March 7

IB 30/35

I showed you a video from the CNN Cold War series, specifically Episode 12: MAD (1960-1972). I also showed you a few YouTube videos: one that showed all of the test explosions of nuclear weapons from 1945-1998. Additionally, I showed you a couple of music videos from the 1980s, which focused on fears of mutually assured destruction (MAD)--please see below. Please remember that you have a Social 30-1 style WRA I three source analysis assignment on the Cold War.

Social 10-1

We started looking at preparing for next week's WRA II Essay. We looked at answering the question: "How would you convince a friend to attend Churchill?" (what arguments would you use to convince them to come to our school?) This lead to you working individually in idea generation of arguments. Then we talked about the difference between statements of fact versus contentions. We then discussed as a class the evidence that would go with an argument focused on proving that Churchill is a strong academic high school. We'll talk more about argumentation and evidence tomorrow when we get to looking at the "recipe for success" in argumentative essay writing. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday (I moved it one day), please see the study guide below.

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Wednesday, March 9th. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

Please study your key terms from Chapters 1-5, and the topics covered in that unit.
1. Key Terms/Key Concepts in Unit 1:

• globalization
• pluralistic society
• transnationals
• society
• “the global village”
• United Nations
• G-8
• La Francophonie
• NATO
• individual identity
• collective identity
• traditions
• minority group
• official bilingualism
• universalization of pop culture
• hybridization
• media transnationals
• media consolidation
• CBC/SRC
• Official Languages Act
• CRTC
• Canadian Content (CanCon)
• homogenization
• monoculture
• assimilation
• marginalization
• accommodation
• secularism
• integration
• cosmopolitan
• acculturation
• cultural revitalization
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms

2. Know your case studies extremely well!
3. Be able to apply key concepts!

Social 30-1

I showed you a couple of videos from 60 Minutes today, one was called "Dutch Treat" which focused on the Netherlands. This video, as I said in class, is out of date when it comes to the fraud that was taking place with disability payments. We also watched another video from 60 Minutes called "Welfare a la carte". As you watched these two videos you should have filled out an advantages and disadvantages chart for these mixed economies/social welfare states.

You have a test this Thursday that covers Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4, please see the study guide below.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, March 10th. This test covers material from Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4. 

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