May 30

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We finished watching "Black Gold" in class today, and then went through the two questions from the film. Please do some review of Unit 4 material this weekend. You have your Unit 4 Final Exam on Wednesday, I'm still not sure if this will consist of a multiple choice part and a Part A in-class writing assignment, or just a Part A. I'll give you a definite answer on Monday.

Social 33

Most of the class period was spent going over the answers to the questions from the "Contemporary Events" booklet. There was also a handout of key events that have occurred in the 1990s that you need. Have a great weekend!

May 29

Social 33

I gave you most of the class period to work on the "Contemporary Issues: The Post Cold War World". Please complete the rest for homework, we'll go over content from this booklet is subsequent classes. Here are some useful links for preparing for your Social 33 Diploma Exam:

• A Guide for Writing the Social 33 Diploma Exam (2008-2009 edition)
• Social 33 Information Bulletin (2008-2009 edition)
• Social 33 Examples of Student Writing (January 2007)

I've also added hyperlinks to these PDF documents under Social 33 Links, as permanent links because they are that important!

Social 10

I did a homework check on Chapter 18 and 19 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class. The focus of today's class was on the free trade vs. fair trade issue. We examined this topic by focusing on the "daily grind", in other words, coffee. We looked at the role of Starbucks, and read an article on fair trade in Canada, as well as starting a video called "Black Gold". We'll finish "Black Gold" in class tomorrow. Please make sure that you have completed the questions that go along with the article "The People vs. Starbucks" for homework tonight.

May 28

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For most of the period you wrote your Chapter 15-16 Quiz. Hopefully, you'll get the results of this quiz this week, but I can't make any promises. Your Chapter 18 and 19 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow, as is the blog post on your group's blog on Burma.

Social 33

We watched a couple of videos on the United Nations. I also had you do some work Post-Cold War events from the textbook Stories of the Century.

May 27

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For most of the period you wrote your Cold War Test. If you finished this test early, you were supposed to finish up the two booklets that you have on the United Nations. I will be going over these booklets in class tomorrow.

Social 10

I collected your Chapter 17 Key Terms and Questions today for homework check marks. Please make sure that you study for your Chapter 15-16 Quiz, which is tomorrow. For all of you last minute crammers, here is a link to the study guide. I also sent you yesterday's presentation, so please check your e-mail accounts, it's the one that looks like the picture below:


We also did a class discussion/debate today on the topic of whether or not globalization has increased human rights in the world, or undermined it. You prepared for this debate by doing a short reading from one side of this argument. If you would like a copy of these articles, please send me an e-mail and I can send you a copy of both articles.

May 26

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I went through a presentation/lecture called "The Effects of Globalization on Individuals and Communities" which I will be sending to you today. I gave you the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 17 Key Terms and Questions, which are due tomorrow. Please remember that you have to check your group blog for the assignment on human rights in Burma, you need to post on your blog by Thursday. Please remember that you have your Chapter 15-16 Quiz on Wednesday, here is the study guide.

Social 33

I went over the answers to the "Detente and After" worksheet at the beginning of class. The remainder of class time was spent working on two booklets related tot he United Nations. I will be going through this material with you on Wednesday. Please remember that you have your Cold War Test tomorrow, please have a look at the study guide here.

May 23

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We finished watching "Blood Diamond" today in class. Please remember that the "Blood Diamond" booklet is due on Monday, and it is the only day that I will accept that booklet. Please remember that you have your Chapter 15-16 Quiz on Wednesday, click here for the study guide. Please check your group blogs to see your assignment related to Burma and Cyclone Nargis.

