October 30

IB 20 HOTA

We did the four options debate on the Haitian Revolution today, which went well.  You have another IA research period tomorrow to work on Phase II of your IA. Phase II of the IA research process will be due on Monday, November 19th. We'll be looking at the Washington, Adams, and Jefferson administrations starting on Thursday. 

SOCIAL 10-1

We finished watching "Indian Horse" today, and then the film study questions are due tomorrow. You are writing a Unit 2 WRA I on Thursday, November 1st. You will not be allowed to have your WRA I source interpretation writing guide out while you write it, so you need to memorize the format. 

SOCIAL 30-1

We went through the Totalitarianism notes from your Social 30-1 coursebooks today, as well as the comparison between communism and fascism. You have a Unit 2 WRA I on tomorrow (economics themed sources, mostly market and mixed economy), and the Chapter 5 Test on Thursday (please see study guide below). Please go directly to Room 109 tomorrow.  

CHAPTER 5 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Thursday, November 1st. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes (see 30-1 booklet)
• Lenin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
• Stalin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
• 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
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has 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

October 29

IB 20 HOTA

I finished off the lecture on the Haitian Revolution today, and then you had the rest of the class to prepare for tomorrow's four options debate on Haiti. You have another IA research period on Wednesday to work on Phase II of your IA. Phase II of the IA research process will be due on Monday, November 19th. We'll be looking at the Washington, Adams, and Jefferson administrations starting on Thursday.

Social 30-1

I gave you a list of readings that you need to go through in your Social 30-1 coursebooks. I also gave back your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions today. I showed you a documentary called "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" today as well, and you should have taken notes on the video as you watched it. You have a Unit 2 WRA I on Wednesday (economics themed sources, mostly market and mixed economy), and the Chapter 5 Test on Thursday (please see study guide below).

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Thursday, November 1st. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes (see 30-1 booklet)
• Lenin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
• Stalin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
• 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
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has 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

You wrote your Chapter 7 Test today in class. We'll finish off "Indian Horse" tomorrow, and then the film study questions be due on Wednesday. You are writing a Unit 2 WRA I on Thursday, November 1st. You will not be allowed to have your WRA I source interpretation writing guide out while you write it, so you need to memorize the format.

October 24

Social 30-1

You wrote your Market and Mixed Economy Test today in class. I will be marking this test during my prep period and posting the results on PowerSchool (hopefully it's working today). Your Chapter 5 Questions are due tomorrow. Please come to class quickly tomorrow so we can go down to the Main Gym together to hear our guest speaker.

Social 10-1

We finished off the lecture on "Legacies of Historical Globalization in Canada" today. On Monday, October 29th, you will be writing your Chapter 7 Test. Please see the study guide below for this test. 

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE

You will write this test on Monday, October 29th. This chapter test  will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and a short answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:

• historical globalization
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• Adam Smith
• entrepreneur
• communism
• industrialization
• the Industrial Revolution
• cottage system
• physiocrats
• exploitation
• imperialism
• Eurocentrism
• ethnocentrism
• European imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

• What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
• What values are associated with capitalism?
• Whose values did industrialization effect?
• Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
• What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
• In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

IB 20 HOTA

You wrote your test on the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age today in class. I'll try to mark this test as quickly as possible to get you back the results. I gave back your French Revolution DBA Assignment today as well. We'll be going back to our region of study tomorrow, the Americas, by starting our examination at the Haitian Revolution.

November 4

Social 20-1

I finished off the PowerPoint lecture on the Holocaust today. I showed you a documentary called "Genocide" as well. We'll be doing a film study of "Schindler's List" starting on Monday.

IB 20 HOTA

You wrote a short current events quiz, and then we had our four options debate on the Haitian Revolution. We'll be shifting our attention back to America on Monday by looking at "Forging the New Republic" (you can find this presentation on the IB 20 wiki under Nation-Building and Challenges).

October 28

Social 20-1

We went through the Causes of World War II first as a small group, and then as a whole class. You must read in your Social 20-1 workbooks from Blitzkrieg to the Defeat of Japan in WWII.

