March 26

Social 30-1

We finished watching "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". I gave you back the results of the Economic Systems Exam today as well. Please remember to complete the activities in the Fascism/Nazism booklet that I gave you in class today (it's due on April 8th). Remember to study for your Chapter 5 Test (it's on April 7th), please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 20-1

We brainstormed the causes of WWII today in small groups and then as a whole class we collected our ideas and made connections between the various causes. If you missed today's class, please get the notes from a classmate when you get back from Spring Break. Please read the "Blitzkrieg package" of notes that I gave you today. I will assume that you have read this when we come back on the first day from the break because we will be looking at the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

March 25

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 5-6 Test today, which took most of the period. Tomorrow you will be brainstorming causes of WWII and I will be giving you a notes package that covers key events in WWII with maps to help illustrate these events.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Economic Systems Exam today. Please remember that your Chapter 5 Questions are due tomorrow (March 26th). I gave you a handout that covers a lot of topics (fascism/Nazism, conditions in the Weimar Republic that allowed Hitler to come to power, techniques of dictatorship in USSR and Nazi Germany). Please complete this booklet over your Spring Break vacation. Your Chapter 5 Test is on Wednesday, April 7th, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Tomorrow we will be finishing off "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" video. I have sent out the "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" PowerPoint as well, please print it off and add it to your notes.

March 24

Social 20-1

We watched a video today called "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb" which covered WWII in about an hour. I gave you a note package to go along with this video so you didn't have to take notes during the video. Please make sure that you read over those notes! You have your Chapter 5-6 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide here.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 2 Written Response Assignment I today. With the time remaining in class, we watched a bit of "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". Your Economic Systems Test is tomorrow, please see the study guide here. Also, your Chapter 5 Questions are due on Friday, and when you come back from Spring Break you will be writing your Chapter 5 Test (please see the study guide below).

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Wednesday, April 7th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Since we're writing this test on Wednesday, you'll have 85 minutes to write it.

Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• Soviet Economy notes
• Soviet Economic System notes
• Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
• Gorbachev to Collapse notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• Characteristics of Democracy
• Characteristics of Dictatorship
• Democratic Systems notes
• Non-Democratic Systems notes
• Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
• A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
• Totalitarianism notes
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
• do a brief review of the political and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!

• centrally planned economies
• initiative
• FDR and the New Deal
• Reaganomics
• consumer sovereignty
• invisible hand
• Keynesian economics
• laissez faire economics
• War Communism
• Five Year Plans
• mixed economies
• indicative planning
• proportional representation
• democracy
• dictatorship
• political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
• status quo
• egalitarianism
• conservative
• reactionary
• liberal
• radical
• SA
• Hitler
• Bolshevik
• fascism
• communism
• indoctrination
• controlled participation
• terror and force
• direction of popular discontent
• democratic socialists
• supply-side economics
• authoritarian
• tyrant
• totalitarian
• totalitarianism
• ultranationalism
• nationalization
• privatization
• propaganda
• progressive taxation
• Marx
• Lenin
• utopian socialism
• Gorbachev
• martial law
• Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
• referendum
• collectivization
• modernization
• classical liberal
• laissez faire free market economy
• mixed economy
• planned economy
• (review your economic political quadrant model)
• Das Kapital
• Mein Kampf
• The Wealth of Nations

March 23

Social 30-1

We covered a lot of ground today, as I walked you through democratic and non-democratic systems. I will send out a previous e-mail message with the characteristics of democracies and dictatorships. We also looked at types of dictatorships (we will revisit this in Unit 3) and totalitarianism. I gave you a handout on the characteristics of totalitarianism and a comparison between fascism and communism. You will write your Unit 2 WRA I tomorrow. On Thursday, you will write your Economic Systems Test. Please see the study guide here.

