March 25

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class today, which you'll get back after Spring Break. I started a PowerPoint presentation today called "Legacies of Historical Globalization in Canada" which I will finish after the break. Please remember that your Imperialism Research Project is due on Wednesday, April 13th, and over the break you might want to get some work done on this project. don't forget that you have your Chapter 7 Test on Tuesday, April 5th, please see the study guide here.

Social 30-1

We finished watching the second part of the A & E Biography on Adolf Hitler today. I gave you a Fascism Booklet which is due on the Monday when you get back from Spring Break. There were enough of you missing today that I will send this out by e-mail today. Please have a look at the upcoming important dates.

• Fascism Booklet due on Monday, April 4th
• Unit 2 WRA I is on Monday, April 4th
• Chapter 5 Test is on Tuesday, April 5th (please see the study guide here)
• Nazi Germany Quiz is on Thursday, April 6th (please see the study guide below)

Nazi Germany Quiz Study Guide:

This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. What you'll have is a list of key people, key terms and key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz:

• anti-Semitism
• Aryan
• concentration camp
• corporate state
• Dachau
• decree
• deportation
• dissent
• elite
• Enabling Act
• ethnic
• Führerprinzip
• Gestapo
• Hitler
• Holocaust
• indoctrination
• inequality
• inflation
• judicial
• jugend
• Mein Kampf
• Kristallnacht
• nationalism
• Nazi
• Niemoller
• Nuremberg
• passive
• plebiscites
• pogrom
• Reichstag
• Ruhr
• SA
• SS
• state
• swastika
• War Guilt Clause
• White Rose

March 24

Social 30-1

You wrote your Economic Systems Final Exam today, which took most of the period. You will get the results back tomorrow. We'll be finishing off the "Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" biography tomorrow. Please have a look at the upcoming important dates.

• Unit 2 WRA I is on Monday, April 4th
• Chapter 5 Test is on Tuesday, April 5th (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it)

Social 10-1

We finished watching "Tools of Exploitation" today and then I showed you a little bit of how to use Prezi. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 7 Test is on Tuesday, April 5th. Please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

March 23

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We continued looking at different types of dictatorships today (I will re-visit this topic later in the course) such as autocracy, minority tyranny, majority tyranny, oligarchy, military dictatorships, fascism, communism. Then we started looking at totalitarianism and the charactetrisitcs that it shares with dictatorships (remember totalitarianism is a type of dictatorship, but not all dictatorships are totalitarian). We also watched part of the A & E Biography of Adolf Hitler called "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". We will finish this video on Friday. I also gave you a handout looking at the similarities and differences between communism and fascism that you must read. Your Economic Systems Final is tomorrow, please see the study guide here. Please also check out the list of upcoming important dates:

• Economic Systems Final Exam is on Thursday, March 24th (please see study guide here)
• Unit 2 WRA I is on Monday, April 4th
• Chapter 5 Test is on Tuesday, April 5th (please see the study guide here)

Also, I forgot to post a link to student writing samples from previous Diploma Exams. Please click on this link and it will take you to the Diploma Exam Student Writing Samples, so you can see some past examples of three sources that appear on Diploma Exams.

Social 10-1

The vast majority of today's class was spent in the library doing research for the Imperialism Research Project (I will be talking more about this project in the next couple of days). This project will be due on Wednesday, April 13th. The product will be a Prezi, so if you don't know what Prezi is, you might want to visit their website and find out a little bit about the "zooming presentation tool". If you do check out Prezi, make sure that you click on the "explore" tab so you can see some examples of what Prezis can look like. Your Chapter 7 Test is on April 5th, please see the study guide below.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and a short answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Quiz:

• historical globalization
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• Adam Smith
• entrepreneur
• communism
• industrialization
• the Industrial Revolution
• cottage system
• physiocrats
• exploitation
• imperialism
• Eurocentrism
• ethnocentrism
• European imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence
  

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

• What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
• What values are associated with capitalism?
• Whose values did industrialization effect?
• Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
• What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
• In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?
  
  

March 22

Social 10-1

I finished off the PowerPoint called "Legacies of Historical Globalization" which I will be sending to you by e-mail tonight and putting up on the wiki as well. We also started watching a video from the Africans series called "Tools of Exploitation", which we will finish on Thursday. Tomorrow you will have library reasearch time for your Imperialism Research Projects. This is your one and only class period to do this research, please come to the classroom first and then we'll go down to the library.

