May 31

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We finished watching "Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech" today. We also briefly talked about free speech in Canada. Tomorrow during Period 1 you have your Grad Ceremony Rehearsal, so please come to class on time. You don't have to bring your textbook and notes to class. On Wednesday you have your Unit 3 Final Exam. This is the second last test of the semester (your last test is the Comprehensive Final Exam). Please see the study guide for the Unit 3 Final Exam here.

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You wrote your Unit 3 Essay today in class. If you missed class today with an excused absence you need to make arrangements to write this essay. Your Chapter 13 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Wednesday, please see the study guide here.

May 28

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We started looking at the issue of freedom of speech today. We specifically are looking at freedom of speech in the United States by watching "Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech" and HBO documentary. We'll finish this video off on Monday and then draw comparisons to free speech in Canada. Please study for your Unit 3 Final Exam this weekend. This exam is on Wednesday, June 2nd. Please see the study guide below.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Wednesday, June 2nd. Please study the following material:

• make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
• study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
• "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)

Review the following handouts/notes/packages:

• Characteristics of Democracies
• Characteristics of Dictatorships
• Democratic Systems
• Non-Democratic Systems
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• Civil Rights Movement
• authoritarian systems (China notes/booklet)
• review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
• re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (civil rights, human rights, Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act, etc.)
• FLQ Crisis 1970 film study and document analysis booklet

Know the following key concepts/key events/key terms/key people:

• assimilation
• self-interest
• humanitarianism
• Indian Act
• residential school system
• enfranchisement
• the White Paper
• the Red Paper
• “war on terror"
• authoritarianism
• consensus decision-making
• direct democracy
• military dictatorship
• oligarchy
• one-party state
• party solidarity
• representation by population
• proportional representation
• representative democracy
• responsible government
• democracy
• single-member constituency (first past the post)
• the Senate
• the House of Commons
• the House of Representatives
• the Senate
• mixed-member proportional system
• lobby groups
• American Bill of Rights
• Anti-Terrorism Act
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• emergency and security legislation
• illiberal
• language legislation
• Bill 101
• Bill 178
• Bill 86
• Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
• respect for law and order
• terrorism
• rendition
• the War Measures Act
• enemy aliens
• internment
• the Emergencies Act
• USA PATRIOT Act
• consumerism
• environmental change
• extremism
• pandemics
• postmodernism
• global warming
• Kyoto Protocol
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• drought
  

Social 20-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions today. I also gave you your Unit 4 Worksheet today, your Chapter 13 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday. On Monday, you will be writing your Unit 3 Essay in Room 241. I gave you the essay question sheet today, so you have some time to prepare your arguments and evidence over the weekend. I broke you into small groups to brainstorm potential arguments and evidence and then collectively we shared ideas that were generated in your groups. Please also remember that your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Wednesday, June 2nd, please see the study guide here.

May 27

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We watched a documentary today called "Darfur: On Our Watch" which revisited some themes from Unit 2 such as contemporary examples of genocide but also was very critical of inaction on the part of the international community, specifically the United Nations. Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. I will be giving out the Unit 3 essay question sheets tomorrow in class, so it's an important day. You will be writing your Unit 3 Essay on Monday, May 31st. Your unit 3 Final Exam is on Wednesday, June 2nd. Please see the study guide here.

Here are some good links on Darfur:

• Here's a hyperlink to Eyes on Darfur (an Amnesty International project).
• CBC News in Depth: Darfur, Sudan
• If you have Google Earth, have a look at this download from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum called Crisis in Darfur
• Eric Reeves website on Sudan (featured in the film "Darfur: On Our Watch")

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 3 Essay today in class. I also shared results of your Chapter 10 Test (finally I remembered to print off the results), and your 30-1 Field Test. There is still a lot of review to be done in preparation for your Diploma Exam Part B. Speaking of tests, your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Wednesday, June 2nd. Please see the study guide here for this exam (scroll down to find it).

