showed you the documentary film "Genocide" today in class. We also had some time for a brief discussion on the Holocaust. We'll continue studying the Holocaust after the weekend.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Nazi Germany Quiz today, you'll get the results of this test back on Monday. You also got the results back from your Chapter 5 Test today as well. We started to look at the Origins of the Cold War today, so please make sure that you read Chapter 7 over the weekend.

October 26

Social 20-1

We watched an excerpt from the movie "Saving Private Ryan" today, which does a great job of illustrating the defenses on the beaches of Normandy. Please make sure that you add important events to your WWII timeline notes.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I today in class. Please remember that you have your Chapter 5 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide here. You also have your Nazi Germany Quiz on Friday, please see the study guide here.

October 25

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I went through a lecture today on the "Techniques of Dictatorship" which really also focused on the propaganda and indoctrination methods in Nazi Germany. We also looked at a short excerpt from "Triumph of the Will", Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda film from the mid-1930s that depicts the days at a Nazi rally in Nuremberg. If you want to learn more about Leni Riefenstahl, please read her obituary from The Guardian in 2003. I am sending you information about the White Rose student group as well today. Please remember that you have your Unit 2 WRA I tomorrow (65 minutes of class time), and your Chapter 5 Test on Thursday (please see the study guide here). Also, you have your Nazi Germany Quiz on Friday, please see the study guide below.

Nazi Germany Quiz Study Guide:

This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. What you'll have is a list of key people, key terms and key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz:

• anti-Semitism
• Aryan
• concentration camp
• corporate state
• Dachau
• decree
• deportation
• dissent
• elite
• Enabling Act
• ethnic
• Führerprinzip
• Gestapo
• Hitler
• Holocaust
• indoctrination
• inequality
• inflation
• judicial
• jugend
• Mein Kampf
• Kristallnacht
• nationalism
• Nazi
• Niemoller
• Nuremberg
• passive
• plebiscites
• pogrom
• Reichstag
• Ruhr
• SA
• SS
• state
• swastika
• War Guilt Clause
• White Rose

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 5-6 Test today. The results of this test will be added to your upcoming report card. We'll be looking at the Normandy invasion tomorrow.

October 20

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You wrote your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test today. You'll get the results back tomorrow. Please remember that you have your Economic Systems Test on Monday, please see the study guide here. On Wednesday, October 26th you will be writing your Unit 2 WRA I, and then the next day, you have your Chapter 5 Test (please see the study guide below).

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Thursday, October 27th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• 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

Social 20-1

We covered the internment of Japanese-Canadians today in class by watching "Tides of War" and completing a film study sheet. I will also be sending you a PowerPoint presentation on the internment as well this afternoon. I really recommend that you check out some of the Social 20-1 links here on the blog regarding the internment of Japanese-Canadians, for example the CBC News Archive feature called "Relocation to Redress" is excellent. Make sure that you are reviewing for your Chapter 5-6 Test, which is on Tuesday (please see the study guide here).

October 18

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We looked at the concept of market socialism today, re-visited perestroika and looked at Deng Xiao Ping's Four Modernizations. I gave you a booklet that called "Economic Planning in the USSR" which is due Friday. You had a lot of class time to work on this, so I imagine a lot of you would have almost finished this during class time. Your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test is on Thursday, please see the study guide here. Your Economic Systems Test is on Monday, October 24th, please see the study guide here. Your Unit 2 WRA I is on Wednesday, October 26th (we'll talk about this tomorrow). Your Chapter 5 Test is on Thursday, October 27th (study guide to be posted on the blog this Thursday). I have sent the 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism PowerPoint presentation, so this will help in preparing for the Chapter 5 Test.

Social 20-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation on "Ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan" today in class, and I have sent this presentation to you already. Please print it off (4-6 slides per page) and add it to your notes. I also gave you a copy of "The Way of Subjects", and you have six questions for analysis from this reading due tomorrow. Your Chapter 5-6 Test is on Tuesday, October 25th. Please see the study guide below.

Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide:

This test is on Tuesday, October 25th. The format of the test is matching and short answer. Please use this study guide to focus your review efforts. Study the following presentations:

• "The Road to War: Causes of World War I" (ppt)
• "Total War, Allied Victory, Paris Peace Conference" (ppt)
• "Ultranationalism in WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan" (ppt)

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• the Black Hand
• Gavrillo Princip
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Battle of Tannenberg
• the Schlieffen Plan
• Plan 17
• General von Moltke
• Battle of the Marne
• Alsace and Lorraine
• total war
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• the Brusilov Offensive
• sinking of the Lusitania
• the Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• General Ludendorff
• Friedrich Ebert
• Paris Peace Conference
• David Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson
• Fourteen Points
• Georges Clemenceau
• Vittorio Orlando
• League of Nations
• plebiscites
• reparations
• collective security
• war debts
• Treaty of Versailles
• "war guilt clause"
• "Manchurian Incident"
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
• expansionism
• Hirohito
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Kristallnacht
• the Nuremburg Laws
• any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)
3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

• MAIN Causes of World War I
• the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
• the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT)
• the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
• Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
• failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
• appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism)

October 17

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We covered a lot of ground today. We did a short activity called "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" and completed the Focus Task. We then moved on to looking at the rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan. I will finish this lecture tomorrow.

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions today. We covered a lot of ground today by looking at "Changes to the Soviet System After Stalin" (notes covering Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov and Cherneko). I also gave you some notes on Gorbachev and the changes that he introduced to the Soviet economy. If you missed today's class, I also put notes up on the board on Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Cherneko and Gorbachev. I also went through "E-COW-nomics" today. Your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test is on Thursday, please see the study guide here. A week from today you have your Economic Systems Test, please see the study guide below.

Upcoming Important Dates in Social 30-1

• Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test is on Thursday, October 20th
• Economic Systems Test is on Monday, October 24th
• Unit 2 WRA I is on Wednesday, October 25th
• Chapter 5 Test is on Thursday, October 26th

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, October 24th.

• 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)

October 14

Social 20-1

We looked at the concept of appeasement today in class. We watched a short video from the BBC 20th Century History Series called "Why Appeasement?" and at the conclusion of the video we went over the answers to the worksheet.

Social 30-1

You got the results of your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test today. You watched a video from the A & E Biography series called "Joseph Stalin: Red Terror", as you watched this video you were to complete a film study guide. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, October 17th. Your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test is on Thursday, October 20th, please see the study guide here.

October 13

Social 30-1

You wrote your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test today in class. You will get your results back tomorrow. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, so most students that finished their test early worked on these. Make sure that you actually read Chapter 5! Your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test is on Thursday, October 20th, please see the study guide below.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

• 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)
• 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 gave you a really important handout today on the Interwar Years. There are certain key events that occur between 1919 and 1939 which help contribute to the rise of fascist regimes in Germany, Italy and Japan. You need to study these key events very carefully because you will be tested on them on your Unit 2 Final Exam and your Final Exam. We watched Part 1 of the A & E Biography "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler", and as you watched this video, you should have been taking notes. We also watched "Make Germany Pay".

October 11

Social 30-1

Welcome back from the Thanksgiving long weekend. I hope you enjoyed the weekend and didn't take in to much of the gobble-gobble. We covered a lot of territory again today. We looked at a side-by-side comparison of demand-side and supply-side economics. I have to find one more handout on this topic which I will give you tomorrow and it covers how each economic theory deals with a recession. We then looked at some background information on Russian history (I will send these notes to you tonight along with notes on Marx, Lenin and Stalin). We then watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series entitled "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia". We also looked very quickly at different strands of socialism (utopian socialism, scientific socialism, democratic socialism). You have a test this Thursday called "The Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test", please see the study guide here. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions.

