May 25

IB 30/35

I continued the Social 30-1 review today. I went through a review of the economic spectrum, the economic-political grid, and the business cycle. We also looked at how demand-side economics and supply-side economics respond to a recession. Please read, highlight, annotate the following pages in your coursebook: 

• Keynesian economics (pages 23-25)
• Supply-side economics (pages 28-30)
• Private enterprise notes (pages 31-33)
• If you really want to challenge yourself, have a look at the Causes of the Global Recession (pages 36-43) 

Over the weekend, you really should be previewing Unit 3 material on the IB 30/35 wiki. On Thursday, May 31st, you have the Political Systems Exam (please see the study guide below). You really need to start paying closer attention to current events, international news and national news and start making connections to political and economic ideologies. 

Political Systems Test Study Guide:

The Political Systems Test will be on Thursday, May 31st. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes
• Lenin notes
• Stalin notes
• Soviet Economy notes
• Soviet Economic System notes
• Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
• Gorbachev to Collapse notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• Characteristics of Democracy
• Characteristics of Dictatorship
• Democratic Systems notes
• Non-Democratic Systems notes
• Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
• A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
• Totalitarianism notes
• review fascism and Nazism (test has questions on the techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
• do a brief review of the political and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!

• centrally planned economies
• initiative
• FDR and the New Deal
• Reaganomics
• consumer sovereignty
• invisible hand
• Keynesian economics
• laissez faire economics
• War Communism
• Five Year Plans
• mixed economies
• indicative planning
• proportional representation
• democracy
• dictatorship
• political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
• status quo
• egalitarianism
• conservative
• reactionary
• liberal
• radical
• SA
• Hitler
• Bolshevik
• fascism
• communism
• indoctrination
• controlled participation
• terror and force
• direction of popular discontent
• democratic socialists
• supply-side economics
• authoritarian
• tyrant
• totalitarian
• totalitarianism
• ultranationalism
• nationalization
• privatization
• propaganda
• progressive taxation
• Marx
• Lenin
• utopian socialism
• Gorbachev
• martial law
• Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
• referendum
• collectivization
• modernization
• classical liberal
• laissez faire free market economy
• mixed economy
• planned economy
• (review your economic political quadrant model)
• Das Kapital
• Mein Kampf
• The Wealth of Nations    

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on the Chapter 15 Key Terms and Questions today. Please remember that the Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. I gave you back your Unit 3 WRA II Essays, and gave you the result of your Unit 3 Final Exam. Hopefully, I can get through the TNC Dossier Assignments this weekend. I went through a PowerPoint lecture today (I didn't get to the last 4 slides, so you'll have to go through them on your own). The PowerPoint in question was called "The Effects of Globalization on Individuals and Communities". You have your Chapter 15-16 Test on Tuesday, May 29th. You can find the study guide below.

CHAPTER 15-16 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test will follow the typical format: a matching section, a multiple choice section and a short answer section. Please use the following study guide. This test will be written on Tuesday, May 29th.



Study from your textbook and the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "Quality of Life, Human Rights, and Democratization" (ppt)
• "Impacts of Globalization on Groups in Society" (ppt)

Key Terms:

• Chapter 15 Key Terms (from Unit 4 Worksheet)
• Chapter 16 Key Terms (from Unit 4 Worksheet)
• additional key terms from the presentations that correspond to Chapters 15 and 16

Key Questions:

• What are human rights?
• What is democratization?
• What is quality of life?
• What is standard of living?
• How are ideas about human rights and democracy related?
• How are globalization, human rights, and democracy related?
• How have ideas about human rights changed over time?
• What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
• What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
• In what ways does globalization affect the lives of children and youth?
• In what ways does globalization affect the lives of women?

Social 20-1

I showed you a video from the CBC series Doc Zone called "Darfur: On Our Watch". Your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, and Chapter 12 is due on Tuesday.

May 26

Social 20-1

We finished off the CBC documentary "Darfur: On Our Watch" today. You had the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Monday, May 29th. We're going to push hard to finish off Unit 3 material next week, and start Unit 4. Your next major assessment will be on Tuesday, June 6th, when you write your Unit 3 Final Exam. Please check out the upcoming important dates below. Once we hit June you need to start reviewing the course content.

• Unit 3 Final Exam is on Tuesday, June 6th
• Social 20-1 Final Exam Part "A" (WRA II Essay) is on Wednesday, June 7th
• Social 20-1 Final Exam Part "B" (80 multiple choice questions) is on Thursday, June 15th from 1-3 pm in the Main Gym

Social 10-1

I went through a PowerPoint lecture today called "Effects of Globalization on Individuals and Communities". I also did a homework check on your Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions today. Your Chapter 17 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. Please remember that you're writing your Chapter 15-16 Test on Tuesday, May 30th, please see the study guide below. 

