December 9

Social 10-1

We continued looking at a World Without Oil. You should be posting your "in game" reactions at the World Without Oil blog. I will be checking for your posts for Week 1 today. I will post on that blog what you should be posting for Week 3 tomorrow. You should also be reviewing for your Unit 3 Final Exam, this exam is on Thursday. Please check the study guide here. I also collected your written responses for the e-waste article from National Geographic magazine for homework check marks.

Social 20-1

I collected your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions today. I also finished off the presentation "Nationalism and Internationalism" today, and I will be sending it off to you this afternoon. We also started looking at global issues today. One of the root causes for many of the global issues that we will be looking at in Unit 3 is the regional differences and disparities on our planet. Economic disparities between the developed world and the developing world is at the core for many of the global issues that we will be looking at, such as: global health issues, pandemics, the spread of disease, and epidemics such as HIV/AIDS; foreign debt; global poverty; access to clean drinking water; hunger. Many of these issues have their roots in the unequal distribution of wealth in the world. We watched a short video called "If the World Were a Village" and completed a prediction sheet to go with the video. This video boils down global numbers into easy to understand numbers and percentages. This will help us when we look at some of the global issues in Unit 3. Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, December 11th. Remember that your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Wednesday, December 17th. Please see the study guide below.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Please review all of the Unit 3 PowerPoint presentations that I have sent to you:

• "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism"
• "Canada's Foreign Policy"
• "Nationalism and Internationalism"

Please review all of the Unit 3 Key Terms from the Unit 3 Worksheet in addition to the key concepts that were introduced in the PowerPoint presentations. In addition to this, I would like to emphasize the following points with you:

• know the difference between multilateralism, unilateralism and bilateralism and know examples of each
• know the spectrum of foreign policy: internationalism, nationalism, ultranationalism, and supranationalism
• know the different foreign policy options
• know the 6 themes of Canadian foreign policy/Canada's foreign policy goals
• what influences foreign policy decisions?
• methods of foreign policy
• motivations for nations involvement or non-involvement in international affairs
• how can foreign policy promote internationalism?
• tied aid, bilateral aid, multilateral aid
• examples of INGOs and IGOs
• the United Nations (organization/structure, bodies, etc.)
• peacemaking vs. peacekeeping (and examples)
• different understandings of internationalism (types of internationalism)
• why do international organizations exist? purposes and examples