Wednesday, July 30, 2014

July 30


You wrote your Trial Final Exam today. Please check Home Logic for your up-to-date marks in the course (I forgot to hit "calculate" before I shared your marks, so most of your marks were slightly off. For most of you are marks went up).

When you show up for Part A of the Diploma Exam you will notice there will be postings on bulletin boards directing you to where you will be writing the exam. Most of you will be writing Part B of the Diploma Exam in the Main Gym, but check the bulletin boards. If you need any assistance before the exam, please contact me at my CBE e-mail address.
  • Social 30-1 Part A, Wednesday, August 6th from 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  • Social 30-1 Part B, Thursday, August 7th from 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

July 29

Just a short post today.


We went through the various WRA I assignments from June 2010 to June 2013. I'd really like it if each group could post their outlines on the Diploma Exam Review page on the Social 30-1 wiki so other groups can read your outlines. We also played Jeopardy today. Today was the last day that I was going to take in any homework assignments or projects. Tomorrow, you'll be writing your Trial Final Exam. Your study guide for the Trial Final is in the Social 30-1 workbook.

Please check out the following links:
  • Examples of the Standards of Students' Writing (this will give you an idea of what the standards are for the marking of Part A of the Diploma Exam. Remember, these are "low basket Es" that they put up)
  • Quest A Plus website with Social 30-1 multiple choice exam questions (click on Practice Tests, and you can find multiple choice questions for all of your Diploma Exam courses)

Monday, July 28, 2014

July 28


You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam today, and most of you got the results back today. I also gave back your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment, and your Unit 3 WRA I three source analysis assignment. We also did a little preparation for a WRA II essay outline. I'll post the essay outline that we did in class on the Social 30-1 wiki. I did a homework check on your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions, the background knowledge questions from your Civil Rights Movement assignment sheet, and I took in your essay outlines as well. Please remember that you have your Trial Final on Wednesday, the study guide is in your Social 30-1 workbooks. Make sure that you read the article in your workbooks on CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom.

Friday, July 25, 2014

July 25


You wrote your Unit 3 WRA I three source analysis assignment today. I should be able to have this marked for you by Monday. When we returned to the classroom, I returned your Unit 2 WRA II Essays back to you. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions today. We discussed a couple of important issues today: privacy and free speech. I showed you a documentary on free speech and the First Amendment rights in the U.S. The HBO documentary was called "Shouting Fire". As you watched this video, you should have taken notes on the case studies in the video (Ward Churchill, academic freedom post-9/11, conservative think-tanks going after left-wing academics; Debbie Almontaser, Principal of Khalil Gibran International Academy getting into trouble over t-shirts labelled as "Intifada NYC"; ACLU defense of Nazi Party of USA's march through Skokie, Illinois; Chase Harper's t-shirt protest against the "day of silence"; the fight to publish the Pentagon Papers; protests against at the Republican Nation Convention in New York City.)

Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Monday. Also due on Monday, is your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment. There are two parts to this assignment: the background knowledge questions on the front side of the assignment sheet, and an essay outline. The background knowledge questions will be counted as a homework check. The essay outline (see the Social 30-1 wiki, under Unit 3 Assignments you'll see the essay outline Word documents and a sample outline. Pick an essay question, save that document to your computer, write your essay outline in the Word document, save it to your computer, print off a hard copy to bring to class to have it marked. You will also be writing your Unit 3 Final Exam on Monday, please see the study guide below.


  • Unit 3 Final Exam is on Monday, July 28th
  • U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Monday, July 28th
  • Social 30-1 Trial Final Exam is on Wednesday, July 30th (the study guide is in your blue workbooks on pages 333-345)


 Please check out the following links:
  • Examples of the Standards of Students' Writing (this will give you an idea of what the standards are for the marking of Part A of the Diploma Exam. Remember, these are "low basket Es" that they put up)
  • Quest A Plus website with Social 30-1 multiple choice exam questions (click on Practice Tests, and you can find multiple choice questions for all of your Diploma Exam courses)