CHAPTER 15-16 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test will follow the typical format: a matching section, a multiple choice section and a short answer section. Please use the following study guide. This test will be written on Tuesday, May 30th.



Study from your textbook and the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "Quality of Life, Human Rights, and Democratization" (ppt)
• "Impacts of Globalization on Groups in Society" (ppt)

Key Terms:

• Chapter 15 Key Terms (from Unit 4 Worksheet)
• Chapter 16 Key Terms (from Unit 4 Worksheet)
• additional key terms from the presentations that correspond to Chapters 15 and 16

Key Questions:

• What are human rights?
• What is democratization?
• What is quality of life?
• What is standard of living?
• How are ideas about human rights and democracy related?
• How are globalization, human rights, and democracy related?
• How have ideas about human rights changed over time?
• What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
• What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
• In what ways does globalization affect the lives of children and youth?
• In what ways does globalization affect the lives of women?

May 25

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 15 Key Terms and Questions today. I had you write over a plain language version of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Next, we went through an activity looking at the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the effect that the notwithstanding clause has on Section 2 (Fundamental Freedoms), Sections 7-14 (Legal Rights) and Section 15 (Equality Rights). The chart that I gave you to fill in would act as a nice summary chart on the Charter once you filled it in. Your Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. You also need to go through the PowerPoint presentation from the Social 10-1 wiki on "Impacts of Globalization on Groups in Society" on your own. Rather than me lecture using this PowerPoint presentation today. I've decided to let you read it on your own. Don't forget that you're writing your Chapter 15-16 Test on Tuesday, May 30th, you can find the study guide below.

CHAPTER 15-16 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test will follow the typical format: a matching section, a multiple choice section and a short answer section. Please use the following study guide. This test will be written on Tuesday, May 30th.



Study from your textbook and the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "Quality of Life, Human Rights, and Democratization" (ppt)
• "Impacts of Globalization on Groups in Society" (ppt)

Key Terms:

• Chapter 15 Key Terms (from Unit 4 Worksheet)
• Chapter 16 Key Terms (from Unit 4 Worksheet)
• additional key terms from the presentations that correspond to Chapters 15 and 16

Key Questions:

• What are human rights?
• What is democratization?
• What is quality of life?
• What is standard of living?
• How are ideas about human rights and democracy related?
• How are globalization, human rights, and democracy related?
• How have ideas about human rights changed over time?
• What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
• What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
• In what ways does globalization affect the lives of children and youth?
• In what ways does globalization affect the lives of women?

Social 20-1

You had some class time to go through a series of statements/case studies and try to label them as a Canadian foreign policy objective. I also started a CBC Doc Zone documentary called "Darfur: On Our Watch", which we'll finish tomorrow. Your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

January 5

Social 20-1

I talked a little bit today about the genocide in Darfur, and making connections between what's happened in the past surrounding the international community's inaction, and what has been happening in the Syrian Civil War since 2011. It was agreed that I should put together some sort of package on this topic so that you can learn more about this situation. I also showed you a CBC documentary called "Darfur: On Our Watch". Please remember that your next major assessment is on Monday, January 9th, when you write your Unit 3 Final Exam. You also have Part A of the your Final Exam (it counts for 10% of your course grade) on Wednesday next week, and you have your Unit 4 Final Exam next Friday (January 13th).

SOCIAL 20-1 UNIT 3 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Please review all of the Unit 3 PowerPoint presentations that I have sent to you:

• "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism"
• "Canada's Foreign Policy"
• "Nationalism and Internationalism"

Please review all of the Unit 3 Key Terms from the Unit 3 Worksheet in addition to the key concepts that were introduced in the PowerPoint presentations. In addition to this, I would like to emphasize the following points with you:

• know the difference between multilateralism, unilateralism and bilateralism and know examples of each
• know the spectrum of foreign policy: internationalism, nationalism, ultranationalism, and supranationalism
• know the different foreign policy options
• know the 6 themes of Canadian foreign policy/Canada's foreign policy goals
• what influences foreign policy decisions?
• methods of foreign policy
• motivations for nations involvement or non-involvement in international affairs
• how can foreign policy promote internationalism?
• tied aid, bilateral aid, multilateral aid
• examples of INGOs and IGOs
• the United Nations (organization/structure, bodies, etc.)
• peacemaking vs. peacekeeping (and examples)
• different understandings of internationalism (types of internationalism)
• why do international organizations exist? purposes and examples

IB 20 HOTA

You wrote a Social 30-1 WRA II Essay on free speech and the guarantee of civil rights in democratic systems today in the Blue Lab in the Library.