Social 20-1

I went through a handout today called "If World War I Were a Barfight" which quickly covered the causes and aftermath of the First World War. I then started a presentation today called "Allied Victory and the Paris Peace Conference", which I will finish tomorrow. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, please make sure that you actually read the chapter! See you tomorrow!

October 6

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism". I will be sending this to you this afternoon. Don't forget that you have your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions due on Tuesday, October 11th. Please remember that your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test is next Thursday, please see the study guide here.

Social 20-1

We did a simulation game on a fictional peace conference to try and avert the outbreak of the First World War. I also gave you your Unit 2 Worksheet. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, October 13th.

October 4

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Today was a work period for most of you, which should have allowed you to read some of Chapter 6 and complete the key terms from the Chapter 6 Worksheet. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, October 11th. You have test coming up on October 13th, please see the study guide below.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

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. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet
5. 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 (see "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet)
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

6. 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

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today. You have your Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide here.

September 30

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today in class. Your Chapter 3-4 Test is on Tuesday, please see the study guide here. Your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Wednesday, please see the study guide here. make sure that you have read the Causes of World War I booklet for Monday as well.

Social 30-1

You wrote a political cartoon analysis today in class, which took most of the period.

September 29

Social 30-1

We listened to the NPR article on the application of Keynesian economics by the Obama administration. If you missed today's class you can listen to the NPR story and read the article under Social 30-1 Links (it's the third link). We then looked at monetary and fiscal policy in detail. Again, if you missed class today, check your e-mail, I sent out the article last night. Be on time tomorrow, you will be writing an political cartoon analysis.

Social 20-1

You watched a couple of videos today, one called "Doomed Dynasties" and the other "Clash of Generals". I gave you a handout on the Causes of World War I that I want you to read for Monday's class. I went quickly through how to write a WRA I three source analysis assignment as well. You will be writing a Unit 1 WRA I tomorrow in class. Your Chapter 3-4 Test is on Tuesday (please see the study guide here) and the Unit 1 Final Exam is on Wednesday (please see the study guide here).

September 28

Social 20-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today on "The Causes of World War I". I have already sent this presentation to your e-mail accounts. Your French Revolution DBA is due tomorrow. You will be doing your Unit 1 WRA I on Friday, so I will re-teach you how to write them tomorrow. Your Chapter 3-4 Test is on Tuesday of next week, please see the study guide here. Your Unit 1 Final Exam is the next day, please see the study guide below.

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

One week from today, you will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam. It is 75 multiple choice questions. Make sure that you have read Chapters 1-4 in Exploring Nationalism. Please make sure that you know the key concepts from Unit 1 (see below). Also review the PowerPoint presentations that you should have in your notes. They are also on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations. These are the presentations that you should review:

1. Nation and Identity
2. The French Revolution
3. The Napoleonic Era
4. Contending Loyalties

Know the key concepts from the Unit 1 Worksheet (a lot of them have been defined on the wiki by your classmates, check under Unit 1 Key Terms). If you know the key concepts you'll be able apply them to test.

• nation
• nation-state
• nationalism
• patriotism
• self-determination
• sovereignty
• sovereign
• civic nation
• civic nationalism
• ethnic nationalism
• collective consciousness
• French Revolution
• Estates-General
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• cahiers de doléances
• Ancien Régime
• bourgeoisie
• feudal system
• philosophes
• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• National Assembly
• Tennis Court Oath
• constitutional monarchy
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• National Convention
• levée en masse
• Robespierre
• Danton
• Marat
• Reign of Terror
• Napoleon
• Napoleonic Code
• Continental System
• contending loyalties
• cultural pluralism
• reasonable accommodation
• sovereignists
• federalists
• royal commission
• expressions of nationalism
• non-nationalist loyalty
• alienation
• segregation

Social 30-1

We covered a lot of territory today in class. We reviewed monetary and fiscal policy and what a government's response would be to various stages on the business cycle if they were applying Keynesian economic theory. We watched a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series today, and you took notes on them. We watched "Boom and Bust" and "FDR and the New Deal". I also quickly went through how to analyze political cartoons. You will be doing an in-class assignment on this on Friday 9don't be late for class, because if you are, your choices will be limited).