This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Monday, July 28th. 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 (p.134-137)
  • Non-Democratic Systems (p. 138-141)
  • types of dictatorships (p. 142-143)
  • techniques of dictatorships (p. 142- 143)
  • Civil Rights Movement (study your notes from the Civil Rights Movement Assignment, p. 248-249)
  • authoritarian systems (China notes/booklet, p. 250-255)
  • review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
  • re-read the notes on rights from your study booklets on p. 267 (civil rights, human rights, Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act, etc.)
  • FLQ Crisis 1970 film study and document analysis booklet (p. 268-273)

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

Thursday, July 24, 2014

July 24


You wrote your Chapter 10 Test today. I did a homework check on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and I took in your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment. Your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow, and if you're wondering, your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Monday, July 28th. Your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on July 28th as well. You will be writing your Unit 3 Final Exam on Monday (please see the study guide below), and your Social 30-1 Trial Final Exam is on Wednesday, July 30th (the study guide for the Trial Final is in your blue workbooks, p. 333-342). I showed you a documentary today called "9/11: The Day that Changed the World".

You should check out the following readings in your workbooks on post-9/11 anti-terrorism legislation and 9/11 itself:

  • 9/11: The Day that Changed the World (CBC News in Review-pgs. 276-278, don't do the questions; also, pgs. 280-282, don't do the Activity)
  • Terror Since 9/11 (pg. 285-286, don't do the questions)
  • The Patriot Act (pgs. 287-296; I'm not sure why I have this reading in the booklet twice)
  • Anti-Terrorism Act (pgs. 297-300)
  • Permanent 'War' Threatens Freedoms (pgs. 308-309)



This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Monday, July 28th. 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 (p.134-137)
  • Non-Democratic Systems (p. 138-141)
  • types of dictatorships (p. 142-143)
  • techniques of dictatorships (p. 142- 143)
  • Civil Rights Movement (study your notes from the Civil Rights Movement Assignment, p. 248-249)
  • authoritarian systems (China notes/booklet, p. 250-255)
  • review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
  • re-read the notes on rights from your study booklets on p. 267 (civil rights, human rights, Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act, etc.)
  • FLQ Crisis 1970 film study and document analysis booklet (p. 268-273)

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

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

July 23


You wrote your Unit 2 WRA II Essay today, which took up all of the time up to the break this morning. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions. Your Chapter 9 Key Terms are due tomorrow, as is your USA-Canada Political Comparison chart assignment. You must hand in your chart assignments tomorrow. You are writing your Chapter 10 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide below. I also covered the War Measures Act, the FLQ Crisis, and illiberalism. After the test tomorrow we'll be looking at 9/11 and post-9/11 anti-terrorism legislation. I showed you a video from the Turning Points of History series on the FLQ Crisis. As you were watching this video, you should have been filing in the blanks on pages 268-269 in your study booklets.



  • Chapter 10 Test is on Thursday, July 24th
  • Chapter 9 Key Terms are due tomorrow (July 24th)
  • USA/Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due on July 24th
  • Unit 3 WRA I three source analysis is on Friday, July 25th
  • Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due on July 25th
  • Unit 3 Final Exam is on Monday, July 28th
  • U.S. Civil Rights Assignment is due on July 28th
  • Social 30-1 Trial Diploma Exam is on Wednesday, July 30th (the study guide is in your study booklets, p. 333-342)

This test is on Thursday, July 24th. 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!)

This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Monday, July 28th. 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 (p.134-137)
  • Non-Democratic Systems (p. 138-141)
  • types of dictatorships (p. 142-143)
  • techniques of dictatorships (p. 142- 143)
  • Civil Rights Movement (study your notes from the Civil Rights Movement Assignment, p. 248-249)
  • authoritarian systems (China notes/booklet, p. 250-255)
  • review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
  • re-read the notes on rights from your study booklets on p. 267 (civil rights, human rights, Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act, etc.)
  • FLQ Crisis 1970 film study and document analysis booklet (p. 268-273)

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

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

July 22


You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms were due today as well. Please remember that your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your USA/Canada Political System Comparison Chart assignment is due Thursday. You should prepare for tomorrow's Unit 2 WRA II Essay as well tonight. Make sure that you check the wiki for exemplar essays and outlines for ideas on how to approach the Unit 2 WRA II. I went through the latter part of the "Political Challenges to Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation. You can find this presentation on the Social 30-1 wiki under Unit 3 material. We also briefly looked at authoritarianism in China by watching a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series: "One Man's Revolution" and "China Since Mao".


  • Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Wednesday, July 23rd
  • Chapter 10 Test is on Thursday, July 24th
  • Unit 3 WRA I three source analysis is on Friday, July 25th
  • Unit 3 Final Exam is on Monday, July 28th (please see the study guide below)
  • Social 30-1 Trial Final Exam is on Wednesday, July 30th (please see the study guide in your blue Social 30-1 workbooks, p. 333-342)



This test is on Thursday, July 24th. 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!)


This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Monday, July 28th. 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 (p.134-137)
  • Non-Democratic Systems (p. 138-141)
  • types of dictatorships (p. 142-143)
  • techniques of dictatorships (p. 142- 143)
  • Civil Rights Movement (study your notes from the Civil Rights Movement Assignment, p. 248-249)
  • authoritarian systems (China notes/booklet, p. 250-255)
  • review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
  • re-read the notes on rights from your study booklets on p. 267 (civil rights, human rights, Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act, etc.)
  • FLQ Crisis 1970 film study and document analysis booklet (p. 268-273)

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

Monday, July 21, 2014

July 21


You wrote your Cold War Exam today. We also talked about positive and negative freedoms, if you missed class today, you need to get these notes from a classmate. We also watched a BBC video called "10 Questions About Democracy", before you watched the video you were supposed to fill in your answers in the middle column in the chart. As you watched the various answers to each of the questions you were supposed to write if your answer changed at all. If you missed class today, you can find the link to the video here. We also went through the USA and Canadian government diagrams in your blue workbooks. I also assigned the USA/Canadian Political comparison chart assignment today, it's due on Wednesday. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms are due tomorrow (just the key terms), and your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday. If you're not sure about the electoral college system still, have a look here:




  • Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, July 22nd (please see the study guide below; it's also highly recommended that you go through the Unit 2 Review Prezi, check the Unit 2 page on the wiki. It is VERY comprehensive!)
  • Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Wednesday, July 23rd (the source was: The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government, and I'm here to help).
  • Chapter 10 Test is on Thursday, July 24th
  • Unit 3 WRA I three source analysis is on Friday, July 25th



The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, July 22nd. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying 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


This test is on Thursday, July 24th. 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!)

Thursday, July 17, 2014

July 17

You wrote your Chapter 5 Test today, most of you got the results back today as well. I finished of "The Origins of the Cold War" PowerPoint presentation today. I also showed you a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series: "Cold War Confrontations" (which focused on the Berlin Blockade and the Korean War) and "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Khrushchev" (which gave you some background information on the Cuban Missile Crisis). I really recommend the following readings from the Social 30-1 study booklet:

  • Origins of the Cold War (p.154-155)
  • WWII Conferences and Agreements (p. 156-158)
  • Timeline of the Cold War (p. 162-165)
  • Flashpoint: Korea (p. 171-172)
  • The Korean War (p. 173-177; these are the same notes that are in the Korean War PowerPoint that is on the Social 30-1 wiki)
  • Flashpoint: Cuba  (p. 178-179)
  • Cuban Missile Crisis (p. 180-182)
Tomorrow, we'll look at the Vietnam War, so be prepared by having a look at the Southeast Asia reading (p. 183-189). We'll be watching a documentary tomorrow on the Vietnam War, so the more you prepare for this topic, the better. There's a reading on the Vietnam War (p. 197-202).
  • Chapter 7 Test (Cold War Exam) is on Monday, July 21st (please see the study guide below)
  • Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, July 22nd (please see the study guide below; it's also highly recommended that you go through the Unit 2 Review Prezi, check the Unit 2 page on the wiki. It is VERY comprehensive!)
  • Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Wednesday, July 23rd
  • Chapter 10 Test is on Thursday, July 24th
  • Unit 3 WRA II Essay is on Friday, July 25th



It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. It will be on Monday, July 21st. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:
  • study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
  • study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
  • study notes on the Korean War
  • study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
  • study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
  • make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
  • know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
  • know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
  • know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
  • know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
  • anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
  • know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences




The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, July 22nd. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying 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



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!)

