Monday, January 05, 2015

January 5


We looked at the issue of privacy versus security today by watching a few documentaries on YouTube today. Most of what I showed you focused in on state surveillance of citizens in the USA, specifically tools used by law enforcement to solve and deter crimes. I strongly recommend that you look into the BBC article that is in your Social 30-1 study booklet that covers CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom. Please remember that you have your Unit 3 Final Exam tomorrow. You can find the study guide below.


This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Tuesday, 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



You had some class time today to start working on your presentations on Mao, Castro and Peron. We'll have some class time again on Wednesday, presentations start on Thursday. Please remember that you're writing a multiple choice test on the Authoritarian and Single-Party States tomorrow. On Friday, you'll be writing a Paper 2 on Authoritarian and Single-Party States, please see this post for advice on writing a Paper 2 on Topic 3 (scroll down to find it).

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