December 14

IB 30/35

We talked briefly about causes of WWII today before we watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?" You also got the results back for your Market and Mixed Economy Exam. Please take some time this weekend to prepare for the debate that we're having on Tuesday. Remember that we agree with the following proposition: This house believes that government intervention in the economy is necessary.

 

Social 10-1

We finished watching "Blood Diamond" today. The "Blood Diamond" film study is due on Monday. Also on Monday we will be starting our Model UN conference on child soldiers. Please make sure that you have read the background guide that I have sent to you already. Please do some additional research this weekend. I will be taking in your research notes on Tuesday.

IB 20

The entire period was spent addressing the IA. We went through the PowerPoint presentation on the IA as well. You selected your IA topic as well today. I think most of the topics are very good and with a little guidance you should be able to find resources to help get you through the IA. You;re writing a Paper 2 on the Dictatorships unit on Tuesday.

December 13

IB 20

After this morning's fire drill we watched a short video on "Comparative Government" which introduced the concepts of a unitary system, a federal system and a confederated system, as well the distinctions between democratic and non-democratic systems. I also went through part of a PowerPoint presentation on non-democratic systems (different types of dictatorships)and just got into the parliamentary democracy example of Canada. I will post this presentation on the IB 20 wiki. Please print it off and add it to your notes. We'll start the American system of government on Monday. Tomorrow is the day when we you will get your IA topic.

Social 10-1

We continued the film study of "Blood Diamond" today in class. We'll finish with the film itself tomorrow, and the accompanying film study will be due on Monday. I assigned you a country for a Model UN conference. I have sent you a background guide for our Model UN conference on child soldiers already, so please check your e-mail accounts. Use the background guide as a starting point for your research. You need to know a little about the country that you are representing as well as that country's position on child soldiers. Look into what the UN has done about child soldiers, and what NGOs are doing about this issue as well. What is a child soldier? What are some underlying causes that leads to the usage of child soldiers? What are some possible solutions to this problem?

IB 30/35

Today's class was spent writing your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test. This took the whole period. I also gave you the topic for next week's debate: This house believes that government intervention in the economy is necessary. We agree with the proposition, so we'd agree in favor of Keynesian economics and the benefits of intervention. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week we'll be going down to Room 121. The debate is on Tuesday, and you'll just have to wait and see what we have planned for Wednesday and Thursday.

December 12

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms charts at the beginning of the class. I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "Impacts of Globalization on Groups in Society", which I will be sending to you today. When you get this PowerPoint presentation, please print it off 4-6 slides per page and add it to your notes. We started our film study of "Blood Diamond" today, and we will continue this film tomorrow.

IB 20

For the first 30 minutes of class today you completed the Tell Them From Me computer survey. For the remainder of the class we watched the documentary "Genocide". We will be leaving the Dictatorships unit and start looking at democratic systems tomorrow.

IB 30/35

 

I went through how demand-side and supply-side economics would deal with a recession at the start of class. We then proceeded to continue watching "Commanding Heights" Episode 1 "The Battle of Ideas". We did not finish this video in class. We finished a little over an hour of the video, and you can watch the rest of the video below. Tomorrow, you will have a test on the market economy and the mixed economy. Please see the study guide below. Many of the handouts and PowerPoint presentations that the study guide refers to are actually already on the wiki already under Social 30-1 Unit 2 material.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

• please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise
• supply-side economics
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle
• laws of supply and demand, Adam Smith, invisible hand, market forces 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)
• 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

 

I also showed you a a short YouTube video which was a "rap battle" between "Keynes" and "Hayek". You can watch this video again below:



Round 2 is here: