December 18

Social 20-1

I finished my last lecture today in Social 20-1 on "Regional Disparity", which is part of Unit 4. Your Chapter 13 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 14-15 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, January 7th. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, January 9th, please see the study guide below.

Social 20-1 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"
• "Canada's Foreign Policy"
• "Nationalism and Internationalism"

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. 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
• examples of INGOs and IGOs
• the United Nations (organization/structure, bodies, etc.)
• peacemaking vs. peacekeeping (and examples)
• different understandings of internationalism (types of internationalism)
• why do international organizations exist? purposes and examples

Social 30-1

We finished watching "Shouting Fire" today. We also started looking at the issue of right to privacy. In addition to CCTV cameras in the UK, you might want to also check into NSA surveillance into the lives of American citizens. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Monday, January 6th, please see the study guide below.

Social 30-1 Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Monday, January 6th. 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 notes/packages:

• Democratic Systems
• Non-Democratic Systems
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• Civil Rights Movement
• authoritarian systems (China notes)
• review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
• re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act)
• FLQ Crisis 1970

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

IB 30/35

You handed in your IA today. We continued watching "It's a Wonderful Life".

December 17

IB 30/35

We completed our economic forum today and started watching "It's a Wonderful Life", which we'll continue tomorrow. Please remember to bring two hard copies of your IA to class tomorrow. You must be ready to hand it in at the beginning of class.

Social 30-1

We started to examine free speech issues today by watching the HBO documentary "Shouting Fire". We'll finish this documentary off tomorrow.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 3 essay in class today. We'll cover another major Unit 4 concept tomorrow, and that is regionalism and regional disparity in Canada. Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

December 16

IB 30/35

Today was all about getting you into your TOK presentation groups. You had some class time to get yourselves organized, pick an area of knowledge and start thinking of knowledge questions and presentation format. We have our economic forum tomorrow. Please make sure that you are ready to hand in two hard copies of your IA on Wednesday.

Social 20-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions and your Foreign Policy Worksheet at the beginning of class. Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday. You are writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay tomorrow.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 3 WRA II Essay today, which took the entire class.

December 12

Social 30-1

You wrote an analysis of a propaganda poster today for part of the class, and then we watched a short video from the CBC News in Review series that looked at "9/11: The Day that Changed the World". Please make sure that you have all of the answers to the video questions, and that you have read the entire package. You need to understand the historical context of 9/11 in order to understand the American political response to the terrorist attacks. In the days to come we'll examining the USA PATRIOT Act, the Anti-Terrorism Act, no-fly lists and other restrictions to civil liberties that have occurred in Canada, the United States and even the UK. You'll be writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay on Monday, you will not have access to the essay source in advance.
 

Social 20-1

I showed you your results for the Unit 2 Final Exam at the beginning of the class, along with your current mark in the course. I finished off the PowerPoint on "Internationalism and Nationalism" today as well. I gave you the Unit 3 WRA II Essay question sheet today (one day in advance). You will be writing this essay on Tuesday, December 17th. Please check the wiki for some ideas on writing the Unit 3 essay, argumentation and evidence. Check under WRA II Essay Writing on the Social 20-1 wiki.

IB 30/35

You wrote the Social 30-1 Market and Mixed Economy Test today. If you missed today's class, you'll be writing this exam tomorrow in Period 2 (and if necessary write it into the break). Here's a link to the study guide for this exam.  We'll be preparing for the economic forum tomorrow.

December 11

Social 20-1

I gave you back your Unit 2 WRA II Essays today. I also gave you back your Unit 2 Research Projects as well. Now that everyone has written the Unit 2 Final Exam, you'll get the results of this exam tomorrow. I started a PowerPoint presentation today that I'll finish off tomorrow called "Internationalism and Nationalism". You will be writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay on Tuesday, December 17th, and you'll get the essay question sheet on Friday.

Social 30-1

We finished off the FLQ Crisis video. I gave you a couple of handouts on how to write an analysis of propaganda posters. You'll be writing an analysis of a propaganda poster tomorrow. We'll continue looking at illiberalism this week by talking about the changes to the world caused by 9/11. Please remember that you have your Unit 3 WRA II Essay on Monday, December 16th.

IB 30/35

I tied up some loose ends today with supply side economics and how demand-side and supply-side deals with a recession. Please remember that you have your Social 30-1 Market and Mixed Economy Test tomorrow, please check out the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

December 10

IB 30/35

We had some "housekeeping" items to take care of today: Grade 12 validation sheets, and the Tell Them From Me survey. You were also to complete the comparison chart of the Great Depression in Canada and the United States. Please hand those charts in on Wednesday. Your Market and Mixed Economy Test is on Thursday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 30-1

We looked at the concept of illiberalism today. I gave you some background information before we jumped into the FLQ Crisis. We'll finish off the documentary tomorrow on the FLQ Crisis. Your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment was due today. Your Civil Rights Movement Assignment (don't forget to do the essay outline) is due on Thursday. Your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. You'll be writing an analysis of a propaganda poster in tomorrow's class, don't be late.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today. If you were away today, you'll be writing this exam tomorrow in class. One week from today, you'll be writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay (December 17th). I will be returning marked essays tomorrow.

