December 21

Social 10

I gave you back your responses to the Social 10 Final Exam Part A today, as well as your TNC Dossier Assignment. Please do some review over the Winter Break, when you come back I will not have time to re-teach the entire course. You will be getting a lot of multiple choice questions to review the various units in the course. Please have a restful holidays, be safe, and I'll see you all in the New Year! Merry Christmas!

Social 20

You did some extremely intensive review for your Social 20 Final Exam. Hopefully you didn't hurt your brains from the intense studying that took place in class. When you come back from break, you will be doing a lot of practice final exams, so do some review over the break and you'll get more out of it. Please have a safe and restful holidays, I'll see you next year. Merry Christmas!

December 20

Social 20

I gave you the entire class to study and review for your Social 20 Final Exam. I have also send you the audio/video file of the Social 20 Final Exam Blueprint via a website called "YouSend It". Please check your e-mail, you have 7 days to download this file, I am not sending it again. Also, you should have received an e-mail from me with all of the Social 20 PowerPoint presentations from Topic A and Topic B. Please do not forward this message on to your friends, I tell you in the e-mail message why.

Social 10

I went through a sample Social 10 Final Exam Part A with you today. We did a 15 minute brainstorming session in small groups and then I taught you how to look at all three sources, how to structure your response, and then gave you 50 minutes to write your response. I'll give you some feedback tomorrow, and we'll look at the marking guide for Part A of the Final Exam.

December 19

Social 10

I gave you back the results of your Unit 3 Final Exam. Both classes did really well with a tough test. I showed you some videos today which centred around the theme of global environmental issues and the Kyoto Accord. These topics have come up in the course before and also appear in Chapter 19 in your textbook. Tomorrow we'll be talking about your final exam.

Social 20

I went through the Social 20 Final Exam Blueprint today in class. I'll be sending this to you again via "YouSendIt" tomorrow, along with the e-mail message with all of the links to the PowerPoint presentations with narration that are hosted on the University of Calgary Breeze server.

December 18

Social 10

You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam today in class. We'll be tying up some loose ends with Unit 4 tomorrow in class, specifically looking at the Kyoto Accord and dealing with more recent events from the Bali Conference on climate change. Please remember that your Political Cartoon Analysis Assignment is due tomorrow.

Social 20

You wrote your Topic B Unit Final today. I have sent you a very important e-mail today, it is the Social 20 Final Exam Blueprint. You need to print it off, and bring it to class tomorrow. Also, you have finished all of the content of Social 20. You need to take advantage of this and start doing some review. Go back to Topic A and start reviewing it, it'll pay off in January during Final Exams!

December 17

Social 10

We watched a video called "China Rises: Food is Heaven" for part of the period. I did a homework check on your Chapter 18 and 19 Key Terms and Questions. I also gave you the results for your Chapter 15-16 Quiz. The results of this quiz were excellent. Please remember that you have your Unit 3 Final Exam tomorrow. Please study, here's a link to the study guide.

Social 20

We played a review game today in class. For the reminder of the period you had time to study for your Topic B Unit Final, which is tomorrow. Here is the study guide (you'll have to scroll down to find it).

December 14

Social 10

You wrote your Chapter 15-16 Quiz today in class. Your Chapter 18 and 19 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. If you finished this in class, you have no homework this weekend, unless of course you want to finish off your Political Cartoon Analysis Assignment (which is due on Wednesday). Please remember that you have your Unit 3 Final Exam on Tuesday, here's the study guide. Have a great weekend!

Social 20

We finished watching "Black Gold" today in class. For the remainder of class time you were to review Topic B (study for your Topic B Unit Final, here's the study guide, scroll down to find it) and create review questions for our review game that we will play in Monday's class. Please send your review questions to me by e-mail today. Have a great weekend!

December 13

Social 20

We started watching a documentary film called "Black Gold", which we will finish tomorrow. Tomorrow we'll be preparing questions (and answers) for a review game that will be played in Monday's class.

Social 10

I collected your Chapter 17 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class. I gave you some time (about half the class) to work on the Chapter 18 Key Terms and Questions. For the second half of the class I showed some videos related to Canada's role in Afghanistan, which ties in to a reading on foreign policy in Chapter 18. Please remember that you have your Chapter 15-16 Quiz tomorrow. Please study! Here's a link to the study guide.