Social 20-1

I did a homework check on the Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today. We talked about the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. We looked at the internment of Japanese-Canadians during WWII. I will be sending you a PowerPoint presentation on the internment of Japanese-Canadians. If I were you, I would print this presentation off and add it your notes (I will not do a homework check on this). This presentation is useful for this year, and also next year. We also watched a video called "Tides of War" and completed a film study. You will write your Chapter 5-6 Test on Thursday, here is the study guide. You should also check out the following section from the CBC Archives called "Relocation to Redress".

March 22

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I did a homework check on the "Economic Planning in the USSR" booklet questions. I went through a PowerPoint presentation on how to write a Written Response Assignment I (which you will do on Wednesday). I will send this presentation to you tonight, along with a handout that goes along with it. I also gave you a booklet on market socialism and the connections between Gorbachev's perestroika and China's "four modernizations". Tomorrow, we'll look at democratic and non-democratic systems. Please remember that you have your Economic Systems on Thursday, please see the study guide here.

Social 20-1

You were supposed to hand in your answers to "The Way of Subjects" analysis questions. You were given a handout on Japanese expansionism in WWII, and then you watched an excerpt of "Pearl Harbor". We'll look at the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor tomorrow. Please remember that your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Remember that your Chapter 5-6 Test is on Thursday, here is the study guide.

March 19

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I gave you back the results of the Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test today. Please keep reviewing the economic systems material! Don't get overconfident! Your Economic Systems Test is very difficult (please see the study guide below). I gave you a handout today called "Gorbachev to Collapse" and "Economic Planning in the USSR". The questions in the "Economic Planning in the USSR" booklet are due on Monday. On Wednesday, March 24th you will writing your Unit 2 Written Response Assignment I (three source analysis). I will go over the format for writing this assignment on either Monday or Tuesday. Your Economic Systems Test is on Thursday, please see the study guide below.

Economic Systems Exam:

This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 70 multiple choice questions. This exam will be administered on Thursday, March 25th.

• Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that I have sent you for Unit 2
• In Chapter 5, just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics or "womb to tomb" economics)
• characteristics of a mixed economy
• nationalization
• privatization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
• advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
• neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
• characteristics of a centrally planned economy
• advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes (you'll get these notes on Friday, March 19th)
• Economic Planning in the USSR (again, you'll get these notes on Friday, March 19th)
  

Social 20-1

I did a homework check to see if you had printed off the "Ultranationalism in WWII" PowerPoint presentation at the beginning of class today. I went briefly through the techniques of dictatorship with you (you will study this in far greater detail next year in 30-1 or 30-2). I then gave you a copy of "The Way of Subjects" translated into English. You are to complete the Questions for Analysis from this primary document for Monday. I will do a homework check on this assignment then. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday. Your Chapter 5-6 Test is on Thursday, March 25th. Please see the Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide here.

March 18

Social 20-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "Ultranationalism in WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan". I will send this presentation to you this afternoon. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday. You should start preparing for your Chapter 5-6 Test, which is next Thursday (March 25th). Please see the study guide below.

Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide:

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• the Black Hand
• Gavrillo Princip
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Battle of Tannenberg
• the Schlieffen Plan
• Plan 17
• General von Moltke
• Battle of the Marne
• Alsace and Lorraine
• total war
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• the Brusilov Offensive
• sinking of the Lusitania
• the Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• General Ludendorff
• Friedrich Ebert
• Paris Peace Conference
• David Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson
• Fourteen Points
• Georges Clemenceau
• Vittorio Orlando
• League of Nations
• plebiscites
• reparations
• collective security
• war debts
• Treaty of Versailles
• "war guilt clause"
• "Manchurian Incident"
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
• expansionism
• Hirohito
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Kristallnacht
• the Nuremberg Laws
• any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

• MAIN Causes of World War I
• the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
• the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
• the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
• Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
• failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
• appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism)

Social 30-1

You wrote your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam today. After you finished this exam you were to pick up the handout called "Changes to the Soviet System After Stalin", this will help bridge the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev. We'll be looking at political and economic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev tomorrow, and then next Thursday (March 25th), you'll have an exam that covers all of the economic systems, please see the study guide below for this test.