May 26

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I did homework checks on the Foreign Policies booklet today, as well as a homework check on the "Internationalism and Nationalism" PowerPoint presentation. Your Unit 3 WRA II (Essay) will be on Monday, May 31st and you will get the essay question sheets in class on Friday. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Wednesday, June 2nd. It's a very difficult exam, so make sure that you study! 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" (study your notes)
• "Canada's Foreign Policy"
• "Internationalism and Nationalism"

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 (the EU, IMF, and WTO for example). 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
• what are INGOs and IGOs? examples of INGOs and IGOs
• the United Nations (organization/structure, bodies, etc.)
• peacemaking vs. peacekeeping (and examples)
• different understandings of internationalism (types of internationalism: hegemonic, liberal, revolutionary)
• why do international organizations exist? purposes and examples
  

Social 30-1

You wrote your 30-1 Field Test today, and then we had some time to debrief after the test. We also finished watching "Unconstitutional" and completing the film study that went along with it. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is next Wednesday, please see the study guide below.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Wednesday, June 2nd. Please study the following material:

• make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
• study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
• "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)

Review the following handouts/notes/packages:

• Characteristics of Democracies
• Characteristics of Dictatorships
• Democratic Systems
• Non-Democratic Systems
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• Civil Rights Movement
• authoritarian systems (China notes/booklet)
• review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
• re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (civil rights, human rights, Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act, etc.)
• FLQ Crisis 1970 film study and document analysis booklet

Know the following key concepts/key events/key terms/key people:

• assimilation
• self-interest
• humanitarianism
• Indian Act
• residential school system
• enfranchisement
• the White Paper
• the Red Paper
• “war on terror"
• authoritarianism
• consensus decision-making
• direct democracy
• military dictatorship
• oligarchy
• one-party state
• party solidarity
• representation by population
• proportional representation
• representative democracy
• responsible government
• democracy
• single-member constituency (first past the post)
• the Senate
• the House of Commons
• the House of Representatives
• the Senate
• mixed-member proportional system
• lobby groups
• American Bill of Rights
• Anti-Terrorism Act
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• emergency and security legislation
• illiberal
• language legislation
• Bill 101
• Bill 178
• Bill 86
• Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
• respect for law and order
• terrorism
• rendition
• the War Measures Act
• enemy aliens
• internment
• the Emergencies Act
• USA PATRIOT Act
• consumerism
• environmental change
• extremism
• pandemics
• postmodernism
• global warming
• Kyoto Protocol
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• drought
  

May 25

Sorry for the later post tonight...

Social 30-1

I returned some marked assignments to you today. I also gave you a couple of handouts on the USA PATRIOT Act and we started a film study on a video called "Unconstitutional". Hopefully after tomorrow's field test, we'll have some time to finish off the video. On Thursday, you have your Unit 3 Essay. you'll get the essay question sheet on Thursday in class, and then you have about 80 minutes to write. Intense!

Social 20-1

I gave you back your Unit 2 Essays today, and gave some general advice. If you want to go over the essay with me, please complete the "Going Over Your Position Paper" Word document that I sent to yo today, and then bring it to tutorial. I have tutorials on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Please complete the foreign policy worksheet for tomorrow and make sure that you print off the "Internationalism and Nationalism" PowerPoint presentation for tomorrow's class as well. I spent a little bit of time today finishing off this presentation.

May 20

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I started a PowerPoint presentation that corresponds to content in Chapter 11 of your textbook called "Internationalism and Nationalism". I will finish this presentation when we come back from the long weekend. I did a homework check on the Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions as well as the PowerPoint presentation called "Canada's Foreign Policy".

Social 30-1

You wrote your Chapter 10 Test today in class. This didn't take the entire period. Please remember that you have your 30-1 Field Test on Wednesday, May 26th. You are also writing your Unit 3 WRA II (Essay) on Thursday, May 27th. I have switched the location of the essay though, you'll be writing it in Room 104 now. I had visions of you writing that essay in one of the open computer labs in the library and how difficult that would be for you, so I found another open computer lab. Please make sure that you in class on the 25th and 26th. This is when forms will be handed out to request computers for the Diploma Exam.

May 19

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I went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "Canada's Foreign Policy". I have sent this presentation to you already so please check your e-mail inbox. Please print it off for homework check marks tomorrow. Your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow as well.

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You wrote your Unit 3 Written Response Assignment I (3 source analysis) today. I also gave you notes on the Anti-Terrorism Act and the USA PATRIOT Act, please make sure that you read these notes. Your Chapter 10 Test is tomorrow, please see the study guide here.

