February 27

Social 10-1

You finished off watching "Bend it Like Beckham" today. The film study booklet is due on Friday. On Monday, you're writing the Unit 1 WRA I. On Tuesday, you're writing the Chapter 3-4 Test, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 3-4 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test will be written on Tuesday, March 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

Social 30-1

You went through the Private Enterprise Notes on pages 57-59 in the Social 30-1 course books and the Emergence of Welfare Capitalism and Modern Liberalism notes on pages 60-61 as well today. You had class time to work on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Activities.

IB 30/35

You finished off the Korean War Google Slides lecture today. You should also watch the CNN episode on the Korean War. You're writing the Paper 2 on the origins of the Cold War tomorrow.

November 5

IB 30/35

We finished the "Japanese Expansion into Southeast Asia" lecture today. You can print off this lecture from the IB 30/35 wiki if you would like. I'm going to post the lecture on the Sino-Japanese War today, so please download it and print it off if you would like. Please make sure that you bring your The Move to Global War textbooks tomorrow as well, and complete the homework assignment. 

SOCIAL 20-1

We started our film study of "Schindler's List", we will probably finish off the film on Thursday. 

SOCIAL 30-1

We picked up where we left off yesterday, by starting with the Berlin Blockade/Berlin Airlift. I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Cold War Confrontation". This video covered the Berlin Blockade and the Korean War. I also showed you a video on construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. 

You also had time today to go through the Cold War Key Events Notes today. You'll get time tomorrow to work on these note-taking charts too. 

July 17

SOCIAL 30-1

You wrote the Chapter 5 Test at the start of class. I've already posted the results of this test in PowerSchool. We finished off "The Origins of the Cold War" PowerPoint lecture today as well. We also covered key concepts and events from the Berlin Blockade and Airlift to the Korean War to the Cuban Missile Crisis. 


Please have a look at the other key dates below (and study guides).

UPCOMING KEY DATES:

• Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, July 22nd (see study guide below)
• Unit 3 WRA I is on Tuesday, July 23rd 
• Chapter 10 Test is on Wednesday, July 24th
• Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, July 25th
• Trial Final Exam is on Friday, July 26th

SOCIAL 30-1 UNIT 2 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, July 22nd. It will be a 50 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
• 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 (chart)
• 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

April 17

Social 30-1

We finished off the documentary from the Turning Points in History series on the Korean War. I went through the origins of the Cold War again, a timeline of key events in the Cold War. Tomorrow you'll get to work on the Cold War Events Notes charts that are in your coursebooks. You should start working on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions, it will be due next week.

Social 20-1

We finished watching the HBO documentary "White Light/Black Rain" today in class. I gave you the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Tuesday, April 23rd.