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

July 16

The two big events in class today were the Economic Systems Exam and the Unit 2 WRA I three source analysis. We also started the Cold War today. I started lecturing from "The Origins of the Cold War" PowerPoint which is up on the Social 30-1 wiki under Unit 2. Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. I think a reasonable goal would be to try and complete the Chapter 7 Key Terms today. Please study for your Chapter 5 Test, you're writing this test tomorrow.




  • Chapter 5 Test is on Thursday, July 17th (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it)
  • Chapter 7 Test (Cold War Exam) is on Monday, July 21st (please see the study guide below)
  • Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, July 22nd (please see the study guide below; it's also highly recommended that you go through the Unit 2 Review Prezi, check the Unit 2 page on the wiki. It is VERY comprehensive!)




It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. It will be on Monday, July 21st. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:
  • study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
  • study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
  • study notes on the Korean War
  • study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
  • study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
  • make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
  • know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
  • know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
  • know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
  • know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
  • anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
  • know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences



The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, July 22nd. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying 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

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

July 15



It was another busy day today! You wrote your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test today (and you got the results back as well). I went through a sample WRA I three source analysis as well today in anticipation of tomorrow's Unit 2 WRA I assignment. We went through the following sections in the Social 30-1 study booklet as well: Market Socialism (p.130-133), Democratic Systems (p.134-137), Non-Democratic Systems (p.138-141), Types of Dictatorship (p.142-143), Totalitarianism (p.144-145), and A Comparison of Communism and Fascism (p.146). You'll be writing your Economic Systems Exam first tomorrow (please see the study guide here), and then after the break we'll be doing the Unit 2 WRA I. Hopefully, we can also start the Cold War tomorrow.  



It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. It will be on Monday, July 21st. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:
  • study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
  • study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
  • study notes on the Korean War
  • study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
  • study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
  • make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
  • know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
  • know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
  • know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
  • know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
  • anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
  • know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences


The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, July 22nd. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying 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

Monday, July 14, 2014

July 14


I'm sorry that I wasn't able to post on the blog on Friday, I really had to get out of the city to get to my family reunion. Today was a really bad to miss because we covered so much content. I gave you some time to read, highlight, and annotate the Karl Marx Notes(p. 94-96 in the Social 30-1 blue study booklets), the Lenin Notes (p. 97-98), the Joseph Stalin Notes (p. 99-101), and the Russian History Notes (p. 104). We watched the A & E Biography "Joseph Stalin: Red Terror". While you watched this video, you were supposed to complete the film study on page 115 of your study booklet.

We also went through the Command Economy (p. 105-106), the Structure of the Soviet Economy (p. 107-109), the Soviet Economic System (p. 110-114). I wrote Soviet Leaders Notes on the whiteboard, so if you missed class today, please get these notes from a classmate. I were also supposed to go through Changes to the Soviet System After Stalin (p. 116-117) and Gorbachev to Collapse Notes (p. 118-121). Your homework tonight is the Economic Planning in the USSR (p. 122-129) section of your study booklets. I did a homework check on your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions.




  • Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test is on Tuesday, July 15th (please see the study guide below, scroll down to find it)
  • Economic Systems Exam is on Wednesday, July 16th (please see the study guide below, scroll down to find it)
  • Chapter 5 Test is on Thursday, July 17th (please see the study guide below, scroll down to find it)



    This exam will be on Tuesday, July 15th
    • 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), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
    • 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





    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, July 16th.
    • 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)





    The Chapter 5 Test will be on Thursday, July 17th. 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

    Thursday, July 10, 2014

    July 10


    We had another bust day! I did a homework check on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions. We did a quick review of the business cycle, and the Keynesian response to the various stages of the boom and bust cycles. I went through the "Using Monetary and Fiscal Policy to Stabilize the Economy" notes in your Social 30-1 booklet (pages 56-62). I also walked you through the "Case Study: USA during the Great Depression" notes (pages 63-64 in study booklet). It's also a useful idea to check out this recording from NPR that draws comparisons between the FDR administrations' response to the Great Depression and the Obama administration's response to the 2008 global recession.

