September 27

Social 10-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today in class. Please remember to go directly to Room 241 tomorrow for your class. We're going to do some practice WRA Is in Google Docs in preparation for your Unit 1 WRA I next week (Wednesday, October 3rd). Please remember that I've moved the Unit 1 Final Exam to Tuesday, October 2nd. You can find the study guide below.

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Tuesday, October 2nd. 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!

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA II Essay today in class. Hopefully I'll get a chance to mark them sooner rather than later. We're back in classroom tomorrow continuing on with Unit 2 material.

IB 20 HOTA

I did a homework check on your Declaration of Independence and Thomas Paine's Common Sense source-based questions. Please make sure that you have printed off and read the summaries of the Articles of Confederation and added this to your notes. I gave you your historical figure assignment for our Constitutional Convention simulation next week. The convention will run for three class periods: Monday to Wednesday. Now that you have your character assignment, you can get started with your research. You will have today's class and tomorrow's class (and perhaps the weekend) to prepare for this simulation.Please go directly to Room 241 tomorrow. One week from today (Thursday, October 4th) you will have your American Revolution Test. Please see the study guide below.

IB 20 - AMERICAN REVOLUTION EXAM STUDY GUIDE

There will be 20 matching and 45 multiple-choice questions.

Know the various Acts that took place before/during the Revolution:
* Stamp, Sugar Act
* Townshend Acts
* Intolerable Acts

Causes of the Revolution:
* French Indian War
* Significant events that led up to the Revolutionary War – chronological order
* Grievances of the colonies – taxation, representation

Know significant individuals such as:
* James Madison
* John Adams
* Thomas Jefferson
* Thomas Paine
* George Washington
* Samuel Adams
* Benjamin Franklin

The Revolutionary War:
* British vs. American military strategy
* Advantages and disadvantages of both sides
* The challenges of the Continental Army
* Battle of Saratoga - significance
* Battle of Yorktown - significance
* Phases of the progression of the war

Differences between First and Second Continental Congress

The Founding Documents of the United States:
* Declaration of Independence
* Articles of Confederation
* US Constitution
* Bill of Rights

Please read the sections in your History of the Americas textbook that relate to the American Revolution as well.

September 27

Social 20-1

I started a lecture today on "Contending Loyalties", which I'll finish up tomorrow. I gave you the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions. These key terms and questions are due tomorrow. Please remember that your French Revolution DBA Assignment is due on Thursday, September 29th. I'll be teaching you how to write a three source analysis assignment (WRA I) on Thursday. You'll be writing your Unit 1 WRA I on Friday, you'll get 60 minutes to complete this assignment.

IB 20 HOTA

We spent a lot of class time today discussing Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence study guide is due on Thursday, September 29th. You find this on the IB 20 wiki on the Independence Movements page. You have work due on Friday, September 30th, you must submit your IA research question, along with 4-5 properly cited sources (Chicago Manual of Style) that you will use to complete your IA. You should submit a hard copy on Friday.

September 26

Social 20-1

I posted the results of your Chapter 1-2 Test on D2L today during my prep period, so check it out. We did an exercise today in which you were to rank the factors that caused the French Revolution in order of importance. This led to discussion, argument and debate on the conditions in France on the eve of the revolution. For some of you long-term causes were more important to the outbreak than more immediate causes. Although there's no right or wrong answer to the exercise, the purpose was to get you thinking, discussing, and trying to convince others of your position/viewpoint, and use supporting evidence to make your position stronger. We also talked about expressions of nationalism today, so if you missed class today, you'll need to get these notes from a classmate. Please remember that your French Revolution DBA Assignment is due on Thursday, September 29th. If you need to get some homework from Social Studies tonight, this is something that you should be working on. You can find a digital version of this assignment on the Social 20-1 wiki on the Unit 1 Assignments page (I think I said Unit 2 in class, all apologies).

IB 20 HOTA

I did a homework check on some assigned work out of your History of the Americas textbook at the beginning of class. We'll be discussing Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence in class tomorrow. I showed you a video from the U.S. History series called "The American Revolution" today, and you should have taken extensive notes on the video today. Please make sure that you have printed off, read, highlighted and annotated Chapter 4 "The Struggle for Independence" from The United States and Its' People that scanned as a PDF and posted on the wiki last week. You can find this chapter on the Independence Movement page on the IB 20 wiki. Keep checking the wiki for updates to the current events page, you have a current events quiz on Friday, September 30th.

October 1

Social 30-1

I did some "housekeeping" at the beginning of class today. I gave back your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions, and did homework checks for people that have the key terms and questions in their notebooks. I also recorded the homework check for Philosophies of Industrialism. I walked you through the Using Monetary and Fiscal Policy to Stabilize the Economy reading. I also want you to read the Democratic Socialism and Mixed Economy (pages 65-67) reading in your Social 30-1 study booklets. Your homework tonight is to complete the activity questions in the Sweden: The Welfare State section of your study booklets (pages 68-72). I will do a homework check on this tomorrow. Please remember that in tomorrow's class you will be writing an analysis of a political cartoon.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide (Chapters 3-4):

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Wednesday, October 8th.

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

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

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. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" section of your blue study booklet
5. 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 (see "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet)
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

6. 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 20 HOTA

I spent a lot of class time today introducing parliamentary procedure to the class, so we can participate in the constitutional convention that we're conducting next Tuesday to Thursday. You were assigned an historical figure that attended the constitutional convention. I also gave you a copy of a graphic novel on the United States Constitution today. You'll have close to three weeks to finish reading that graphic novel. Read it!
I also assigned some reading out and assignments out of the History of the Americas textbook. Please read pages 22-26 and complete the historiography activity on pages 22-23 on Thomas Paine's Common Sense. I also asked you to read pages 30-34 and complete the activity questions on the Declaration of Independence on page 32 of the textbook.

March 5

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions today. You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today, which took most of the period. I've decided to move the Unit 1 WRA I to Friday, so I can teach you a little bit more about structure and style for a WRA I tomorrow. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Tuesday, March 11th. Please see the study guide below.

Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

 

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Tuesday, March 11th. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice.For this multiple choice test, 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! (see comments above)
4. Please review the "Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization" PowerPoint (it's on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations).

IB 20 HOTA

I continued the PowerPoint lecture on "The American Revolution" today, and we watched a little bit more from the documentary "America: The Story of Us". I also did a homework check on your History of the Americas work from last night on the Declaration of Independence and Thomas Paine's Common Sense.

IB 30/35

We looked at another Cold War concept today, namely mutually assured destruction (MAD). We watched another video from the CNN Cold War series called "MAD (1960-1972)". Please remember that on Monday, March 10th you will be writing a Social Studies 30-1 WRA I (written response assignment I, in other words a three source analysis assignment) on the Cold War.