December 9

IB 30/35

We moved on from our Prescribed Subject (The Move to Global War) back to a Paper 2 topic (World History Topic 11 to be exact) "Causes and Effects of 20th Century Wars". We're going to be looking at the Second World War until the Christmas break. Today, I went through a lecture that introduced you the causes of WWII in Europe and north Africa, as well as in the Asia-Pacific theatre. I also gave you a handout on the usage of technology in WWII (this will be very useful, a must read). Tomorrow, we'll begin looking at how the Second World War was fought, in other words, the course and practice of the war.

Social 30-1

You wrote the Unit 3 position paper today in the Blenheim Room. Don't forget that the Chapter 10 Test is on Wednesday, December 11th. You can find the study guide for this test below. Also, on Monday, December 16th (one week from today), you will be writing the Unit 3 Final Exam (study guide is posted below).

Chapter 10 Test Study Guide:

• This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions.
• Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism". 
• You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Worksheet.
• This test is on Wednesday, December 11th 

Please review the following as well:

• Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes) 
• Structure of Canadian Government 
• Structure of American Government 
• differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
• types of dictatorships 
•  techniques of dictatorships 
•  authoritarian systems 
•  proportional representation concept 
• first past the post system 
•  review political and economic spectrum (again!)

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Your Unit 3 Final Exam will be on Monday, December 16th. Please study the following material:

• make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below) 
• study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets 
• "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation) 

Review the following notes/packages:

• Democratic Systems 
• Non-Democratic Systems 
• types of dictatorships techniques of dictatorships 
• Civil Rights Movement 
• authoritarian systems (China notes) 
• review the economic and political spectrum (again!) 
• re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act) 
• FLQ Crisis 1970 

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

• assimilation 
• self-interest 
• humanitarianism 
• Indian Act 
• residential school system 
• enfranchisement 
• the White Paper 
• the Red Paper 
• “war on terror" 
• authoritarianism 
• consensus decision-making 
• direct democracy 
• military dictatorship 
• oligarchy 
• one-party state 
• party solidarity 
• representation by population 
• proportional representation 
• representative democracy 
• responsible government 
• democracy 
• single-member constituency (first past the post) 
• the Senate 
• the House of Commons 
• the House of Representatives 
• the Senate (USA)
•  mixed-member proportional system
• lobby groups 
• American Bill of Rights 
• Anti-Terrorism Act 
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 
• emergency and security legislation 
• illiberal 
• language legislation Bill 101 Bill 178 Bill 86 
• Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms 
• respect for law and order 
• terrorism 
• rendition 
• the War Measures Act 
• enemy aliens 
• internment 
• the Emergencies Act 
• USA PATRIOT Act 
• consumerism 
• environmental change 
• extremism 
• pandemics 
• postmodernism 
• global warming 
• Kyoto Protocol 
• World Health Organization (WHO) 
• drought

Social 20-1

You wrote the Unit 2 Final Exam today in class. I'll post the results of this test this afternoon on PowerSchool. One week from today, you'll be writing the Unit 3 position paper. Also, please remember that you're writing the Unit 3 Final Exam next Wednesday. I will post the study guide for the Unit 3 Final Exam on Wednesday (one week in advance).

March 20

IB 30/35

I showed you the rest of  Episode 1 of the Ken Burns' The Civil War and the key parts of the last episode. On your Paper 3 exam in May, please do not write on any of the Civil War topics. I'm just covering the Civil War to get to Reconstruction, so that you can see the historical context of the African-American Civil Rights Movement ()which we will look at after the Spring Break). 

SOCIAL 20-1

We brainstormed the causes of the Second World War in small groups, and then as a class we put together a massive mind map on the board. I also started the "Ultranationalism in WWII" PowerPoint lecture but didn't finish it. Please go over the rest of this lecture on your own, and I'll start with these concepts when we get back from the Spring Break. 

Please remember that you're writing the Unit 2 WRA I tomorrow in Room 104 (go there directly), and you will not be allowed to have any writing guides or analyzing political cartoon sheets out to assist you this time. You will also have the Chapter 5-6 Test on Wednesday, April 4th, please see the study guide below. 

Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide:

This test will have a matching section, and a long answer section.

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• the Black Hand
• Gavrillo Princip
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Battle of Tannenberg
• the Schlieffen Plan
• Plan 17
• General von Moltke
• Battle of the Marne
• Alsace and Lorraine
• total war
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• the Brusilov Offensive
• sinking of the Lusitania
• the Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• General Ludendorff
• Friedrich Ebert
• Paris Peace Conference
• David Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson
• Fourteen Points
• Georges Clemenceau
• Vittorio Orlando
• League of Nations
• plebiscites
• reparations
• collective security
• war debts
• Treaty of Versailles
• "war guilt clause"
• "Manchurian Incident"
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
• expansionism
• Hirohito
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Kristallnacht
• the Nuremberg Laws
• any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

• MAIN Causes of World War I
• the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
• the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
• the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
• Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years notes from the Unit 2 study booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
• failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
• appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism) 

SOCIAL 10-1

You had the entire class to work on Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions (these will be due after the Spring Break). 

You have your Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide below. 

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Wednesday, March 21st. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

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!

Your Chapter 7 Test is on Wednesday, April 4th, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and ashort answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:

• historical globalization
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• Adam Smith
• entrepreneur
• communism
• industrialization
• the Industrial Revolution
• cottage system
• physiocrats
• exploitation
• imperialism
• Eurocentrism
• ethnocentrism
• European imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

• What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
• What values are associated with capitalism?
• Whose values did industrialization effect?
• Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
• What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
• In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

April 4

Social 10-1

We finished watching "Where the Spirit Lives" and you wrote a short quiz on the film. I also showed you a short video from the CBC New in Review on the Canadian government's apology for the residential school system. I also gave you a reading on this topic that you should have completed by tomorrow. You are writing your Chapter 7 Test tomorrow, and the Unit 2 WRA I on Thursday. Please review how to write a WRA I prior to Thursday.

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and along answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:

• historical globalization
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• Adam Smith
• entrepreneur
• communism
• industrialization
• the Industrial Revolution
• cottage system
• physiocrats
• exploitation
• imperialism
• Eurocentrism
• ethnocentrism
• European imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

• What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
• What values are associated with capitalism?
• Whose values did industrialization effect?
• Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
• What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
• In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

Social 20-1

We did a small group activity where you discussed the causes of World War II. Then as a whole class we built a concept web covering the same topic on the board. You need to complete the readings in your Social 20-1 workbook by Thursday's class: pages 172-183. Please remember that you have your Chapter 5-6 Test tomorrow. Please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 5-6 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• the Black Hand
• Gavrillo Princip
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Battle of Tannenberg
• the Schlieffen Plan
• Plan 17
• General von Moltke
• Battle of the Marne
• Alsace and Lorraine
• total war
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• the Brusilov Offensive
• sinking of the Lusitania
• the Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• General Ludendorff
• Friedrich Ebert
• Paris Peace Conference
• David Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson
• Fourteen Points
• Georges Clemenceau
• Vittorio Orlando
• League of Nations
• plebiscites
• reparations
• collective security
• war debts
• Treaty of Versailles
• "war guilt clause"
• "Manchurian Incident"
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
• expansionism
• Hirohito
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Kristallnacht
• the Nuremberg Laws
• any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

• MAIN Causes of World War I
• the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
• the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
• the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
• Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years notes from the Unit 2 study booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
• failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
• appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism) 

October 28

Social 20-1

We went through the Causes of World War II first as a small group, and then as a whole class. You must read in your Social 20-1 workbooks from Blitzkrieg to the Defeat of Japan in WWII.

On Monday, October 31st you'll be writing your Chapter 5-6 Test, please see the study guide below. 

CHAPTER 5-6 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• the Black Hand
• Gavrillo Princip
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Battle of Tannenberg
• the Schlieffen Plan
• Plan 17
• General von Moltke
• Battle of the Marne
• Alsace and Lorraine
• total war
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• the Brusilov Offensive
• sinking of the Lusitania
• the Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• General Ludendorff
• Friedrich Ebert
• Paris Peace Conference
• David Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson
• Fourteen Points
• Georges Clemenceau
• Vittorio Orlando
• League of Nations
• plebiscites
• reparations
• collective security
• war debts
• Treaty of Versailles
• "war guilt clause"
• "Manchurian Incident"
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
• expansionism
• Hirohito
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Kristallnacht
• the Nuremberg Laws
• any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test) 

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

• MAIN Causes of World War I
• the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
• the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
• the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
• Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years notes in your Social 20-1 study booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy (common characteristics?)
• failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
• appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism)

IB 20 HOTA

I started the Haitian Revolution today. I gave you a reading on the Haitian Revolution that we're going to use as a basis for our class debate (it will fall on Friday because you're writing the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Test on Thursday). Please remind me to give you the Current Events Quiz on Monday.

Unit 5 Test Study Guide: (French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Test) 

This test will have a mixed format: matching section, short answer section and a multiple choice section. This test will be written on Monday, November 3rd. Please use the following study guide tips.

