December 14

IB 20 HOTA

You did the summative activity for the Authoritarian States unit. Each group was given previous IB exam questions and you had to prep for them using either Hitler, Stalin, Peron, Castro, Nasser, or Mao.

 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.). 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 30-1

You wrote the Chapter 10 Test today. You will get the results back next week. 

SOCIAL 10-1

You worked on a sample three source interpretation assignment today in eight different Google Doc groups. On Tuesday, December 18th you'll be writing the Unit 3 Final Exam, please see the study guide below. 

Sorry about the technical difficulties!! I think I fixed the problem. You'll be doing the same activity again on Monday, and I will be adding sources to your Google Docs over the weekend. 

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 50-60 multiple choice questions.