May 29

Social 30-1

We finished watching "Shouting Fire" today, hopefully you got an appreciation of first amendment issues in the United States after watching this film. I also mentioned connections that could made between the ideas of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of the press and topics that we've covered already. You should be able to see connections between the ideas of Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire, and the often quoted passage of Benjamin Franklin ("They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.") and some of the ideas that were raised by this film. One of the key points in the film was that in times of crisis free speech is a freedom that is often restricted. There's no school on Thursday or Friday. You have a Unit 3 Final Exam on Tuesday, June 4th, please see the study guide below.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Tuesday, June 4th. 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:

• 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

We went through a brief History of French-English Relations in Canadian History today. This PowerPoint represents Unit 4 material. I will send it to you today. This lecture took most of the period (sorry!). You have no school tomorrow or Friday. You have a Unit 3 Final Exam on Monday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Part A of your Final Exam is on Tuesday, June 4th and it is a WRA II Essay. You will be writing this essay in the Blenheim Room.

IB 30/35

You wrote your Economic Systems Exam today, and you had the entire period to write it. Your next exam is on Thursday, June 6th and it is a Political Systems Exam.

Political Systems Test Study Guide:

The Political Systems Test will be on Thursday, June 4th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. 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
• review fascism and Nazism (test has questions on the 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

May 28

IB 30/35

We did some review today of demand-side and supply-side economics, as well as the command economy. Make sure that you review all notes associated with the Soviet economy that are on the wiki under Unit 2. You have your Economic Systems Exam tomorrow.

Economic Systems Exam Study Guide:

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 Wednesday, May 29th.

• study all of the following PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki for Unit 2:

            - The Development of Classical Liberalism
            - Responding to Classical Liberalism
            - The Evolution of Modern Liberalism
            - 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism

• 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) from the wiki
• 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)
• 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 is on the wiki)
• 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
• Lenin notes
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• Stalin notes
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes

Social 20-1

We did a group brainstorming session on contemporary global issues and how international organizations (NGOs and IGOs) deal with those problems. I have sent the results of the session as well as a copy of a previous group's work. Your Chapter 13 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Monday, June 3rd.

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 Unit 3 WRA II Essay today in the Blenheim Room, which took most of the period. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Tuesday, June 4th.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Tuesday, June 4th. 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:

• 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 27

IB 30/35

We covered a lot of concepts related to classical liberalism today. We looked at the development of classical liberalism and the development of other ideologies during the Industrial Revolution. We did some basic review of economic systems, and did a brief review of key features of a market economy and the business cycle. Make sure that you review concepts related to the command economy tonight, we'll be covering Keynesian economics, mixed economy and centrally planned economy tomorrow in advance of the Economic Systems Exam on Wednesday. Please see the study guide below.

Economic Systems Exam Study Guide:

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 Wednesday, May 29th.

• study all of the following PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki for Unit 2:

           - The Development of Classical Liberalism
           - Responding to Classical Liberalism
           - The Evolution of Modern Liberalism
           - 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism

• 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) from the wiki
• 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)
• 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 is on the wiki)
• 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
• Lenin notes
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• Stalin notes
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes

Social 30-1

You wrote your Chapter 10 Test today which took most of the class period. You are writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay tomorrow in the Blenheim room, so please go there directly. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Tuesday, June 4th.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Tuesday, June 4th. 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:

• 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

We watched a documentary film today from CBC's Doc Zone series called "Darfur: On Our Watch". You also received the results from your Unit 3 WRA II essay and your Unit 2 Research Project. Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. I did a homework check on the Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Monday, June 3rd.

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

May 24

IB 30/35

You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam today, which took most of the period. Make sure that you review Unit 2 material that is on the IB 30/35 wiki. Make sure that you study the Unit 2 PowerPoint presentations and notes. You will be writing your Economic Systems Exam on Wednesday, May 29th, please see the study guide below.

Economic Systems Exam Study Guide:

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 Wednesday, May 29th.

