March 31

Please keep checking D2L and the wiki for updates.

IB 30/35

Please check the Announcements page on the IB 30/35 wiki for the week's calendar of what you should be working on this week.

Social 10-1

A few reminders:

• Please submit your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions 
• Please watch "Where the Spirit Lives" tomorrow and take the quiz on D2L tomorrow 
• Your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Friday (20-25 multiple choice questions on D2L).

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

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

You are going to be writing the Market and Mixed Economy Test this Friday on D2L. It will be 20-25 multiple choice questions. Please check out the following study guide:

Market and Mixed Economy Test Study Guide:

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology 
• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise)
• supply-side economics 
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle 
• law of supply and demand
• Adam Smith
• invisible hand
• self-interest
• consumer sovereignty
• competition
• private ownership
• profit motive 
• basic economic problems/questions advantages/disadvantages of the market economy 
• causes of the Great Depression FDR and the New Deal 
• please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), you can find this in the Social 30-1 course book
• nationalization 
• democratic socialism 
• welfare capitalism 
• Keynesian economics 
• the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes I gave you and the booklet that I gave you) 
• demand-side economics 
• neo-conservatives 
• monetarism 
• trickle down economics 
• supply-side economics 
• Thatcherism and Reaganomics 
• Milton Friedman 
• Friedrich Hayek 
• how Keynesian economics deals with a recession how supply-side economics deals with a recession

March 20

Social 30-1 and IB 30/35

The Alberta provincial government has announced that they are cancelling the Diploma Exams in June 2020. What does this mean? It means that you don't have to write the Diploma Exam in June. What does this mean for the course moving forward? I will still proceed forward with course content, but there won't be the big Diploma Exam worth 30% of your mark in Social Studies 30-1 at the end of the course. In other words, your final mark in the course will be based 100% on the school-awarded mark. I am still committed to teaching you the course content online, you will still have assignments and projects, but the course will likely be scaled back as far as I can tell. When I know more information, I will let you know.

March 19

Social 10-1

I've started to enter ZERO for homework check marks for Chapter 6, Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 homework assignments that were due this week. Submit the work, and get credit for the work you've done. If you submit it as a Google Doc, please share it with kevin.gilchrist.8@gmail.com if it is a Word document, please share it with my CBE account. Please see the March 16th post to see what you should have been working this week: https://kgilchrist.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-16.html

Social 30-1

Same as above. I'm going to start entering ZEROs in PowerSchool for work that should have been submitted (Chapter 5 and 6). Please see the March 16th post to see what you should have been working on this week: https://kgilchrist.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-16.html

IB 30/35

You have one assignment this week, and it's due tomorrow. Please check the March 16th post for more details: https://kgilchrist.blogspot.com/2020/03/march-16.html

March 16

IB 30/35

You have one assignment this week: the Cold War Leaders Profile Assignment. It's due on Friday. Please share it with me on Google Drive (kevin.gilchrist.8@gmail.com). It's due by Friday, March 20th. Please model it after the sample included in the assignment. You shouldn't use point form. We've postponed the Paper 3 on the Cold War and the Americas, and the multiple choice test on the Cold War that you were supposed to write on Wednesday. As of this point in time, the provincial government hasn't cancelled the Diploma Exams in June, and the IB hasn't altered the IB exam schedule in any way. I have to proceed with the idea of trying to prepare you the best that I can for these upcoming assessments to the best of my ability. I am looking into other modes of delivery of content, but in the short term, the textbooks are posted on the IB 30/35 wiki, and I think we can do the US Civil Rights Movement unit online fairly easily. We may even start to have you submit writing assignments to us online (if necessary). Stay safe!

Social 30-1

Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions were due today. Please send them to me by email (kevin.gilchrist.8@gmail.com). Here's what I was going to do with you over the course of the next few days (hopefully you took your Social 30-1 coursebooks home with you):

• "Dealing with a Recession" (pages 102-103 in the course book)
• "Supply Side Economics" (pages 104-105) 
• "Russian History Notes" (page 117)
• "Karl Marx, the Father of Communism" notes (pages 107-109): read, highlight, and annotate these notes (I usually assign students to do this at home anyway)
• "Vladimir Lenin" notes (pages 110-111); same procedure as above
• "Joseph Stalin" notes (pages 112-114); same procedure as above
• Please go through the "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (PowerPoint); hard copy in your Social 30-1 coursebooks (pages 134-142)
• Read Chapter 5 in textbook (remember, I posted the entire textbook on the Social 30-1 wiki) 
• Complete the Chapter 5 Key Terms and Activities (I will share the Google Doc with you momentarily, it will force you to make a copy. Once you've completed the work, please share your completed work with my GMail account: kevin.gilchrist.8@gmail.com). I will post a link to this Google Doc on the Unit 2 page on the Social 30-1 wiki. 
• "Centrally Planned Economy" (page 115)
• "Characteristics of a Command Economy" (page 116)
• "Structure of the Soviet Economy" (pages 120-122)

That will take us to the Spring Break. At this point in time, the provincial government hasn't cancelled the Diploma Exams in June, so I have to prepare you as best I can for the Diploma. I have a lot of content online, but I am looking into some other forms of content delivery, so you can hear and see me explain some concepts online (I might be setting up a YouTube channel). We're just going to try and get through the rest of this week. 

