October 11

I forgot to post this yesterday. I hope that you enjoy your long weekend.

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent in the Red Lab working with your partner on the Google Doc chart comparing and contrasting the Great Depression in Canada and Latin America. You should have this chart completed by next week. Next Friday you will be writing a Paper 3 on the Great Depression and the Americas. We'll be doing some preparation for that Paper 3 on Tuesday, along with some feedback on the IA. 

SOCIAL 30-1

In your groups you delivered the Google Slides presentations on the party platforms of your assigned political parties, and profiling the candidates running for election in Calgary Nose Hill, Calgary Confederation, and Calgary Rocky Ridge. 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 

SOCIAL 20-1

We finished looking at the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles today. The mnemonic device that I started teaching you today (GARGLe) is a helpful way to remember the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. We completed the "Making Peace" activity in your Social 20-1 workbooks as well. 

October 9

Social 30-1

We finished off the "Evolution of Modern Liberalism" lecture today. There are a couple of slides that you should probably print off as single pages because they are hard to read otherwise. Tomorrow, you are presenting in your small groups about the party platforms of your assigned political parties, and profiling the candidates running for election in Calgary Nose Hill, Calgary Confederation, and Calgary Rocky Ridge. One week from today you are 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 

Social 20-1

We started looking at the Allied victory in WWI and the subsequent Paris Peace Conference today. We'll continue looking at the Treaty of Versailles tomorrow. The mnemonic device that I started teaching you today (GARGLe) is a helpful way to remember the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. We'll look at specific terms of the treaties tomorrow and their impacts.

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent in the Red Lab working with your partner on the Google Doc chart comparing and contrasting the Great Depression in Canada and Latin America. You will have tomorrow's class to work on this as well.

September 18

SOCIAL 30-1

We went through a lecture on "The Development of Classical Liberalism" today. You should have completed the note-taking chart in your Social 30-1 coursebooks as I lectured.You need to go through the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution sections of the lecture on your own.  

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 1-2 Test today. Make sure that you work on your French Revolution DBA Assignment, it's due on Tuesday, September 24th.

IB 30/35

We continued the lecture on "The Effects of World War I" today. We got through the Paris Peace Conference. On Tuesday, September 24th you'll be writing a WWI Quiz. The WW I Quiz will have 15-20 multiple choice questions and a short answer question. The rough draft of your IA is due on September 30th. You have a long weekend coming up, where you should be putting the finishing touches on your rough draft.

March 13

Social 30-1

I showed you the video "Welfare a la carte" which is a case study on Norway's "womb to the tomb" economics ("cradle to the grave" economics). You should have taken notes on this video in your course books on the backside of page 81. Next, I started my lecture on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism", which I will continue tomorrow. You're writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Friday, please see the study guide below. This test covers Chapter 3 and the first half of Chapter 4 material.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Friday, March 15th. 

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations: 

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

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 

Social 20-1

I started to lecture today on "Allied Victory and the Paris Peace Conference". I taught you the mnemonic GARGLe to remember the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. I'll finish off this lecture tomorrow.

March 14

Social 10-1

We started a presentation today called "Historical Globalization and Imperialism". 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!

Social 20-1

We finished off "Paris 1919" today, and then we did the activity "Making Peace" from your Social 20-1 workbooks. One week from today, on March 21st you will be writing your Unit 2 WRA I, but you will have to do it without the help of the analyzing political cartoons sheet or the student writing guide (colorful sheet of paper). I've moved the due date for your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions to Friday, March 16th.

IB 30/35

We continued our film study of "12 Years a Slave" today, hopefully we'll be able to finish it off tomorrow. I also showed you the results of your Cold War Exam today.

March 13

IB 30/35

You wrote your Cold War Exam today, and you'll get the results back tomorrow. We'll continue our film study of "12 Years a Slave" tomorrow.

Social 20-1

I gave you the results back for your Chapter 3-4 Test at the beginning of class today. We watched "Paris 1919" today, and we'll finish it off tomorrow. We'll continue our examination of the Paris Peace Conference tomorrow as well with an activity out of your workbooks. Next week, on March 21st you will be writing a WRA I on Unit 2 material.

Social 10-1

You finished writing your Unit 1 WRA II Essay today, hopefully within a week you'll get the results back for this writing assignment. 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!

March 12

IB 30/35

We skipped backwards in time today to talk about the Antebellum South and the issue of slavery. One thing that I forgot to show was an animation of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade (please have a look at it below). Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade


We also started a film study of "12 Years a Slave" which we will pick up again on Wednesday. Please remember that you are writing your Cold War Exam tomorrow (please see the study guide below).

