March 5

Social 10-1

You worked in your debate groups building and organizing a Google Doc in preparation for tomorrow's debate on the following topic: BIRT globalization benefits the world's cultures. One week from today, you will be writing the Unit 1 position paper. I will teach you how to write a position paper next week, and you will get the essay question sheet in advance of the essay writing day.

Social 30-1

I gave you some notes on the movement from classical liberalism to welfare capitalism to modern liberalism. We also listened to an NPR podcast on the Obama administration usage of Keynesian economic policies in response to the global recession. You are supposed to go through the following section in your Social 30-1 course books, and read, highlight and annotate: pages 79-84. One week from tomorrow (Friday, March 13th) you will be writing the Chapter 3-4 Test (Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test), so I will be posting the study guide here on the blog tomorrow.

IB 30/35

I finished off the lecture on the Cuban Missile Crisis today, and then you moved into your three option debate groups. We'll be doing the debate tomorrow.

March 4

Social 30-1

I did a review of the business cycle and the Keynesian economic responses to the various stages of the boom and bust cycle. I also went into some detail on the New Deal attempts at relief, recovery and reform through the "alphabet agencies". I also went into greater detail on monetary and fiscal policies (pages 70-76) in the Social 30-1 course books.

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on the Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions today. I split into two groups, side proposition and side opposition. We will be having a debate on Friday, on the following topic: BIRT globalization benefits the world's cultures. I also gave you a sheet on debate structure. We are booked into a computer lab tomorrow so each side can build a Google Doc to create arguments and evidence that your side will use during the debate. One week from tomorrow (Thursday, March 12th) you will be writing the Unit 1 position paper. That is one of the reasons why were doing this debate, to learn how to build argumentation and evidence to support your position in a contentious debate.

IB 30/35

I lectured briefly today on the Cuban Missile Crisis, and then split you into your three options debate groups for Friday's debate on how the USA should handle the Cuban Missile Crisis. You'll get some class time tomorrow to work in your groups again.

October 2

Social 30-1

We looked at how the Canadian government uses monetary and fiscal policy to stabilize the business cycle today. We also looked at how the Obama administration used Keynesian ideas to battle the 2008 global recession. We'll start looking at Sweden and the mixed economy tomorrow. Remember, we're moving to the next quadrant on the economic-political grid: democratic socialism.

SOCIAL 20-1

We watched a video from the BBC documentary series "Days that Shook the World" on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.  You also should have completed the reading on "The Causes of World War I" from your Social 20-1 coursebooks.  I did a homework check on the Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions today. I also collected your Unit 1 WRA I Chart Assignment today as well. Your Chapter 3-4 Test is this Friday (October 4th). Please see the study guide below.  

CHAPTERS 3-4 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

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)

SOCIAL 20-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

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

IB 30/35

I gave back some of your assignments and tests today. I gave you a heads up of how the IB might phrase Paper 3 questions for the Great Depression and the Americas topic, especially material that we're moving into now. We started the "FDR and the New Deal" Google Slides lecture today, 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. 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. Thanks!

 

July 9

Social 30-1

I went through a review of the boom and bust cycle, and then the Keynesian economic response to booms, recessions and depressions. We kept reviewing monetary policy and fiscal policy. I showed you a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series, namely, "Boom and Bust" and "FDR and the New Deal". We went through, as a class, the notes on "Using Monetary and Fiscal Policy to Stabilize the Economy" and "The Great Depression in the USA". You also did some exit slips today, one before the break, and one at the end of the day. We went to the Blenheim Room to work on the Chapter 6 Google Doc, and to prepare for tomorrow's position paper.

UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES AND HOMEWORK:

• Unit 1 WRA II Essay is on Wednesday, July 10th
• Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test (Chapters 3 and 4) is on Thursday, July 11th
• Read Chapter 6 and complete the Chapter 6 Google Doc
• Market and Mixed Economy Test is on Monday, July 15th

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, July 11th. 

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. 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 
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

5. 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 

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Monday, 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

March 7

Social 30-1

I went through a review of the Keynesian economic response to the various stages of the business cycle today. I also talked a bit about the shift back and forth throughout the 20th century between laissez faire capitalism and classical liberal economic policies with limited government involvement in the economy to a Keynesian approach employed by FDR and beyond until the early 1970s. We'll talk more about Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Thatcher, Reagan, and Obama next week. I also had you listen to an NPR podcast on how Obama employed Keynesian economics to deal with the 2008 Global Recession. You had the remaining class time to work on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Tuesday, March 12th.

Social 20-1

I want you to read "The Causes of World War I" reading from your Social 20-1 course books (pages 85-97) for homework tonight. I gave you some time to read, highlight and annotate "Issue of Responsibility" (pages 99-100) in your course books. I gave you the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Tuesday, March 12th. You have a busy couple of days coming up in Social 20-1. You're writing the Chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow, the Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, and you're writing the Unit 1 WRA I on Tuesday. If you're away for the Unit Final for a snowshoe trip, we'll have you write it on Wednesday.