December 12

Social 10

I went through a presentation on "Analyzing Political Cartoons" today. I have already sent this to you, so if you were in the Social 10-1 class this afternoon, go through the rest yourselves. Also, I have sent you a copy of all the political cartoons that you could choose to analyze for this assignment. Again, if you're in Social 10-1 in you're behind the Social 10-3 class from this morning. They had time to pick their cartoons, and start analyzing them. I've sent you all an e-mail, so you need to read it. This analysis assignment will be due after your Unit 3 Final Exam, in all likelihood, on Wednesday, December 19th. You should be reviewing for your Chapter 15-16 Quiz, which is on Friday...do it tonight! Also your Chapter 17 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

Social 20

We finished watching "Who Killed the Electric Car?" today in class. You are writing an opinion piece on the "suspects" in the case. You are to pick three "suspects", and rank order them, and write a one page opinion piece about who "killed" the electric car. This writing assignment will be due on Friday. See you tomorrow. Please make sure that you review for your Topic B Unit Final, that final exam is on Tuesday, December 18th.

December 11

Social 10

I finished the presentation "Effects of Globalization on Individuals and Communities" today in class. I then gave you time to work on your Chapter 17 Key Terms and Questions. Here is the study guide for your Unit 3 Final Exam:

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

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

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

Make sure that you have reviewed the Key Terms from Unit 3 (all the terms listed on the Unit 3 Worksheet, plus the extra key terms that appeared in the PowerPoint presentations). The Unit 3 Final Exam will consist of 55-60 multiple choice questions, and will be held on Tuesday, December 18.

Social 20

I finished the PowerPoint presentation that I started yesterday called "Sustainable Development". I will send this presentation to you today, so please check your e-mail. We then started watching the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Here's the hyperlink to the Climate Crisis website. You may have to click on the hyperlink for "Take Action" and then click on "Calculate Your Personal Impact".

Social Studies 20 Topic B Final Exam Study Guide:

50-60 multiple choice questions
Tuesday, December 18th

• glossary of key terms (know them well!)
• themes (diversity, disparity, interdependence, etc.)
• demographics
• demographic key terms (infant mortality rate, death rate, natural increase, etc.)
• population pyramid (be able to analyze)
• demographic transition model (know the various stages, be able to analyze)
• Thomas Malthus
• geographic regions (DCs, LDCs, LLDCs, First World, Third World, North/South divide)
• be able to distinguish between DC and LDC using statistics
• appropriate technology
• foreign aid (different types, different situations when aid is given; effectiveness? criticisms of foreign aid; would make a good “speaker” question)
• demographic pressures on the land and resources
• quality of life and standard of living
• environmentalism
• greenhouse effect, global warming, climate change
• environmental pressures (deforestation, desertification, etc.)
• availability of food (undernourishment, food consumption, SNU, etc.)
• food production issues (production, price, cash crops, subsistence agriculture)
• world health issues (WHO, malaria, HIV/AIDS, sanitation, clean drinking water)
• resources and development (industrial development, sustainable development, renewable energy resources, alternative energy sources)
• development and the role of multinational corporations in the developing world
• IMF and World Bank (what are they? what do they do?)
• GNP and GDP (what's the difference?)
• poverty reduction in the developing world
  
  

December 10

Model United Nations

Here is a link to the electronic book that I was talking about in today's meeting. It would be a good starting point for doing some preliminary research on your country: Gale Group Infotrac (enter the password chartwell in the blank; then click on Gale Virtual Reference Library; click on the "view publications link" next to Nations and World; then click on "Countries of the World and Their Leaders"). Then just look up your country to start doing some research about your country's history and other relevant information.

Social 10

We finished watching "The Murdered Bride" at the beginning of class. We also looked at the case study of riots in France in 2005. I started a presentation that corresponds to material in Chapter 17, which I will finish off tomorrow. We'll continue looking at pandemics tomorrow in class, including HIV/AIDS and Avian Flu. I will also do a homework check on Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions tomorrow. Please study for Friday's Chapter 15-16 Quiz. Scroll down to Friday's post to view the study guide for this quiz.