    You were supposed to read, highlight and annotate "Democratic Socialism and the Mixed Economy" notes (pages 65-67) and complete Sweden: The Welfare State (pages 68-72). If you look at the study guides for the Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test and the Economic Systems Exam that there is reference to the Mixed Economies case studies (Sweden, Canada, Japan, Nazi Germany), you can find these case studies on pages 73-76 in the blue study booklet. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Please remember that you have your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test (see the link to the study guide below). I also showed you two videos from the newsmagazine show 60 Minutes, one was called "Dutch Treat" and "Welfare a la carte", as you watched these segments, you were to take notes (advantages and disadvantages to the mixed economy in these countries).



    • Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test is on Friday, July 11th (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it)
    • Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test is on Tuesday, July 15th (please see the study guide below, scroll down to find it)
    • Economic Systems Exam is on Wednesday, July 16th (please see the study guide below, scroll down to find it)
    • Chapter 5 Test is on Thursday, July 17th (please see the study guide below, scroll down to find it)


      This exam will be on Tuesday, July 15th
      • 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), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
      • 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




      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, July 16th.
      • 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)




      The Chapter 5 Test will be on Thursday, July 17th. 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

      Wednesday, July 09, 2014

      July 9


      We covered a lot of territory today. We went through a quick review of the economic and political spectrum, and the basic economic values associated with the command economy, the mixed economy, and the market economy. I walked you through the Emergence of Welfare Capitalism and Modern Liberalism notes from the blue study booklet. I also talked about Keynesian economics (demand-side economics) and their tactics for dealing with an economic boom and recessions and depressions. We looked at monetary and fiscal policy as well. Tomorrow, we'll be looking at monetary and fiscal policy again. I also showed you a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series, one video was called "Boom and Bust". While you were watching this video you were supposed to complete the film study sheet in your study booklets that corresponded to the documentary. The other BBC video was called "FDR and the New Deal". For this video, you were just supposed to take notes of your own. I really recommend that you study up on the "alphabet agencies" of the New Deal. Tomorrow, you will be doing an in-class assignment which will require you to write an analysis of a political cartoon. I gave you about 75 minutes to work on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions, which are due tomorrow.
      • Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test is on Friday, July 11th (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it)
      • Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test is on Tuesday, July 15th (please see the study guide below, scroll down to find it)
      • Economic Systems Exam is on Wednesday, July 16th (please see the study guide below, scroll down to find it)
      • Chapter 5 Test is on Thursday, July 17th (please see the study guide below, scroll down to find it)

      This exam will be on Tuesday, July 15th
      • 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), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki 
      • 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



      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, July 16th.
      • 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)



      The Chapter 5 Test will be on Thursday, July 17th. 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

      Tuesday, July 08, 2014

      July 8


      You wrote your Unit 1 WRA II Essays until the break today. I did a homework check on the Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions before we went to the computer lab. After the break I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "Responding to Classical Liberalism", while I was lecturing, you should have filled in the corresponding chart in your blue study booklets (Responding to Classical Liberalism and Industrialization chart). Your homework tonight is to complete the "Philosophies of Industrialism" section of your Social 30-1 blue study booklets. I also went through the business cycle. As we progress in the course, we'll revisit the business cycle to see how government intervention in the economy lessens the extremes of boom and bust cycle. You have a test on Friday, July 11th, please see the study guide below.



      This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Friday, July 11th.

      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" section of your blue study 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

      Monday, July 07, 2014

      July 7


      You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam today. You got the results back for your Chapter 1-2 Test and the Unit 1 Final Exam back after the break. I also went through most of the "Development of Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation. You can find an electronic copy of this presentation on the Social 30-1 wiki, under Unit 2. I also went wrote out some notes on the board that covering basic economic systems, basic economic questions, basic economic values. If you missed class today, or part of today's class, you'll have to get notes from a classmate. Your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. You will be writing your Unit 1 WRA II Essay tomorrow, please come to class first, then we'll go to the computer lab together. On Friday, July 11th, you will be writing your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test. Please see the study guide below.
      This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Friday, July 11th.

