February 9

Social 33

I collected your paragraph responses related to the video "Forms of Government: What's the Score?" at the beginning of class. You also wrote a short quiz on individualism and collectivism today (and you got the results back too). I have assigned for homework the following from A Changing World, Chapter 3 questions on page 28, Q 2-7.

Social 20-1

I started a presentation today on "The French Revolution" which I will continue tomorrow. During this presentation you were to take notes on the structure of French society on the eve of the French Revolution. If you can understand the social hierarchy and social inequalities that existed in France prior to the Revolution you'll be able to understand underlying causes of the Revolution and development of French nationalism more easily. Here is the link to the study guide for the World Geography Test.

Social 30

I gave you a handout today called "The Language of Government" which you need to know inside and out! Also, I gave you an outline sheet and Case Study #1 Parliamentary Democracy: Canada booklet. You'll have class time tomorrow to work on this case study booklet. This case study booklet will be due next week. I am posting the study guide for a short answer quiz that you are getting on Wednesday.

Social 30 Basic Political Ideology Quiz Study Guide:

This quiz is on Wednesday, February 11th. It consists of two sections, a short answer section and a matching section. Please use the following study guide to focus your studying.

• know what direct democracy and representative democracy are, and be able to give contemporary or historical examples of each
• be able to define ideologies (two aspects)
• know the political spectrum and economic spectrum extremely well, be able to label each spectrum
• know the political-economic grid organization and be able to label it
• know the ideological values associated with the political spectrum
• be able to explain the difference between individualism and collectivism
• be able to classify countries by the political-economic grid quadrants
• be able to list ways in which citizens can participate in a democracy
• be able to list techniques found in every representative democracy
• be able to place various ideologies of the 20th century on a political spectrum

Know the following key terms:

• direct democracy
• representative democracy
• ideology
• democracy
• individualism
• collectivism
• federal government
• monarchy
• oligarchy
• republic
• theocracy
• totalitarianism
• bureaucracy
• anarchy
• communism
• fascism
• constitutional
• autocracy
• dictatorship
• nationalism
• unitary government
• plutocracy
• dynasty