On Monday, October 31st you'll be writing your Chapter 5-6 Test, please see the study guide below. 

CHAPTER 5-6 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• the Black Hand
• Gavrillo Princip
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Battle of Tannenberg
• the Schlieffen Plan
• Plan 17
• General von Moltke
• Battle of the Marne
• Alsace and Lorraine
• total war
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• the Brusilov Offensive
• sinking of the Lusitania
• the Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• General Ludendorff
• Friedrich Ebert
• Paris Peace Conference
• David Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson
• Fourteen Points
• Georges Clemenceau
• Vittorio Orlando
• League of Nations
• plebiscites
• reparations
• collective security
• war debts
• Treaty of Versailles
• "war guilt clause"
• "Manchurian Incident"
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
• expansionism
• Hirohito
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Kristallnacht
• the Nuremberg Laws
• any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test) 

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

• MAIN Causes of World War I
• the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
• the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
• the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
• Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years notes in your Social 20-1 study booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy (common characteristics?)
• failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
• appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism)

IB 20 HOTA

I started the Haitian Revolution today. I gave you a reading on the Haitian Revolution that we're going to use as a basis for our class debate (it will fall on Friday because you're writing the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Test on Thursday). Please remind me to give you the Current Events Quiz on Monday.

Unit 5 Test Study Guide: (French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Test) 

This test will have a mixed format: matching section, short answer section and a multiple choice section. This test will be written on Monday, November 3rd. Please use the following study guide tips.

• study "The French Revolution" PowerPoint presentation (on the IB 20 wiki)
• study "The Napoleonic Age" PowerPoint (on the IB 20 wiki; this presentation also contains information on the Congress of Vienna)

1. Study the following key terms, key events and key people associated with the French Revolution: (check the glossary of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age that is on the wiki; also check out the Timetoast timeline links on the IB 20 wiki)

• cahiers
• Law of Suspects
• Marat
• the “Plain”
• National Assembly
• the Directory
• Civil Constitution of the Clergy
• Danton
• Committee of Public Safety
• the Three Estates
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• Clergy
• Nobility
• Bourgeoisie
• “nobles-of-the-sword”
• “nobles-of-the-robe”
• “nobles-of-the-bell”
• corvée
• gabelle
• vingtièmes
• Levée en Masse
• National Convention
• September Massacres
• Reign of Terror
• Robespierre
• Parlement du Paris
• the Tennis Court Oath
• the National Guard
• the Marquis de Lafayette
• Paris Commune
• National Guard
• émigrés
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• Estates-General
• Republic of Virtue
• Revolutionary Tribunal
• Declaration of the Rights of Man

2. Other study tips:

• know the causes of the French Revolution (short term, long term, economic, political, social, intellectual)
• know the structure of French society during the Old Regime
• know Napoleon's domestic policy
• know Napoleon's foreign policy (Continental System in particular)
• know key battles in the Napoleonic Wars (results of the Battle of Trafalgar, Russian campaign, the Battle of Leipzig, and the Battle of Waterloo)
• know chronology of key events in the French Revolution
• know the chronology of key events in the Napoleonic Age
• know the key players at the Congress of Vienna (country and representatives)
• what were the major decisions of the Congress? what were the guiding principles at the Congress of Vienna
• know the 19th century political spectrum (please see the graphic below; values and characteristics of the various positions on the spectrum; what groups are represented on the various positions on the spectrum?; what phases/accomplishments of the French Revolution are represented on the spectrum?)

3. Study the 19th century political spectrum (click on the graphic to enlarge it)

If you're still worried about the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Age, here is a Crash Course in History video hosted by John Green (yes, the author of "The Fault in Our Stars"; I had no idea he wrote young adult novels until recently, to me, he was "the Crash Course in History guy"). Enjoy!