Economic Systems Exam:

This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 70 multiple choice questions. This exam will be administered on Thursday, March 25th.

• Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that I have sent you for Unit 2
• In Chapter 5, just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics or "womb to tomb" economics)
• characteristics of a mixed economy
• nationalization
• privatization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
• advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
• neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
• characteristics of a centrally planned economy
• advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes (you'll get these notes on Friday, March 19th)
• Economic Planning in the USSR (again, you'll get these notes on Friday, March 19th)
  

March 17

Social 20-1

We really focused in on the concept of appeasement today. We watched a short video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?" and while you were watching the video you were to complete a video study sheet. We then went through a focus task on arguments for and against appeasement. I also talked a little bit about the League of Nations, and taught you a new mnemonic device to remember why the League is considered by many to be a FAILURe. Your post-WWI Map Assignment is due tomorrow.

Social 30-1

We watched a short video today from the A & E Biography series called "Joseph Stalin: Red Terror", and while you were watching this video you were completing a film study sheet. You also had some time to read over all of the handouts that I gave you on the command economy. You also worked with a partner on a fill in the blank activity on the command economy. You also had some time to study for tomorrow's Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test. Please see the study guide for this test here.

March 16

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on the Chapter 5 Key Terms at the beginning of class today. I started a PowerPoint presentation today called "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism". I did not finish this presentation today, I will pick up after we've finished looking at the centrally planned economy. I gave you a lot of handouts on the command economy today. Make sure you read these handouts! You have your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test on Thursday, please see the study guide here.

Social 20-1

We watched an A & E Biography profile of Hitler called "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". We watched Part 1 only of this biography. It covered the lead up to the start of WWII. I wrote out some extensive notes on this video on the board, so if you missed class today, you need to get these notes from a classmate. I also did a homework check on the PowerPoint presentation called "Allied Victory in WWI and the Paris Peace Conference" at the beginning of class. Please remember that your post-WWI Map Assignment is due on Thursday. Please see yesterday's post for an animated map of post-WWI Europe.

March 15

Social 30-1

Today was a very busy day. We reviewed the differences between supply side economics and demand side economics. I wrote some notes on the board that served as an introduction to Russian history. I have also sent you notes by e-mail on Karl Marx, Lenin and Stalin, so please check your e-mail accounts today. You watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia". You are to read Chapter 5 tonight, and complete the Chapter 5 Key Terms from the worksheet. I will be taking this in tomorrow for homework check marks. I also gave you a booklet on case studies that you could use for mixed economies (please read this, this could be very useful in writing an economics essay). I will try to send you some notes tonight on how supply side and demand side economics would respond to a recession. If I'm not able to send this to you by e-mail, I will give it to you in class tomorrow. Please remember that you have your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test on Thursday, please see the study guide here.

Social 20-1

We went through the "Making Peace" Focus Task very quickly at the beginning of class. You watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay". While you watched this video you were to answer questions from the video study sheet that went along with this video. I also gave you a Post-WWII Map Assignment (this is due on Thursday). I gave you a booklet that covered key events in the Interwar Years. This booklet is VERY important, so make sure that you understand the material in this timeline. Please have a look at the following website, it may help you complete the mapping assignment.

March 12

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You wrote your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" today, which corresponds to material in Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4. Next Thursday, you have a test on Market Economy and Mixed Economy (covering material from Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6). Please see the study guide below.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces
  self-interest, consumer sovereignty, competition, private ownership, profit motive
• basic economic problems/questions
• advantages/disadvantages of the market economy
• causes of the Great Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada)
• nationalization
• democratic socialism
• welfare capitalism
• Keynesian economics
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you)
• demand-side economics
• neo-conservatives
• monetarism
• trickle down economics
• supply-side economics
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics
• Milton Friedman
• Friedrich Hayek
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession

Social 20-1

I finished the PowerPoint presentation today called "Allied Victory in WWI and the Paris Peace Conference". I have sent this to your e-mail accounts, so please print it off and add it to your notes and bring it to class on Monday. I will also be going over the Focus Task from the "Making Peace" booklet on Monday as well. Most of you were able to finish this in class.

