February 6

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We finished off the video "Forms of Government: What's the Score?" today. You have a short one paragraph writing assignment based on this video that is due on Monday (most of you finished this in class). This is the question that you must answer in paragraph form: Which do you think is the best form of government? Why? Explain. I will do a homework check on this on Monday, so it should be some easy homework check marks. We also did some more classification on some historical examples of government and placed them on a spectrum similar to the one below:

We went over the answers to this worksheet in class.

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You wrote your Enlightenment Thinkers Quiz at the beginning of class today. I will give you the results of this quiz on Monday. I also took in your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions and did a quick homework check on it for completion, and then gave them back to you. We'll be starting the French Revolution next week, so please make sure that at the very least you have read a little in Chapter 2 in Exploring Nationalism, particularly the sections on the French Revolution.

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I talked a little bit about value conflicts in political systems today, such as individualism vs. collectivism, individual freedom vs. state control, equality vs. elitism, status quo vs. change, and minority rights vs. majority rights, and how these value judgments are used to build essay questions for Diploma Exams. I then gave you the Case Studies Worksheet for Cases Studies 2-6. Please remember that your Chapter 1-3 Questions are due on Monday, February 9th, and Case Studies 2-6 are due on Tuesday, February 17th.