December 12

SOCIAL 30-1

I did a homework check on the Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions today. Your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions will be due next Wednesday (December 19th). We watched a documentary today called "Unconstitutional", which covered the results of the USA PATRIOT Act. 

You're writing the Chapter 10 Test on Friday, December 14th. You only have to do questions 1-50 on this test. Please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 10 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions. 

• Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism". 

You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Worksheet. Please review the following as well: 

• Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Structure of Canadian Government
• Structure of American Government
• similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• authoritarian systems
• proportional representation concept
• first past the post system
• review political and economic spectrum (again!)

SOCIAL 10-1

We finished the activity on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which we will started yesterday. We'll talk more about the Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights next week. You're writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay tomorrow. Please go to Room 104 tomorrow, and you can start your essay during tutorial. I'm going to post the essay question sheet on the wiki this afternoon. On Tuesday, December 18th you'll be writing the Unit 3 Final Exam, please see the study guide below. 

UNIT 3 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Please make sure that you have read Chapters 10-14. Please make sure that you have the following PowerPoint presentations, and that you study from them:

• "Foundations of Economic Globalization"
• "The Expansion of Economic Globalization"
• "Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Globalization"
• "The Impact of Economic Globalization on Environments"
• "Globalization and Sustainability"

Make sure that you have reviewed the Key Terms from Unit 3 (all the terms listed on the Unit 3 Worksheet, plus the extra key terms that appeared in the PowerPoint presentations). The Unit 3 Final Exam will consist of 50-60 multiple choice questions.

IB 20 HOTA

Today was the first day of presentations in your "dictator conference groups". Tomorrow, you will move into these same groups again, and we'll hear from the Peron group first, and then the Nasser group. Please make sure that you share your Google Docs/Slides with me as well (please give me editing powers so I can post on them on the wiki). Please share with my GMail account. Don't forget to make a copy of your finished product tomorrow (brochure, mini-booklet, etc.). All groups should be ready to hand this final product in to me tomorrow. Next Monday (December 17th) you will be writing a multiple choice test on the Authoritarian States unit. Please check out the study guide below to prepare for this test. 

AUTHORITARIAN STATES UNIT EXAM

This test has 65 multiple choice questions on it. The emphasis of the test is on Nazi Germany and Stalin's USSR. You should review the following materials and concepts: 

• Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Totalitarianism (handout notes)
• Types of Political Systems (Google Slides presentation, it's on the wiki in the Democracies section)
• techniques of DICTatorship (direction of popular discontent, indoctrination and propaganda, controlled participation, terror and force)
• characteristics of authoritarian systems
• review the political spectrum, the economic spectrum, and the economic-political grid
• Stalin's Five Year Plans and collectivization
• review Beer Hall Putsch, Nuremberg rallies, Night of the Long Knives, Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)

November 27

IB 20 HOTA

I continued my lecture on "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" today. If you didn't print off a hard copy of these Google Slides and bring them to class today, please make sure that you do so tomorrow. You had a little bit of time at the end of the period to get into your  Mao, Castro, Peron, and Nasser dictator groups.  I have posted the rubric and scope and sequence calendar for this unit on the wiki. 

SOCIAL 10-1

We finished watching "The Age of Wal-Mart" today. While you watched this documentary you should have filled out the film study question sheet. Please don't forget that you have your Chapter 10-11 Test tomorrow (Wednesday, November 28th),  please see the study guide below. Please remember that your TNC Dossier Assignment is due on Wednesday, December 5th. 

SOCIAL 10-1 CHAPTER 10-11 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

Please make sure that you review Chapters 10 and 11. Please review your answers to questions/activities from your Unit 3 worksheet, as well as the key terms (from Chapter 10-11 and from the PowerPoint presentations). This test is on Wednesday, November 28th. 

Please review the following two PowerPoint presentations:

• "Foundations of Economic Globalization"
• "Expansion of Economic Globalization"

You should know these key terms really well:

• Bretton Woods Agreement
• international monetary system
• fixed exchange rate
• gold standard
• floating exchange rate
• World Bank
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• centrally planned economy
• free market economy
• recession
• John Maynard Keynes
• Friedrich Hayek
• Milton Friedman
• totalitarian
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
• tariff
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

You should also be able to answer the following questions:

• What is economic globalization?
• How did 20th century world events shape contemporary economic globalization?
• What factors laid the foundations of contemporary global economics?
• What were the major global institutions that were created at the Bretton Woods Agreement?
• What are the major differences between the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek?
• What factors contribute to expanding globalization?
• How do international agreements and organizations contribute to expanding globalization?
• How do transnational corporations contribute to expanding globalization?
• How do communication technologies contribute to expanding globalization?
• What are the benefits of the WTO system?
• What are some criticisms of the WTO?

SOCIAL 30-1

We continued with Unit 3 material today.  We looked at different electoral systems today, including FPTP (first past the post) and PR (proportional representation). We also looked at the Canadian federal system and the division of powers between the federal government and provincial governments. We also started looking at the structure of the American government. 

January 10

Social 20-1

I started a PowerPoint on a "History of French-English Relations in Canada" that you'll have to finish on your own. Please bring your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions to the computer lab tomorrow. Please go directly to the Blenheim Room tomorrow to write Part A of your Final Exam. If you get extra time, go to the Learning Resource Room (Period 1 students you have Tutorial and Period 1 to write it; Period 4 students you have lunch and Period 4 to write it).

IB 20 HOTA

The Mao Zedong group presented today. They will show their video tomorrow, and then the Nasser group will present. The Castro group is up on Thursday. The Peron group will present either right after the Castro group or they will present on Friday.

December 12

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today, and it took most of the period. Hopefully, I'll be able to show you the results in the next day or so. Your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow (December 13th), with your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions due on Thursday.

IB 20 HOTA

I went through a lecture on the Holocaust, and I've since posted the presentation and Google Slides on the IB 20 wiki on the Dictatorship page. We also did the draw for which of the four groups you would be in for the dictator presentations that will be happening in January.