September 7

IB 20 HOTA

You handed in your friendly letters at the beginning of class today. I gave you a handout that you had to categorize the advantages and disadvantages of various types of sources. You worked on this individually, and then as a class we discussed what some advantages and disadvantages of private letters, diaries, novels, films, and art, among others. I also gave you a booklet on the OPCVL guide. Over the weekend you should go the values and limitations exercise. We will discuss the values and limitations exercise on Monday. Please read over the Academic Integrity Policy, sign it, have your parent sign it, and return it on Monday. We will start talking about the Enlightenment on Monday as well.

Social 30-1

You handed in your friendly letters at the beginning of class. I went through a lecture on "Identity and Ideology". I taught you the principles of individualism (PRICES) and the principles of collectivism (PRINCE), and the 19th century political spectrum. I'll continue with this lecture on Monday. Your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, September 10th.

Social 10-1

You handed in your friendly letters today. We played "Global Bingo" today, where you got to meet 16 other students in the class. You're going to need that information for an upcoming assignment. You should work on your Chapter 1 Key Terms this weekend. I'll explain how to do the "skill path" question on Monday. This weekend you have a homework assignment: the 25 item chart. You need to find 25 different items from 25 different countries.

25 Item Chart Instructions:

• find 25 items from 25 different countries (you can't have 5 items from one country!)
• find items from any of the following categories: food, clothing, electronics, household goods, entertainment, and miscellaneous (if it doesn't fit into any of the previous categories)
• don't just find items from one category (for example, 25 food items)
• try to find 4-6 items from each category
• collect your information about your items in a 3-column chart (item, country, category)
• don't assume that an item is from a particular country (for example, a Sony PS4 may be manufactured in Indonesia, Malaysia or South Korea, that is the information that we want
• for entertainment, for example a CD (or MP3) we want to know where the recording artist is from, not where the CD was manufactured, this will better illustrate social globalization
  when you are collecting the information for your chart, number off the items (1-25) and have the categorized separate (in other words, the first 5 items on your chart should belong to the same category, etc.)
• the more organized your chart is, the easier it will be to put that information on to a map!

September 11

IB 30/35

I went through a Google Slides lecture on the "Allied Victory in World War I", and I shared this with you already. Please make sure that you keep your folders in your Google Drive organized. This lecture should go in your Paper 2 folder, and in the Causes and Effects of 20th Century Wars sub-folder. Make sure that you're working on your IA! We're booked into the Red Lab on Thursday and Friday.

SOCIAL 10-1

I did a homework check on your 25 item charts today at the beginning of class. I gave you some class time to work on your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions (due on Wednesday, September 13th). 

Your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions, are due on Wednesday. You also have to complete your global connections map by Wednesday (I gave you the blank maps today in class). The instructions for completing this mapping assignment are below.

SOCIAL 10-1 WORLD GEOGRAPHY TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test will take place on Friday, September 15th. It is simply a country and capital cities identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries, capital cities, and places identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:

• any of the EU countries (there are 28 countries in the EU)
• any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
• any of the G7 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom
• full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
• to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan
• other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, China, India, Myanmar (Burma), Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel
• **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**

Please use the following links for studying for this test:

• World Geography Games
• Test Your Geography Knowledge
• Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)

GLOBAL CONNECTIONS MAP ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS:

Here are the instructions for the map (which is due on Wednesday, September 13th):

• your map must have a title ("Global Connections Map")
• you do not need compass directions on your map
• you do not need a border for your map
• you must have a simple key on the front of the map and a detailed key on the back on the map
• your simple key will consist of the following: 5-6 colored boxes (depending on how many categories you had for your 25 item chart) which will be labeled- food, clothing, electronics, entertainment, household goods, miscellaneous AND you must also draw a colored dot and label it "people" (for the information from the Global Bingo game that we played)
• you will only color countries and label ones that you have a connection to through the 25 item chart (for example, you own a sombrero that is from Mexico, you would color Mexico and label it "Mexico")
• there will only be 5-6 colors on the map, you don't need to have 25 different colors for each of your 25 items
• you also have to label the 16 people that you talked to during our Global Bingo game, they will be represented by colored circles (pick a common color for all people) and numbers (1-16, if you didn't talk to 16 people, you label as many as you talked to)--you do not color the countries that are represented on your Global Bingo card, you simply draw a circle on the country, color it, put a number beside it, and label the country (for example, if the only connection you have to Australia is that one of your classmates went on a vacation there, you draw the circle, write the number beside the circle, and label the country "Australia"-- you don't color the country)
• on the detailed key on the back of your map, you will be recreating your 25 item chart (make sure that you have the categories clearly colored and matching the simple key on the front of the map) and the information from the Global Bingo card (clearly identify people by number) Your Global Connections Map is due on Wednesday, September 13th.