November 12

Social 30-1

We started looking at the film "Good Night, and Good Luck" today in class. This film explores McCarthyism in the early 1950s. The film study that I provided you with also has a film review (if you are having a hard time understanding the film so far, it might be a good idea to read this over tonight), and some study questions and some discussion questions. This film definitely has relevance in today's world (which we'll be talking about more tomorrow and in Unit 3 of the course). Hopefully, we'll finish off the film tomorrow, and be able to have a short discussion period of some of the issues the film raises. In all likelihood, the study questions from the film study will be due on Monday. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Exam (Cold War Exam) on Monday, November 17th and your Unit 2 Final Exam on Thursday, November 20th. Please see the study guides for both tests below. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions today. Your Vietnam War Assignment is due on Friday, November 14th.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. This test is on Monday, November 17th. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 30-1 Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, November 20th. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:

• study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
• study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
• study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
• 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), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
• 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 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 "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)
• 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)
• 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 (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
• modern liberalism
• features of the Nazi state
• Hitler's rise to power
• 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
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
• do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model

IB 20 HOTA

We completed our debate on Haiti today. I gave you some time to work with your option groups. You had to create an opening speech, and then we proceeded with a "popcorn style debate" until we reached closing speeches. Unfortunately, we ran out of time during this debate to hear closing arguments from all sides. Please remember that your Latin American revolutionary leaders Facebook assignment is due on Friday, November 14th. On Wednesday, November 19th you will be writing a Unit 6 Quiz (Nation-Building Challenges). We will start covering Unit 6 material tomorrow.

November 2

IB 30/35

You wrote a Paper 2 on the First World War today. It took most of the class period. I will be going through more of your IAs this weekend. The goal is for you all to have your IA rough draft back by Wednesday. You have a World War I Quiz on Monday, it's a matching quiz with about 40 key terms, key people, and key events of WWI. If you are a Diploma student please remember that you have your EE outline due on Monday, November 5th.

Social 10-1

Most of today's class was spent watching a video called "Global Economic Issues". I also gave you a handout on Dilemmas on Global Trade. We will have a full class discussion on a couple of the scenarios outlined in this handout. Your Chapter 10 Questions are due on Monday.

IB 20

Most of today's class was spent in our four options debate on the future of St. Domingue. On Monday, please make sure that you bring your History of the Americas textbook to class.

November 1

IB 20

Most of today's class was spent preparing for tomorrow's Haitian Revolution debate. You also wrote a current events quiz.

Social 10-1

I continued lecturing from the "Foundations of Economic Globalization" PowerPoint presentation today. I will send this presentation to your e-mail accounts this afternoon.

IB 30/35

We started Prescribed Subject 1: Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, International Relations 1918-1936 today. I began a lecture on this topic, the lead in to understanding the Paris Peace Conference. We'll continue this topic on Monday. Tomorrow, you will have a Paper 2 on the First World War. On Monday, you'll have a matching quiz on WWI. Make sure that you complete the chart activity that I assigned yesterday from your 20th Century History IB Companion Textbook on the causes of WWI. This will help you with historiography for the outbreak of WWI.

October 29

IB 30/35

We finished off the WWI presentations today, focusing mainly on Canadian involvement in the war. After showing you a short video on the Battle of Vimy Ridge, I showed a video from the U.S. History Series called "The Great War". This video gave you a preview of the Paris Peace Conference (our Prescribed Subject 1) and some domestic issues facing the United States in the 1920s: amendments to the U.S. Constitution (women's suffrage, prohibition), nativism, and the red scare. Tomorrow we'll start looking at the role of Canada and Latin American countries on the First World War.

Please remember that your IA is due tomorrow!

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I today. At the conclusion of this in-class writing assignment I showed you a video from CBC News in Review on the residential school system.Please remember that you have your Unit 2 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide here.

IB 20

We started our examination of the Haitian Revolution today. I delivered a PowerPoint lecture which provided you with some basic information on the revolution (I'll post this on the wiki). You're going to learn more about the Haitian Revolution in the days to come, it is an important case study for us as you can use on a potential Paper 3 essay question if it asks you to compare and contrast two revolutions from your region of study (you'd do the American Revolution and the Haitian Revolution). I also assigned you reading booklets on the Haitian Revolution as well today. Please remember that you have your Unit 5 Test on the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age on Wednesday, please see the study guide here.