October 7

Social 30-1

I talked about how demand-side economics and supply-side economics deal with a recession today. I also lectured a bit about Russian history as a prelude to a BBC 20th Century History series video on "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia". You had some class time to do one of two things: read the notes on Marx, Lenin and Stalin, OR start working on your Chapter 5 Key Terms. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms are due on October 13th. I'll take in the Chapter 5 Questions on October xx. Please remember that you have your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test tomorrow, 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

IB 30/35

I started the "Reconstruction Era" PowerPoint presentation today, which I will continue tomorrow. I'll also show you a video about this topic tomorrow. You should be reading Chapters 11-13 in The United States and Its People textbook.

Social 10-1

We continued talking about essay writing today. I went through key elements of the first paragraph of the essay. I also gave you some sample OSAs and ARGUMENTS with the sample WRA II that is up on the Social 10-1 wiki on the Unit 1 main page. It is recommended that you check out this sample Unit 1 WRA II Essay first paragraph. Tomorrow, you'll get about 50 minutes to type up your first paragraph of your Unit 1 WRA II Essay. We will then come back to the classroom for a peer editing session. On Friday, you'll have the whole period to write the rest of your position paper.