Social 30-1

I gave you back the results of the Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test today, and the results were very good. Please remember that you have your Economic Systems Final Exam on Thursday, please see the study guide here. Most of the period was spent looking at how to write the WRA I from Part A of your Diploma Exam. On Monday, April 4th you will be writing a Unit 2 WRA I, so please make sure that you know how to write these assignments. I will be sending today's PowerPoint presentation to you tonight. I also gave you a couple of handouts on democratic and non-democratic systems, please make sure that you read both of these handouts. Tomorrow, we'll continue on looking at types of dictatorships and totalitarianism. On Tuesday, April 5th, you will be writing a Chapter 5 Test which will cover the USSR and Nazi Germany, please see the study guide below.

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Tuesday, April 5th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt): I will be sending this PowerPoint to you
• 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 21

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions today. Your Chapter 7 Test will be on Tuesday, April 5th, so I will post the study guide tomorrow on the blog (and on the wiki). I started a PowerPoint presentation today that I will finish off tomorrow called "Legacies of Historical Globalization". I will send this presentation to you tomorrow, and it will be posted on the wiki as well.

Social 30-1

Most of today's class was spent writing the Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test. you will get the results of this test back tomorrow. Please remember that your Chapter 5 Questions are due on Wednesday, many of you have completed this already, so it might be best to concentrate on review of the command economy for Thursday's test. On Thursday, you will be writing your Economic Systems Final Exam, which covers the market, mixed and command economies. Please see the study guide here. The Economic Systems Final Exam is a very challenging test, so please review!

March 18

Social 10-1

I gave you the marks back for the Illustrated Concept Map Assignment and your Unit 1 Essay as well. I gave you some time to work on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Monday. I also finished delivering the "Legacies of Historical Globalization and Imperialism" PowerPoint presentation (this is on the wiki already). Please make sure that you print this off and add it to your notes.

Social 30-1

If you missed class today, you missed some notes on the Soviet leaders that you'll have to get from a classmate. You also got a couple of handouts from me, one entitled "Gorbachev to Collapse Notes" and the other handout was on "Market Socialism". Please have a look at the upcoming important dates:

• Economic Planning in the USSR Booklet is due on Monday, March 21st
• Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test is on March 21st (please see the study here )
• Chapter 5 Questions are due on Wednesday, March 23rd
• Economic Systems Test is on Thursday, March 24th (please see the study guide here)
  

March 17

Social 30-1

You should have covered a lot of ground today in our study of the USSR and the command economy. You watched the video called "Joseph Stalin: Red Terror" and completed a film study sheet to go along with it. You should have got some notes that covered "Changes to the Soviet System After Stalin". You also should have received another notes package on the Economic Planning in the USSR booklet. This booklet is due on Monday. Please remember that you have your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test on Monday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Next Thursday (March 24th) you have your Economic Systems Test, 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 24th.

• 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 will get these notes soon)
• Economic Planning in the USSR
  

Social 10-1

You should have gone through the "Historical Globalization and Imperialism" PowerPoint presentation, and as the substitute went through the presentation you should have taken notes. I will be sending this PowerPoint presentation to you this evening, and it will also be up on the wiki soon. If you had time left over after the presentation, you should have received some time to work on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Monday. You should have also handed in your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions.

March 16

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I went through the start of a PowerPoint presentation called "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism", which I will come back to once we have finished dealing with the USSR and the command economy. I also gave you some handouts on the "Soviet Economic System", with detailed notes on the Five Year Plans, collectivization and the central planning of production. This handout should be considered the partner handout to yesterday's "The Structure of the Soviet Economy" notes. I also gave you another handout on the "Characteristics of a Command Economy" (this had notes on the advantages and disadvantages of the command economy as well). I did a homework check on the Chapter 5 Key Terms, and by the sounds of things many of you also completed the questions from the Chapter 5 Worksheet as well. The questions from the Chapter 5 Worksheet will be due next Wednesday (March 23rd). Please remember that you have your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test on Monday, March 21st, please see the study guide here. Your Economic Systems Final has been moved to Thursday, March 24th. I will post the study guide for this test tomorrow on the blog.

