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I showed you the A & E Biography "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" today. Please make sure that you read the Interwar Years section in your Social 20-1 course books (pages 127-134). I gave back your Unit 1 WRA I Chart Assignment today. Tomorrow, you will get back your Unit 1 WRA I three source interpretation assignments. The Unit 1 WRA I will count rather heavily on your overall mark until we do another writing assignment.
Social 30-1
I finished off the PowerPoint lecture "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today. I also went through how demand-side and supply-side economics deal with a recession. It's good to visualize the percolator and the coffee maker to get the difference between the two.
In today's lecture I covered Japan after the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) to the 1920s. We'll talk more about the Great Depression and its impacts on Japan, how Japan decided to invade Manchuria in 1931. You should probably read in your textbook, The Move to Global War, pages 23-30 at the minimum. Don't forget that your create a Paper 1 assignment is due on November 20th (two weeks from today).
Social 10-1
I finished off the PowerPoint presentation on "The Foundations of Economic Globalization". You really need to focus in on Keynes, Hayak, and Friedman from this lecture for the yet-to-come Chapter 10 Test. Your Chapter 10 Key Terms are due on Wednesday, and your Chapter 10 Questions are due on Thursday.
One week from today, you're writing your Unit 2 Final Exam, please see the study guide below.
Social 10-1 Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
This final exam is entirely multiple choice format. There are 57 multiple choice questions. This Unit 2 Final Exam will be on Monday, November 13th. Please make sure that you study your key terms from Unit 2 (Chapters 6-9), as well as the three PowerPoint presentations from this unit:
I finished off the PowerPoint lecture "Forging the New Republic", and then we started the PBS documentary on the War of 1812. We'll be able to finish off the documentary tomorrow. Make sure that you read everyday from the War of 1812 booklet in preparation for the four options debate on the War of 1812 that we'll be having on Wednesday. Please remember that you'll be writing a Unit 6 Quiz on Monday that will have a matching section and an OPVL document analysis section.
Social 10-1
I lectured a bit today about John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. I also taught you about the boom and bust cycle and the Keynesian economic response to the various stages of the boom and bust cycle. Your Chapter 11 Key Terms are due tomorrow.
IB 30/35
We finished off the HBO documentary "Reagan" today, and then I began discussing the George H.W. Bush administration. We'll continue with the Bush administration tomorrow. Read my lips: no new taxes!
I will be missing part of Parent Teacher Student Interviews tomorrow because I must attend a meeting in SW Calgary. It would be best to attend the evening session of interviews if your parents wish to see me.
IB 30/35
We started our next unit, the Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs today. I went through Ms. Breadner's PowerPoint presentation on the topic, and showed you part of a video from the U.S. History series "U.S. and the World". Please remember that on Thursday you have your Civil War and Reconstruction Exam (multiple choice, matching, and source analysis), the study guide is on the wiki. On Friday you are writing a Paper 3 essay on the Civil War and Reconstruction. We'll continue with the Emergence of the Americas unit next week.
Social 30-1
I tied up some loose ends with demand-side and supply-side economics today by showing you the following YouTube video which illustrates the economic battle of ideas between Hayek and Keynes:
I gave you some notes on Russian History today, so if you missed class today you need to get these notes from a classmate. I also gave you some handouts: "Centrally Planned Economy", and a couple of booklets, one called "The Soviet Economy" and "The Structure of the Soviet Economic System". Please read those booklets, highlight them and annotate them. I also gave you the Chapter 5 Worksheet today. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. Please make sure that you read this chapter! One week from today (October 22nd), you have your Market and Mixed Economy Test. Please see the study guide below.
Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:
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)
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 (remember coffee percolator handout)
how supply-side economics deals with a recession (see handout above; coffee maker)
Social 20-1
I gave back some homework checked assignments at the beginning of the class. We finished off the A & E Biography "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". I gave you some notes on the League of Nations today, we talked about the successes and failures of the League. I taught you the mnemonic FAILURe of the League of Nations. You'll need to apply case studies to illustrate the League's failures, namely the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and the Italian invasion of Abyssinia. You have your Unit 2 WRA I assignment on Friday, review how to write a WRA I. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on October 22nd (one week from today).