If your parents would like to have a parent-teacher interview with me, please have them send me an email to my CBE account: krgilchrist@cbe.ab.ca

Today was a bit weird without students in the building. We met and talked about how we're going to proceed with the course. We'll do our best in a tough situation. Take care, be safe. 

Social 10-1

I posted an outline of what you should be working on for the remaining days before Spring Break. Over Spring Break (March 20th to March 29th) you don't need to do any school work. Please go to the Online Work page to see what you should be working on over the course of the remainder of the week. If your parents need to contact me for a parent-teacher interview, please have them send an email to my CBE account: krgilchrist@cbe.ab.ca We are not doing face-to-face interviews this semester.

Please complete the following (March 16th to March 18th):

• Please read Chapter 7 in Perspectives on Globalization (it's posted on the wiki)
• Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions (you have a hard copy of this, or you can download it from the Social 10-1 wiki)
• Finish off the Historical Globalization and Imperialism PowerPoint/Google Slides on your own (you can find the lecture on the Unit 2 page)

• Please read Chapter 8 in Perspectives on Globalization (posted on the wiki) 
• Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions
• Go through the Legacies of Historical Globalization PowerPoint/Google Slides on your own (Unit 2 Presentations page) 

** When you have completed the key terms and questions from Chapter 7 and Chapter 8, please email them to me. (Please use my CBE email address: krgilchrist@cbe.ab.ca)  If it's a Google Doc, please share with kevin.gilchrist.8@gmail.com **

March 13

IB 30/35

I took in your outlines for the essay questions that you prepared yesterday at the beginning of class. I finished off the "End of the Cold War" PDF notes that Ms. Phui prepared today. I recommend you watch the CNN Cold War episodes that I posted on the wiki most recently, namely "The Wall Comes Down" and "Conclusions" episode. On Tuesday (March 17th), you will be writing a Paper 3 on the Cold War and the Americas. On Wednesday (March 18th), you will be writing a Social 30-1 style multiple choice test on the Cold War, I'm posting the study guide below.

COLD WAR EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

On Wednesday, March 18th you will have a Cold War Unit Exam. Please see the study guide below. This test will be a Social 30-1 test and it will be all multiple choice test format. 

IB 30/35 COLD WAR UNIT FINAL STUDY GUIDE:

Make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts: 

• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention

Know the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Yalta Conference
• Potsdam Conference
• domino theory
• proxy war
• deterrence
• containment
• superpower
• sphere of influence
• zones of occupation
• Berlin Blockade/Berlin Airlift
• Marshall Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• SALT I 
• SALT II
• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• Hungarian Revolution 1956
• Prague Spring 1968
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 1979
• Korean War
• Helsinki Accord 
• Kennedy
• Khrushchev
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Eisenhower
• peaceful coexistence
• satellite state
• Tito
• Yugoslavia
• Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)/Star Wars
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
• anything that I gave you as a handout/notes on the wiki is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 30-1

You wrote the "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" today in class. I've already posted the results on PowerSchool.

Social 10-1

I started a lecture today called "Historical Globalization and Imperialism". You can find this lecture on the Social 10-1 wiki under Unit 2 Presentations. I'll finish it off on Monday.

March 12

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 1 position paper today in the Blenheim Room. You'll get the results back in all likelihood after Spring Break.

Social 30-1

We finished off the lecture on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today. You're writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test (Chapter 3-4 Test) tomorrow; please see the study guide below.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is on Friday, March 13th. This is a multiple choice test.

 1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

•  "The Development of Classical Liberalism" + charts 
• "Responding to Classical Liberalism" + charts 

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. 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 
•  Edmund Burke and classical conservatism 

 5. 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

IB 30/35

You did the jigsaw activity today with each member of your group taking 15 minutes to teach the others in the group their section of the Cold War. For the last 35 minutes of class your group should have produced a detailed outline to answer one of the two essay questions that you were given. Please have a hard copy of the outline and question sheet to hand in tomorrow. I want to check it over to make sure that you did it right.

March 11

Social 30-1

I started a lecture on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today, which I will try to finish off tomorrow. This lecture covers part of Chapter 4 and Chapter 6. On Friday, you are writing the Chapter 3-4 Test (Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test), please see the study guide below.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is on Friday, March 13th. This is a multiple choice test.

