December 11

Social 30-1

You had a work period to work on your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions. I did a homework check on your Chapter 11 work. Please check out the important dates below.

• Unit 3 WRA I is on Tuesday, December 15th
• Chapter 10 Test is on Thursday, December 17th (please see the study guide below)

CHAPTER 10 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

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!)

IB 30/35

I gave you a couple of handouts today: "Market Socialism" and "Modern History of China", and I showed you a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series: "One Man's Revolution" and "China Since Mao". Please remember that you have your Market and Mixed Economy Test on Wednesday, December 16th (please see the study guide below). Please remember to go to the IB 30/35 wiki and complete the Google Form for our in-class assignment. Please complete the form this weekend. I shared the wiki page where the Google Form is located today, so check your e-mail for the link to the right wiki page. If you don't have a Gmail account, please set one up.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be on Wednesday, December 16th

• 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

Social 10-1

I collected your TNC Dossier Assignments today. If you didn't hand them in today you'll be deducted 10% for a late assignment. We played a Unit 3 Review Game today, I hope that you enjoyed it. You'll be writing your Unit 3 Final Exam on Monday. Please see the study guide below.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Please make sure that you have read Chapters 10-14. Please make sure that you have the following PowerPoint presentations, and that you study from them:

• "Foundations of Economic Globalization"
• "The Expansion of Economic Globalization"
• "Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Globalization"
• "The Impact of Economic Globalization on Environments"
• "Globalization and Sustainability"

Make sure that you have reviewed the Key Terms from Unit 3 (all the terms listed on the Unit 3 Worksheet, plus the extra key terms that appeared in the PowerPoint presentations). The Unit 3 Final Exam will consist of 60+ multiple choice questions.