• study "The French Revolution" PowerPoint presentation (on the IB 20 wiki)
• study "The Napoleonic Age" PowerPoint (on the IB 20 wiki; this presentation also contains information on the Congress of Vienna)

1. Study the following key terms, key events and key people associated with the French Revolution: (check the glossary of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age that is on the wiki; also check out the Timetoast timeline links on the IB 20 wiki)

• cahiers
• Law of Suspects
• Marat
• the “Plain”
• National Assembly
• the Directory
• Civil Constitution of the Clergy
• Danton
• Committee of Public Safety
• the Three Estates
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• Clergy
• Nobility
• Bourgeoisie
• “nobles-of-the-sword”
• “nobles-of-the-robe”
• “nobles-of-the-bell”
• corvée
• gabelle
• vingtièmes
• Levée en Masse
• National Convention
• September Massacres
• Reign of Terror
• Robespierre
• Parlement du Paris
• the Tennis Court Oath
• the National Guard
• the Marquis de Lafayette
• Paris Commune
• National Guard
• émigrés
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• Estates-General
• Republic of Virtue
• Revolutionary Tribunal
• Declaration of the Rights of Man

2. Other study tips:

• know the causes of the French Revolution (short term, long term, economic, political, social, intellectual)
• know the structure of French society during the Old Regime
• know Napoleon's domestic policy
• know Napoleon's foreign policy (Continental System in particular)
• know key battles in the Napoleonic Wars (results of the Battle of Trafalgar, Russian campaign, the Battle of Leipzig, and the Battle of Waterloo)
• know chronology of key events in the French Revolution
• know the chronology of key events in the Napoleonic Age
• know the key players at the Congress of Vienna (country and representatives)
• what were the major decisions of the Congress? what were the guiding principles at the Congress of Vienna
• know the 19th century political spectrum (please see the graphic below; values and characteristics of the various positions on the spectrum; what groups are represented on the various positions on the spectrum?; what phases/accomplishments of the French Revolution are represented on the spectrum?)

3. Study the 19th century political spectrum (click on the graphic to enlarge it)

If you're still worried about the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Age, here is a Crash Course in History video hosted by John Green (yes, the author of "The Fault in Our Stars"; I had no idea he wrote young adult novels until recently, to me, he was "the Crash Course in History guy"). Enjoy!

January 4

Social 30-1

I gave you back your Unit 3 WRA I three source analysis assignments. I split you into four different groups today and invited you to edit a WRA II Essay outline in Google Docs. Please make sure that you finish up some of the edits on your group's Google Doc in the next couple of days. We'll be working on some WRA I three source analysis assignments tomorrow. On Wednesday, you're writing your Unit 3 Final Exam, please see the study guide below.

Social 30-1 Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Your Unit 3 Final Exam will be on Wednesday, January 6th.

Please study the following material: 

• make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
• study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
• "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)

Review the following notes/packages:

• Democratic Systems
• Non-Democratic Systems
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• Civil Rights Movement
• authoritarian systems (China notes)
• review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
• re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act)
• FLQ Crisis 1970

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

• assimilation
• self-interest
• humanitarianism
• Indian Act
• residential school system
• enfranchisement
• the White Paper
• the Red Paper
• “war on terror"
• authoritarianism
• consensus decision-making
• direct democracy
• military dictatorship
• oligarchy
• one-party state
• party solidarity
• representation by population
• proportional representation
• representative democracy
• responsible government
• democracy
• single-member constituency (first past the post)
• the Senate
• the House of Commons
• the House of Representatives
• the Senate
• mixed-member proportional system
• lobby groups
• American Bill of Rights
• Anti-Terrorism Act
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• emergency and security legislation
• illiberal
• language legislation
• Bill 101
• Bill 178
• Bill 86
• Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
• respect for law and order
• terrorism
• rendition
• the War Measures Act
• enemy aliens
• internment
• the Emergencies Act
• USA PATRIOT Act
• consumerism
• environmental change
• extremism
• pandemics
• postmodernism
• global warming
• Kyoto Protocol
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• drought

IB 30/35

We spent the entire class doing a review of material that I taught you in Prescribed Subject 1, in particular to make our own concept map of the causes of World War II. We reviewed key events/concepts in the Interwar Years. We'll continue looking at WWII for the rest of our classes in January. After the exam break we'll cover the tail end of the war, looking at the usage of the atomic bombs on Japan.

Social 10-1

I gave you back your Unit 3 WRA II Essays today. We spent the rest of the period in the Blenheim Room. This class period was an opportunity to work on your Unit 4 projects. We'll start presenting these projects on Friday. You'll have class time to work on these projects again tomorrow. Please remember that the Part A of your Social 10-1 Final Exam is on Thursday, January 7th.