October 31

Happy Halloween!

Social 30-1

You wrote your Chapter 5 Test today. You'll get the results back tomorrow. We should be getting into the Cold War over the course of the next few days.

Social 20-1

We continued our examination of the Holocaust today. We watched a documentary called "Genocide" and I answered some questions about the Holocaust as well. We'll watch some excerpts from Schindler's List tomorrow.

IB 30/35

Your IA rough draft was due today. I continued to lecture on the Paris Peace Conference today. We also started watching the film "Paris 1919". We'll finish this off tomorrow in all likelihood.

October 30

Social 20-1

You were able to select your topic for the Unit 2 Research Project. This project is due on November 25th. After you made your selections I was able to complete a PowerPoint lecture on "The Holocaust". This presentation is on the Social 20-1 wiki (see link under Social 20-1 Links here on the blog) and you have a hard copy in your blue Social 20-1 study booklets. We'll continue our examination of the Holocaust tomorrow.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I three source analysis assignment in class today. Please remember that you are writing your Chapter 5 Test tomorrow. Please see the study guide below.

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Thursday, October 31st. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes (see wiki)
• Lenin notes (see wiki)
• Stalin notes (see wiki)
• 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

IB 30/35

We covered Latin America's role in the First World War today. We began to transition to our Prescribed Subject 1 topic today, "Peacemaking, Peacekeeping and International Relations (1918-1936)" as well. Please remember that your IA rough draft is due tomorrow. WWI battle presentations are starting on Monday, November 4th.

October 29

IB 30/35

I covered the role of Canada in the First World War today. I also showed you a video from the CBS History Series on World War I, today's episode was called "Trench Warfare". Tomorrow we'll look at the role that Latin America played in WWI. Please remember that your rough draft of your IA is due on Thursday, October 31st. You'll be doing a WRA I three source analysis next week on Thursday, November 7th, you'll have 60 minutes to write it. You'll also have a test on Friday, November 8th on the Emergence of the Americas Unit Test which includes 38 multiple choice questions and a matching section. I will post the study guide on the blog later this week.

Social 30-1

We watched the first part of the A & E Biography called "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". I also gave you the results of your Economic Systems Exam today. You have a Unit 2 WRA I three source analysis tomorrow, and then on Thursday you will be writing your Chapter 5 Test, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 20-1

I finished off the topic of "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb". We then watched an excerpt of the film "Saving Private Ryan" to see what the invasion of Normandy (D-Day) might have looked like.

October 24

sorry for the later post tonight, it's been a busy day...

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint on how to write a WRA I. I will give a handout on this very topic tomorrow as well. You will be writing a Unit 2 WRA I on Wednesday, October 30th. Please don't forget that you are writing your Economic Systems Exam on Monday, October 28th, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). One week from today you will write your Chapter 5 Test (on October 31st), please see the study guide below.

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Thursday, October 31st. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes (see wiki)
• Lenin notes (see wiki)
• Stalin notes (see wiki)
• 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

Social 20-1

We talked about the repercussions of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, namely in Canada the internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII. I showed you a video called "The Tides of War" and as you watched this video you had to complete a film study sheet. I also gave you some notes on the War Measures Act and the three instances in Canadian history in which the War Measures Act was used: WWI, WWII and the FLQ Crisis. You are strongly advised to check out "The Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII" PowerPoint presentation that is in your Social 20-1 blue study booklet, or on the Social 20-1 wiki. Please remember that you have your Chapter 5-6 Test on Monday, October 28th, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

IB 30/35

I finished off the "Causes of World War I" PowerPoint lecture. Today's lecture actually focused more on the nature of conflict in WWI. I went through "If World War I were a Barfight" today as well. You should be able to find this on the IB 30/35 wiki, if not, please let me know. We also watched a video from the CBS video series on World War I called "Clash of the Generals". I gave you some notes on this video, and I also talked briefly about the European empires that would not survive after the war. 

I mentioned this in class, so I thought that I would share a link to a website that discusses J.R.R. Tolkien's experiences in the Great War, and how that influenced his writing of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, specifically the Journey through the Dead Marshes. The Great War was also a time when some of our most famous Canadian landscape artists came to the forefront, I'm referring to the Group of Seven, of course. Can you see some similarities in the pictures that I'm posting below?