COLD WAR EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

On Tuesday, March 13th you will have a Cold War Unit Exam. Please see the study guide below. This test will be a Social 30-1 test and it will be all multiple choice test format. 

SOCIAL 30-1 COLD WAR UNIT FINAL STUDY GUIDE:

Make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts: 

• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention

Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
• anything that I gave you as a handout/notes on the wiki is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 10-1

We spent the entire period in the Blenheim Room working on your first draft of the first paragraph of your Unit 1 WRA II Essay. After writing the first paragraph, you were able to have a few classmates peer edit your work, and then you could have made the edits to your position paper. You're finishing off this essay tomorrow.

Social 20-1

I lectured about the Paris Peace Conference today, I taught you the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe). We might look at the Paris Peace Conference in greater detail tomorrow.

Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, March 15th.

March 14

Social 10-1

Both classes finished writing their Unit 1 WRA II Essay today. If you missed class today (there were a couple of you in my Period 4 class), you will need to finish writing this essay tomorrow during class time. One thing I need both classes to improve upon when you do an in-class writing assignment is the following: when I say that there's 5 minutes left and you should be finishing up your essays and printing them off, that is what you should be doing, not continuing to type your essay until the end of class bell goes. We're moving on to Unit 2 material tomorrow. Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday (March 16th).

Social 20-1

We looked at national interests at the Paris Peace Conference today by doing an activity from your Social 20-1 booklets called "Making Peace". I also went through Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. I gave you the rest of class time to read, highlight and take notes on the Interwar Years readings in your booklets. You must have this reading completed to truly understand the content that I'm going through tomorrow.

March 13

Social 20-1

I was able to finish off the "Allied Victory in WWI and Paris Peace Conference" lecture today in class. Please make sure that you complete the readings from your Social 20-1 study booklets that I mentioned in class: "The Issue of Responsibility" and "Canada's Role in WWI". We'll do an activity tomorrow where you'll look at the Big Three at the Paris Peace Conference (Clemenceau, Wilson, and Lloyd George) and what their foreign policy objectives were.

Social 10-1

You had about half of the class today to write the first paragraph for your Unit 1 WRA II Essay. You printed off the essays and were able to get a few rounds of peer editing done back in the classroom. Tomorrow, please go directly to the same computer lab that we were booked into today, and finish writing your essay. For those of you that did not write any notes on your essay question sheet, you have to prepare for this essay tomorrow. The emphasis will be on argumentation and evidence tomorrow.

October 14

Social 20-1

I finished off my lecture on "Allied Victory in WWI and the Paris Peace Conference" which I started yesterday. There's no homework this weekend. Enjoy!

IB 20 HOTA

You wrote your Paper 3 today, which took most of the period. Hopefully you didn't all pick the same question! There's no homework this weekend (but maybe it's a good weekend to get going on your IA). Next week, we'll get back to talking about the French Revolution.

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

November 3

IB 30/35

We continued looking at "Allied Victory and the Paris Peace Conference" PowerPoint presentation today. We'll start looking at the battle to get the Treaty of Versailles ratified in the U.S. Senate tomorrow. Please remember that you have a test on Monday, November 9th on World War I. This test will have 55 multiple choice questions and 39 matching key terms. You should be using the 20th Century World History Course Companion textbook for Prescribed Subject 1 (Paper 1), Causes, Practices, Effects of War (Topic 1, Paper 2), and Authoritarian and Single-Party States (Topic 3, Paper 2). I will also be giving you a duotang tomorrow that covers Prescribed Subject 1. You will be able to keep these duotangs until you've finished your IB Exams in May.

Social 30-1

We finished off the "Origins of the Cold War" PowerPoint today. We watched an episode of the 20th Century History series called "Cold War Confrontation". I also walked you through the timeline of the Cold War.

Social 10-1

We spent the entire period looking at the dilemmas of global trade. We have a brief four corners debate as well. I also split you into two teams for our debate topic Be it resolved that the 21st Century will belong to China. This was a debate topic from the Munk Debate series. You can find the link to the Munk Debate on China here. At the Munk Debate site you can watch video highlights of the debate, and read the transcript from the debate. Another interesting link is to check out Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years in 4 Minutes. This is interesting to note the development of China and how there is a disparity between different regions in China. And now for a couple of links to videos and stories from Fareed Zakaria's Global Public Square: challenges facing China's leadership, why China's leadership needs a PR overhaul.  To get a closer look at any of the infographics below, right click on the image and open in a new window.

Useful links to prepare for the debate:

• Munk Debates on China
• Gapminder: 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes
• China's Ghost Cities
• GPS: Can China reform in time?
• GPS: China's bold environmental move

 

You have your Unit 2 Final Exam on Monday, November 9th. Please see the study guide below.

