Showing posts with label FDR and the New Deal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FDR and the New Deal. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 08, 2019

October 8

If some of my comments today about the IA applied to yours, start doing your re-writes before you get my feedback. The good copy of the IA is due October 31st. 

We finished off the "FDR and the New Deal" Google Slides today. There is another assignment in the Slides on historians perspectives, so make sure that you complete that note-taking chart. We'll turn our attention to Latin America and Canada tomorrow.

Please go to the D2L shell called "Social Studies 30-1_cohort IB HL", find the IA Submissions folder in the Assignments folder and upload your IA. Thanks! 24/25 of you have already submitted. Don't make me have to call you out for NOT submitting it. 



You wrote the Unit 1 WRA I today in the Blenheim Room. Please have your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions ready tomorrow. 


 

Today was Day 2 of learning about the federal election. Today you were split you into groups to put together research on candidates who are running locally for election to the House of Commons. You'll have to do a presentation on the political parties on Thursday of this week. Tomorrow, we'll get back into the "Evolution of Modern Liberalism". 

Monday, October 07, 2019

October 7

We continued with the "Great Depression and the Americas" topic today by building a New Deal programs chart with a partner in Google Docs. 

I also collected the "Challenges to the New Deal Assignment", today. 

Please go to the D2L shell called "Social Studies 30-1_cohort IB HL", find the IA Submissions folder in the Assignments folder and upload your IA. Thanks! 23/25 of you have already submitted. Don't make me have to call you out for NOT submitting it. 


Today was Day 1 of learning about the federal election. You completed the Vote Compass survey, and then worked on the party platforms chart for each party. Tomorrow, I'll split you into groups to put together research on candidates who are running locally for election to the House of Commons. You'll have to do a presentation on the political parties on Thursday of this week. 





You wrote the
Unit 1 Final Exam today. I have posted the marks in PowerSchool already. You're writing the Unit 1 WRA I on Tuesday, October 8th, you'll be allowed to use the writing guide in class. Please go directly to the Blenheim Room (back of the Library) tomorrow. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, October 8th. 


Saturday, October 05, 2019

October 4

Sorry, I forgot to post this yesterday.

We continued with the "FDR and the New Deal" Google Slides lecture today. I also showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "FDR and the New Deal". On Monday, please come to Room 111, then we'll be going down to the Library to work on the New Deal Programs Chart. I will share this Google Doc on the IB 30/35 wiki on Monday morning during class. 

This weekend you should be working on the "Challenges to the New Deal Assignment", which is due on Monday, October 7th. 

Please go to the D2L shell called "Social Studies 30-1_cohort IB HL", find the IA Submissions folder in the Assignments folder and upload your IA. Thanks!




I started "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" lecture today. I'll continue this lecture on Wednesday. We're booked into a computer lab on Monday and Tuesday, learning about the federal election, the party platforms for each party. You'll have to do a presentation on the political parties on Thursday of next week. On Monday, please come to Room 111, then we'll go down to the computer lab together. 





You wrote the Chapter 3-4 Test today. The Unit 1 Final Exam is on Monday, October 7th. Please see the study guide below. You're writing the Unit 1 WRA I on Tuesday, October 8th, you'll be allowed to use the writing guide in class. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, October 8th. 

Thursday, October 03, 2019

October 3

We continued with the "FDR and the New Deal" Google Slides lecture today. The "Challenges to the New Deal Assignment" is due on Monday, October 7th. Please go to the D2L shell called "Social Studies 30-1_cohort IB HL", find the IA Submissions folder in the Assignments folder and upload your IA today. We still need nine of you to submit your IA still. Thanks!



Tuesday, October 01, 2019

October 1


We finished off the "Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression" lecture today. We'll be starting the "FDR and the New Deal" Google Slides lecture tomorrow, so it's probably a good idea to print off a hard copy and bring it to class tomorrow. I've posted these slides on the IB 30/35 wiki. Also, during my prep today I was able to upload the marks correctly into PowerSchool, you'll find them in the class called "Social Studies 30-1_cohort IB HL". 




We started Unit 2 material today, namely, we looked at "The Causes of World War I".  Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Unit 1 WRA I Chart Assignment is due tomorrow as well. Your Chapter 3-4 Test is this Friday (October 4th). Please see the study guide below.  


