March 19

Social 20-1

I taught you another mnemonic device today, this time to show you that the League of Nations was a FAILURe. You should be able to remember this mnemonic and be applied to two key case studies in the Interwar Years: the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and the Italian invasion of Abyssinia. I also showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?" While you watched this video you should have answered the film study questions from your Social 20-1 course books. You also should have the section in your course books called "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" and complete the focus task in this section. Tomorrow, we'll start talking about the rise of ultranationalism in Italy, Japan, and Germany.

Social 30-1

I went through the Russian History Notes from your Social 30-1 course books. You must read in your course books the readings on Marx, Lenin, and Stalin (pages 107-114). You should read, highlight, and annotate these readings. I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia", and while you watched this video, you should have taken point form notes on it. I gave you some time to work on your Chapter 5 Key Terms, which are due tomorrow (just the key terms). On Tuesday, April 2nd you will be writing the Market and Mixed Economy Test (please see the study guide below).

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Tuesday, April 2nd

• 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 (percolator)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (coffee maker)

March 15

Social 20-1

We finished off the "Making Peace" activity from your course books, and we went over the answers. I gave you some time to read over the next couple of pages in your course books on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles. I then showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay" which reviewed the Paris Peace Conference, the key players at the conference, what their national interests were, and German reparations after the war. Next week, we'll be looking at the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in Germany, and the reaction of other European states and the League of Nations to increasing German aggression and violation of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. It would probably be wise to read over pages 127-134 in your course books to get a preview of the Interwar Years.

Social 30-1

You wrote the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test today. I will be posting the results on PowerSchool after school today. I'm going to be talking to some of you next week about switching from Social 30-1 to 30-2 because it's a necessary conversation that we need to have before Spring Break because we'll be expected to submit paperwork to switch you over to 30-2 closer to the term switch over.

March 16

IB 30/35

We finished watching "The Causes of the Civil War" video that we started yesterday at the beginning of class today. We also finished off a PowerPoint lecture on the causes of the American Civil War today too. We'll talk about the Civil War briefly next week and hopefully get into the Reconstruction period as well, but that might be pushing it, since it is a short week next week. I have shared with you my last two major lectures on the Antebellum South and the Causes of the Civil War, so please add them to your Google Drive and put them into your Paper 3 folder. No homework this weekend.

Social 10-1

We finished off the "Legacies of Historical Globalization" lecture today. I did a homework check on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class as well. 

You have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday, March 21st, please see the study guide below. 

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Wednesday, March 21st. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

Please study your key terms from Chapters 1-5, and the topics covered in that unit.
1. Key Terms/Key Concepts in Unit 1:

• globalization
• pluralistic society
• transnationals
• society
• “the global village”
• United Nations
• G-8
• La Francophonie
• NATO
• individual identity
• collective identity
• traditions
• minority group
• official bilingualism
• universalization of pop culture
• hybridization
• media transnationals
• media consolidation
• CBC/SRC
• Official Languages Act
• CRTC
• Canadian Content (CanCon)
• homogenization
• monoculture
• assimilation
• marginalization
• accommodation
• secularism
• integration
• cosmopolitan
• acculturation
• cultural revitalization
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms

2. Know your case studies extremely well!
3. Be able to apply key concepts!

Your Chapter 7 Test is on Wednesday, April 4th, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and ashort 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?

Social 20-1

I gave you time today to read, highlight and annotate the Interwar Years reading in your Social 20-1 workbooks. I taught you a mnemonic device on the League of Nations (FAILURe) as well today. We also stated talking about the concept of appeasement as well, which we talk about again next week.

Please remember that you're writing the Unit 2 WRA I on Wednesday, March 21st, and you will not be allowed to have any writing guides or analyzing political cartoon sheets out to assist you this time.

September 19

IB 30/35

We finished off the "Allied Victory and the Treaties" Google Slides lecture, and  then we talked about the League of Nations. On Thursday, you'll be writing a 30-1 WRA I style writing assignment. We're booked into a computer lab, and I'll re-teach you how to write a WRA I tomorrow in class. 

SOCIAL 10-1

I've already posted how to cite images that you find on the Internet on the post below, so please check that out, it will help with citing images that you're going to use on your Illustrated Concept Maps (due on September 25th).  I went through a Google Slides lecture on challenges and opportunities of globalization (this relates to Chapters 4 and 5 in your textbook). On Monday, September 25th you will write your Chapter 1-2 Test, please see the study guide below. We started our film study of "Bend it Like Beckham" today, and we'll continue watching this film tomorrow. 

CHAPTER 1-2 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is on Monday, September 25th.

