October 5

IB 20 HOTA

I gave you each a copy of the United States Constitution graphic novels to read this long weekend. I showed you a video on the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I also talked about how to write a Paper 3. I'll post the Paper 3 handout on the wiki and share the page with you all so you can print off a copy for yourself if you missed class today. You'll be writing a Paper 3 on Tuesday.

Social 30-1

We did some review of the "economic snapshots" of the business cycle and the Keynesian economic response to the various stages on the boom and bust cycle. I also had you listen to an NPR podcast on the Obama administration using Keynesian economics to deal with the global recession of 2008. I did a homework check on the Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions. I didn't assign the Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions for homework, but you should get working on them this weekend since they'll be later next week.

Social 10-1

We had our class debate on the following topic today: BIRT globalization benefits the world's cultures. I will give you feedback on this debate on Tuesday and my decision as to which side "won" the debate.

October 4

Social 10-1

I split you into two sides for tomorrow's debate on the following topic: BIRT globalization is beneficial to the world's cultures. I gave each side in this debate a different reading with different perspectives on this debate. We spent most of the class period in the computer lab putting together a Google Doc to organize your arguments and evidence for the debate.

Social 30-1

Much of today's class was spent watching videos from the BBC 20th Century History series and note-taking. We watched "Boom and Bust" and "FDR and the New Deal", and while you were watching these videos you should have taken notes. If you missed class today, please get these notes from a classmate. We also went through the "Case Study: USA in the Great Depression" notes in your 30-1 coursebooks. Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

IB 20 HOTA

You wrote your American Revolution Test today. I'll post the results on PowerSchool later this evening. We'll talk about the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights tomorrow. On Tuesday, October 9th you'll be writing a Paper 3 and I'll teach you how to write this kind of assessment tomorrow as well.

October 6

Please remember that there's no school on Friday (PD Day) or on Monday (Thanksgiving Day).

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today, which took most of the period to write. I gave back your French Revolution DBA Assignment today. Please remember that you're writing your Unit 1 Final on Tuesday, October 11th (please scroll down to find the study guide.

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

You will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on Tuesday, October 11th. It is 75 multiple choice questions. Make sure that you have read Chapters 1-4 in Exploring Nationalism. Please make sure that you know the key concepts from Unit 1 (see below). Also review the PowerPoint presentations that you should have in your notes. They are also on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations. These are the presentations that you should review:



1. Nation and Identity
2. The French Revolution
3. The Napoleonic Era
4. Contending Loyalties



Know the key concepts from the Unit 1 Worksheet (a lot of them have been defined on the wiki by your classmates, check under Unit 1 Key Terms). If you know the key concepts you'll be able apply them to test.

• nation
• nation-state
• nationalism
• patriotism
• self-determination
• sovereignty
• sovereign
• civic nation
• civic nationalism
• ethnic nationalism
• collective consciousness
• French Revolution
• Estates-General
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• cahiers de doléances
• Ancien Régime
• bourgeoisie
• feudal system
• philosophes
• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• National Assembly
• Tennis Court Oath
• constitutional monarchy
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• National Convention
• levée en masse
• Robespierre
• Danton
• Marat
• Reign of Terror
• Napoleon
• Napoleonic Code
• Continental System
• contending loyalties
• cultural pluralism
• reasonable accommodation
• sovereignists
• federalists
• royal commission
• expressions of nationalism
• non-nationalist loyalty
• alienation
• segregation

IB 20 HOTA

We finished off our constitutional convention today in class by voting on the working papers. You wrote a current events quiz today. You have an American Revolution Test next Tuesday (October 11th) which covers the American Revolution, the Revolutionary War, the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights (we covered this today). You'll also be writing a Paper 3 on Friday, October 14th. 

October 15

IB 30/35

You wrote your document analysis questions on the Reconstruction era today. Also, we watched a video from the U.S. History series called "U.S. and the World" (1865-1917) which you should have taken notes on while you were watching the video. You are writing your Paper 3 on the Civil War and Reconstruction tomorrow.

Social 10-1

I started a PowerPoint lecture today called "Legacies of Historical Globalization", which I will finish tomorrow. We also started a video called "Tools of Exploitation", while you were watching this video you were to answer questions from a film study sheet. We'll finish the video tomorrow as well.

IB 20

We watched a video on the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights (you needed to take notes on this). We then also talked about how to write a Paper 1. You'll be writing a Paper 1 on the American Revolution tomorrow. You'll be writing your American Revolution Test on Thursday. Please see the wiki for more information on OPVL Document Analysis and Paper 1 advice.

March 14

IB 20

We continued looking at the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights today by watching a video on that very topic. Be able to distinguish between the Virginia Plan, the New Jersey Plan and the Connecticut Compromise. Also, remember whole the issue of whether slaves would count in a state's population to determine the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. The issue of slavery was very much a "deal breaker" at the Constitutional Convention and as it was a sensitive topic the delegates dealt with it with the 3/5ths compromise. Please continue reading your United States Constitution graphic novels, I'll be asking for them back tomorrow. You do have a homework assignment tonight out of your History of the Americas book. On pages 71-73 you will find five different sources, you were assigned one of these sources (A-E) and you are to make an OPVL chart based on that source. Additionally, you are to answer the questions on page 73 related to these sources. This assignment is due tomorrow. For today's homework, I didn't collect it, but rather I would like to see you build the chart collaboratively on the wiki in the collaborative notes section. I also told you about some important upcoming dates (please see below). Use your IB Skills Handbook for help with the OPVL chart or the OPVL Document Analysis section of the IB 20 wiki.

Upcoming Important Dates for IB 20:

• American Revolution Test is on Friday, March 16th
• Paper 1 on the American Revolution is on Monday, March 19th

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent watching an excerpt from the movie "Born on the Fourth of July" which tells the story of Ron Kovic, a high school student from Massapequa, New York who enlists in the United States Marines and is wounded in the Vietnam conflict. As unsettling as this movie was you can see recruitment techniques, the fears of the times ("communism is all around us, they're moving in everywhere"), the techniques of warfare in Vietnam (how the war was fought: use of helicopters, dropping troops near villages, engaging the enemy/luring them out and then calling in air strikes) and the aftermath/impact that the war had on young men like Ron Kovic (issues of drug use, post-traumatic stress disorder). Please remember that your Vietnam War Assignment is due tomorrow (please see it below). IB Diploma students: please submit your TOK Essays electronically today. If you have any problems with this, please contact me by e-mail.

Vietnam War Assignment

A. PEOPLE
Identify and explain the role each played in the Vietnam War
1. Ho Chi Minh
2. Ngo Dinh Diem
3. Lyndon B. Johnson
4. Richard M. Nixon
5. Viet Minh
6. Viet Cong
7. Le Duc Tho
8. Henry Kissinger
9. William Westmoreland
10. "Draft Dodger"

B. CONCEPTS/TERMS
Explain the significance of the following with regards to the Vietnam War (identify participants or individuals if appropriate)
1. Ho Chi Minh Trail
2. defoliation
3. "search and destroy" mission
4. "Vietnamization of the war"
5. Gulf of Tonkin Incident
6. My Lai Massacre
7. domino theory
8. Kent State University protest (May 4, 1970)
9. Tet Offensive (January 1968)
10. Geneva Agreement (1954)

C. ISSUES
Provide the information requested
1. The predominant religion of Vietnam
2. The battle which marked the end of French colonial rule in Indo-China
3. The scandal which led to the only resignation of an American President
4. The Vice President who replaced the President after his resignation
5. Why was November 1963 a "bad month" for the governments of South Vietnam and the United States?