Showing posts with label Malcolm X. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malcolm X. Show all posts

Monday, April 16, 2018

April 16


WE watched the A & E Biography on Malcolm X today in class. As you watched this documentary, you should have been taking notes. I highly recommend you check out Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" film if today piqued your interest. One week from tomorrow you're writing a Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement, so you should have prepared your notes in your Google Docs for all of your assigned questions. Please remember that you're writing the U.S. Civil Rights Movement Test tomorrow, you can find the study guide below.

On April 17th you'll be writing Civil Rights Movement Test you can find the study guide below.


This test has multiple formats: there is a matching section, a short answer sectionand 25 multiple choice questions. You will have the entire class period to write it.study the "Civil Rights Movement" PowerPoint (you can find an electronic copy on the IB 30/35 wiki  Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas).


  •  know key individuals in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement (Martin Luther King, James Farmer, John Lewis, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, etc.) 
  • know key organizations in the movement (NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE, Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, and key players) 
  • know key events of the civil rights movement (chronology/sequence of events)
  • know federal government responses to the civil rights movement from the Truman administration to the Johnson administration



I did a homework check on your Chapter 10 Questions today. Today was a work period for you to read Chapter 11, and work on the Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions. If you're given class time tomorrow to work on key terms and questions from the Unit 3 Worksheet tomorrow, please work on your Chapter 11 and 12 key terms and questions.


We talked about the Nuremberg Trials today. I showed you a YouTube video from the American Experience series on the Nuremberg Trials.


Monday, April 11, 2016

April 11

I showed you the Biography of Malcolm X today. We also did some document analysis as well.




This test has multiple formats: there is a matching section, a short answer section, and 25 multiple choice questions. You will have the entire class period to write it.

  • study the "Civil Rights Movement" PowerPoint (you can find an electronic copy on the IB 30/35 wiki under Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas section)
  • know key individuals in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement (Martin Luther King, James Farmer, John Lewis, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, etc.)
  • know key organizations in the movement (NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE, Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, and key players)
  • know key events of the civil rights movement (chronology/sequence of events)
  • know federal government responses to the civil rights movement from the Truman administration to the Johnson administration
You're writing this  Civil Rights Movement Test on Wednesday, April 13th, and you can find the study guide below.


I finished off the lecture on "The Foundations of Economic Globalization" today. I gave you the Unit 3 Worksheet today as well. Your Chapter 10 Key Terms are due tomorrow. One week from today, you'll be writing the Unit 2 Final Exam (please see the study guide below).


below.


This final exam is entirely multiple choice format. There are 57 multiple choice questions. This Unit 2 Final Exam will be on Monday, April 18th. 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



We examined the origins of the Cold War today. I delivered part of a PowerPoint presentation that covered the origins of the Cold War. I also paid special attention to the WWII conferences where the seeds of the Cold War were planted.

Thursday, April 07, 2016

April 7


We watched Episode 6 of "Eyes on the Prize" today. The questions for this episode are due tomorrow. You should review the documents on the IB 30/35 wiki on Martin Luther King prior to tomorrow's class. We'll look at the impact of Malcolm X on Monday, April 11th.




It is also recommended that you watch the remaining episodes of "Eyes on the Prize" that I have posted on the wiki.










  • Paper 3 Essay Outline (Diploma students only) is due on April 11th 
  • Civil Rights Movement Test is on April 13th 
  • Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement is on April 20th






  • You wrote the Chapter 5 Test today in class, and you can check D2L later tonight or tomorrow for the results. You'll be writing the Nazi Germany Quiz tomorrow (please see the study guide below).





    This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. What you'll have is a list of key people, key terms and key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz

    • anti-Semitism
    • Aryan
    • concentration camp
    • corporate state
    • Dachau
    • decree
    • deportation
    • dissent
    • elite
    • Enabling Act
    • ethnic
    • Fuehrer
    • Gestapo
    • Hitler
    • Holocaust
    • indoctrination
    • inequality
    • inflation
    • judicial
    • jugend
    • Mein Kampf
    • Kristallnacht
    • nationalism
    • Nazi
    • Niemoller
    • Nuremberg
    • passive
    • plebiscites
    • pogrom
    • prinzip
    • Reichstag
    • Ruhr
    • SA
    • SS
    • state
    • swastika
    • War Guilt Clause
    • White Rose





    You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I today in class in the Blenheim Room. Your Unit 2 Final Exam will be on April 18th, I will post the study guide on the blog starting on April 11th. We're starting Unit 3 material tomorrow. It's probably a good idea to read Chapter 10 tonight.



    Tuesday, April 08, 2014

    April 8


    You watched the A & E Biography of Malcolm X today. After the video you should have split into your seven task groups. Each task group must put together a detailed essay outline for their signed Paper 3 essay question and post their work on the IB 30/35 wiki under Collaborative Notes. Your group's page must be edited by Thursday. Please don't forget to include historiography. Please remember that you have your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Test on Thursday, please see the study guide here.

    You watched the A & E Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte today. While you watched this video you could have been filling in any missing gaps in the Napoleon Bonaparte timeline that I gave you yesterday. You should have also finished off the "The Napoleonic Age" PowerPoint presentation that I started yesterday.

    You should have handed in your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions today. You should have watched Part 1 of "Where the Spirit Lives" today. You'll finish off this film tomorrow, and you will write a quiz on it as well.