October 23

Social 20-1

I finished off the lecture on "Ultranationalism in WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan". I then showed you an excerpt from the movie "Pearl Harbor" which does a nice job of recreating the attack on America's Pacific Fleet that was at anchor in Pearl Harbor. Please remember that you have your Chapter 5-6 Test on Monday, October 28th, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 30-1

You got the results back for the Market and Mixed Economy Test. On Monday, October 28th you will write your Economic Systems Exam, please see the study guide here. I gave you handouts that covered the last topics in the command economy, so if you missed class today, you need to get those handouts from the folder at the front of my classroom. I also wrote some basic notes on the board that covered the 20th century leaders of the Soviet Union (get these notes from a classmate if you missed today).

IB 30/35

I talked briefly about your homework assignment that is due on Friday: Harvard style notes for Chapter 17 (specifically section 17-2 onward) and Chapter 18. I started a PowerPoint lecture called "The Causes of World War I" which I will finish off tomorrow. I also showed you the key parts of the "The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand" episode from the BBC's "Days that Shook the World" series.

October 22

IB 30/35

Mr. Oakes came in this morning to tell you all about applying to universities in the USA and across Canada, and how to apply for scholarships and bursaries. If you missed the Paper 3 on Friday, you'll write it tomorrow. I showed you the US History series video called "U.S. and the World" and you were to take notes on the video on a chart. Please read Chapter 17 (section 17-2 onward) and Chapter 18 in United States and Its People. Instead of simply just reading these chapters I want you to take Harvard style notes on Chapter 17 (Roosevelt's domestic policy and progressivism, you'll need this for Social 30-1) and on Chapter 18. I will be taking in these notes on Friday for homework check completion marks. Each student's outline notes should look differently.  

Social 30-1

You wrote your Market and Mixed Economy Test today, it took the entire period. You will get the results back tomorrow. You have your Economic Systems Exam on Monday, October 28th, 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 Monday, October 28th.

• 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)
• 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 (again, you'll get these notes tomorrow)

Social 20-1

I started a lecture on "Ultranationalism in WWII: Germany, Italy and Japan" which I will finish off tomorrow. If you missed class today you need to get the notes from a classmate because I also talked about the 20th century political spectrum and the techniques of dictatorship. On Monday, October 28th you will write your Chapter 5-6 Test, please see the study guide below.

Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide:

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

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

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

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

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

October 17

Social 30-1

You watched an A & E Biography of Joseph Stalin and completed a film study while you watched the film. I also started a PowerPoint lecture on 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism. Please remember that your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. You have your Market and Mixed Economy Test coming up on October 22nd, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 20-1

I showed a documentary from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?", you also completed an activity called "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" You are writing a Unit 2 WRA I three source analysis assignment tomorrow. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on October 22nd.

IB 30/35

You wrote your Civil War and Reconstruction Test today, and you are writing on your Paper 3 on this topic tomorrow.

October 15

I will be missing part of Parent Teacher Student Interviews tomorrow because I must attend a meeting in SW Calgary. It would be best to attend the evening session of interviews if your parents wish to see me.

IB 30/35

We started our next unit, the Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs today. I went through Ms. Breadner's PowerPoint presentation on the topic, and showed you part of a video from the U.S. History series "U.S. and the World". Please remember that on Thursday you have your Civil War and Reconstruction Exam (multiple choice, matching, and source analysis), the study guide is on the wiki. On Friday you are writing a Paper 3 essay on the Civil War and Reconstruction. We'll continue with the Emergence of the Americas unit next week.

Social 30-1

I tied up some loose ends with demand-side and supply-side economics today by showing you the following YouTube video which illustrates the economic battle of ideas between Hayek and Keynes:



If you are interested in this topic, please have a look at the "Battle of Ideas" section from the PBS documentary "The Commanding Heights".

I gave you some notes on Russian History today, so if you missed class today you need to get these notes from a classmate. I also gave you some handouts: "Centrally Planned Economy", and a couple of booklets, one called "The Soviet Economy" and "The Structure of the Soviet Economic System". Please read those booklets, highlight them and annotate them. I also gave you the Chapter 5 Worksheet today. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. Please make sure that you read this chapter! One week from today (October 22nd), you have your Market and Mixed Economy Test. Please see the study guide below.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

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

Social 20-1

I gave back some homework checked assignments at the beginning of the class. We finished off the A & E Biography "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". I gave you some notes on the League of Nations today, we talked about the successes and failures of the League. I taught you the mnemonic FAILURe of the League of Nations. You'll need to apply case studies to illustrate the League's failures, namely the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and the Italian invasion of Abyssinia. You have your Unit 2 WRA I assignment on Friday, review how to write a WRA I. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on October 22nd (one week from today).

