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 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 2

Social 30-1

You had wrote an analysis of a political cartoon for part of today's class. You had the remainder of the class to work on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Monday, October 6th. Please remember that you are writing your Chapter 3-4 Test on Wednesday, October 8th, please see the study guide below.

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

We talked a little bit about OPVL for Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence. I took your textbook work in for a homework check, just as I will for tomorrow's homework assignment on the Declaration of Independence. Please remember that we will be discussing developments with ISIS tomorrow, so bring an article, political cartoon or newspaper, website clipping. We'll also be talking about the Articles of Confederation tomorrow.

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 13

IB 20 HOTA

I did a homework check on your study guide for the Declaration of Independence at the beginning of class today. Most of today's class was spent examining the Articles of Confederation. I split you into groups, and each group had to read a section or sections of the Articles of Confederation and try to summarize their assigned section for the class. Hopefully by the end of the exercise you have a good idea of the historical context for the creation of the Articles of Confederation, and some its key characteristics, such as the following:

• “firm league of friendship”
• no national executive
• no national judiciary
• unicameral congress (like Continental Congress)
• 2-7 delegates per state (one vote per delegation in Congress)
• Powers of Congress – foreign policy, coin money, Indian affairs, settle state disputes, requisition troops and taxes (based on state property value)
• legislators selected by state legislatures (3 year / 6 year term limit)
• routine votes required simple majority / critical decisions (declaring war)– unanimity 
• amendment of the Articles (unanimous consent of delegates to Congress and of state legislatures)

As we'll see, the Articles of Confederation led to some political problems for the United States, so it only lasts as the first constitution of the USA from 1781 to 1789. In 1789, a constitutional convention is called, and delegates from the 13 states all meet to draft a new U.S. Constitution. Tomorrow will be a busy day because I will lecture on the U.S. Constitution, I will assign you roles for the constitutional convention that we'll be doing on Monday and Tuesday next week, I will teach you some Model UN parliamentary procedure, and assign you a copy of the United States Constitution graphic novel.

Social 10-1

We had a very spirited debate on the following topic: "BIRT globalization is beneficial to the world's cultures". I found it interesting that many of you focused in language so much during the course of the debate. I then did a little exercise after concluded the debate on argumentation and evidence, in which you had to brainstorm arguments to convince a friend to attend Churchill. We'll talk more about essay writing tomorrow, and you will get the Unit 1 WRA II Essay question sheet tomorrow. Please remember that you're writing your Unit 1 WRA II Essay over the course of two days next week: on Monday, you will write your 1st paragraph, save it to your H-drive and print off a hard copy. We'll then come back to the class, do some peer editing of the essay. On Tuesday, you will have the entire period to finish off your Unit 1 WRA II Essay.

IB 30/35

We watched another video from the CNN Cold War series today called "Conclusions". I also showed you some photos from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and I put some notes up on the board of the overlapping Soviet and American leaders during the Cold War. Please remember that you have your Social 30-1 Cold War Exam on Tuesday, March 18th. Please see the study guide below.

Social 30-1 Cold War Unit Final Study Guide:

Make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts:

• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention

Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
• anything that I gave you as a handout/notes on the wiki is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

March 11

IB 30/35

I showed you a couple of videos today, one was called "Escape from Berlin" which discussed the construction and changes that were made to the Berlin Wall over time, and the second video was from the CNN Cold War series called "The Wall Comes Down (1989)". While you were watching the second video you were to have been taking copious notes. Most of the focus on this episode was on the breakdown of Eastern European governments in 1989, with the greatest emphasis on East Germany and Erich Honecker's government. On October 17, 1989 Honecker was voted out of the Politburo. The original crisis in East Germany had been caused in part over restrictions on travel. Egon Krenz's government started to make reforms for free travel for East Germans. Street demonstrations demanded more and more from Krenz's government. Many of the East German opposition members wanted Gorbachev-era inspired reforms such as glasnost and perestroika. In the end, a bureaucratic mistake led to East Berliners to mass outside of the gates to West Berlin because the East German government had said that travel restrictions had been lifted. East German border guards then allowed people to pass over to the West. The episode also touched on Poland's Solidarity movement under Lech Walesa, too.

I have noticed recently while I have showing these videos that some of you aren't paying attention as closely as you should be. I really hope that it is all sinking in and that you have been paying attention. Otherwise, there will be a reckoning very soon. Very soon.

Please remember that there's no school tomorrow due to Parent Student Teacher interviews. I will see you all again on Thursday. One week from today you will be writing a Social 30-1 Cold War Exam. Please see the study guide below for this exam.

Cold War Exam Study Guide:

On Tuesday, March 18th you will have a Cold War Unit Exam. Please see the study guide below. This test will be a Social 30-1 test and it will be all multiple choice test format.

Social 30-1 Cold War Unit Final Study Guide:

Make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts:

• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention

Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
• anything that I gave you as a handout/notes on the wiki is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

IB 20 HOTA

We finally finished watching "The Patriot" today. I told you to go on to the wiki under Collaborative Notes to find the Causes, Courses/Practices, Events and Results chart for the Revolutionary War. Please modify this page on the wiki, and make sure that you have a hard copy of the chart in your notes. We also talked a little bit about the Common Sense and Declaration of Independence assignments that you had to complete previously. When I see you again on Thursday, we'll be looking at the Articles of Confederation, America's first constitution. You have some homework due on Thursday as well, please complete the Declaration of Independence study guide sheet that you can find in Unit 4: Independence Movements section. Also, please adding events to the current events section for this week.

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.

October 4

IB 20

We finished watching "The Patriot" today. We also talked a little bit about Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence. We watched part of a video on the Declaration of Independence. You have a homework assignment tonight. Go to the IB 20 wiki, under Unit 4 Independence Movements and download the Declaration of Independence Study Guide. Here's a link to the Declaration of Independence at the U.S. National Archives website. Using the text of the Declaration, answer the questions in the study guide. You'll also have a current events quiz tomorrow. We'll try to cover the Articles of Confederation tomorrow too. It's going to be busy!!

Social 10-1

We started to look at how to write position papers today. We went through an exercise as a class on distinguishing between arguments and evidence. I had you brainstorm a list of arguments that you would use to convince a friend to attend Churchill. From there we categorized some of the ideas that were generated into groups. We also got to look at the "Recipe for Success" when writing WRA II essays. You'll get the essay question sheet tomorrow in class.

IB 30/35

We finished watching Episode 8 "War is All Hell" of "The Civil War" and started the last episode "The Better Angels of our Nature". You'll have a current events quiz tomorrow, and then we'll try to finish off the documentary. You will have a two-part exam on the Civil War starting next week. On Friday, October 12th you'll write the first part of this exam, which includes 25-30 multiple choice questions and 20 matching terms. You'll the second part of the exam on Monday, October 15th. The second part will consist of a document analysis writing assignment. The full study guide has been posted on the IB 30/35 wiki in the United States Civil War section.

March 9

IB 30/35

You wrote a Paper 2 on the Cold War today, which took most of the period. This would be a great weekend to polish off that TOK Essay don't you think?

IB 20

I did a homework check on your Declaration of Independence study guide at the beginning of class. You wrote a current events quiz as well. We then watched a video on the Declaration of Independence, and while the video was playing you should have taken some notes. Make sure that you visit the wiki this weekend, and go to the Unit 4: Independence Movement section. Download and complete the "Two Views of the Revolution" worksheet.