Social 10-1

We were able to do an activity based around the story "The Rabbits". These book addresses some of the themes that we'll be looking at Unit 2, such as cultural contact, assimilation, imperialism, differing world views, and residential schools. We spent a fair bot of time looking at the symbolism in the book and some of the themes that the book introduces. You also had some time to work on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions (these are due on Monday). Please remember that your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

March 14

Social 10-1

I went through a sample outline for a Unit 1 Essay today. I have sent this outline to you already. You have your Unit 1 Essay tomorrow, please go directly to the Blenheim Room. The outline I went through today was for a different text-based source, but it was very similar to the one that you will be writing on tomorrow. I also gave you the Unit 2 Worksheet today. We'll start Unit 2 material on Wednesday.

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today, and I returned your Analyzing Political Cartoon Assignments as well. You wrote your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test today. Next Monday (March 21st), you will be writing your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test, please see the study guide below. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms are due on Wednesday.

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 (handout)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (handout)
  

March 11

Social 10-1

I went through the Recipe for Success for WRA II Essays. I have sent this handout to you by e-mail, along with an Analyzing Quotes handout, a handout on Rhetorical Analysis, and the essay question sheet for the Unit 1 WRA II. I really recommend that you prepare for the Unit 1 WRA II this weekend by putting together arguments and evidence for the essay. Here are the links to the articles that we read and debated on Monday: "Globalization Benefits the World's Cultures", and "Globalization Harms the World's Cultures". Please check your e-mail as well, because I have sent you links to the Globalization 101 culture brief and a link to the Opposing Viewpoints website which will be helpful in preparing for your essay.

Social 30-1

I went through the important pieces of information from the crisis economics article that I gave you on Wednesday. I also gave you some notes on Russian history. I also sent you some notes on Marx, Lenin and Stalin, so make sure that you check your e-mail. I also gave you the Chapter 5 Worksheet. The Chapter 5 Key Terms will be due on Wednesday. Please see the study guide for the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test (scroll down to find it), which is on Monday. Please remember that your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Monday.

March 9

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I finished off the PowerPoint presentation called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism", and I will be e-mailing this one out this afternoon, so please check your e-mail. I also gave you a handout on supply-side economics, and another handout on how Keynesian economics deals with a recession and how supply-side economics deals with a recession. Please make sure that you read the article on crisis economics that I gave you today comparing how the United States and the United Kingdom are dealing with the economic crisis differently. We'll go over this article on Friday. Please remember that Parent-Teacher-Student Interviews are tomorrow from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., so you don't have school tomorrow.

Please remember to study for your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" which is on Monday (your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due the same day), please see the study guide for this test here (scroll down to find it).

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam today, which took most of the period. You'll get the results of this test back on Friday. Please make sure that you read "Guns, Money and Cellphones". We'll continue looking at writing position papers on Friday.

March 8

Social 10-1

We started today looking at the formulation of arguments and evidence on a position paper by brainstorming arguments around convincing a friend to come to Churchill as a student. We looked at the difference between arguments and evidence. We also started to look at elements that would go into a first paragraph of a position paper. On Friday, we'll continue to look at strategies to make you more successful on writing the WRA II Essays in not only 10-1, but for the years ahead. Don't forget that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Your Unit 1 WRA II Essay is next Tuesday. Make sure you check out yesterday's post as well for links to the two articles on globalization and the impact it has on cultures around the world.

Social 30-1

We watched a couple of videos on how the welfare state operates in Norway and the Netherlands by watching "Welfare a la Carte" and "Dutch Treat" from the TV show 60 Minutes. We then started a PowerPoint presentation called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism". I should be able to finish this presentation/lecture off tomorrow. This PowerPoint presentation corresponds to the later half of Chapter 4 and Chapter 6. We'll definitely get into neo-conservatism and supply-side economics tomorrow as well. Please remember that your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. Your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" is on Monday as well, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

March 7

Social 10-1

Most of today's activity centered around looking at the challenges and opportunities associated with globalization. The class was split in half and one half of the class was given an article entitled "Globalization Benefits the World's Cultures", and the other half of the class was given an article entitled "Globalization Harms the World's Cultures". You were to read the article (see hyperlinked articles above), and then we had a very brief debate/discussion on the issues raised. The intent of today's class was to expose you to the differing viewpoints on how globalization is impacting the world's cultures and lays the foundation for future discussions on positional thinking on the issue. In other words, today's activity should help you when it comes time to writing the Unit 1 WRA II (Essay) on Tuesday, March 15th. It is really recommended that you read both of the articles that were given out today. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it; the study guide is also on the wiki). This unit final will not appear on your interim report cards that will be going home on Wednesday, so essentially the interim report cards could inaccurate or out of date the moment you get them. Here is the "digital divide" map that I was talking about in class. There may be a tendency to say that unique cultures around the world can always use the Internet and media and communication technologies that we all have access to in North America, but that may not be the case in all of the world as this map helps to illustrate.