September 8

IB 30/35

I finished of the Google Slides lecture on the "Causes of World War I" and then showed a video from the BBC series 'Days That Shook the World' on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. You should work on your IA this weekend! I've booked us into a computer lab next week.

Social 10-1

I collected your friendly letters at the beginning of class. We played global bingo today, and a few of you will get prizes next week. You have a homework assignment tonight, you need to find 25 items from 25 different countries, and put the information that you collect into a chart. It would probably be smart to categorize the information right from the beginning, since you will have to use this data when you use it for an upcoming mapping assignment.You will have a World Geography Test next Friday, the study guide for this test can be found in today's post on the blog if you scroll down completely.

25 Item Chart Instructions:

• find 25 items from 25 different countries (you can't have 5 items from one country!)
• find items from any of the following categories: food, clothing, electronics, household goods, entertainment, and miscellaneous (if it doesn't fit into any of the previous categories)
• don't just find items from one category (for example, 25 food items)
• try to find 4-6 items from each category
• collect your information about your items in a 3-column chart (item, country, category)
• don't assume that an item is from a particular country (for example, a Sony PS4 may be manufactured in Indonesia, Malaysia or South Korea, that is the information that we want
• for entertainment, for example a CD (or MP3) we want to know where the recording artist is from, not where the CD was manufactured, this will better illustrate social globalization
  when you are collecting the information for your chart, number off the items (1-25) and have the categorized separate (in other words, the first 5 items on your chart should belong to the same category, etc.)
• the more organized your chart is, the easier it will be to put that information on to a map!

SOCIAL 10-1 WORLD GEOGRAPHY TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test will take place on Friday, September 15th. It is simply a country and capital cities identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries, capital cities, and places identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:

• any of the EU countries (there are 27 countries in the EU)
• any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
• any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
• full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
• to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan
• other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, China, India, Myanmar (Burma), Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel
• **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**

Please use the following links for studying for this test:

• World Geography Games
• Test Your Geography Knowledge
• Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)

February 6

Social 20-1

I collected your friendly letters at the beginning of class today. If you didn't hand in your letters today, please make sure that you hand it in tomorrow. I finished off the lecture on "Nation and Identity". If you missed class on Thursday, please make sure that you get the notes from a classmate so you know what I emphasized. One week from today, you'll have a World Geography Test, please check out the study guide below. Tomorrow, I will lecture on "The Enlightenment", you will write a matching quiz on this on Wednesday.

Key dates for Social 20-1 students:

• Enlightenment Thinkers Quiz (matching quiz, please see the study guide below) is on Wednesday, February 8th
• Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, February 8th
• World Geography Test is on Monday, February 13th (please see study guide below)

Social 20-1 World Geography Test Study Guide:

This test will take place on Monday, February 13th. It is simply a country identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:

• any of the EU countries (there are 28 countries in the EU, a map of the EU is in your textbook on page 265, but it's out of date, it says that there's 27 countries in the EU. I'm not even talking about Brexit here...)
• any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
• any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
• full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
• to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
• other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica, Serbia, Georgia, China,
  India, Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq,
  Israel
• **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**

GEOGRAPHY GAMES

• World Geography Games
• Test Your Geography Knowledge
• Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)

Enlightenment Thinkers Quiz Study Guide:

This quiz is a matching quiz. Please make sure that you focus your review on the following Enlightenment thinkers:

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Adam Smith
• Francois Quesnay
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Voltaire

Please make sure that you know their views on the nature of human beings, quotes attributed to them, their main ideas/key beliefs, and their major works (what books, articles they wrote). 