December 5

Social 30-1

I showed you a video from the CBC News in Review series called "Afghanistan's Troubled Election". You were to complete the video study guide questions. Please make sure that you read the "Canada's Role in Afghanistan" section of the booklet. You had the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions. These key terms and questions are due on Monday. Your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due on Tuesday. Your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Thursday, December 12th.

Social 20-1

You essentially had the entire period to finish off your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions (which are due on Monday). I made the recommendation that you also read Chapter 10, and complete those key terms and questions as well. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, December 10th, please see the study guide below.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

1. Study the following PowerPoint presentations from Unit 2:

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

2. Know the following key concepts:

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

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

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

IB 30/35

You wrote a short quiz on the Great Depression at the start of class, and then we looked at the impact of the Great Depression on Latin America. You can find the PowerPoint lecture on the Great Depression in Latin America on the IB 30/35 wiki under "The Great Depression and the Americas". I will also be trying to upload a chapter on the Great Depression in Latin America next week. I strongly recommend that you look at the chapters that have been posted on the USA in the 1920s, the Wall Street Crash and the causes of the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover and the Depression, and the New Deal. As I've said many times Churchill students to pick essay questions on the Paper 3 that deal with either the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War in the Americas or on the Great Depression and the Americas. This is a topic that you should know extremely well for not only your IB exams, but also your Social 30-1 Diploma Exams in June. Your Social 30-1 Market and Mixed Economy Test is on Thursday, December 12th, please see the study guide below.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

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

December 4

Social 20-1

I finished off the "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism" PowerPoint today. You can find a hard copy of this presentation in your Social 20-1 blue study booklets, and on the Social 20-1 wiki under Unit 3 Presentations. I also gave you some time to work on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions as well. You will have class time to work on this textbook work tomorrow. Please remember to review for your Unit 2 Final Exam, it is a challenging exam in part because there is so much content and material to draw from. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is scheduled for Tuesday, December 10th. Please see the study guide below.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

1. Study the following PowerPoint presentations from Unit 2:

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

2. Know the following key concepts:

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

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

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

Social 30-1

We covered authoritarianism in China today. I gave you a readings booklet on the "Modern History of China" and then we watched a couple of videos from BBC 20th Century History series. One of the videos was called "One Man's Revolution" and the other was "China Since Mao". Admittedly, these videos are a bit dated, however it should have given you a nice overview of Chinese history from the 1940s to the 1980s. Please make sure that you read the "Modern History of China" booklet. I also gave you a U.S. Civil Rights Assignment that is due on Thursday, December 12th.

IB 30/35

I went through the "Great Depression in Canada" PowerPoint presentation today. Please make sure you complete the homework assignments that are due tomorrow: Hoover and Self-Reliance questions, and the Critics of the New Deal chart. Please remember that you have your Social 30-1 Market and Mixed Economy Test on Thursday, December 12th. Please see the study guide here.

December 3

IB 30/35

I went through a PowerPoint presentation on "The New Deal" today. You can find this presentation on the IB 30/35 wiki under The Great Depression and the Americas section. As I went through this lecture, you were to complete a chart on the New Deal. Your homework assignment documents are posted on the wiki as well, and these assignments are both due on Thursday, December 5th:

• Hoover's Self-Reliance (find on the Great Depression and the Americas page of the wiki)
• Critics of the New Deal (chart). You will also need to open up the PDF file called Challenges of the New Deal. You can find these handouts also on the Great Depression and the Americas page of the IB 30/35 wiki.

Next Thursday (December 12th) you will write your Social 30-1 Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test. Please see the study guide below to aid you in preparing for this multiple choice test.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

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

Social 30-1

I covered a couple of key concepts at the beginning of class, including first past the post (FPTP) and proportional representation (PR). I also went through the PowerPoint lecture on the "Political Challenges to Liberalism". You can find this presentation on the Social 30-1 wiki under Unit 3 Presentations. I also gave you a reading from Maclean's magazine called "The End of Democracy?" (highly recommended reading). Please remember that your Canada-USA Comparative Government Assignment is due one week from today (December 10th).

Social 20-1

I started on a PowerPoint lecture today called "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism", which I should be able to finish off tomorrow. If you missed class today, you missed some good rants too. If you haven't written your Unit 2 WRA II Essay, it is expected that you will write it tomorrow. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is Tuesday, December 10th, please see the study guide below.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

1. Study the following PowerPoint presentations from Unit 2:

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

2. Know the following key concepts:

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

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

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

December 2

IB 30/35

I reviewed monetary and fiscal policy with you today. We also reviewed the Keynesian economic response at various stages of the business cycle. I then walked you through a handout on the stabilization of the business cycle using monetary and fiscal policy. I also gave you a handout on the Great Depression in the USA. Please make sure that you check out all of the resources at your disposal for the unit The Great Depression in the Americas. Questions related to this topic are often covered by students on their Paper 3 in May.

Social 20-1

You finished off writing your Unit 2 WRA II Essay today in the Blenheim Room. Please make sure that you send me your essay by e-mail, send it to my CBE account. We'll be getting into some Unit 3 material this week. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, December 10th, please see the study guide below. The format for your Unit 2 Final Exam is multiple choice.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

1. Study the following PowerPoint presentations from Unit 2:

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

2. Know the following key concepts:

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

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

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

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA II Essay in Room 241 today. Please make sure that you send me your essay by e-mail, send it to my CBE account.