October 11

IB 30/35

You wrote a current events quiz at the beginning of the period. You should make sure that you study this weekend for your upcoming assessments next week. On Thursday, October 17th you are writing a 3-part exam on the Civil War and Reconstruction. There will be 30 multiple choice test, a matching section and a document analysis assignment. On Friday, October 18th you will be writing a Paper 3 on the Civil War and Reconstruction. Please make sure that you check out all of the notes on the IB 30 wiki under the U.S. Civil War section. Make sure that you check out the study guide on the wiki (the dates have been changed). Make sure that you've read Chapters 11-13 in The United States and Its People.

Social 20-1

We watched a documentary from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay". We also started the A & E Biography on Adolf Hitler.

Social 30-1

I talked a little bit about supply-side economics today. I also showed a video that explained how the sub-prime mortgage crisis happened. I'm posting the video below. You should also check out this website to better understand the key players in the U.S. government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis: http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/us-fiscal-dashboard/

October 10

Social 30-1

You wrote your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" today. You'll get the results of the test tomorrow. I also went through the "Dealing with a Recession" handout.

Social 20-1

We covered a lot of different topics today: we reviewed the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe), Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the key foreign policy objectives of Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau at the Paris Peace Conference. Please make sure that you read the Interwar Years section in your blue study booklets.
 

IB 30/35

I finished off the PowerPoint lecture on Reconstruction today. I also showed you the "Reconstruction and Segregation" video from the U.S. History series.

October 9

Social 20-1

We watched a video from the BBC series "Days That Shook the World" on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. I then continued lecturing on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles. Make sure that you read "The Issue of Responsibility" and "Canada's Role in World War I". We'll transition into the Interwar Years over the course of the next few days.

Social 30-1

I continued the PowerPoint lecture on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today. Please remember that you have your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" tomorrow, please see the study guide here.

IB 30/35

We finished watching "Lincoln" today. You will be tested on the Civil War and Reconstruction next week, more details on this to follow.

October 8

IB 30/35

We started watching "Lincoln" today, we'll finish it off tomorrow. Please be on time tomorrow. We need to start the film right at the start of class. Please check out the supporting documents that I posted on the IB 30/35 wiki under the U.S. Civil War: the Lincoln film study sheet and a list of the cast of characters.
 

Social 30-1

I started a PowerPoint presentation called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" which I should be able to get through if I don't go off on a crazy tangent. Please remember that you have your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test", please see the study guide here.

Social 20-1

You got the results of your Unit 1 Final Exam today. I also gave back your Unit 1 WRA I three source analysis assignments. I went through how you write a response to the WRA I. You have another WRA I, this time on October 18th covering Unit 2 material. I started a PowerPoint presentation called "Allied Victory in World War I and the Paris Peace Conference". I'll finish off the lecture tomorrow. Please make sure that you read the "Issue of Responsibility" and "Canada's Role in World War I" readings from the Social 20-1 blue study booklets.

October 7

IB 30/35

We finished watching Episode 9 ("The Better Angels of Our Nature") of Ken Burns' "The Civil War" today in class. Your answers to the Episode 9 questions are due tomorrow. We looked at an evaluation of the Lincoln Presidency today, and also started a lecture on Reconstruction. Please remember that you must be in tutorial tomorrow, we're starting the film "Lincoln" tomorrow and we'll be starting the film at 8:30 sharp. Don't be late!

I think I'll post another poem here today. You might remember this one was recited in the Episode 9 documentary by James W. Symington a commentator in the film and a former Congressmen from Missouri. It's Thomas Hardy's "The Man He Killed". An interesting note about Symington: in addition to being a Congressmen, he is also a published poet.

The Man He Killed

Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!

But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
 I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.

I shot him dead because—
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That's clear enough; although

He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
Off-hand like—just as I—
Was out of work—had sold his traps—
No other reason why.

Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to half a crown.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam today, and you had the entire period to write it. You'll get the results of this exam tomorrow, along with your overall mark in the course. Your next major assessment will come on Friday, October 18th when you'll write your Unit 1 WRA I three source analysis in class.

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today. I also returned some homework as well. We watched a couple of videos from the news magazine show 60 Minutes today, one called "Dutch Treat" and then "Welfare a la Carte". The first video focused in on the Netherlands and the social welfare state, and the other on Norway. Please remember that you have your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Thursday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).  

October 4

IB 30/35

You wrote a current events quiz at the beginning of the class today. We finished off Episode 8 of "The Civil War" and promptly started Episode 9. We should be able to finish off Episode 9 on Monday, and then begin assessing the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, and get into our next topic,  Reconstruction.