 1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

•  "The Development of Classical Liberalism" + charts 
• "Responding to Classical Liberalism" + charts 

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. 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 
•  Edmund Burke and classical conservatism 

 5. 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

Social 10-1

We were able to do an activity based around the story "The Rabbits". This book addresses some of the themes that we'll be looking at Unit 2, such as cultural contact, assimilation, imperialism, differing world views, and residential schools. We spent a fair bit of time looking at the symbolism in the book and some of the themes that the book introduces. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. You are writing the Unit 1 WRA II position paper tomorrow in the Blenheim Room. 

IB 30/35

I started a lecture today on "US Foreign Policy in Latin America", please go through the remaining slides are your own. We also watch the "Backyard" episode of the CNN Cold War series. I've posted notes on the IB 30/35 wiki for this episode. Please be ready for tomorrow's activity!

March 10

IB 30/35

We finished off the Google Slides lecture on "The Vietnam War" today. You can download a hard copy from the IB 30/35 wiki if you like. We also watched the "Vietnam" episode from the CNN Cold War series as well (with my technical difficulties with the DVD, we didn't see the last 4-5 minutes). If you were in New York City during the last IB Paper 2 exam, you're writing it today after school in Ms. Phui's classroom. In tomorrow's class, we'll be looking at US foreign policy in Latin America from the Kennedy to the Carter administrations. Please make sure that you're ready for Thursday's activity!

Social 10-1

I taught you how to write a position paper today. I gave you the "recipe for success" handout (the writing guide) and the essay question sheet for Thursday's WRA II position paper.

Social 30-1

We finished off the "Inequality for All" documentary that we started yesterday. You had the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Monday, March 16th. This Friday (March 13th) you will be writing the Chapter 3-4 Test (Ideological to Industrialization Test), please see the study guide below.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test study Guide:

This test is on Friday, March 13th. This is a multiple choice test.

 1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

•  "The Development of Classical Liberalism" + charts 
• "Responding to Classical Liberalism" + charts 

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. 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 
•  Edmund Burke and classical conservatism 

 5. 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

March 6

Sorry, I forgot to post this yesterday....

IB 30/35

We completed our three options debate on the Cuban Missile Crisis. On Monday, we will be starting our examination of the Vietnam War. I will post the Vietnam War lecture on the IB 30/35 wiki this evening.

Social 30-1

We watched two videos "Dutch Treat" and "Welfare a la Carte", and while you watched these videos you should have taken point form notes on both. Next Friday (March 13th) you will be writing the Chapter 3-4 Test (Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test), please see the study guide below.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is on Friday, March 13th. 

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations: 

• "The Development of Classical Liberalism" + charts
• "Responding to Classical Liberalism" + charts

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. 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 
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

5. 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 

Social 10-1

You did the debate on the following topic: BIRT globalization benefits the world's cultures. You will do another class debate in Unit 3. Next week, you'll be learning how to write a position paper.

March 5

Social 10-1

You worked in your debate groups building and organizing a Google Doc in preparation for tomorrow's debate on the following topic: BIRT globalization benefits the world's cultures. One week from today, you will be writing the Unit 1 position paper. I will teach you how to write a position paper next week, and you will get the essay question sheet in advance of the essay writing day.

Social 30-1

I gave you some notes on the movement from classical liberalism to welfare capitalism to modern liberalism. We also listened to an NPR podcast on the Obama administration usage of Keynesian economic policies in response to the global recession. You are supposed to go through the following section in your Social 30-1 course books, and read, highlight and annotate: pages 79-84. One week from tomorrow (Friday, March 13th) you will be writing the Chapter 3-4 Test (Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test), so I will be posting the study guide here on the blog tomorrow.

IB 30/35

I finished off the lecture on the Cuban Missile Crisis today, and then you moved into your three option debate groups. We'll be doing the debate tomorrow.

March 4

Social 30-1

I did a review of the business cycle and the Keynesian economic responses to the various stages of the boom and bust cycle. I also went into some detail on the New Deal attempts at relief, recovery and reform through the "alphabet agencies". I also went into greater detail on monetary and fiscal policies (pages 70-76) in the Social 30-1 course books.

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on the Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions today. I split into two groups, side proposition and side opposition. We will be having a debate on Friday, on the following topic: BIRT globalization benefits the world's cultures. I also gave you a sheet on debate structure. We are booked into a computer lab tomorrow so each side can build a Google Doc to create arguments and evidence that your side will use during the debate. One week from tomorrow (Thursday, March 12th) you will be writing the Unit 1 position paper. That is one of the reasons why were doing this debate, to learn how to build argumentation and evidence to support your position in a contentious debate.

IB 30/35

I lectured briefly today on the Cuban Missile Crisis, and then split you into your three options debate groups for Friday's debate on how the USA should handle the Cuban Missile Crisis. You'll get some class time tomorrow to work in your groups again.