January 13

Social 30-1

After supervising the English Diploma Exam today, I think a few reminders are in order:

• bring a pen, a highlighter and a pencil to the exam (you need something to write with to fill in the Diploma Exam booklet)
• bring your school ID card
• bring a dictionary and thesaurus
• be waiting outside the computer lab where you're writing the Diploma Exam by 8:45

Social 10-1

I've posted the study guide on the Social 10-1 wiki, check the "Final Exam Review" page to download the Word document. Part B of your Final Exam is on Monday, January 18th from 1-3 pm in the Main Gym.

January 11

Social 30-1

You wrote your Trial Final Exam today. You'll get the results back tomorrow, and see what impact it had on your overall mark. By tomorrow, you should know what your mark is going into the Diploma Exam. Your school-awarded mark counts for 70% of your final grade in Social 30-1. You are writing Part A of your Diploma Exam on Thursday, January 14th. Please check outside the Business Office to see which computer lab you have been assigned to write in. We're going to play some Kahoot tomorrow.

IB 30/35

I split the class into two large groups, with each group having a Google Doc to edit. Each group was assigned to deal with either the "Causes of WWII in the Pacific" or the "Causes of WWII in Europe". I posted two PDF documents on the IB 30/35 wiki on the Causes, Practices, Effects of War page that you were to use, and complete the questions in those PDF documents. I'll be posting the links to these Google Docs on the wiki this week, so please make sure that each Google Doc is completely finished.

Social 10-1

We finished off the Unit 4 Global Issues Project presentations today. Please make sure that you send me your references for your project.

January 7

IB 30/35

I talked a little bit about the lead-up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and then I showed you an excerpt from the film "Pearl Harbor". I then showed you FDR's speech before Congress on December 9, 1941. That pretty much took the entire period.

Social 30-1

I had you select which test you want to wipe out with your Trial Final Exam (you're writing this on Monday). I went through a little bit of the tips from the Social 30-1/30-2 Diploma Exam Study Guide which is in the back of the Social 30-1 blue study booklet. I then broke you into small teams and you worked in your groups to answer questions from the Quest A+ practice exam. You can find the link to the Quest A+ practice exams from our school website. I recommend it for all of your Diploma Exams. I then had you write one multiple choice question of your own as your "exit slip" from the class (you'll see why tomorrow).

Social 10-1

You wrote the Part A of the Final Exam today. Don't forget that we are starting the Unit 4 Global Issues Project presentations tomorrow. Most groups have submitted their one page summary to me. If your group hasn't completed this yet, please make sure that you submit it to me tomorrow morning so that I can photocopy a class set for you to hand out to your classmates. See you tomorrow!

January 6

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam today, and you'll get the results of the test tomorrow. Please remember that you are writing your Trial Final Exam on Monday. It's 75 multiple choice questions. You can find the study guide at the back of the Social 30-1 blue study booklet, I use that same study guide as the Diploma Exam study guide. We'll also have to make a decision about which test result you are going to wipe out with the Trial Final tomorrow.

IB 30/35

I showed you the PBS documentary "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb" today. Hopefully, you have a better sense of the "big picture" of WW II. I also started to show you a animated map of Europe and North Africa during WWII which I will post on the IB 30/35 wiki on the "WWW II in the Americas" page. I just want to point out that Ms. Breadner also posted some IB readings on WWII on that same page that I encourage you to read/study from.

Social 10-1

Today was your last class to prepare for your Unit 4 Global Issues Project presentations which start on Friday. Please hand in your one page summary tomorrow so that I can photocopy them for Friday's class. We'll start presentations on Friday.

Please remember that you are writing your Final Exam Part A, which is a WRA I three source analysis assignment. We are writing in the Blue Lab in the Library, please go there directly tomorrow.

January 5

IB 30/35

We covered some more of the road to World War II today. I reviewed the Ruhr Crisis briefly, some factors that helped contribute to the Nazis coming to power, namely the Great Depression, and the connection between the number of unemployed Germans and the number of seats that the Nazis won in the Reichstag. As the economic crisis deepened, Germans tended to "vote for the extremes", voting more and more for communist party candidates or for the Nazis. We also look at the immediate road to World War II, specifically looking at the Munich Conference and the policy of appeasement. We watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?" as you watched this video you were to fill in answers on the question sheet. Tomorrow we'll look at the "big picture" of WWII by watching a video called "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb".

Social 30-1

We went to the Blenheim Room today to work on WRA I three source analysis assignments. This time you worked in smaller groups and made your own Google Docs to collaboratively write an analysis of previous Diploma Exam's WRA I. You have your Unit 3 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide below. You will write your Social 30-1 Trial Final Exam on Monday, January 11th. The study guide for the Trial Final is at the back of your Social 30-1 study booklets (it's the same study guide as your Diploma Exam).

Social 30-1 Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Your Unit 3 Final Exam will be on Wednesday, 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

Social 10-1

You had class time today to work on your Global Issues Projects. You'll have computer lab time tomorrow to work on it, and get yourselves organized to present on Friday. Please remember that you have your Social 10-1 Part A Final Exam on Thursday, January 7th.

January 4

Social 30-1

I gave you back your Unit 3 WRA I three source analysis assignments. I split you into four different groups today and invited you to edit a WRA II Essay outline in Google Docs. Please make sure that you finish up some of the edits on your group's Google Doc in the next couple of days. We'll be working on some WRA I three source analysis assignments tomorrow. On Wednesday, you're writing your Unit 3 Final Exam, please see the study guide below.

Social 30-1 Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Your Unit 3 Final Exam will be on Wednesday, 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

IB 30/35

We spent the entire class doing a review of material that I taught you in Prescribed Subject 1, in particular to make our own concept map of the causes of World War II. We reviewed key events/concepts in the Interwar Years. We'll continue looking at WWII for the rest of our classes in January. After the exam break we'll cover the tail end of the war, looking at the usage of the atomic bombs on Japan.

Social 10-1

I gave you back your Unit 3 WRA II Essays today. We spent the rest of the period in the Blenheim Room. This class period was an opportunity to work on your Unit 4 projects. We'll start presenting these projects on Friday. You'll have class time to work on these projects again tomorrow. Please remember that the Part A of your Social 10-1 Final Exam is on Thursday, January 7th.