Social 30-1

Your "Sweden: The Welfare State" booklets were due today, so I did a homework check on them at the beginning of class. You had most of the period to work on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions, and to actually read Chapter 6 as well. We'll be looking at "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" for most of the week. Next Monday (March 14th) you will write your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test", 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

March 4

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You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I in-class writing assignment today in class. You should get the results back for this assignment on Monday. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday. Please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

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You wrote your political cartoon analysis assignment in class today. Please remember that your "Sweden: The Welfare State" booklets are due on Monday.

March 3

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I went through material in today's class differently depending on which period you had me. I really think that you all should watch the embedded video below on the credit crisis and how that contributes to the global recession. Please make sure that you read the handout on the causes of the global recession that I gave you as well today. You also got handouts on democratic socialism and the mixed economy, and the case study of Sweden. The "Welfare State: Sweden" Booklets will be due on Monday, March 7th. Tomorrow you will be doing an in-class writing assignment on political cartoons, be on time!

Social 10-1

I gave you back your practice WRA I in-class writing assignments that you wrote on Tuesday. I went through an exemplar of what the introductory paragraph and analysis of sources might look like. I have sent this to you, and a rubric for the WRA I as well. You will be writing your Unit 1 WRA I tomorrow in class. Next Wednesday, you have your Unit 1 Final Exam, please see the study guide below.

Social 10-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Wednesday, March 9th. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

Please study your key terms from Chapters 1-5, and the topics covered in that unit.
1. Key Terms/Key Concepts in Unit 1:

• globalization
• pluralistic society
• transnationals
• society
• “the global village”
• United Nations
• G-8
• La Francophonie
• NATO
• individual identity
• collective identity
• traditions
• minority group
• official bilingualism
• universalization of pop culture
• hybridization
• media transnationals
• media consolidation
• CBC/SRC
• Official Languages Act
• CRTC
• Canadian Content (CanCon)
• homogenization
• monoculture
• assimilation
• marginalization
• accommodation
• secularism
• integration
• cosmopolitan
• acculturation
• cultural revitalization
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  

2. Know your case studies extremely well!
3. Be able to apply key concepts! (see comments above)
4. Please review the "Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization" PowerPoint (it's on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations)

March 2

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We continued to look at the Great Depression and FDR's New Deal. I gave you a couple of sets of handouts on this topic. We also started to make some connections between the FDR administration's response to the Great Depression and the Obama administrations' response to the Great Recession. We listened to the NPR podcast on Obama adopting Keynesian economics to battle the recession. Please check out the article that goes along with the podcast. I did a homework check on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions. We'll look at the causes of the Great Recession tomorrow.

Social 10-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today, which took most of the class. Tomorrow you will get back your practice WRA I that you wrote in class yesterday. We'll go over the sources again, and I'll show you an exemplar of the WRA I. Please remember that you will be writing your Unit 1 WRA I (3 source analysis) on Friday.

March 1

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I gave you a handout today with advice on how to write a WRA I which covered a lot of the same territory as the notes that I put on the board yesterday. You wrote a practice WRA I for about 60 minutes, which I will look over and provide feedback on and return to your prior to Friday. On Friday you will be writing a actual WRA I that will be counted for marks. Please remember that you have your Chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide here.

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We went over Keynesian economics again today by reviewing what the monetary and fiscal policy responses would be like in various economic situations on the boom and bust cycle. We then went into extreme detail on monetary and fiscal policy. If you understand completely the contents of the booklet that we went through on monetary and fiscal policy, there is no way that you'll get a multiple choice question wrong on the Diploma Exam. We also watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "FDR and the New Deal". As you watched this video, you were to take notes on the topics covered in the video. We'll continue to look at the Great Depression and the FDR administration's response to the economic crisis facing the United States tomorrow.