CHAPTERS 3-4 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

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)

SOCIAL 20-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

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

March 5

Social 20-1

I finished off the lecture on the causes of World War I today. I was able to show you a video from the BBC series 'Days That Shook the World' on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions. Your Unit 1 WRA I Chart Assignment is due tomorrow. 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).

CHAPTERS 3-4 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

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)

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

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

Social 30-1

I finished off the handout on the 'Emergence of Welfare Capitalism and Modern Liberalism' today, and then I reviewed the business cycle. I taught you about Keynesian economics (demand-side economics), and the demand-side economics response to the various stages of the business cycle. We also did an exit slip today.

October 5

IB 20 HOTA

I gave you each a copy of the United States Constitution graphic novels to read this long weekend. I showed you a video on the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I also talked about how to write a Paper 3. I'll post the Paper 3 handout on the wiki and share the page with you all so you can print off a copy for yourself if you missed class today. You'll be writing a Paper 3 on Tuesday.

Social 30-1

We did some review of the "economic snapshots" of the business cycle and the Keynesian economic response to the various stages on the boom and bust cycle. I also had you listen to an NPR podcast on the Obama administration using Keynesian economics to deal with the global recession of 2008. I did a homework check on the Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions. I didn't assign the Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions for homework, but you should get working on them this weekend since they'll be later next week.

Social 10-1

We had our class debate on the following topic today: BIRT globalization benefits the world's cultures. I will give you feedback on this debate on Tuesday and my decision as to which side "won" the debate.

October 3

Social 30-1

We continued looking at Keynesian economics today by looking at how monetary and fiscal policy are used by the Canadian government to regulate our economy. If you missed class today you should get the notes from a classmate. I gave you time to work on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions. These key terms and questions are due on Friday.

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today in class. Tomorrow I will split you into two teams for preparing for a debate on Friday on the following topic: "Be it resolved that globalization is beneficial to the world's cultures."

IB 20 HOTA

We finished off the Constitutional Convention simulation today. You're writing the American Revolution Test tomorrow, please check out 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.

July 9

Social 30-1

I taught you the Keynesian economic (demand-side economics) response to the various stages of the boom and bust cycle today at the beginning of class. You got your results back for your Unit 1 WRA I today before the break, and I gave you some general feedback. I also spent a tremendous amount of time today talking about how to structure a WRA II Essay. We went to one of the computer labs to work on a Google Doc essay outline. Hopefully, over the course of the next couple of days you continue to work on this Google Doc and add analysis, argumentation and evidence. Please don't write on your essay outline sheet until the night before the essay. You're only allowed to write on the essay question sheet, below the dotted line, and only on the front side of the essay question sheet, so be very selective about what you write on the sheet.

Key Dates:

• Unit 1 WRA II Essay is on Wednesday, July 11th
• Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test is on Thursday, July 12th (please see the study guide below)
• Market and Mixed Economy Test is on Monday, July 16th (please see the study guide below)

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, July 12th. 

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. 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

5. 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 

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Monday, July 16th

• 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

September 28

SOCIAL 10-1

Both classes went to a computer lab working on difference Google Doc groups to get ready for tomorrow's debate. The debate topic is Be it resolved that globalization is beneficial to the world's cultures. Your Chapter 3-4 Test is on Tuesday, October 3rd, please see the study guide below. You're writing a Unit 1 WRA I on Wednesday, October 4th. 

CHAPTER 3-4 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

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

IB 30/35

I taught you some more economic concepts today, especially the business cycle (the boom and bust cycle) and the Keynesian responses to a recession or depression. We also watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Boom and Bust". 

February 26

IB 30/35

You wrote your Paper 2 on the origins of the Cold War today in class. Enjoy your weekend!

Social 10-1

You had a work period today to work on your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions. I will be doing a homework check on these on Monday. Also, your Illustrated Concept Map is due on Monday, February 29th. On Wednesday, March 2nd you will be writing your Chapter 3-4 Test, you can find the study guide below.

CHAPTER 3-4 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

• 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

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on the "Philosophies of Industrialism" today. We then did a review of some of the economic concepts that I've taught to you this week, such as the basic economic systems and economic values, the boom and bust cycle, and the demand-side economics approach to the various stages of the business cycle. I also had you read, highlight, and annotate the notes from the Social 30-1 workbooks on the Keynes' economic theory. Have a great weekend!

February 25

IB 30/35

We finished off the TOK Presentations today. Please remember that you have your Paper 2 on the origins of the Cold War tomorrow.

Social 30-1

We started looking at Keynesian economics today. We revisited the boom and bust cycle, and looked at the Keynesian monetary and fiscal policy responses at the various stages of the cycle, and the rationale behind those actions. We also talked about welfare capitalism and modern liberalism too. We also looked at the start of the Great Depression.