Social 10-1

I collected your friendly letters at the beginning of class. I gave feedback to each of on your Google Doc paragraphs this weekend, so please check out my suggestions. We played global bingo today, and a few of you will get prizes this week. You have a homework assignment tonight, you need to find 25 items from 25 different countries, and put the information that you collect into a chart. It would probably be smart to categorize the information right from the beginning, since you will have to use this data when you use it for an upcoming mapping assignment.You will have a World Geography Test next Monday, the study guide for this test can be found in today's post on the blog if you scroll down completely.

25 Item Chart Instructions:

• find 25 items from 25 different countries (you can't have 5 items from one country!)
• find items from any of the following categories: food, clothing, electronics, household goods, entertainment, and miscellaneous (if it doesn't fit into any of the previous categories)
• don't just find items from one category (for example, 25 food items)
• try to find 4-6 items from each category
• collect your information about your items in a 3-column chart (item, country, category)
• don't assume that an item is from a particular country (for example, a Sony PS4 may be manufactured in Indonesia, Malaysia or South Korea, that is the information that we want
• for entertainment, for example a CD (or MP3) we want to know where the recording artist is from, not where the CD was manufactured, this will better illustrate social globalization
  when you are collecting the information for your chart, number off the items (1-25) and have the categorized separate (in other words, the first 5 items on your chart should belong to the same category, etc.)
• the more organized your chart is, the easier it will be to put that information on to a map!

SOCIAL 10-1 WORLD GEOGRAPHY TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test will take place on Monday, February 13th. It is simply a country and capital cities identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries, capital cities, and places identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:

• any of the EU countries (there are 27 countries in the EU)
• any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
• any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
• full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
• to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan
• other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, China, India, Myanmar (Burma), Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel
• **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**

Please use the following links for studying for this test:

• World Geography Games
• Test Your Geography Knowledge
• Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)

February 4

IB 30/35

We finished up the activity from yesterday, so you should now have jot notes on the results of World War II. One of those results was the origin of the nuclear age, which begins during WWII, and obviously the work to build the atomic bomb leads to its usage to end the war in the Pacific. We started an HBO documentary today called "White Light/Black Rain", which we will finish off tomorrow.

Social 30-1

I gave you back the results of the Social 30-1 diagnostic test today. I gave you the course workbooks today as well, and started teaching the course content by looking at the ideas of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau. As I lectured from the PowerPoint presentation "Introducing Government", you were to take notes in your workbooks. Please remind me tomorrow to get you signed on to the Social 30-1 wiki. Once you're on the wiki, you can find all of the PowerPoint presentations that I'll be delivering in class.

Social 10-1

We played a fun game of global bingo today, where you were asked to circulate around the room and meet 16 new people and get information from them. Eventually you will use this information and put it on a world map. You have a homework assignment tonight that is due tomorrow: you must find 25 items from 25 different countries. these items could be put into different categories, such as: food, clothing, electronics, household items, vehicles, musical instruments, entertainment, beauty products/make up, etc. The smart way to put together your chart would be to classify your items into categories in your chart right from the start. Once again, you will eventually have to put all of this information into a map. I will be doing a homework check on this chart tomorrow. I also gave you time to work on your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Tuesday, February 9th.

February 6

IB 20

I did a homework check on the questions from the Brown reading "Why Study or Write History?" We finished watching "Vantage Point" today, and we were able to have a brief discussion of the eight different perspectives in the film and what the limitations of those vantage points might be. The film study questions for "Vantage Point" are due on Monday. Tonight I would like you to visit the wiki, look under Unit 1 Historiography for a PowerPoint presentation called "Evaluating Sources". Please read this presentation over. If you want to print off a hard copy of the presentation that might be helpful. Your reflective essay on the IB learner profile is due tomorrow. It must be either hand written using blue or black ink, or it can typed. You will get your IA question tomorrow.

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your 25 item chart at the beginning of class, and it was returned to you at the end of class. I gave you instructions on how to complete your global connections map, and I will post the instructions here on the blog as well. I also talked a little bit about the World Geography Test that you'll have on February 19th. I will post the official study guide for that test on Monday. I gave you the Unit 1 Worksheet today and assigned your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions for Tuesday, February 11th.