This test will be on Friday, October 4th. It will consist of a matching section (10 key concepts) and a short answer section.
  • make sure that you study the PowerPoint presentation "Contending Loyalties"
  • make sure that you have read Chapters 3 and 4 (it is all testable material)
  • know the key concepts/key terms from Chapters 3 and 4 (please see the Unit 1 Worksheet for these)
  • study your answers to the Chapter 3 and 4 questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (all could potentially be on the test)

You will be writing the Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, October 7th. It is a multiple choice  format exam. Make sure that you have read Chapters 1-4 in Exploring Nationalism. Please make sure that you know the key concepts from Unit 1 (see below). Also review the PowerPoint presentations that you should have in your notes. They are also on the Social 20-1 wiki under Unit 1 Presentations.

These are the presentations that you should review:

  1. Nation and Identity
  2. The French Revolution
  3. The Napoleonic Age
  4. Contending Loyalties
  • nation
  • nation-state
  • nationalism
  • patriotism
  • self-determination
  • sovereignty
  • sovereign
  • civic nation
  • civic nationalism
  • ethnic nationalism
  • collective consciousness
  • French Revolution
  • Estates-General
  • Louis XVI
  • First Estate
  • Second Estate
  • Third Estate
  • cahiers de doléances
  • Ancien Régime
  • bourgeoisie
  • feudal system
  • philosophes
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man
  • National Assembly
  • Tennis Court Oath
  • constitutional monarchy
  • Jacobins
  • Girondins
  • National Convention
  • levée en masse
  • Robespierre
  • Danton
  • Marat
  • Reign of Terror
  • Napoleon
  • Napoleonic Code
  • Continental System
  • contending loyalties
  • cultural pluralism
  • reasonable accommodation
  • sovereignists
  • federalists
  • royal commission
  • expressions of nationalism
  • non-nationalist loyalty
  • alienation
  • segregation



I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "FDR and the New Deal", as you watched this documentary, you should have taken notes. We also did a review of the boom and bust cycle, and then the demand-side economics responses to the various stages of the business cycle.  In the next few days, I'll share the Chapter 6 Google Doc. 


Monday, September 30, 2019

September 30


We continued with the "Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression" lecture today. The rough draft of your IA was due today. Like Is aid in class, if you know that there will be issues with your IA, you can continue to work on it for the next couple of weeks. You'll get some feedback from me in about two weeks on your IA. Your good copy is due on October 31st.  




I went through some notes on Keynesian economics today, and I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Boom and Bust", as you watched this documentary, you should have filled out the film study questions that went along with it. We'll talk more about FDR and the New Deal tomorrow.  Make sure that you have finished off the Chapter 4 Google Doc, if I don't see any progress on the Google Doc, you're going to have to do these key terms and questions all by yourself!



I finished off the "Contending Loyalties" lecture today. I did a homework check on the Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions today. Your Chapter 3-4 Test is this Friday (October 4th). Please see the study guide below.  

This test will be on Friday, October 4th. It will consist of a matching section (10 key concepts) and a short answer section.
  • make sure that you study the PowerPoint presentation "Contending Loyalties"
  • make sure that you have read Chapters 3 and 4 (it is all testable material)
  • know the key concepts/key terms from Chapters 3 and 4 (please see the Unit 1 Worksheet for these)
  • study your answers to the Chapter 3 and 4 questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (all could potentially be on the test)

Wednesday, March 06, 2019

March 6


I showed you "They Shall Not Grow Old" today. I collected your Unit 1 WRA I Chart Assignment today. Please remember that you're writing the Chapter 3-4 Test this Friday (please see the study guide below). Next Monday (March 11th) you are writing the Unit 1 Final Exam (please see the study guide below).

This test will be on Friday, March 8th. It will consist of a matching section (10 key concepts) and a short answer section.


  • make sure that you study the PowerPoint presentation "Contending Loyalties"
  • make sure that you have read Chapters 3 and 4 (it is all testable material)
  • know the key concepts/key terms from Chapters 3 and 4 (please see the Unit 1 Worksheet for these)
  • study your answers to the Chapter 3 and 4 questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (all could potentially be on the test)

You're writing this test on Monday, March 11th. It is a multiple choice test. Make sure that you have read Chapters 1-4 in Exploring Nationalism. Please make sure that you know the key concepts from Unit 1 (see below). Also review the PowerPoint presentations that you should have in your notes. They are also on the Social 20-1 wiki under Unit 1 Presentations.