September 27

Social 30-1

I went through a lot of key concepts today. We looked at the emergence of welfare capitalism (and how it means one thing in the United States, and something else everywhere else in the world) and how modern liberalism came into existence as a result of the Great Depression. We looked at Keynesian economics (demand-side economics), and specifically monetary and fiscal policy, and how application of Keynesian economic theory to various stages of boom and bust cycle works. I did a homework check on "Philosophies of Industrialism" today. Please make sure that you read Chapter 4 tonight, if you haven't already done so. Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday.

Social 20-1

I finished off the "Contending Loyalties" PowerPoint presentation and I have already sent it to you, so please print it off (4-6 slides per page) and add it your notes. We will be doing a WRA I on Friday, so on Thursday, I will review with you how to write these in-class assignments.Your Chapter 3-4 Test is next Tuesday, please see the study guide below. Your French Revolution DBA is due on Thursday.

Chapters 3-4 Quiz Study Guide:

This quiz will be on Thursday, October 2nd. It will consist of a matching section (10 key concepts) and a short answer section.

• make sure that you study the PowerPoint presentation "Contending Loyalties"
• make sure that you have read Chapters 3 and 4 (it is all testable material)
• know the key concepts from Chapters 3 and 4 (please see the Unit 1 Worksheet for these)
• study your answers to the Chapter 3 and 4 questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (all could potentially be on the quiz)

September 22

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint lecture today called "Responding to Classical Liberalism". I will be sending this presentation out to you later this afternoon. Your Chapter 3 Questions are due on Monday. We'll be diving into Chapter 4 material next week, so if you get ahead this weekend, it wouldn't hurt to read Chapter 4 in advance of next week's lectures. Please remember that tomorrow is a PD Day, and you don't have school.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 1-2 Test today in class. Hopefully, you'll get the resutls back next week. Your French Revolution DBA Assignment is due on Thursday, this weekend would be a great time to start it.

September 20

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint lecture today called "The Development of Classical Liberalism". I have sent this presentation to you already, so check your e-mail. Your homework tonight is the Chapter 3 Key Terms (due tomorrow), please make sure that you actually read the chapter! Your Chapter 3 Questions are due on Monday.

Social 20-1

We finished off the lecture of the Napoleonic Age today. I will be sending this PowerPoint off to you today. Tomorrow we will be finishing off Napoleon by looking at his failed attempt to conquer Russia. Please remember that you have your Chapter 1-2 Test on Thursday, please see the study guide here.

September 19

Social 20-1

We continued watching the A & E Biography called "Napoleon: The Glory of France" today, and as you watched the video you were to take notes on the timeline of Napoleon Bonaparte's life. I also started a PowerPoint lecture on the Napoleonic Age today. We'll finish this off tomorrow.

Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide:

This test will be on Thursday, September 22nd. The test has a matching section and a short answer section.

• Make sure that you have read both Chapters 1 and 2 in your textbook Exploring Nationalism
• Study the Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
• Study your answers to the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet for Chapters 1-2

Study the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "Nation and Identity" (Chapter 1 material + supplementary material)
• "Shaping Nationalism: The French Revolution" (Chapter 2 material + supplementary material)
• "The Napoleonic Age" (Chapter 2 material + supplementary material)

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today in the Blenheim Room, which took the entire period. We will be starting Unit 2 material tomorrow, so it's probably a good idea to read ahead into Chapter 3.

September 15

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam today. You should get the results for this test back tomorrow, as well as the results for your Chapter 1-2 Test. Read Chapter 3 tonight, we're starting Unit 2 material tomorrow.

Social 20-1

We finished watching the French Revolution video that we started yesterday. Please make sure that you study for your World Geography Test (it's tomorrow). Here's the study guide:

World Geography Test Study Guide:

This test will take place on Friday, September 16th. 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!)