Global Connections Map Assignment Instructions:

Here are the instructions for the map (which is due on Monday):

• your map must have a title ("Global Connections Map")
• you do not need compass directions on your map
• you do not need a border for your map
• you must have a simple key on the front of the map and a detailed key on the back on the map
• your simple key will consist of the following: 5-6 colored boxes (depending on how many categories you had for your 25 item chart) which will be labeled- food, clothing, electronics, entertainment, household goods, miscellaneous AND you must also draw a colored dot and label it "people" (for the information from the Global Bingo game that we played)
• you will only color countries and label ones that you have a connection to through the 25 item chart (for example, you own a sombrero that is from Mexico, you would color Mexico and label it "Mexico")
• there will only be 5-6 colors on the map, you don't need to have 25 different colors for each of your 25 items
• you also have to label the 16 people that you talked to during our Global Bingo game, they will be represented by colored circles (pick a common color for all people) and numbers (1-16, if you didn't talk to 16 people, you label as many as you talked to)--you do not color the countries that are represented on your Global Bingo card, you simply draw a circle on the country, color it, put a number beside it, and label the country (for example, if the only connection you have to Australia is that one of your classmates went on a vacation there, you draw the circle, write the number beside the circle, and label the country "Australia"-- you don't color the country)
• on the detailed key on the back of your map, you will be recreating your 25 item chart (make sure that you have the categories clearly colored and matching the simple key on the front of the map) and the information from the Global Bingo card (clearly identify people by number) Your Global Connections Map is due on Monday, February 10th.

If you have any questions about it, post a comment below using the following format:  K.G. in Social 10-1.

IB 30/35

Today's entire period was turned over to you to work on your TOK presentations. Don't forget that we're doing the three option debate tomorrow on the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII.

February 3

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "Identity and Ideology". I have sent this presentation to you already, so please check your e-mail accounts tonight, and print off this presentation and add it to your notes (4-6 slides per page when you print it off). Please make sure that you print off the Ideology Notes from the Black Gold School District, and read them! Actually I recommend that you read, highlight and annotate these notes. Please make sure that you have read these notes over before coming to class tomorrow. Your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Also, make sure that you have read Chapter 1 as well. Your Chapter 1-2 Quiz will be on Thursday, February 10th, please see the study guide below.

Upcoming Important Dates for 30-1 Students:

• Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, February 4th
• Print off Ideology Notes prior to February 4th class (read, highlight, annotate)
• Chapter 1-2 Quiz is on Thursday, February 10th (please see study guide below)
• Unit 1 Final Exam is on Friday, February 11th (study guide will go up on the blog tomorrow)

Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Thursday, February 10th. It is a mixed format test, it will have a matching section and a short answer section. Here is what you should review/study for this test:

• Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms/Concepts and the Supplementary Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
• be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (hopefully you have quality answers to study from!)
• you must know the 19th century political spectrum and the 20th century political spectrum
• know similarities and differences between communism and fascism
• be able to label political and economic spectrums and the values associated with these ideologies
• be able to label the political-economic grid and know examples of the ideologies in the quadrants (study the Ideology Notes and the notes I gave you in class)
• know the differences between individualism and collectivism, be able to apply your understanding of these concepts
• know the key ideas associated with Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (for example, view of the nature of human beings, etc.)

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below:

Social 10-1

We played a little "Global Bingo" today as well (don't lose those sheets, you'll need them for a subsequent mapping assignment). You have some homework tonight: you must create a 25 item chart (please see instructions below). I gave you some time to work on your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions today, these will be due in one week's time. You will have a World Geography Test next Friday, the study guide for this test will go up tomorrow on the blog.

25 Item Chart Instructions:

• find 25 items from 25 different countries (you can't have 5 items from one country!)
• find items from any of the following categories: food, clothing, electronics, household goods, entertainment, and miscellaneous (if it doesn't fit into any of the previous categories)
• don't just find items from one category (for example, 25 food items)
• try to find 4-6 items from each category
• collect your information about your items in a 3-column chart (item, country, category)
• don't assume that an item is from a particular country (for example, a Sony PS3 may be manufactured in Indonesia, Malaysia or South Korea, that is the information that we want
• for entertainment, for example a CD (or MP3) we want to know where the recording artist is from, not where the CD was manufactured, this will better illustrate social globalization
  when you are collecting the information for your chart, number off the items (1-25) and have the categorized separate (in other words, the first 5 items on your chart should belong to the same category, etc.)
• the more organized your chart is, the easier it will be to put that information on to a map!