Thursday, November 24, 2005

November 24


You had your First World War Unit Final today. If you missed today's class, and your absence was unexcused, you will receive a mark of zero for this test. After the exam, you had time to work on your package of maps. this mapping assignment is due on Wednesday, November 30th.


You had your Sovereignty Unit Final today in class. Don't forget that your glossary of terms for Politics and Government is due tomorrow! Please be ready for a Pop Quiz on Canadian government and politics, it could happen at any time!
You also have your World War I/World War II Research Assignment due on Wednesday, November 30th.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

ahh plz dont have the pop quiz tomorrow...we just had a test today!!

Kevin Gilchrist said...

There will not be a pop quiz tomorrow for Social 10. That having been said, there will likely be at least one next week. For those of you who seem to have the time to post to this blog as former Prime Ministers of Canada: stop it, grow up, and find some other way to pass your time. I would like this comment section to be useful to students, not a place for you to have conversations with yourself. Enough said. If I find that some users are abusing the posting function, I will just modify the blog to prevent those postings.

Anonymous said...

er.... could anyone tell me how many words our glossary is supposed to have? I seem to only have 25

Anonymous said...

ummm for the diagram we have to draw(social 10), should we have it on a line piece of paper, or a plain piece of paper? And how detailed do u want the decriptions to be?

thx

Anonymous said...

i hav 27 defenitions on my glossary.

Anonymous said...

its 27

Kevin Gilchrist said...

The glossary has 27 words, but three of them are the same, so maybe that's why you have 25. Riding,constituency, and electoral district all mean the same thing.
You can do the diagram on loose leaf. The notes are for your benefit, so make them as detailed as necessary.

Anonymous said...

Riding (also known as electoral district or constituency), is it because my electoral district and constituency r in the same definition?

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Yes, like I wrote earlier that's why you have 25 words.

Anonymous said...

I guess riding is kinda slang, but sure; electoral district, constituency are the same. Upon further research, electoral district is the legal term.

Kevin Gilchrist said...

Leo, not sure what you mean by "legal term", unless you mean that's what Elections Canada uses to refer to constituencies. None of them are SLANG. All are perfectly acceptable terms.

Anonymous said...

A constituency is defined as any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. Its political meaning is derived from the fact it is used for customer bases, shareholders, philantropists and the like, a charity's donors and/or those it serves.
Riding was derived from the Old Norse language. The original word was þriðing, meaning third part (a.k.a. county). Because of the way of the word, the Anglo-Saxons have been speaking it a lot, and thus it first appeared in Canada in the mid-19th century. Government documents sometimes use this word over "electoral district" because of its colloquialistic style and its popularity.
Finally, with electoral districts, it was first used in Canadian Government Documents over ridings, but as time progressed and the neologism of people increased, riding was used more and more in the media (but not enough....).
Thus, I concur; all 3 are perfectly acceptable, but "electoral district" tends to be more accepted in government documents. (Hence "legal" when used in civil lawsuits.)

Anonymous said...

r u gonna check those notes 4 completion marks?? da governemtn notes