March 10

Social 20-1

I started a PowerPoint presentation today called "Allied Victory in WWI and the Paris Peace Conference". I will finish this presentation up hopefully on Friday when we look at the end of WWI and the Paris Peace Conference. In the remaining time in class you were to start reading Chapter 6 material and perhaps begin to complete key terms and questions from this chapter. These were not assigned today for homework.

I also gave you your interim report cards today. Parent-Teacher-Student Interviews run tomorrow from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. and from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in Room 111 (my classroom).

Social 30-1

I gave you back some homework checked work and your political cartoon analysis assignments. I gave you class time to study for your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test, which is on Friday. Please see the study guide for this test here.

On another note, you might want to check this podcast/article from the NPR on the Obama administration turning towards Keynesian economics to pull the USA out of the recession. You'll learn more about John Maynard Keynes.

I also gave you your interim report cards today. Parent-Teacher-Student Interviews run tomorrow from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. and from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in Room 111 (my classroom).

March 9

Social 30-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today. I have sent this presentation to you already, so print it off and add it to your notes. I will do a homework check on it tomorrow. Please remember that you have your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" on Friday, please see the study guide here.

Social 20-1

I gave you back your French Revolution DBA assignment, your Unit 1 WRA I, and the results from your Chapter 3-4 Test and Unit 1 Final Exam today. We also did a simulation of a fictitious WWI peace conference that was designed to prevent the outbreak of the First World War. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions.

March 8

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today. You will get these back tomorrow along with your Democratic Socialism Sweden case study booklets. We watched a couple of videos today, one called "Dutch Treat" and the other "Welfare a la Carte". While you watched these videos you were to take notes of the advantages and disadvantages associated with these economic models. I also started a PowerPoint presentation called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" which I will continue tomorrow. Please remember that you have your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" on Friday, please see the study guide here.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam today, which took most of the period. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

March 5

Social 30-1

You did an in-class assignment today in which you wrote an analysis of a political cartoon. Please remember that your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. I will be sending an electronic version of the Chapter 6 Worksheet to your e-mail accounts, just in case you didn't pick one up in class. You have your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test next Friday, please see the study guide below.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

• "The Development of Classical Liberalism"
• "Responding to Classical Liberalism"

2. Be familiar with key concepts introduced in Chapters 3 and 4.

3. The Industrial Revolution:

• understand fundamental economic, social and political changes that were caused by the Industrial Revolution
• understand the connection between the Agricultural Revolution and the Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution
• understand the differences, advantages and disadvantages of the cottage system and the factory system

4. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet

5. Key Beliefs of the Various Ideologies (review the spectrums briefly); also review this material from the "Responding to Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation:

• Adam Smith
• laissez faire economics/capitalism (key ideas)
• John Stuart Mill
• Karl Marx (key ideas and beliefs associated with Marx, Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, withering away of the state, dictatorship of the proletariat, view of history, etc. ) and Friedrich Engels (see "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet)
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

6. Some questions may require you to make connections between this year's material and what you learned in 10-1 and 20-1 as well

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday. You have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, please check the study guide here (scroll down to find it). It's very difficult, so you better study!

March 4

Social 20-1

We watched a video today from the BBC series "Days That Shook the World" on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. You then had the remainder of class time to read Chapter 5 and work on the Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions (due on Tuesday). You have your Chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it) and your Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday (see the study guide here, scroll down to find it).