These are the presentations that you should review:

  1. Nation and Identity
  2. The French Revolution
  3. The Napoleonic Age
  4. Contending Loyalties
  • nation
  • nation-state
  • nationalism
  • patriotism
  • self-determination
  • sovereignty
  • sovereign
  • civic nation
  • civic nationalism
  • ethnic nationalism
  • collective consciousness
  • French Revolution
  • Estates-General
  • Louis XVI
  • First Estate
  • Second Estate
  • Third Estate
  • cahiers de doléances
  • Ancien Régime
  • bourgeoisie
  • feudal system
  • philosophes
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man
  • National Assembly
  • Tennis Court Oath
  • constitutional monarchy
  • Jacobins
  • Girondins
  • National Convention
  • levée en masse
  • Robespierre
  • Danton
  • Marat
  • Reign of Terror
  • Napoleon
  • Napoleonic Code
  • Continental System
  • contending loyalties
  • cultural pluralism
  • reasonable accommodation
  • sovereignists
  • federalists
  • royal commission
  • expressions of nationalism
  • non-nationalist loyalty
  • alienation
  • segregation

Thursday, October 04, 2018

October 4


I split you into two sides for tomorrow's debate on the following topic: BIRT globalization is beneficial to the world's cultures. I gave each side in this debate a different reading with different perspectives on this debate. We spent most of the class period in the computer lab putting together a Google Doc to organize your arguments and evidence for the debate.


Much of today's class was spent watching videos from the BBC 20th Century History series and note-taking. We watched "Boom and Bust" and "FDR and the New Deal", and while you were watching these videos you should have taken notes. If you missed class today, please get these notes from a classmate. We also went through the "Case Study: USA in the Great Depression" notes in your 30-1 coursebooks. Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.


You wrote your American Revolution Test today. I'll post the results on PowerSchool later this evening. We'll talk about the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights tomorrow. On Tuesday, October 9th you'll be writing a Paper 3 and I'll teach you how to write this kind of assessment tomorrow as well.

Tuesday, October 03, 2017

October 3


I went through a Google Slides lecture on FDR and the New Deal, with a focus on the alphabet agencies and how they focused on relief, recovery, and reform. While I was lecturing, you should have completed the companion chart. I also gave you a couple of handouts on the critics of the New Deal. This homework assignment is due on Thursday. You have your Great Depression and New Deal Study Guide questions are due tomorrow.




You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today. You should probably get the results of this test one week from today. You are writing your Unit 1 WRA I tomorrow. I will put a notice outside my classroom to tell you where to go. It would be a good idea to swing by my classroom during tutorial to check where you need to go.

Monday, October 02, 2017

October 2


The rough draft of your IA was due today. I will be checking to see if you all did in fact submit it today. I went through a reading booklet on monetary and fiscal policy today, and started another video from the BBC 20th Century History series. Today's video was called "FDR and the New Deal", and we'll finish it off tomorrow.


I taught you the difference between argumentation and evidence when writing a WRA II essay. This still of essay is called a position paper or an argumentative essay. To help you understand the difference between argumentation and evidence, I had you brainstorm individually on the following topic: How would you convince a friend to come to Churchill? What arguments would you use to persuade them? In your brainstorm lists you really weren't writing arguments, despite the prompts, but rather some ideas that we could build into an argument.

 Please don't forget these key events this week:

  • Chapter 3-4 Test is tomorrow (please see the study guide below)
  • Unit 1 WRA I is on Wednesday, October 4th (this is a three source analysis assignment that is written in class)


This test will be written on Tuesday, October 3rd. It is a matching test with a long answer section. 
  • Know the key terms from Chapter 3-4
  • Be able to answer the Questions for Inquiry in Chapters 3-4 (they appear on p.49, p.53, p.58, p.73, p.80)
  • Know relevant case studies from Chapters 3-4: the Francophones, the Aborigines and the Lubicon, as well as other relevant examples related to assimilation, marginalization, accommodation and integration

Monday, July 11, 2016

July 11


We covered a lot of ground today. I returned your Unit 1 WRA II Essays at the beginning of class. I re-introduced you to the boom and bust cycle (the business cycle), and I talked about the various stages of the cycle (boom/prosperity, recession, depression, recovery) and what is happening in the economy at these various stages (I call these "economic snapshots"). Review these notes tonight! I also taught you about demand-side economics, and the monetary and fiscal policy responses to the various stages of the business cycle. I also taught you about the law of supply and demand. I also had you read some on Keynesian economics from your Social 30-1 booklet. You should have read, highlighted up to page 53 in your booklets. 