Social 20

We continued watching "An Inconvenient Truth" today. I'd like you to watch the following video for a different perspective on global warming. This video refutes some of the ideas in Al Gore's film, and it will be interesting to do a side-by-side comparison with "An Inconvenient Truth". I had asked you to take point form notes on the film, watch this video and see how this film would refute Al Gore's ideas about global warming. Who do you believe? Here's the link to the video: "The Great Global Warming Swindle" (be warned it is 85 minutes long)

If you feel that you can't watch that other video, then watch this one featuring John Stossel. It features John Stossel debating Al Gore about "An Inconvenient Truth" and global warming, from the TV show 20/20, it's called "Give Me a Break". For some comic relief, so global warming doesn't depress you too much, here's Will Ferrell doing an impersonation of George W. Bush.

December 7

Social 10

I delivered a presentation today called "The Impacts of Globalization on Groups in Society", which I will send to you today. I also showed you a short video from the website Human Rights Watch called "Children in the Ranks". We then started watching a documentary video called "The Murdered Bride", which we will finish on Monday. You will have a Chapter 15-16 Quiz next Friday. This quiz will follow the typical format: a matching section, a multiple choice section and a short answer section. Please use the following study guide.

Chapter 15-16 Quiz Study Guide

Study from your textbook and the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "Quality of Life, Human Rights, and Democratization" (ppt)
• "Impacts of Globalization on Groups in Society" (ppt)
• study the reading "Human Rights Abuses in a Globalized World: Burma Case Study" (from Globalization 101 website)

Key Terms:

• Chapter 15 Key Terms (from Unit 4 Worksheet)
• Chapter 16 Key Terms (from Unit 4 Worksheet)
• additional key terms from the presentations that correspond to Chapters 15 and 16

Key Questions:

• What are human rights?
• What is democratization?
• What is quality of life?
• What is standard of living?
• How are ideas about human rights and democracy related?
• How are globalization, human rights, and democracy related?
• How have ideas about human rights changed over time?
• What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
• What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
• In what ways does globalization affect the lives of children and
  youth?
• In what ways does globalization affect the lives of women?
• human rights abuses in Burma
  

Social 20

I handed back some homework checks and marked assignments at the beginning of the class. We then started watching "An Inconvenient Truth" in class, which we will continue watching on Monday. As you watched this documentary, you were to take notes on facts and figures used in the film. I'll put the study guide for the Topic B Final Exam next week.

December 6

Social 20

We finished watching "The Corporation" today in class. I gave you time to finish off the Topic B Outline (Part 3) in the remainder of class time. This part of the Topic B Outline is due tomorrow. We'll be watching a film tomorrow in class.

Social 10

I did a homework check on your Chapter 15 Key Terms and Questions today; you'll get these back tomorrow. I did a presentation today with you called "Quality of Life, Human Rights and Democratization". I will be sending this presentation to you today, so please check your e-mail, and print off this presentation and add it to your notes. In that same e-mail message I have sent you an article on Human Rights Abuses in a Globalized World: Burma Case Study, you can read that article online from the hyperlink above (it's from the Globalization 101 website). This article will be useful to you down the road, I strongly urge you to read it. I gave you the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions. These key terms and questions will be due on Monday.

December 4

Here's the best reason anyone could ever have for not being at school teaching:




Aimee Megumi Gilchrist
Born: Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Time: 11:22 a.m.
Weight: 6lbs. 12 oz.

December 3

Social 10

For a large portion of today's class I talked about the organization of your in-class position papers, and possible arguments and examples that you could use on either side of the issue. Hopefully the notes that you took in today's class will help you prepare for this essay. Please prepare for this essay over the next few nights. There are lots of useful links on the side of this blog, under Social 10 Links that will be helpful. Here are some other useful hyperlinks:

• Criticism of World Bank, WTO and IMF
• IMF in Argentina
• BBC News: IMF and Argentina (related articles on the right hand side of BBC website might be helpful too)
• Globalization 101: World Bank and IMF issue brief
  

I'll see you on Thursday.

Social 20

We finished watching "Food or Famine" today. You also took some notes on foreign aid (what it is, and arguments for and against giving foreign aid). I also gave you a little bit of time to work on Part 3 of the Topic B Outline (only about 15 minutes though). I'll see you on Thursday.