December 11

IB 20 HOTA

We started in the Blue Lab today getting ready for the presentations on Wednesday and Thursday. Tomorrow, you'll be moved into your "dictator conference groups" where there will be one member of each of the "dictator group". The Mao group will present first tomorrow to the other three group members, followed by the Castro group. Please make sure that you share your Google Docs/Slides with me as well (please give me editing powers so I can post on them on the wiki). Please share with my GMail account. Don't forget to make a copy of your finished product tomorrow (brochure, mini-booklet, etc.). All groups should be ready to hand this final product in to me tomorrow. Next Monday (December 17th) you will be writing a multiple choice test on the Authoritarian States unit. Please check out the study guide below to prepare for this test. 

AUTHORITARIAN STATES UNIT EXAM

This test has 65 multiple choice questions on it. The emphasis of the test is on Nazi Germany and Stalin's USSR. You should review the following materials and concepts: 

• Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Totalitarianism (handout notes)
• Types of Political Systems (Google Slides presentation, it's on the wiki in the Democracies section)
• techniques of DICTatorship (direction of popular discontent, indoctrination and propaganda, controlled participation, terror and force)
• characteristics of authoritarian systems
• review the political spectrum, the economic spectrum, and the economic-political grid
• Stalin's Five Year Plans and collectivization
• review Beer Hall Putsch, Nuremberg rallies, Night of the Long Knives, Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)

SOCIAL 10-1

I showed you a video on the connection between cheap oil prices and globalization today. I also showed you a video from CBC News in Review on e-waste in China. We also started doing an activity on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which we will start with tomorrow. 

SOCIAL 30-1

I gave you time to work on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions, which are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions will be due next Wednesday (December 19th). 

You're writing the Chapter 10 Test on Friday, December 14th. You only have to do questions 1-50 on this test. 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!)