O Captain! My Captain!

1 O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
2 O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
3 My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

Social 20-1

We completed a simulation of a pre-WWI conference, which never happened. Sometimes the First World War is dubbed the "first man-made catastrophe" of the 20th century. Was the war inevitable? Were the political leaders at the time to blame for not engaging in greater diplomatic efforts to prevent the war? Or was it the case that some countries saw the outbreak of war as the only viable solution to the problems that were plaguing Europe at the time. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday! Please see the study guide below.

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

You will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, October 7th. It is 75 multiple choice questions.

Make sure that you have read Chapters 1-4 in Exploring Nationalism. Please make sure that you know the key concepts from Unit 1 (see below).
Also review the PowerPoint presentations that you should have in your notes.
They are also on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations. These are the presentations that you should review:

1. Nation and Identity
2. The French Revolution
3. The Napoleonic Era
4. Contending Loyalties

Know the key concepts from the Unit 1 Worksheet (a lot of them have been defined on the wiki by your classmates, check under Unit 1 Key Terms).

If you know the key concepts you'll be able apply them to test.

• nation
• nation-state
• nationalism
• patriotism
• self-determination
• sovereignty
• sovereign
• civic nation
• civic nationalism
• ethnic nationalism
• collective consciousness
• French Revolution
• Estates-General
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• cahiers de doléances
• Ancien Régime
• bourgeoisie
• feudal system
• philosophes
• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• National Assembly
• Tennis Court Oath
• constitutional monarchy
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• National Convention
• levée en masse
• Robespierre
• Danton
• Marat
• Reign of Terror
• Napoleon
• Napoleonic Code
• Continental System
• contending loyalties
• cultural pluralism
• reasonable accommodation
• sovereignists
• federalists
• royal commission
• expressions of nationalism
• non-nationalist loyalty
• alienation
• segregation

Social 30-1

You completed your in-class political cartoon analysis assignment and had some time to work on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Monday. You have your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Thursday, October 10th. Please see the study guide here.

October 3

Sorry for the later post tonight...

Social 30-1

I went through some detailed notes on monetary and fiscal policy today. The "Sweden: The Welfare State" booklet is due tomorrow. One week from today you will have your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test". Please see the study guide below.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, October 10th.

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

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

2. Be familiar with key concepts introduced in Chapters 3 and 4.
3. The Industrial Revolution:

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

4. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet
5. Key beliefs of the various ideologies (review the spectrums briefly); also review this material from the "Responding to Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation:

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

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

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today. Please make sure that you read the "Causes of World War I" reading from your blue Social 20-1 study booklets. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, here's the study guide.

IB 30/35

We finished off Episode 5 of "The Civil War", and started Episode 8 today. Your Episode 5 Questions are due on Monday. You have a current events quiz tomorrow. We'll try to finish off Episode 8 tomorrow and then move on to Episode 9.

October 2

Social 20-1

We watched a short documentary video from the CBS World War I series called "Trench Warfare". You had some class time to work on your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions (which are due on Friday). Please remember that you have your Chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow, you can still find the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Please make sure that you read the Causes of World War I in your blue study booklet before Friday's class. Your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Monday, please see the study guide below.

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

You will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, October 7th. It is 75 multiple choice questions. Make sure that you have read Chapters 1-4 in Exploring Nationalism. Please make sure that you know the key concepts from Unit 1 (see below). Also review the PowerPoint presentations that you should have in your notes. They are also on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations. These are the presentations that you should review:

1. Nation and Identity
2. The French Revolution
3. The Napoleonic Era
4. Contending Loyalties

Know the key concepts from the Unit 1 Worksheet (a lot of them have been defined on the wiki by your classmates, check under Unit 1 Key Terms). If you know the key concepts you'll be able apply them to test.

• nation
• nation-state
• nationalism
• patriotism
• self-determination
• sovereignty
• sovereign
• civic nation
• civic nationalism
• ethnic nationalism
• collective consciousness
• French Revolution
• Estates-General
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• cahiers de doléances
• Ancien Régime
• bourgeoisie
• feudal system
• philosophes
• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• National Assembly
• Tennis Court Oath
• constitutional monarchy
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• National Convention
• levée en masse
• Robespierre
• Danton
• Marat
• Reign of Terror
• Napoleon
• Napoleonic Code
• Continental System
• contending loyalties
• cultural pluralism
• reasonable accommodation
• sovereignists
• federalists
• royal commission
• expressions of nationalism
• non-nationalist loyalty
• alienation
• segregation

Social 30-1

I went through some tips on how to analyze political cartoons. You'll be doing an in-class writing assignment on Friday in which you'll pick a political cartoon to write an analysis of it. You'll get 30 minutes to write your analysis. I went through the Great Depression in the USA handout today, and gave you some notes on the board. If you missed class today, please get the notes that you missed from a classmate. I also gave you some booklets on mixed economies and democratic socialism in Sweden. Please make sure that you read and highlight these booklets. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday.

