October 15

IB 30/35

Both classes spent time in Room 111 getting feedback on your IA. The good copy of the IA will be due on October 31st. We also started looking at how to write a Paper 3 on the Great Depression and the Americas. We'll continue looking at preparing for a Paper 3. You'll be writing the Paper 3 on Friday, October 18th.

Make sure that you have completed the following assignments related to the Great Depression unit before you write your Paper 3 on Friday:

• Challenges to the New Deal (on the IB 30/35 wiki)
• Was the First New Deal a planned programme or simply a series of unrelated measures to deal with specific problems? (pages 98-100)
• New Deal Programs Chart (you worked with a partner on this Google Doc)
• How much impact did the New Deal have on American politics and the economy? (make a note-taking chart, content pages 126-128)
• Great Depression in Canada and Latin America comparison chart

SOCIAL 20-1

I showed you a couple of videos today, one from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay". We also started another documentary called "Paris 1919", which we will finish off tomorrow. 

SOCIAL 30-1

We finished watching "Inequality for All" today. On Wednesday, October 16th you will be writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test. This is a multiple choice format test, and it corresponds to material in Chapter 3 and the first half of Chapter 4. Please see the study guide below.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is on Wednesday, October 16th. 

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations: 

• "The Development of Classical Liberalism" + charts
• "Responding to Classical Liberalism" + charts

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 

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 15

Social 20-1

I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay", while you were watching the video you should have been answering the questions on the film study sheet that's in your Social 20-1 coursebook. I did a quick review of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe), and gave you a definition of a demagogue, and make links between the definition and what Hitler and the Nazis were trying to achieve in Germany. We also started watching "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" today, and we'll finish this video up tomorrow. Please remember that on March 21st you will be writing a WRA I on Unit 2 material. The Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

Social 10-1

We finished off the "Historical Globalization and Imperialism" lecture today. We also started looking at the "Legacies of Historical Globalization". Please remember that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, March 16th. 

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!

IB 30/35

We finished watching "12 Years a Slave" today. I think you can all agree that this was an excellent movie, and very deserving of winning the Oscar for Best Picture in 2014, along with two other Oscar wins (Lupita Nyong'o also won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Patsey). I had enough time to show you a video from the U.S. History video series, on the causes of the American Civil War. I'll lecture on this topic tomorrow.