July 22

Social 30-1

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".

Upcoming Important Dates:

• 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)

Chapter 10 Test Study Guide:

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!)

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

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