IB 30/35

We continued to watch Ken Burns' "The Civil War" today, specifically Episode 5 "The Universe of Battle" which covered the Battle of Gettysburg in great detail as well as the Battle of Vicksburg. These two battles were key to securing victory for the Union in the Civil War. In this episode you might remember that Ken Burns had an interview Daisy Turner (at the time she was 104 years old) whose father was a former black slave who fought in the Civil War. During her segments of the episode she was seen reciting a poem called "Dear Madam". If you're interested you can see the poem in its entirety below. Burns linked passages of the poem to what was happening in the key battle of this episode, the Battle of Gettysburg. Your Episode 5 Questions aren't due tomorrow, since we didn't finish off the episode. We'll finish off Episode 5 tomorrow, and you'll get to hear the Gettysburg Address. Then we'll skip to Episode 8 of The Civil War. You need to finish off "The American Civil War" PowerPoint on your own, since I won't have time to deliver it in class.

Dear Madam

author unknown

          I am a soldier and my speech is rough and plain
          I'm not much used to writing and I hate to give you pain
          But I promised I would do it and he thought it might be so
          If it came from one who loved him perhaps it would ease the blow
          By this time you must have guessed the truth I fain will hide
          And you'll pardon me for rough soldier words while I tell you how he died

          It was in the mortal battle, it rained the shot and shell
          I was standing close beside him and I saw him when he fell
          So I took him in my arms and laid him on the grass
          It was going against orders but they thought to let it pass
          'Twas a mini ball that struck him, it entered at his side
          But we didn't think it fatal till this morning when he died

          "Last night I wanted so to live, I seemed so young to go.
          This week I passed my birthday. I was just nineteen, you know.
          When I thought of all I planned to do it seemed so hard to die
          But now I pray to God for grace and all my cares gone by."
          And here his voice grew weaker as he partly raised his head
          And whispered "Goodbye, mother," and your soldier boy was dead

          I carved another headboard as skillful as I could
          And if you wish to find it I can tell you where it stood
          I send you back his hymn book and the cap he used to wear
          The lock I cut the night before of his bright, curly hair
          I send you back his Bible. The night before he died
          I turned its leaves together and read it by his side
          I'll keep the belt he was wearing, he told me so to do
          It had a hole upon the side just where the ball went through

          So now I've done his bidding, there's nothing more to tell
          But I shall always mourn with you the boy we loved so well

October 1

IB 30/35

You wrote a short quiz today comparing and contrasting the North and the South on the eve of the Civil War. We then finished off Episode 3 of "The Civil War" (we only had a few minutes left), and then we moved on to Episode 4 called "Simply Murder". We finished this episode off as well. The answers to Episode 3 and 4 are due tomorrow. We'll move on to Episode 5 tomorrow, which covers the Battle of Vicksburg and the Battle of Gettysburg.

Social 30-1

We finished off with the BBC 20th Century History series video "FDR and the New Deal". We also looked at some art and photography from the Great Depression. You can have a look at the websites that I showed you in class here and here. We also listened to a segment from NPR that focused on the connections between Obama and the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes. I also drew comparisons between the FDR administration and the Obama administration and how they each dealt with the Great Depression and global recession respectively. You can find a link to that NPR podcast here on the blog under Social 30-1 Links. We also went over monetary and fiscal policy again briefly. I also gave you a handout on the "USA and the Great Depression". This handout is extremely important because it deals with the causes and effects of the Great Depression, Keynesian economics and the alphabet agencies of the New Deal.

Social 20-1

We continued the PowerPoint presentation of "The Causes of World War I". You have a hard copy of this presentation in your blue Social Studies 20-1 booklets, as well as on the Social 20-1 wiki under Unit 2 Presentations. I went through which countries fought on the side of the Allied Powers and the Central Powers, so if you missed these notes, please make sure that you get them from a friend. You have your Chapter 3-4 Test on Thursday, October 3rd, please see the study guide (scroll down to find it).