Social 33

I gave you a worksheet today called "Detente and After" that you must complete for Monday. We also watched a video today called "Inside North Korea", which took most of the period. I also told you that you have your Cold War Test on Tuesday, May 27th, here is the study guide:

Cold War Unit Final Study Guide:

Key Terms/Key Concepts/Key Events/Key People:

• Yalta Conference
• Potsdam Conference
• Stalin
• NATO
• brinkmanship
• detente
• Berlin Airlift
• Berlin Wall
• Warsaw Pact
• Iron Curtain
• mutually assured destruction (M.A.D.)
• disarmament
• Marshall Plan
• containment
• Eisenhower Doctrine
• Kennedy
• Khrushchev
• SALT I
• SALT II
• Vietnam War
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• Cold War
• United Nations
• collapse of the Soviet Union/collapse of communism
• Hungarian Revolution (1956)
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Partial test Ban Treaty
• balance of power (between USA and USSR)
• domino theory
• Korean War
  

Here's how I would prepare for this unit final:

• study the Cold War timeline (handout)
• study the 6Ws for each of those Cold War Events
• study the chart on the nuclear arms race (it's the back page of the Cold War Events handout, legal sized paper)
• study the timeline of events on the Cold War Events booklet
• study the key terms listed above (prepare for each them, they're on the test)
  
  

May 22

Social 33

We finished watching "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" today. I the gave you some handouts on the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War. I also gave you a handout on the arms reduction talks during the Cold War, and a handout on Afghanistan and Vietnam. You were also supposed to make a Cold War concept web during class time.

Social 10

I gave you a booklet on conflict diamonds and then we started watching the film "Blood Diamond". Please do the reading comprehension sections of this booklet, it will be due on Monday. Also, please check your group blogs, I have posted an assignment there on human rights in Burma. This assignment is due on May 29th. Please remember that you have your Chapter 15-16 Quiz coming up next week, the study guide is here.

If you're interested in reading a bit about the adventures of a friend of mine click here.

May 21

Sorry for the later post tonight.

Social 10

I went through a presentation/lecture today that corresponds to Chapter 16 material called "The Impacts of Globalization on Groups in Society". I will send this presentation to you tonight, please print off four slides per page. Also, I assigned Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions for homework tonight. I also announced that you will be writing your Chapter 15-16 Quiz next Wednesday, May 28th. The study guide is below.

Chapter 15-16 Quiz Study Guide

You will have a Chapter 15-16 Quiz next Wednesday. 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.

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 33

For most of the period you watched "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam". I also collected your Cold War Events Notes.

May 20

Social 33

I gave you some time to work on your Cold War Events booklets at the beginning of class. This booklet is for homework, and I will take it in for homework check marks tomorrow. I then showed you an excerpt from the film "Born on the Fourth of July". Tomorrow we'll be continuing our look at the Vietnam War by watching a film called "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam".

Social 10

I gave you some notes today on human rights, civil rights, inalienable rights, entrenching rights, the War Measures Act (used in Canada during WWI, WWII, the FLQ Crisis), the Canadian Bill of Rights (1961, not entrenched in the Canadian constitution), and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I also gave you a booklet on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( a worldwide goal for human rights, serves as a model for other documents, such as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but it's not legally binding. Many UN member states ignore this Declaration). You were to complete the chart activity on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the application of the notwithstanding clause during class time. If you did not complete this chart, here is a hyperlink to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. And now for your moment of zen: I found this blog over the long weekend, does it look familiar at all?

Also, it is really important that you print off the article "Human Rights Abuses in a Globalized World" that I sent to you last week. I'll send you another copy of this article this afternoon.

May 15

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For the first part of class we watched a video called "Escape from Berlin" about the construction of the Berlin Wall, and the lengths that people would go to escape from East Berlin. I gave you the remainder of class time to work on your Cold War Events Notes (6 W's), today was the last period to use the Cold War and After booklets. If you haven't finished the booklets, it's your job to find that information in your textbook, A History of the Twentieth Century. Here are some page references for some of the events:

• Korean War p. 204-207
• Sputnik p. 209
• U2 incident p. 209
• Berlin Wall p.212
• Cuban Missile Crisis p.213-215
• Vietnam p. 216-221
• Detente p. 222-224
  

Social 10

You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam today in class. It took you most of the class period. Please enjoy your long weekend, I'll see you on Tuesday.

May 14

Social 10

We played a review game today in class in preparation for tomorrow's Unit 3 Final Exam. Please remember to review for the exam, here is the study guide.

