October 6

Sorry for not posting yesterday, it completely slipped my mind.

IB 30/35

Yesterday we finished watching Episode 9 of "The Civil War". Today, I had you complete an acitivity called "What was the Civil War about?" which had perspectives from Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. After discussing the answers to the questions, we looked at C-SPAN rankings of U.S. Presidents from 2009 and saw that Lincoln was the highest ranked president on the list. I then started going through the assessment of the Lincoln presidency, but I didn't finish this. Please make sure that you check this document out on the IB 30/35 wiki under American Civil War. Tomorrow, we will start examining the Reconstruction era.

Social 30-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (I skipped over some slides, so make sure that you study them). Tomorrow, I'll be going over how demand-side economics and supply-side economics deal with a recession, then I'll be moving on to our case study of a dictatorial socialist society from Chapter 5, the Soviet Union. Over the course of the next few days we'll be dealing a command economy in the USSR. You're writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Thursday, October 8th, please see the study guide below.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations: 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam yesterday. I started teaching you about essay writing and positional-thinking today in preparation for your WRA II Essay that you'll be writing on Thursday and Friday. You'll be able to write your first paragraph on Thursday, and get a peer to edit it, and then you will have all of Friday's class to write the rest of the essay. We started looking at the differences between argumentation and evidence today.