1. Study your Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms
2. Review the case studies from the textbook in Chapters 1 and 2, specifically the Metis, the Francophones, the Hmong, and the Maori
3. Be prepared to answer any of the "Questions for Inquiry" from Chapters 1 and 2 (they are on the following pages: p.9, p.14, p.20, p.29, p.35, p.39):

• How does globalization affect economic aspects of people's lives?
• How does globalization affect social aspects of people's lives?
• How does globalization affect political aspects of people's lives?
• What is the difference between individual and collective identity?
• What is the relationship between identity and language?
• How does cultural exchange shape people's identities?

4. Make sure that you can answer the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet for these chapters.

September 18

IB 30/35

We continued watching "Paris 1919" today, and you should have tried to fill in as many answers as you could on the film study guide. Please make sure that you read through the guide at some point. We continued on the "Allied Victory and the Treaties" Google Slides lecture today as well, and I'll finish it off tomorrow. We're going to talk about the League of Nations over the course of the next few days, and by Thursday, you'll be writing a 30-1 WRA I style writing assignment. We're booked into a computer lab, and I'll re-teach you how to write a WRA I.

Social 10-1

I've already posted how to cite images that you find on the Internet on the post below, so please check that out, it will help with citing images that you're going to use on your Illustrated Concept Maps (due one week from today, September 25th). I gave you the results on World Geography Test and your Global Connections Map today. I went through some notes on media TNCs, and then you had time to work on your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions, which are due tomorrow. One week from today you have your Chapter 1-2 Test, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 1-2 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is on Monday, September 25th.

1. Study your Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms
2. Review the case studies from the textbook in Chapters 1 and 2, specifically the Metis, the Francophones, the Hmong, and the Maori
3. Be prepared to answer any of the "Questions for Inquiry" from Chapters 1 and 2 (they are on the following pages: p.9, p.14, p.20, p.29, p.35, p.39):

• How does globalization affect economic aspects of people's lives?
• How does globalization affect social aspects of people's lives?
• How does globalization affect political aspects of people's lives?
• What is the difference between individual and collective identity?
• What is the relationship between identity and language?
• How does cultural exchange shape people's identities?

4. Make sure that you can answer the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet for these chapters.

November 4

Social 30-1

You had the entire period to work with the Cold War booklets and complete your Cold War Events Notes in your Social 30-1 study booklets. Please read, highlight and annotate the Korean War notes that are in your 30-1 booklets.

IB 30/35

I gave you your Paper 1 study duotangs at the beginning of class today. We finished off "The End of World War I and Paris Peace Conference" PowerPoint today. We also started looking at the League of Nations. We'll continue examining the structure and organization of the League tomorrow, and start watching "Paris 1919". Don't forget that you have a WWI test on Monday: 55 multiple choice and 39 matching key terms.

Social 10-1

I showed you a video called "Global Economic Issues" in first half of the class. We started a film study of a video from the China Rises series called "Getting Rich". We'll finish this video off tomorrow, and you'll have some time to prepare for Friday's debate.

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 9th. 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:

• "Historical Globalization and Imperialism"
• "Legacies of Historical Globalization"
• "Legacies of Historical Globalization in Canada"

Key Concepts from Unit 2:

• world views
• historical globalization
• cultural contact
• depopulation
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• entrepreneurs
• Adam Smith
• exploitation
• communism
• industrialization
• Industrial Revolution
• cottage industries
• imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence
• paternalistic
• Confederation
• residential schools
• the Oka crisis
• First Nations Policing Policy
• legacy
• ethnocentrism
• Eurocentrism
• Scramble for Africa
• Leopold II
• migration
• displacement
• British East India Company
• Queen Elizabeth I
• the Raj
• Mohandas Gandhi
• swadeshi
• deindustrialization
• colonization
• the Hundred Associates
• Hudson’s Bay Company
• Rupert’s Land
• North West Company
• Seven Years’ War
• Proclamation of 1763
• Quebec Act of 1774
• the Numbered Treaties
• the Indian Act
• Status Indian
• Non-Status Indian
• multiculturalism
• specific claims
• comprehensive claims

March 17

Social 30-1

I went through part of the lecture on "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" which focuses on why Stalin's USSR and Hitler's Nazi Germany rejected liberalism. I only went through the first half of the presentation on our case study for a communist totalitarian state: the USSR. You are responsible for going through the second half of the PowerPoint presentation on Nazi Germany. You can find this PowerPoint on the Social 30-1 wiki under Unit 2 content.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be on Monday, March 30th

• 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 and in your study booklets
• 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

Social 20-1

I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?" While you watched this video you had to answer questions from a film study sheet that was in your Social 20-1 study booklet. I also had you do some small group work on the focus task from the "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" reading in your Social 20-1 booklet. We also reviewed the mnemonic FAILURe for the League of Nations. Please remember that you are writing your Unit 2 WRA I tomorrow in the Blenheim Room. Please go directly to the Blenheim tomorrow, don't come to Room 111.