September 13

Social 30-1

We finished watching "Sicko" today in class. I also collected your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions. Your Chapter 1-2 Test is tomorrow, make sure that you use the study guide. Your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Your Unit 1 WRA II Essay is on Monday.

Social 20-1

I continued lecturing from "The French Revolution" PowerPoint presentation today, and I will finish it tomorrow. I gave you some more time to finish your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions (due Thursday). I have sent you the "Nation and Identity" PowerPoint today, so check your e-mail. I apologize for forgetting to send this to you earlier. You have your World Geography Test on Friday, please see the study guide here.

September 12

Social 20-1

We started looking at the French Revolution today, and we will continue to do so for most of the week. I will continue "The French Revolution" PowerPoint presentation tomorrow in class. I gave you some class time to read Chapter 2 and work on your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions (which are due on Thursday). Please remember that you have your World Geography Test on Friday, please see the study guide here.

Social 30-1

I went through an example essay outline to help prepare you for the Unit 1 WRA II Essay which is on Monday, September 19th. I will be sending this to you by e-mail. We then started a film study on "Sicko", which we will finish tomorrow. Your Chapter 1-2 Test is on Wednesday, so please see the study guide here. Your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday, September 15th, please see the study guide here.

September 9

Social 20-1

You wrote your Enlightenment Thinkers Quiz today, and you got the results back today as well. Some of you need to prepare for your tests better! STUDY! Make sure that you prepare for next Friday's World Geography Test (please see the study guide below). Your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, September 15th, so it's probably a good idea to start working on them in advance. Next week we'll start talking about the French Revolution, so it's advised that you at least read that section of your textbook prior to Monday's class.

Social 20-1 World Geography Test Study Guide

This test will take place on Friday, September 16th. 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!)

Social 30-1

We spent the entire day on re-learning how to write a Written Response Assignment II Essay. I gave you a couple of handouts on this topic, one of which was called "the Recipe for Success" and the other a handout on "Analyzing Quotes". For your Unit 1 WRA II Essay, I really recommend that you work through and answer the questions on the "Analyzing Quotes" handout when you get your source. We'll continue looking at essay writing in Monday's class. Please check the important dates below.

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 30-1:

• Individualism and Collectivism Booklet is due on Monday, September 12th
• Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, September 13th (don't forget the supplementary key terms go with your key terms!)
• Chapter 1-2 Test is on Wednesday, September 14th (please see the study guide here)
• Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday, September 15th (please see the study guide below)
• Unit 1 WRA II is on Monday, September 19th (you will get the essay question sheet on Friday)

Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Thursday, September 15th. Make sure that you study the following:

• Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
• Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file)
• 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

September 8

Social 30-1

I talked a little bit today about the e-mail distribution list. Please check your e-mail because I have sent out the first two PowerPoint presentations and the Ideology Notes from the Black Gold School District. We did a review of the 19th century political spectrum and the 20th century political spectrum as well as the political-economic grid. I gave you a booklet on individualism and collectivism that is due on Monday, September 12th. I also advised you to work on the Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions which are due on Tuesday. Please make sure that you add the supplementary material to your Chapter 2 Key Terms. Make sure that you actually read Chapter 2 as well. Keep doing a little bit of review each night on the material introduced so far in the course, and TEST yourself! Practice drawing out the spectrums and the political-economic grid, test yourself on the principles of collectivism and individualism.

Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Wednesday, September 14th. 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.)

Social 20-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "The Enlightenment". I will be sending this to you this afternoon so please let me know if you don't get it. As I was lecturing, you were to fill out a chart on these key Enlightenment thinkers. You will have a quiz on this material tomorrow. STUDY! Also, please remember that you have a World Geography Test next Friday, please see the study guide here. Please try the geography games below to study.

Geography Games

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

September 7

Social 20-1

I finished off the "Nation and Identity" PowerPoint presentation today, and I'd like to send it off to you by e-mail, but first I'd like a response to the test message that I sent out today. Once I know the e-mail distribution list is working, I can start sending out these PowerPoint presentations. I gave you class time to work on your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Friday. Also on Friday you will have an Enlightenment Thinkers Quiz. Tomorrow, I will lecture on this very topic. You also have a World Geography Test on Friday, September 16th, please see the study guide below.