After the break we watched two short documentaries from the BBC 20th Century History series, one called "Boom and Bust"(you should have answered the film study questions on this while you watched the documentary) and "FDR and the New Deal" (you should have taken notes on this one). You had the remainder of class time (about 1 hour) to work on the Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions, which are both due tomorrow (or perhaps the Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Wednesday). I also went through analyzing political cartoons. In tomorrow's class you'll be writing an analysis of a political cartoon that you pick out from the blackboard. 


  • Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow (July 12th)
  • Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test is on Wednesday, July 13th (please see the study guide below)
  • Market and Mixed Economy Test is on Friday, July 15th (please see the study guide below)
  • Economic Systems Exam is on Monday, July 18th (please see below)
  • Chapter 5 Test is on Tuesday, July 19th (study guide will be published tomorrow)
As you can see, next week will be EXTREMELY busy! Stay on top of your work, and it'll be fine. 


This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Wednesday, July 13th. 

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 

This exam will be on Friday, July 15th
  • Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • 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), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
  • 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




This exam will be written on Monday, July 18th. It is a multiple choice question format test. 
This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 74 multiple choice questions. 
  • Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
  • study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki under Unit 2 (check your notes): The Development of Classical Liberalism, Responding to Classical Liberalism, The Evolution of Modern Liberalism, 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism (just the USSR section of this PowerPoint)
  • In Chapter 5, just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
  • please see the summary notes from the Ideologies textbook: Chapter 7 (Private Enterprise), page 78-80 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
  • supply-side economics (page 84 in study booklet)
  • boom and bust cycle/business cycle (pages 50-54 and pages 56-62 in 30-1 study booklet)
  • 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 (pages 63-64 in 30-1 study booklet)
  • FDR and the New Deal
  • please see summary notes from the Ideologies textbook on the Mixed Economy Case Studies #14 (Sweden) and #15 (Canada), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism): pages 73-76 in the study booklet
  • also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics/"womb to tomb economics"): pages 65-72 in 30-1 booklets
  • characteristics of a mixed economy
  • nationalization
  • privatization
  • democratic socialism
  • welfare capitalism
  • Keynesian economics
  • the business cycle and fiscal and monetary policies (study all of the notes 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 (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy) pages 81-82 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
  • how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism): pages 81-82 in the 30-1 booklet
  • advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
  • neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
  • characteristics of a centrally planned economy
  • advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
  • Marx notes (pages 94-96 in 30-1 booklet)
  • Lenin notes (pages 97-98 in 30-1 booklet)
  • establishment of the Soviet Union
  • Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process): study pages 105-114 in the Social 30-1 booklet
  • Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
  • "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
  • Stalin notes (pages 99-101)
  • "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev): pages 116-117 in 30-1 booklet
  • Gorbachev to Collapse Notes: pages 118-121 in 30-1 booklet
  • Economic Planning in the USSR: pages 122-129 in 30-1 booklet
  • Market Socialism (pages 130-132 in the Social 30-1 booklet)

Tuesday, March 01, 2016

March 1


You watched a video from the CNN Cold War series today, this time it was Episode 11: Vietnam (1954-1968). While you watched this video you should have been taking notes. You also got the Vietnam War Assignment today, this is due on March 9th.


You watched a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series: "Boom and Bust" (film study questions on page 55 in the workbook), "FDR and the New Deal" (you should have taken notes on the backside on page 55). You also went through the Analyzing Political Cartoons section in your workbook in preparation of your in-class writing assignment on Friday.


You were given the Unit 2 Worksheet today. You had a work period to read Chapter 6 and answer the key terms and questions (these are due on Monday, March 14th). You have your Chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide below.


  • Know the key terms from Chapter 3-4
  • Be able to answer the Questions for Inquiry in Chapters 3-4 (they appear on p.49, p.53, p.58, p.73, p.80)
  • Know relevant case studies from Chapters 3-4: the Francophones, the Aborigines and the Lubicon, as well as other relevant examples related to assimilation, marginalization, accommodation and integration