      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" section of your blue study 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

      Friday, July 04, 2014

      July 4


      We finished watching the last bit of "Sicko" at the beginning of class today. You also wrote your Chapter 1-2 Test today. You'll get the results of this test back on Monday. The rest of the class, before and after the break was spent dealing with argumentation and evidence in position papers. In your blue study booklets, make sure that you read through the "recipe for success" for essays starting on page 324. I have shared a page on the wiki with you called Diploma Exam Review. On this page there are sample Unit 1 WRA II Essays, and the essay outline that I was showing you in class is also on this page. I do recommend that you check out the PBS Frontline website for "Sick Around the World" because it will provide you with evidence on health care systems around the world, especially if you are going to agree with the ideological perspective in the source (in other words, you are writing a pro-collectivism essay, and using an argument such as collective responsibility and need evidence). Here's a link to the "Sick Around the World" website, which contains a lot of information and statistics about different health care systems. I really recommend that you take the time to watch this video this weekend, click here to watch. Please prepare for your essay this weekend, and contact me by e-mail if you need any advice. You will be writing this essay on Tuesday, July 8th. Remember, use the principles of individualism or principles of collectivism as a starting point for your arguments. You will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, July 7th, please see the study guide below. If you need extra practice discerning between individualism and collectivism, there is the activity in the blue study booklet with all of the charts that you could complete. You may even get some ideas of issues raised by these competing values.


      The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Monday, July 7th. Make sure that you study the following:
      • Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms (please see the Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide for a list of terms,  click here and scroll down to find them)
      • Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file, on the IB 30 wiki, and in your blue study booklets)
      • 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 (in the Social 30-1 blue booklet)
      • you need to be able to apply your knowledge and understanding of these concepts/ideas
      • there are a lot of source-based questions on this exam! (there are references to Nazi Germany, the USSR)

      Thursday, July 03, 2014

      July 3


      I went through a lot of content today. I went through the 19th century political spectrum, the 20th century political spectrum, the economic-political grid, the principles of collectivism, and the principles of individualism (principles of classical liberalism). We started watching "Sicko" today, and we'll finish it off tomorrow. You should also look into the PBS documentary called "Sick Around the World". Here's a link to the "Sick Around the World" website, which contains a lot of information and statistics about different health care systems. I really recommend that you take the time to watch this video this weekend, click here to watch. Please remember that you have your Chapter 1-2 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide below. You'll be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, and I'm posting the study guide again below.


      The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Friday, July 4th. It is a mixed format test, it will have a matching section and a short/long answer section. Here is what you should review/study for this test:

      Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms/Concepts:

      • ideology
      • Thomas Hobbes
      • John Locke
      • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
      • representative democracy
      • individualism
      • collectivism
      • private property
      • public property
      • ideology
      • radical
      • liberal
      • moderate
      • conservative
      • reactionary
      • communism
      • socialism
      • liberalism
      • conservatism
      • fascism
      • adherence to collective norms
      • economic freedom
      • economic equality
      • rule of law
      • competition
      • individual rights and freedoms
      • cooperation
      • self-interest
      • Adam Smith
      Other Study Tips:
      • you must know the 19th century political spectrum and the 20th century political spectrum
      • know similarities and differences between communism and fascism
      • what are the differences between communism and socialism
      • be able to label political and economic spectrums and the values associated with these ideologies
      • be able to label the political-economic grid and know examples of the ideologies in the quadrants (study the Ideology Notes and the notes I gave you in class)
      • know the differences between individualism and collectivism, be able to apply your understanding of these concepts
      • know the key ideas associated with Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (for example, view of the nature of human beings, etc.)



      The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Monday, July 7th. Make sure that you study the following:
      • Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms (please see the Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide for a list of terms)
      • Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file, on the IB 30 wiki, and in your study booklets)
      • 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
      • you need to be able to apply your knowledge and understanding of these concepts/ideas
      • there are a lot of source-based questions on this exam! (there are references to Nazi Germany, the USSR)