Social 20-1 World Geography Test Study Guide

This test will take place on Friday, September 16th. 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!!**

Social 30-1

I went through another PowerPoint presentation lecture today called "Identity and Ideology" which introduced the 19th and 20th century political spectrums to you, as well as the economic-political grid. You must memorize all of these spectrum diagrams for your upcoming Chapter 1-2 Test. Your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow, so I gave you the remaining 15 minutes of class to work on them. I also gave you a booklet with the various spectrums on it, so make sure that you study it. As well, I will be sending you the PDF copy of the Ideology Notes as soon as I have the e-mail distribution list up and operational.

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 30-1:

• Chapter 1-2 Test is on Wednesday, September 14th (please see study guide below)
• Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday, September 15th
• Unit 1 WRA II Essay is on Monday, September 19th

Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Wednesday, September 14th. 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.)

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:

September 2

I thought that I would post some of my classroom rules and expectations of behavior on the blog this year. Also, I will also write down some ground rules for using the blog this semester.

Classroom Rules/Expectations of Behavior:

I think that I have very simple, straight-forward classroom rules and expectations. I will be discussing these in class tomorrow, but here's a quick recap:

• Please be on-task during classroom time (visit later)
• You must wear your visual ID around your neck during class time, no exceptions!
• No cell phones; if your parents really need to get in touch with you, they should call the office. Please don't bring cell phones to class, or if you do, please remember to turn them off! Yes, you have some new freedom this year with regard to electronic devices, but not in the classroom!!
• Please don't listen to music on MP3 players or iPods during class time, UNLESS I have given you permission to do so.
• Be polite. You should be listening during class lectures or when your classmates have questions to ask (you might have some of the same questions).
• Be on time. If you are late, please enter the classroom quietly and apologize for being late. If the door is locked, I have started the lecture or there is a class presentation in progress; I will open the door and let you in as soon as possible.
• Clean up after yourselves. Please don't leave garbage on the floor. I like my classroom fairly neat and tidy.
• Don't bring junk food to class. Healthy snacks only. Or you could always wait until lunchtime.
• You may chew gum in class on the following conditions: don't chew like a cow, I don't want to see the gum or hear you chewing it, that's just gross.
• Late assignments: 10% is deducted for every day an assignment is late. If you have an excused absence, then there is some flexibility with this rule.
• Please make sure that a parent or guardian calls the school to have absences excused. If you miss a test due to an unexcused absence you will be assigned a mark of "zero".
• I will be contacting parent/guardians if you have unexcused absences.
• Please adhere to the school's academic honesty policy which is on the back of your course outlines.
• If you are going away on holidays (please do not schedule holidays during examination periods in June), please let me know in advance. I can prepare materials for you, let you know what you'll be missing, and even give you handouts in advance. This way you won't feel "lost" when you come back from holidays.

Posting on the Blog:

Here are some simple rules that I have established for using the blog, and some other informational items:

• Please post on the blog anonymously.
• If you feel the need to identify yourself, or clarify which grade you're in, please use your initials and your class and section (for example, K.G. in Social 30-1 Period 3).
• Some of you may have your own Blogger accounts. Please don't post on this blog using your Blogger ID, otherwise you may have people visiting your blog that you may not want to see what you're posting.
• Please be courteous, polite and respectful when posting comments on the blog. Don't be rude to your classmates on the blog.
• Please be patient with my response time.
• Please post comments and questions on the blog prior to 10 p.m.
• Between 6-8 p.m. I am usually not online.
• Monday nights are particularly busy for me, this is the night that I have a Masters class at the University.
• Please do not post links to questionable materials.
• Inappropriate comments will be deleted. Please don't do this, it's a waste of my time, I could be doing more productive things, like answering questions that you may have.