May 18

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I did a homework check on the Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions today. Here is the video that I forgot to post yesterday. It connects nicely to some of the themes that we addressed today in class with regard to anti-terrorism legislation that was passed in Canada and the United States after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In yesterday's video we looked at the FLQ crisis, this is the interview on the steps of Parliament that features Trudeau's "just watch me" speech. It's an interesting little debate that is waged being Trudeau and the reporters over the issue on giving up/losing civil liberties in order to ensure security.

We watched a couple of CBC News in Review on the September 11th attacks today prior to talking about anti-terrorism legislation in Canada and the United States, because in order to fully understand why this legislation was passed, you need to see the context in which it was passed. The value conflict between ensuring security, peace and order in society versus individual freedom and civil liberties could be a potential topic on Part A of your Diploma Exam. Liberal democracies around the world, post-9/11 have had to deal with the issue of the extent to which they must ensure security and the balance between security and civil liberties. It would not be difficult to use a quotation that relates to this issue ("They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin) and then have the essay question: "To what extent should we embrace the perspective(s) in this source?" Would you be able to write an essay on that topic? Think of the source material that I've given you on the FLQ crisis, the Emergencies Act, the Anti-Terrorism Act, the Patriot Act and the no fly list, and think about other ways you could prepare for this as a potential essay topic. Speaking of writing assignments, please remember that you have your Unit 3 WRA I (source analysis) tomorrow. Your Chapter 10 Test is on Thursday, here's the study guide (there's more democracy-related questions on the test than authoritarianism/dictatorship questions). I will be giving notes on the Anti-Terrorism Act and the USA PATRIOT Act tomorrow as well.

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You had the class period today to read Chapter 10 and work on the Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions which are due on Thursday. I did a homework check on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class.

May 17

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We looked at the FLQ Crisis of 1970 by watching a video from the Turning Points in History series and completing a film study guide. Please make sure that you read the rest of this package because there is a document analysis assignment and notes on the Emergencies Act in there as well. I did a homework check on your Civil Rights Movement assignment today. Please study for your Chapter 10 Test (it's on Thursday), here is a link to the study guide. On Wednesday, you're going to be doing a Unit 3 WRA I (3 source analysis assignment), so be ready for it. Your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

Social 20-1

We finished off presentations for the Unit 2 Collaborative Inquiry Project today. You also did peer evaluations and self-evaluations as well today. I gave you the Unit3 Worksheet today as well. Your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

May 14

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You wrote an in-class writing assignment today in which you wrote an analysis of a propaganda poster or advertisement. This took most of the class period. I also took in your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions today. Your Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Monday (including the essay outline sheet). You have your Chapter 10 Test on Thursday, May 20th, please see the study guide below.

Chapter 10 Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions. Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism". You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Worksheet. Please review the following as well:

• Characteristics of Democracy (handout notes)
• Characteristics of Dictatorships (handout notes)
• Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Structure of Canadian Government
• Structure of American Government
• similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• authoritarian systems
• proportional representation concept
• first past the post system
• review political and economic spectrum (again!)
  

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We continued doing presentations for the Unit 2 Collaborative Inquiry Project today. You should not be editing your wiki still unless it is to add a link to a Prezi. We will finish up the presentations on Monday (this is the last day to present).

May 13

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We started doing the Unit 2 Collaborative Inquiry Project presentations today. This took the whole period. To groups that have yet to present: please try to stick to the time limit!

Social 30-1

If you missed class today you need to get the notes from a classmate. I gave you some notes on rights, civil rights and human rights and I talked a little bit about the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the usage of the War Measures Act. We will be looking at some of these topics in greater detail in the days to come. I also gave you the Chapter 11 Worksheet today. The Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, and your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

May 12

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You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today. It took most of today's class period. Tomorrow you have to ready to do your presentation for your Unit 2 Collaborative Inquiry Projects. Tonight is your last night to edit your wikis.

Social 30-1

We watched a CBC News in Review video on "Afghanistan's Troubled Election". I also gave you your Chapter 9 Worksheet today. The Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, May 14th. Your USA and Canada Political System Comparison Chart is due tomorrow (May 13th). Also, please check Friday's blog post to complete the post and respond assignment. This assignment is due tomorrow. The Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Monday.