• study all of the following PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki for Unit 2:

                - The Development of Classical Liberalism
                - Responding to Classical Liberalism
                - The Evolution of Modern Liberalism
                - 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism

• 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) from the wiki
• 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)
• 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 is on the wiki)
• 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
• Lenin notes
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• Stalin notes
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes

 

Social 30-1

We started looking at the issue of freedom of speech by watching an HBO documentary called "Shouting Fire". As you watched the film you should have been taking notes on the case studies that were featured in the documentary. We will finish this video on Wednesday next week. On Monday, you're writing the Chapter 10 Test, and then on Tuesday you're writing the Unit 3 WRA II Essay.  

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:

• 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!)

Social 20-1

You had a work period to read Chapter 11 and complete your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions. The Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, and the Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday. You'll be getting the Unit 4 Worksheet on Tuesday, so that means that your Chapter 13 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Wednesday, May 29th. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Monday, June 3rd, and you can find the study guide for this exam 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

May 23

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 3 WRA II Essay today in the Blenheim lab, which took the entire period. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Monday, June 3rd. I'm putting the study guide up here on the blog a little early, so take advantage of this. 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

I gave you a couple of handouts on the USA PATRIOT Act today. Please make sure that you read over the Anti-Terrorism Act and US Patriot Act readings that I sent to you yesterday. We watched a documentary film called "Unconstitutional" today and completed a film study of this video. If you missed class today you can find the video 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:

• 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!)

IB 30/35

You wrote a short test today that covered a number of topics in Social 30-1 Unit 1. We reviewed how to write a WRA II essay today as well. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide below. Check out the samples of student writing from previous Diploma Exams.

Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Friday, May 24th. Make sure that you study the following:

• Study the principles of individualism (PRICES) and principles of collectivism (PRINCE)
• Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file)
• Study the 19th Century Political Spectrum
• Study the 20th Century Political spectrum
• Study the political-economic grid
• Know the values and ideas associated with the various ideologies (on the 19th century and 20th century spectrums)
• Study the Individualism and Collectivism booklet
• review your Enlightenment philosophers that you were introduced to previously: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau

Economic Systems Exam Study Guide:

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 Wednesday, May 29th.

• study all of the following PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki for Unit 2:

              - The Development of Classical Liberalism
              - Responding to Classical Liberalism
              - The Evolution of Modern Liberalism
              - 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism

• 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) from the wiki
• 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)
• 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 is on the wiki)
• 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
• Lenin notes
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• Stalin notes
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes

May 22

Social 30-1

We finished off the FLQ Crisis video from the History's Turning Points series today. We started to develop an understanding of historical context by examining the 9/11 attacks. In order to understand the mood in the United States after 9/11 and be able to provide a rationale for why they pushed through the USA PATRIOT Act so quickly you need this context. Make sure that complete all of the video questions from the CBC News in Review booklet that I gave you as well as read all of the articles in that booklet as well. Please check your e-mail tonight for notes on the Patriot Act and the Anti-Terrorism Act. Please print these notes off, read them, highlight them and annotate them prior to tomorrow's class. Your Chapter 10 Test is on Monday, 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:

• 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!)

Social 20-1

You had most of the class period to work on a foreign policy booklet that required you to define key terms and concepts, and to provide examples of these key concepts. I will do a homework check on this booklet on Friday. You should have completed this work in class. You also had some time to do some group brainstorming on arguments and evidence for tomorrow's Unit 3 WRA II Essay. Don't be late tomorrow, since we're writing this essay right at the beginning of the day in the Blenheim lab.
 

IB 30/35

We did a lot of review today in preparation for tomorrow's written test. I reviewed the 19th century political spectrum, the 20th century political spectrum, the principles of individualism (PRICES) and the principles of collectivism (PRINCE), the economic-political grid and the techniques of dictatorship. All of these concepts were taught to you in Grade 11, but we needed to review these concepts. You are writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on Friday, please see the study guide below. You have your Economic Systems Exam on Wednesday, May 29th, this exam deals with the market economy, the mixed economy, and the command economy. In the first semester you wrote an exam that covered the market and mixed economy, so it expands on those concepts. You can find the study guide below.

Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Friday, May 24th. Make sure that you study the following:

• Study the principles of individualism (PRICES) and principles of collectivism (PRINCE)
• Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file)
• Study the 19th Century Political Spectrum
• Study the 20th Century Political spectrum
• Study the political-economic grid
• Know the values and ideas associated with the various ideologies (on the 19th century and 20th century spectrums)
• Study the Individualism and Collectivism booklet
• review your Enlightenment philosophers that you were introduced to previously: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau

Economic Systems Exam Study Guide:

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 Wednesday, May 29th.

 
• study all of the following PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki for Unit 2:

                   - The Development of Classical Liberalism
                   - Responding to Classical Liberalism
                   - The Evolution of Modern Liberalism
                   - 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism

• 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) from the wiki 
• 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)
• 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 is on the wiki)
• 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
• Lenin notes
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• Stalin notes 
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes

May 21

IB 30/35

In today's class we reviewed how to write a WRA I three source analysis in preparing for the Alberta Diploma Exams. You are writing a Social 30-1 Unit 1 Final Exam on Friday, May 24th. You need to go to the wiki and go to the Unit 1 section, and start going over the notes and PowerPoint presentations on that page. We will be reviewing a lot of material that you've already been taught prior to Friday's exam. I will post the study guide here.

Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Friday, May 24th. Make sure that you study the following:

• Study the principles of individualism (PRICES) and principles of collectivism (PRINCE)
• Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file)
• Study the 19th Century Political Spectrum
• Study the 20th Century Political spectrum
• Study the political-economic grid
• Know the values and ideas associated with the various ideologies (on the 19th century and 20th century spectrums)
• Study the Individualism and Collectivism booklet
• review your Enlightenment philosophers that you were introduced to previously: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau

Social 20-1

You got the results of the Unit 2 WRA II Essay today. I finished off the "Internationalism and Nationalism" PowerPoint presentation today, and I will send it off to you this afternoon. I also gave you the Unit 3 WRA II Essay question sheet today. I will send it to you this afternoon along with a rough essay outline for this question today. You are writing this essay on Thursday. If you scored 80% or higher on your essay please send it to me please, I'd like to give people some exemplars.

Social 30-1

I gave you back the results from your Unit 2 WRA II Essay today. You will be writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay one week from today. You will not get the essay question sheet in advance, and you will not be allowed to access the Internet while you write this essay. We started looking at a case study of illiberalism from Canadian history, namely the FLQ Crisis of 1970. We watched a video from the History's Turning Point series on the FLQ Crisis and completed a film study on this topic. Please make sure that you complete all sections of this package. If you scored 80% or higher on your essay please send it to me please, I'd like to give people some exemplars.

May 16

IB 30/35

Please make sure that you complete your computer tutorial in D2L if you want to use a computer to write your English and Social Studies Diploma Exam. The deadline to complete the tutorial in D2L is fast approaching (it has to be completed before Monday). If you don't complete the online tutorial, you will be writing your English and Social Studies Diploma Exam Part A by hand! Get this completed this weekend!!

Social 20-1

We continued Unit 3 material today. I started a PowerPoint lecture today on "Internationalism and Nationalism", which I will continue after the long weekend. Your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, May 21st. You'll be writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay one week from today. You will get your Unit 2 WRA II Essays back on Tuesday.

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions.  You wrote an analysis of a propaganda poster today, which took about half of the class period. Don't forget to complete your US Civil Rights Movement Assignment this weekend, it's due on Tuesday. I have sent to you the essay outline sheets for the back half of the assignment sheet, so check your e-mail for this handout.  Your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions will due on Wednesday, May 22nd.

May 15

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment. If you don't hand this project in today, you will lose 10% per day that it is late. If you missed class today, please make sure that you get notes from a classmate. I wrote notes out for several Unit 3 key concepts such as civil rights, human rights, entrenching rights, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I also discussed the usage of the War Measures Act. I'm starting to set the stage for the concept of illiberalism that we'll be dealing with next week. I gave you some handouts today for writing an analysis of a propaganda poster, which you will have to do tomorrow in class. You're allowed to have these handouts out when you're writing your analysis. Your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions will due on Wednesday, May 22nd.

Social 20-1

We continued Unit 3 material today. I went through a PowerPoint today on "Canada's Foreign Policy", and I will be sending this presentation to you this afternoon. Your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, May 21st.