Social 10-1

I talked about how to write a WRA I three source analysis assignment today. I gave you a handout on the WRA I assignment, another one on analyzing political cartoons, and a sample WRA I. You'll be writing a Unit 1 WRA I next Thursday, and you'll be able to use the handout and the analyzing political cartoons handout when you're writing the WRA I. You can find some sample WRA I assignments on the Social 10-1 wiki on the Student Writing Samples page. Please remember that you're writing a Chapter 3-4 Test on Wednesday, March 2nd, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 3-4 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

• 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

September 30

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions today. I went through monetary and fiscal policy again in great detail. We also listened to a NPR podcast that discussed Keynesian economics and how the Obama administration was giving Keynesian economics a real-world test in 2009. You can find this link on the blog under the Social 30-1 links if you want to listen to it again.

IB 30/35

You were supposed to hand in your IA today. We continued watching Episode 5 ("The Universe of Battle") today. We will re-start the video tomorrow at the Gettysburg Address.

Social 10-1

If you didn't hand in your "Bend It Like Beckham" film study booklet today, please do so tomorrow. Your wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today. Please remember that your infographic assignment is due on Friday. If you have some questions about APA citation system, please check out this link.

September 28

SOCIAL 30-1

I reviewed the business cycle and how Keynesian economics (demand-side economics) uses monetary and fiscal policy to smooth out fluctuations in the marketplace. Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on September 30th. 

IB 30/35

We started Episode 4 of Ken Burns' "The Civil War". Don't forget that the rough draft of your IA is due on Wednesday, September 30th. 

SOCIAL 10-1

We finished the film study of "Bend it Like Beckham"., the answers to the film study questions  will be due on Wednesday, September 30th. You have your chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow. don't forget that your infographic assignment is due on Friday. We'll be able to finish off this film on Monday. Please remember that you are writing your Chapter 3-4 Test on Tuesday, September 29th, please see the study guide below. 

CHAPTER 3-4 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

• 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

September 24

Sorry, I forgot to post this yesterday.

IB 30/35

We finished off Episode 3 of Ken Burns' "The Civil War". This will be your last weekend to finish off the rough draft of your IA. The rough draft of your IA is due on September 30th.

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on the "Philosophies of Industrialism" activity from your Social 30-1 study booklet. We covered the transformation of classical liberalism to welfare capitalism (and the differences between this term in the USA and the rest of the world) to modern liberalism. I reviewed the business cycle and how Keynesian economics (demand-side economics) uses monetary and fiscal policy to smooth out fluctuations in the marketplace. Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on September 30th.

Social 10-1

We continued our film study of "Bend it Like Beckham". We'll be able to finish off this film on Monday. Please remember that you are writing your Chapter 3-4 Test on Tuesday, September 29th, please see the study guide below.

Chapter 3-4 Test Study Guide:

• 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

July 9

Social 30-1

We covered a lot of ground today. I 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 did a homework check on your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions as well today. 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 "Philosophies of Industrialism" or the Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions, which are both due tomorrow.

Upcoming Important Dates:

• Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday (July 10th)
• Philosophies of Industrialism activity questions due July 10th
• Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test is on Monday, July 13th (please see the study guide below)
• Market and Mixed Economy Test is on Wednesday, July 15th (please see the study guide below)
• Economic Systems Exam is on Thursday, July 16th (please see below)
• Chapter 5 Test is on Friday, July 17th (study guide will be published on July 10th)

As you can see, next week will be EXTREMELY busy! Stay on top of your work, and it'll be fine.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Monday, 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

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be on Wednesday, 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

Economic Systems Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be written on Thursday, July 16th. 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)

March 4

Social 30-1

Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions were due today, so you should have handed them in at the beginning of class. You did a review of the boom and bust cycle, fiscal and monetary responses to the various stages of the cycle. You should have gone through the reading on "Using Monetary and Fiscal Policy to Stabilize the Economy". You should also begin to see the parallels between FDR's New Deal and the Obama administration's response to the 2008 Global Recession.

Social 20-1

You should have gone through the Causes of the First World War reading in your Social 20-1 study booklets. You should have also watched "The Clash of Generals" and "Trench Warfare". While you watched these videos you should have taken notes. Don't forget that you are writing your Chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow and your Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, March 9th. Please see the study guides below.

Chapters 3-4 Test Study Guide:

This test will be on Thursday, March 5th. 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 quiz)

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

You will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on March 9th. It is 75 multiple choice questions. 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 wiki under Unit 1 Presentations. These are the presentations that you should review:

1. Nation and Identity
2. The French Revolution
3. The Napoleonic Era
4. Contending Loyalties

Know the key concepts from the Unit 1 Worksheet (a lot of them have been defined on the wiki by your classmates, check under Unit 1 Key Terms). If you know the key concepts you'll be able apply them to test.

• 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