May 11

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We watched a couple of videos today on China from the BBc 20th Century History series. One of the videos was "One Man's Revolution" and the other "China Since Mao". As you watched the videos you were to take notes, so if you missed class today you need to get these notes from a classmate. I also gave you a package on China that I highly recommend that you take to the time to read. Please remember to check Friday's post and and answer one of the questions and respond to another person's posting. Your post is due by Thursday. Also due on Thursday is your USA and Canada Comparative Government Assignment. Your Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Monday (including the essay outline).

Social 20-1

You had the class period to work on your Unit 2 Collaborative Inquiry Project (which is due on Thursday). Your Unit 2 Final Exam is tomorrow, please see the study guide here.

May 10

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I went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "Political Challenges to Liberalism". This presentation looked at characteristics of democratic and non-democratic systems, and most of the material would be considered review material. For most of this week we'll be looking at authoritarianism, and using China as a case study. Also, your American and Canadian Political Systems Comparison Chart Assignment is due on Thursday, as is a posting to Friday's discussion question. Please put your comments in Friday's post. Also, your Civil Rights Movement Assignment and essay outline will be due on Monday, May 17th.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 2 Written Response Assignment II (essay) today in class. It took the entire period. Please remember to review for your Unit 2 Final Exam, which is on Wednesday. Please see the Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide here. Presentations start on Thursday for the Unit 2 Collaborative Inquiry Project. You can't edit your wikis after Thursday, so it is definitely crunch time. Make sure that you are ready for the presentation component of the project. You will be evaluated on your wiki and on your presentation as well.

May 7

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We did a class discussion today where everyone was given two Post It notes to write out their answers to two of the following questions:

• Should the voting age be lowered?
• Should voting be mandatory?
• Should everyone over the age of 18 be allowed to vote?
• Is the first past the post system democratic?

Next, I split you into four groups to summarize some of the viewpoints in the classroom, and then we had a whole class discussion about the issues related to these questions. I think that it was a really great discussion period. I would like to extend the classroom discussion to here on the blog. Here is your homework assignment: I would like you to post your answer to any one (or two or three) of the discussion questions that we did in class. I'd like you to also include the initials of your first and last name after your post (for example, "K.G. in Social 30-1"). I'd also like you to comment on someone else's post. This is for double homework check marks. You must post and respond to someone else's post before Thursday of next week . Please be civil in your posting. Please remember that your American-Canadian Political Systems Comparison Charts are due on Thursday, May 13.

Social 20-1

I finished off the "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism" PowerPoint presentation today. I will send a copy of it to you this weekend. I also gave you your essay question sheet today. Remember, you are writing your Unit 2 Essay on Monday in Room 241. If you missed class today, you NEED this essay question sheet. Please send me an e-mail and I'll send you the essay question sheet (in your e-mail tell me if you're in my Period 3 or Period 4 class). Here's the study guide for the Unit 2 Final Exam (which is on Wednesday, May 12th).

May 6

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I went through a PowerPoint presentation on plagiarism at the beginning of class. I also finished off talking about the "Recipe for Success" for essays. You will get your essay question sheet tomorrow. You completed an opinion survey on issues related to nationalism and internationalism, and then we had a brief discussion about the statements in the opinion survey. I also started a PowerPoint presentation that corresponds to Chapter 9 material called "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism". Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Wednesday, May 12th, please see the study guide here. Please check your e-mail this evening, I am sending you some documents and the plagiarism PowerPoint presentation.

Social 30-1

We watched a short video on electoral college system, if you want to watch it again, here is the hyperlink. As we watched this video I stopped it occasionally to point out a few quirks with this system, namely that you can win the popular vote and still not win enough electoral college votes to become president. The other day, I talked about the 2000 election. In that election Florida was the key state. Previously in class I've talked a little bit about the differences between the types of ballots used in Canada and in the United States. In many counties in Florida during the 2000 election they used what's called a butterfly ballot where you punch holes in the ballot to indicate which candidate you are voting for. I think the following graphic illustrates nicely what this ballot looked like.

I think you can see how this might have caused some confusion. If you can't see the ballot clearly, just click on it and you should see a larger view. If you want to look at past U.S. Presidential elections and see the U.S. electoral college maps for the past ten elections, have a look at Real Clear Politics. Have a look at the 1984 election, that was extremely one-sided!