IB 30/35

Please make sure that you complete your computer tutorial in D2L if you want to use a computer to write your English and Social Studies Diploma Exam

May 14

IB 30/35

Please make sure that you complete your computer tutorial in D2L if you want to use a computer to write your English and Social Studies Diploma Exam

Social 20-1

I gave you back your results on the Unit 2 Final Exam today. If you still need to write this exam, the next time I see you, then you will write the exam. You also got your Unit 2 WRA I assignments back today. I also returned your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions. I assigned the Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions (due next Tuesday). Make sure that you read Chapter 10! Tomorrow we will be talking about Canada's foreign policy.

Social 30-1

I showed you a video from the CBC News in Review series from October 2009. It covered "Afghanistan's Troubled Election". You also had time to work on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions. These key terms and questions are due on Thursday. Your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due tomorrow (May 15th).

May 13

Social 30-1

We started looking at a case study of authoritarianism today, namely the People's Republic of China. We watched a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series, "One Man's Revolution" and "China Since Mao". I also gave you a couple of reading packages, one called "The End of Democracy?" which originally appeared in Maclean's magazine, the other package covered the modern history of China. Your US-Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due on Wednesday, May 15th, and your US Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Tuesday, May 21st.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today, it took most of the period. We'll continue with Unit 3 material tomorrow.

May 10

Oops, I forgot to post on the blog yesterday...

Social 30-1

I delivered a lecture on the "Political Challenges to Liberalism", which covered democratic and non-democratic systems. I have sent this PowerPoint presentation to you already. I also gave you an assignment on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement which is due on Friday, May 17th. Please remember that your USA and Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due on Wednesday, May 15th. Please make sure that you remind me at the beginning of class on Monday to do a homework check on your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions.

Social 20-1

You were given a work period to try to finish off your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions. These key terms and questions are due on Monday. Please remember that your Unit 2 Final Exam is also on Monday. I will be sending out the Unit 3 Worksheet by e-mail today, so if you missed class on Friday you'll have access to the Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam will be written on Monday, May 13th. It is a multiple choice exam.

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)

May 9

Social 20-1

I finished off the PowerPoint lecture that I started yesterday in class. I have sent this presentation to you by e-mail. Please remember that you have your Unit 2 Final Exam on Monday. Please see the study guide below.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam will be written on Monday, May 13th. It is a multiple choice exam.

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

Most of today's class was spent in a discussion activity. I gave you two Post-It notes to write out answers to the following questions:

1. Should the voting age be lowered?
2. Should voting be mandatory?
3. Should everyone over the age of 18 be allowed to vote?
4. Is the first past the post system democratic?

You were to pick two questions and write out your answers to those questions on the Post-It notes and then put your Post-Its up on the board. We then split into three groups to discuss and summarize the arguments given in the answers. We did not discuss all of the questions, in fact almost no one wrote an answer to the fourth question. I have taught you what first past the post (FPTP) is already, check your notes! Don't forget that your US and Canadian Government Comparison Assignment is due on Wednesday, May 15th.

May 8

IB 30/35

You wrote your Paper 1 and Paper 2 today. You'll be writing your Paper 3 tomorrow. Don't be late! If you can drop off your Paper 1 Study Guide duotangs with me tomorrow morning, that would be appreciated.

Social 30-1

I went through the structure of the American political system today. I'm going to embed the video on the electoral college system below. I gave you an assignment today that is due one week from today (May 15th) which will require you to compare and contrast the American and Canadian political systems. Your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

Social 20-1

We started Unit 3 material today. We did an opinion survey which plotted your opinions on a scale ranging from nationalist to internationalist. I started a PowerPoint lecture today that I will continue tomorrow on "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism". Please see the study guide for your Unit 2 Final Exam below. This exam is on Monday.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam will be written on Monday, May 13th. It is a multiple choice exam.

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)

May 7

IB 30/35

A big thank you to those of you who came out to today's optional class. We reviewed some key topics for Paper 3 today. There was one question that I asked you to take home and write a practice outline for: Here are some brief ideas on tackling this particular question:

• This question demands an analysis of the military methods, manpower, strategies, equipment, the use and analysis and exploitation of military intelligence, food supplies for the troops of the two selected countries. I would think that you would select Canada and the United States for this question.  