Social 30-1

We finished watching "FDR and the New Deal" today in class. As you move through Chapter 6 in your textbook in the next few days, please add to the chart on the back of the "Great Depression in the USA Case Study" sheet that I gave you so that you have all of your notes on the "alphabet agencies" in one place. I gave you a reading on Democratic Socialism and the Mixed Economy, and then you were to complete the "Democratic Socialism in Sweden Case Study" booklet questions. This booklet is due tomorrow for homework check marks. Tomorrow you will get the Chapter 6 Worksheet, and you will have homework over the weekend as the Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday (make sure that you read Chapter 6!). Next Friday you will have a test on the "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization". The study guide for this test will be posted tomorrow on the blog.

March 3

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 1 Written Response Assignment I in class today. I gave you the remaining time to finish reading the Causes of World War I booklet. This booklet needs to be read before tomorrow's class. Please remember to study for your Chapter 3-4 Test, which is on Friday (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it). You definitely need to study for your Unit 1 Final Exam, which is on Monday. This is a very challenging test. You can find the study guide for the Unit 1 Final Exam here (scroll down to find it).

Social 30-1

I went through the Monetary and Fiscal Policy booklet that I sent to you last night for part of today's period. I also gave you a handout on the Great Depression and the American government reaction under FDR's administration that listed off some of the "alphabet agencies". I started to show "FDR and the New Deal", but we didn't finish it off; we will tomorrow.

March 2

Social 30-1

We watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Boom and Bust". While you were watching this video, you were to complete the video study guide sheet that went with the video. I also gave you a handout on analyzing political cartoons. You will be able to use this handout on Friday when you have an in-class writing assignment where you will be analyzing an editorial cartoon that relates to material covered in Unit 1 or Unit 2. The cartoons will be displayed on the board and you get to pick them on a "first come first served" basis. I will be sending you a couple of things today: one is the sheet that you need to complete if you want to talk to me in tutorial about your in-class position paper. The other handout is an excellent booklet that covers monetary and fiscal policy in a great deal of detail. If you completely understand this booklet, I can almost guarantee you that if you get a question on monetary or fiscal policy on the Diploma Exam it will seem easy by comparison.

Social 20-1

We watched another video from the CBS series on World War I, this one was "The Trenches". I also gave you a booklet called "Causes of World War I" that you should read before Thursday's class. You have your Unit 1 WRA I tomorrow. Make sure that you go through a trial run (practice writing it in 45 minutes) with the sample that I sent you yesterday. Just to remind you, you 10 minutes to brainstorm in small groups and 45 minutes to write it. On Friday, you have your Chapter 3-4 Test, please see the study guide here. On Monday, you have your Unit 1 Final Exam (scroll down on the February 26th post and you'll find it).

March 1

Social 30-1

I gave you back the marking sheets for the Unit 1 Essay today. I talked a little bit about areas of improvement for essay writing. We then focused our attention on Keynesian economics and looking at government intervention in the economy through monetary and fiscal policy. We revisited our "economic snapshots" of the business cycle and then looked at how demand side economists would use monetary and fiscal policy to "prime the pump" and pull the country out of recession. Please make sure that you read over all of the documents that I gave you today in class! I did a homework check on your Chapter 4 Questions as well today.

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I went through advice on writing Written Response Assignment I (three source analysis). I have sent the advice sheet to you as well as a sample Unit 1 WRA I. Please try to find 45 minutes between now and Wednesday to try and write this sample WRA I. I won't take it in for marks, I just want you to practice writing under time pressure before you write on Wednesday, which is when you write your Unit 1 WRA I. Please remember that your Chapter 3-4 Test is on Friday (please see the study guide here) and your Unit 1 Final Exam is one week from today (please see the study guide here). I will do a homework check on your "Causes of World War I" PowerPoint presentation tomorrow, so make sure that you have it printed off. I did a homework check on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions today as well. You will get the results back for your Chapter 1-2 Test tomorrow (I ran out of time today).