December 4

Social 20-1

I can't believe I spent most of the period going over the current political crisis in Canada. I didn't intend to take that long. I think that as a Social Studies teacher I had to go over what has been going on in our country politically. This is the most charged up that many Canadians have been about politics in awhile. It's interesting to think about the voter turnout in the last federal election and how dismal it was. If there were an election tomorrow, would the voter turnout be any higher?

Don't worry, we'll get back on track tomorrow with Unit 3 material. There is no homework tonight.

Social 10-1

Most of today's class was spent doing a Unit 3 Part A In-Class Writing Assignment. I won't be able to get the results of this writing assignment back to you as quickly as I have in the past as I have a considerable amount of marking to do for my Social 20-1 classes. Hopefully, you did well on this assignment. These Part A assignments are similar to the type of minor writing assignments that you will be getting all throughout your time in high school Social Studies, they are modeled after the minor writing assignment that will be part of the Social Studies 30-1 Diploma Exam. Please remember that you have some homework that is due on Tuesday, it's a written response to an article from National Geographic magazine, please check this post to read your homework assignment.

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, December 11th.