February 18

IB 30/35

We started a new unit today that will be helpful for Paper 2 (The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries), Paper 3 (Cold War and the Americas), and for the Social 30-1 Diploma Exam. We focused on origins of the Cold War today, and we should be able to finish this lecture off tomorrow. Please check out the calendar that I posted on the wiki! This Friday, you are writing a Paper 2 on the Causes and Effects of 20th Century Wars. The essay questions will cover all of the topics that we addressed in that unit. You have a homework assignment that is due on Thursday. You need to go to the wiki, and go to the Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries page, and find the blank templates called USA-USSR-China Compare and Contrast Charts. If you want an 11" x 17" page, pick the BIG template, if you want letter size 8 1/2" x 11", pick REGULAR template. You can use the selected OXFORD textbook pages (also on the same page on the wiki) on this topic to help complete the chart. I also think that it would be a very good idea to build a chart on the different schools of historical thought on the origins of the Cold War that your textbook discusses on pages 64-66. The key debate that they cover is who started the Cold War? There are traditionalist interpretations, revisionist interpretations, and post-revisionist interpretations of this debate.

Social 10-1

I started a lecture today which corresponded with Chapter 3 material, specifically on media and communication technology and preservation of culture. I also gave you some time to work on your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Thursday. On Monday, February 25th, you will be writing the Chapter 1-2 Test, please see the study guide below. Please remember that your Unit 1 Infographic Assignment is due on Friday, February 21st.

Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide:

1. Study your Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms
2. Review the case studies from the textbook in Chapters 1 and 2, specifically the Metis, the Francophones, the Hmong, and the Maori
3. Be prepared to answer any of the "Questions for Inquiry" from Chapters 1 and 2 (they are on the following pages: p.9, p.14, p.20, p.29, p.35, p.39):

• How does globalization affect economic aspects of people's lives? 
• How does globalization affect social aspects of people's lives? 
• How does globalization affect political aspects of people's lives? 
• What is the difference between individual and collective identity? 
• What is the relationship between identity and language? How does cultural exchange shape people's identities? 

4. Make sure that you can answer all of the chapter questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet

Social 30-1

You wrote the Unit 1 Final Exam today in class. I will post the marks on PowerSchool this afternoon. Tomorrow, you will be writing the Unit 1 WRA I in the Blenheim Room. Please go there directly to write. You will get 80 minutes to write.