Please remember that you are writing Paper 1 and Paper 2 tomorrow. Make sure that you review key topics in Prescribed Subject 1: Peacekeeping, Peacemaking and International Relations 1918-1936. For this topic, there is an entire section on the wiki as well as the duotang to help you review for this topic. Paper 2 covers the following three topics: Topic 1: Causes, Practices and Effects of War, Topic 3: Authoritarian and Single Party States, and Topic 5: The Cold War.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA II Essay today and it took the entire period. If you didn't hand in your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions then you can do it tomorrow.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA II Essay today and it took the entire period.

May 6

Social 30-1

We finished off talking about Types of Democratic Systems today. We also looked at the structure of the Canadian political system, how a bill becomes law, the first past the post system and proportional representation. I also assigned your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions for Thursday (you now owe me a favor. I will collect said favor before the end of the semester). Please remember that you are writing your Unit 2 WRA II Essay tomorrow in the library, so please go there directly.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 7-8 Test today, which took most of the class period. Your Unit 2 Research Project was due today as well. Please remember that you will be writing your Unit 2 WRA II Essay tomorrow. You will need to go directly to the library tomorrow. You are writing your Unit 2 Final Exam on May 13th, please see the study guide for this exam below.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam will be written on Monday, May 13th. It is a multiple choice exam.

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)

May 2

Social 20-1

Most of today's class was spent writing a Unit 2 WRA I (three source analysis assignment). We will continue looking at how to write position papers tomorrow. You will also get the essay question sheet that you are allowed to bring with you into the computer lab tomorrow. We're going to talk about organization and structure tomorrow, and build upon the themes of argumentation and evidence that we started on Wednesday. I also sent you a PowerPoint presentation with some tips on how to avoid plagiarism. Please have a look at this presentation. Be very careful with your citations and bibliography on your Unit 2 Research Projects.

Upcoming Important Dates:

• Unit 2 Research Project is due on Monday, May 6th
• Chapter 7-8 Test is on Monday, May 6th (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it)
• Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Tuesday, May 7th
• Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, May 13th

Social 30-1

Most of today's class was spent writing the Unit 2 Final Exam. The results were much better for this exam as opposed to the Cold War Exam. You will be writing your Unit 2 WRA II Essay on Tuesday, May 7th. You will get the essay question sheet tomorrow, and we'll go over how to write essays again.

May 1

Social 30-1

I went through some key concepts for Unit 3 today (theocracy, plutocracy, oligarchy, autocracy, republic, etc.) and we started looking at types of democratic systems. Our two case studies for Unit 3 will be Canada (parliamentary democracy) and the United States (presidential democracy). Please remember that you have your Unit 2 Final Exam tomorrow. You can find the study guide for this exam below. I also did a homework check on the results of your political compass survey and 10 Questions About Democracy film study booklet.

Social 30-1 Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the review hints below:

• study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
• study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)

• study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
• 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)
• 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
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
• modern liberalism
• features of the Nazi state
• Hitler's rise to power
• 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 spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model

Social 20-1

We watched a brief CBC News in Review on Kosovo declaring its independence from Serbia. One of the key issues in this short video was countries that did not recognize Kosovo's independence from Serbia due to a prominent nationalist independence movement within their own borders. By recognizing the independence of a former province of Serbia as being an independent nation-state a international precedence has been set, hence, countries such as Russia, China and Spain did not recognize Kosovo as being independent. Canada took its time in recognizing Kosovo as well, in part because about setting a precedence for Quebec's potential separation from Canada. Remember, Kosovo issued its declaration of independence unilaterally.

We also started to discuss writing position papers by going through an exercise that should have helped you distinguish between arguments and evidence. We'll continue preparing for your Unit 2 WRA II Essay in the days to come. Please remember that you are writing a Unit 2 WRA I three source analysis assignment tomorrow in class.

 

Don't forget that your Chapter 7-8 Test is on Monday, May 6th. You can find the study guide for this test here (scroll down to find it). Your Unit 2 Research Project is also due on Monday as well.