Social 33

We watched a video today called "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Khrushchev" which looked at these two leaders in the Cuban Missile Crisis. I also did a homework check on your Cold War booklet. I also gave you a new booklet on the 6W's of the Cold War Period. I gave you class time to work on this booklet. The 6W's are as follows:

• Who was involved?
• Where did this occur?
• When did this occur?
• What happened?
• Why did it happen?
• What was the outcome?

The events that you were to examine were as follows:

• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Berlin Airlift
• NATO/NORAD/Warsaw Pact
• Korean War
• Berlin Wall
• U2 Spy Plane
• Space Race/Sputnik
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Vietnam War
• Nuclear Arms Race
• Detente
• Afghanistan

You could use your textbook A History of the Twentieth Century and/or the booklet Cold War and After that you had access to in class today. You'll get some more class time to work on this booklet tomorrow in class.

May 13

Social 33

A few of you wrote the Interwar Years And WWII Test that you missed yesterday, while the rest of the class worked on the Cold War booklet and map of the Cold War. Both of these are due tomorrow for homework check marks. I also showed you a video on "Cold War Confrontation" which looked at the Berlin Blockade and the Korean War. We'll be looking at the Cuban Missile Crisis tomorrow.

Social 10

I collected your Chapter 15 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class today, and then launched into a presentation on "Quality of Life, Human Rights and Democratization". I will be sending this presentation to you today, so please print it off (4 slides per page) and add it to your notes. Please remember that you have your Unit 3 Final Exam on Thursday, here is the hyperlink to the study guide.

May 12

Social 10

You spent most of today's class getting started on Unit 4 material, working through the Unit 4 worksheet. For homework tomorrow, I will be collecting the Chapter 15 Key Terms and Questions. We'll be playing our review game on Wednesday, and our Unit 3 Final Exam will now take place on Thursday (here is the study guide).

Social 33

Most of today's class was spent writing your Interwar Years and WWII Test (multiple choice and writing assignment). Hopefully, you also got a copy of a Cold War booklet as well. We'll be continuing our examination of the Cold War tomorrow in class.

May 9

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Unit 3 Final Exam has been moved to Thursday, May 15th
You wrote your Unit 3 Part A In-Class Writing Assignment today in class. Hopefully, you'll get results back next week. I am moving your Unit 3 Final Exam (multiple choice) to next Thursday (May 15th). Your homework assignment: send me by e-mail 5 multiple choice questions (with answers), 1 find the fib set of statements, 1 clue-style question, and 1 list-style question. This must be sent to me by e-mail Friday before 9 p.m. The study guide for the Unit 3 Final Exam is below.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

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

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

Make sure that you have reviewed the Key Terms from Unit 3 (all the terms listed on the Unit 3 Worksheet, plus the extra key terms that appeared in the PowerPoint presentations). The Unit 3 Final Exam will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, and will be held on Thursday, May 15th.

Social 33

We played a review game for most of today's class which covered the Interwar Years and WWII period. You will have a test on these topics on Monday, May 12th. Here is the study guide for the Interwar Years and World War II.

Interwar Years and WWII Unit Test Study Guide:

Key Terms, Key People, Key Events:

• League of Nations
• Woodrow Wilson
• Nazis
• Treaty of Versailles
• Paris Peace Conference
• "Big Three"
• isolationist policy of the United States
• self-determination
• Manchuria
• Abyssinia
• Mein Kampf
• Neville Chamberlain
• appeasement
• Munich Conference/Munich Agreement
• Anschluss
• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
• blitzkrieg
• the Holocaust
• concentration/extermination camps
• Pearl Harbour
• collective security and the League of Nations
• Maginot Line
• Rhineland
• Stalin
• Battle of Britain

Other Tips:

• key points in the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe)
• FAILURe of the League of Nations (why did the League of Nations fail?)
• examples of the failure of the League of Nations (Abyssinia, Manchuria, the Spanish Civil War)
• who were the "Big Three" at the Paris Peace Conference, and what did they each want?
• know about the breakup of empires in post-WWI world (Austro-Hungarian as an example)
• what is self-determination?
• Hitler's main ideas and how he put them into action
• what is appeasement? why did Chamberlain employ it at the Munich conference?
• how did Hitler rise to power?
• what is Anschluss?
• what does blitzkrieg mean? what tactics are used in blitzkrieg?
• be able to name some Nazi concentration camps
• significance of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
• major turning points in WWII (fall of France, attack on Pearl Harbour, D-Day landing, use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki)

May 8

Social 33

We tied up some loose ends with WWII and then we moved into the Cold War. If missed today's class, you missed a few handouts and some notes, so please make sure that you pick them up next class.