I'm adding some links under the Social 30-1 Links on this page to help you out with your USA-Canada Political System Comparison Chart assignment (which is due next Thursday). Here some websites that I think will help (permanent links will appear on the right-hand side of the blog under Social 30-1 Links):

• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government
• Elections Canada
• Real Clear Politics
• Canadian Parliament
• Canadian Senate
• Government of Canada: Democratic Reform
• The White House
• The United States Senate
• The House of Representatives
• The Electoral College System
• USA: How a Bill Becomes a Law

We also looked at the system of checks and balances in the American presidential system.

Here is a link to the Examples of Students' Writing from the January 2010 Diploma Exam. Obviously, you don't study their responses because the three sources will be different and the text-based source for the WRA II will be different too. But this should give you an idea of the standards for the Diploma.

May 5

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You wrote your Chapter 7-8 Test today in class. I then had a little bit of time to talk about your Unit 2 Collaborative Inquiry Projects and how to set up navigation on your wikis. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is next Wednesday (May 12th), please see the study guide below.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

1. Study the following PowerPoint presentations from Unit 2:

• The Causes of World War I
• Total War-Allied Victory in WWI-Paris Peace Conference
• Ultranationalism in WWII: Italy, Japan, Germany
• The Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII
• The Holocaust
• Eight Stages of Genocide (from the Genocide Watch website)
• Contemporary Examples of Genocide

2. Know the following key concepts:

• national interest
• domestic policy
• foreign policy
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• Treaty of Versailles
• Big Four (Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando)
• appeasement
• ultranationalism
• propaganda
• conscription crisis
• Adolf Hitler
• Nazis
• Hirohito
• Tojo
• Kristallnacht
• The Way of Subjects
• League of Nations
• total war
• internment
• War Measures Act
• Great Depression
• the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
• irredentism
• genocide
• crimes against humanity
• war crimes
• Holocaust
• ethnic cleansing
• lebensraum
• Weimar Republic
• Final Solution
• decolonization
• successor state
• self-determination

3. Make sure that you review the following broad topics in your review of Unit 2 (and make sure that you can answer ALL of the questions on the Unit 2 Worksheet):

• World War I (don't concern yourself with memorizing battles though)
• Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
• The Interwar Years
• Rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Japan, and Italy
• Causes of World War II and key events (turning points in the war)
• The Holocaust
• Contemporary examples of genocide (review case studies that were emphasized in class and in the textbook, review your notes for "Scream Bloody Murder", "Shake Hands with the Devil")
• Decolonization and self-determination (quick review of "Gandhi" film study booklet, what are successor states? What is self-determination? Kosovo case study)
  

Social 30-1

I went through different electoral systems today, we looked at first past the post and proportional representation. We also looked at recasting the 2008 Canadian federal election using a simple proportion representation system and the impact that it would have on smaller parties (the Green Party) and political parties like the Bloc Quebecois that only run candidates in Quebec. We also looked at how a bill becomes a law in Canada. I started talking about the American government structure. If you missed class today, you need to get notes from a classmate. Tomorrow I will delve into the electoral college system in greater detail and talk checks and balances in the American political system.

May 4

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You wrote your Unit 2 Written Response Assignment II today in Room 241. This took the entire period.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 2 Written Response Assignment I today. Afterwards, I gave you the 20-1 version of the "Recipe for Success" on WRA II (in-class position papers). You will write your Unit 2 WRA II (in-class position paper) on May 10th. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Wednesday, May 12th. I will post the study guide for the Unit 2 Final Exam tomorrow on the blog. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7-8 Test tomorrow, the study guide is here for this test.

May 3

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You watched a video on "Comparative Government" and completed a video study sheet. Also, you looked at the structure of Canadian government. You should have also received the Unit 2 WRA II essay question sheet. I will be sending this out along with the "Recipe for Success" for WRA II tonight.

Social 20-1

Aside from the Holocaust Symposium today, I also went through the early stages of writing essays: constructing arguments and examples. Tomorrow you will be writing the Unit 2 WRA I (3 source analysis) during class time. After this, I'll probably have you look at the "Recipe for Success" for a WRA II (position paper). On Wednesday, you have your Chapter 7-8 Test. Please see the study guide here.