December 15

IB 30/35

We were in the computer lab today working on five different Google Docs, working collaboratively on essay outlines. If you want to make some changes to your group's essay outline, please make your changes tonight. I'll probably post the links to all of the Google Docs on the wiki on Thursday. Please remember that you have your Market and Mixed Economy Test tomorrow (please see the study guide below).

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 30-1

You wrote your Unit 3 WRA I today in the computer lab. You'll get this back after the Christmas Break. Please remember that you have your Chapter 10 Test on Thursday, December 17th. We'll finish off the "Shouting Fire" documentary tomorrow.

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!)

Social 10-1

I started a PowerPoint presentation today called "Quality of Life, Human Rights and Democratization", which I'll finish off tomorrow. I gave you the Unit 4 Worksheet today, and assigned the Chapter 15 Key Terms and Questions for Thursday, December 17th. I also gave you the results of the Unit 3 Final Exam today as well.