Social 10

Most of the period was spent working on your homework assignment: send me by e-mail 5 multiple choice questions (with answers), 1 find the fib set of statements, 1 clue-style question, and 1 list-style question. This must be sent to me by e-mail Friday before 9 p.m. Don't forget that you have your Unit 3 Part A In-Class Writing Assignment.

May 7

Social 10

You wrote your Unit 3 in-class position paper today. You'll be writing your Unit 3 Part A in-class writing assignment on Friday.

Social 33

We looked at a video today related to the Nuremberg Trials, and tied up a few more loose ends with WWII. We'll finish off WWII tomorrow and then start right into the Cold War period. I collected your Causes of World War II booklets today. Please send me 10 questions AND answers to my e-mail account. We'll be playing a review game on Friday.

May 6

Social 33

You watched a film today called "Genocide" about the Holocaust in WWII. You should have also received a handout on the rise of anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany. You have a homework assignment: please send me 10 high quality questions for a review game.

Social 10

You should have watched "Who Killed the Electric Car?" in class today and completed a film study sheet as well. You have your position paper tomorrow, go directly to the Blenheim Room.

WARNING!!

Don't write the paper ahead of time, you're only allowed to bring that small bit of notes into the Blenheim Room. If you write it ahead of time I take that as a form of academic dishonesty (as per the Student Handbook), and then I take that sheet away from you and you have to write the essay without ANY notes (I talked about this in class, but I felt that I should remind you).

May 5

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I finished off the presentation "Globalization and Sustainability" today, I will be sending this presentation to your e-mail accounts today, so please print it off (four slides per page) and add it to your notes. I showed you a video today called "Globalisation is Good", we didn't quite finish it in class, so please go to the following hyperlink to watch the video. If you missed class, don't worry I will send out the video study guide that goes with this video and you can complete it at home. Please remember to go directly to the Blenheim Room on Wednesday; you have your in-class position paper that day. If you are absent on this day, please ensure that you have someone phone in to the Main Office to excuse your absence as you will receive a mark of zero on this essay if it's an unexcused absence.

Social 33

We watched an excerpt of "Pearl Harbor" at the beginning of class. I then gave you the remainder of class time to work on the Events of World War II booklet. Please remember to use the following GCSE revision site to examine the Road to World War II. Also, here is a useful hyperlink to a map for WWII (this will help with the Causes of WWII booklet).

May 2

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We finished watching "Shipbreakers" today, and then I continued to deliver the "Globalization and Sustainability" presentation that I started yesterday. In all likelihood, I will finish that presentation on Monday. Please have a look at the upcoming important dates:

• TNC Dossier Assignment is due on Monday, May 5th
• In-Class Position Paper is on Wednesday, May 7th
• Unit 3 Part A In-Class Writing Assignment is on Friday, May 9th
• Unit 3 Final Exam (multiple choice test) is on Wednesday, May 14th

Social 33

We started class today by watching the opening sequence from "Saving Private Ryan" so you could get some sense of difficulty and casualties incurred as a result of the Normandy invasion. I then gave you some time to work on your Events of WWII booklet. Please remember that your Causes of WWII booklet is due on Wednesday, May 7th. Have a great weekend!

May 1

Social 33

We watched an excerpt from the movie "Enemy At the Gates" at the beginning of class today, and then you were given some more time to work on the Events of WWII booklet.

Social 10

I started a presentation today called "Globalization and Sustainability", which I will continue in the coming days. We also started watching a film called "Shipbreakers" (we'll also finish this film tomorrow).