November 13

Social 20-1

We finished off the film study of "Scream Bloody Murder" today. I also told you to read the following sections in your Social 20-1 blue study booklets:

• Contemporary Examples of Genocide (ppt) on pages 227-231
• Ukraine Famine (the Holodomor) on pages 232-234
• If you're doing your Unit 2 Research Project (due on November 25th) on a 20th century genocide, you might want to read the Samantha Power article "Never Again: The World's Most Unfulfilled Promise"

We'll continue with the topic of genocide this week by examining a case study of the Rwandan genocide. We'll start "Shake Hands with the Devil" tomorrow.

Social 30-1

We finished off the tail-end of the "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" documentary today. I also gave you some handouts on the Korean War today (I realize that I was back-tracking with this, but it was necessary because we need to talk next week at the consequences of the Cold War in the present day). I also gave you some notes on the board on bilateral arms agreements between the USA and the USSR and multilateral arms control agreements. Make sure that you understand the concepts of deterrence, MAD (mutually assured destruction), arms race, SALT I, INF Treaty, SALT II, and START I and START II, and detente. Make sure that you read section on McCarthyism (p. 265-267) in Perspectives on Ideologies prior to class tomorrow. We'll be starting a film study of "Good Night, and Good Luck." Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam on Tuesday, November 19th, please see the study guide here. Please remember that your Vietnam War Assignment is due on Friday, November 15th.

IB 30/35

We actually covered a lot of ground today. We finished off the "League of Nations" PowerPoint presentation, and also talked about the League of Nations' mandate system. We also watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay". While you watched this video you should have been taking notes. You do have a brief homework assignment tonight that you can find on the IB 30/35 wiki under Prescribed Subject 1 on the Convenant of the League of Nations. It should take you about 20 minutes to complete this homework assignment that is due tomorrow.

November 12

IB 30/35

We examined the League of Nations today, and we'll continue this topic tomorrow. You were also assigned your Prescribed Subject 1 duotangs today. If you missed class today, you'll need to get one of these duotangs from me tomorrow. If you missed class today, and you missed an assessment that happened last week, you'll need to write it tomorrow.

Social 30-1

We watched part of "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" today. I did a homework check on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions as well. Your Vietnam War Assignment is due on November 15th (Friday). Please see the Chapter 7 Cold War Exam study guide below.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. You will write this test on Tuesday, November 19th. 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 20-1

Most of today's class was spent watching the CNN documentary "Scream Bloody Murder" which should help you to understand contemporary examples of genocide in the 20th and 21st century. We'll finish this video off tomorrow. We should be able to get into our case study of the Rwandan genocide this week as well.

November 12

IB 30/35

I lectured on the League of Nations today. This PowerPoint is already posted on the IB 30/35 wiki under Prescribed Subject 1. I talked about basic structure and organization of the League and successes and failures as well. Know the mnemonic FAILURe really well, and as we progress forward in Prescribed Subject 1 try to apply case studies back to this mnemonic. You have your Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs Unit Test next Monday. Please see the study guide below. Here is today's homework:

• Read pages 34-38 in the 20th Century World History textbook and complete the source-based questions on page 39, using sources A-E on pages 38-39.

The Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs Unit Test Study Guide:

This is a 38 question multiple choice test. It will be administered in class on Monday, November 19th. It covers the Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs unit. Here are some points to review:

• Teddy Roosevelt
• "big stick diplomacy"
• Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
• Alfred A. Mahan (naval sea power theory)
• What is the "Open Door Policy"?
• What is "dollar diplomacy"?
• Spanish-American War (causes, practices, effects/results)
• Venezuela crisis and jingoism
• Portsmouth Peace Conference (Russo-Japanese War; what role does Teddy Roosevelt play); results?
• President McKinley's accomplishments re: expansion/annexation
• MAIN causes of WWI
• nature of warfare in WWI World War I (causes, practices, effects/results: a word of caution here-don't spend any time studying the battles in WWI)
• Canadian participation in WWI (contributions, issues on the home front)
• key players/leaders in WWI (ex. Kaiser Wilhelm II, Nicholas II, etc.)
• Sedition Act and Espionage Act (USA)
• George Creel

Social 10-1

We started a film study of "Life + Debt" today, which we will finish off tomorrow. Your Chapter 11 Questions are due on Wednesday.

IB 20

I started lecturing on the situation in the United States from George Washington's time as President to the Adams administration. You should have a very clear sense of how and why political parties began to emerge in the United States after they won independence from Great Britain. You should understand who the Federalists were and the Democratic-Republicans and on what key issues facing the USA they differed on. You should also know key individuals within both political parties. Tomorrow, we'll pick up right where we left off with the Jefferson administration. Your Latin American Independence Movement assignments are due on Wednesday.