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 12

Social 30-1

I finished off the lecture on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today. If you're looking for this PowerPoint, you can find it on the Social 30-1 wiki under Unit 2 material. Please remember that you are writing your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test tomorrow. You can use the study guide below to aid you in your revision for this test.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Friday, March 13th. This test covers material from Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4.

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

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

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. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet
5. 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 (see "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet)
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

6. 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

Social 20-1

I finished off the lecture "Allied Victory in WWI and the Paris Peace Conference" today. If you wanted to find a copy of this PowerPoint, you can find it on the Social 20-1 wiki, under Unit 2 Presentations, and in your Social 20-1 study booklets (pages 107-115). I would highly recommend you to read over Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (simplified English, and the actual speech that he delivered to the U.S. Congress that he delivered in January 1918). You can find the readings on the Fourteen Points in your Social 20-1 study booklets. I also gave you some small group time to complete the activity "Making Peace" from your study booklets. We went over the answers in class. On Wednesday, March 18th you'll be writing another three source analysis assignment on Unit 2 material. Please make sure that you come and see me during tutorial next week about your Unit 1 WRA I assignments.

March 10

Social 30-1

I started a lecture today on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism", which I will finish on Thursday. Please remember that there is no school tomorrow due to Parent-Teacher Interviews. Don't forget that you are writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Friday.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Friday, March 13th. This test covers material from Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4.

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

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

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. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet
5. 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 (see "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet)
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

6. 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

Social 20-1

I started a lecture today called "Allied Victory to the Paris Peace Conference", which I will be able to finish on Thursday. Please remember that there is no school tomorrow due to Parent-Teacher Interviews.

November 1

IB 30/35

We finished watching "Paris 1919" today. Please make sure that you are ready to present your assigned WWI battle on Monday. Please make sure that you know what assessments will be happening next week.

• On Wednesday, November 6th you will be writing a matching quiz on the Emergence of the Americas unit.
• On Thursday, November 7th you will be writing a 38 question multiple choice test on the Emergence of the Americas unit (this covers World War I too).
• On Friday, November 8th you will write a three source analysis assignment on World War I.

Social 20-1

We watched excerpts from "Schindler's List" today and I answered questions about the Holocaust afterwards. This weekend might be a good chance to start your Unit 2 Research Project.

Social 30-1

I started lecturing on "The Origins of the Cold War" today. I will continue this on Monday. Also on Monday, November 4th you will be writing a matching quiz on Nazi Germany. Please see the study guide for this quiz below.

Nazi Germany Quiz Study Guide:

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
• Führerprinzip
• Gestapo
• Hitler
• Holocaust
• indoctrination
• inequality
• inflation
• judicial
• jugend
• Mein Kampf
• Kristallnacht
• nationalism
• Nazi
• Niemoller
• Nuremberg
• passive
• plebiscites
• pogrom
• Reichstag
• Ruhr
• SA
• SS
• state
• swastika
• War Guilt Clause
• White Rose

October 10

Social 30-1

You wrote your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" today. You'll get the results of the test tomorrow. I also went through the "Dealing with a Recession" handout.

Social 20-1

We covered a lot of different topics today: we reviewed the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe), Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the key foreign policy objectives of Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau at the Paris Peace Conference. Please make sure that you read the Interwar Years section in your blue study booklets.
 

IB 30/35

I finished off the PowerPoint lecture on Reconstruction today. I also showed you the "Reconstruction and Segregation" video from the U.S. History series.

October 9

Social 20-1

We watched a video from the BBC series "Days That Shook the World" on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. I then continued lecturing on the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles. Make sure that you read "The Issue of Responsibility" and "Canada's Role in World War I". We'll transition into the Interwar Years over the course of the next few days.

Social 30-1

I continued the PowerPoint lecture on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today. Please remember that you have your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" tomorrow, please see the study guide here.

IB 30/35

We finished watching "Lincoln" today. You will be tested on the Civil War and Reconstruction next week, more details on this to follow.

October 8

IB 30/35

We started watching "Lincoln" today, we'll finish it off tomorrow. Please be on time tomorrow. We need to start the film right at the start of class. Please check out the supporting documents that I posted on the IB 30/35 wiki under the U.S. Civil War: the Lincoln film study sheet and a list of the cast of characters.
 

Social 30-1

I started a PowerPoint presentation called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" which I should be able to get through if I don't go off on a crazy tangent. Please remember that you have your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test", please see the study guide here.

Social 20-1

You got the results of your Unit 1 Final Exam today. I also gave back your Unit 1 WRA I three source analysis assignments. I went through how you write a response to the WRA I. You have another WRA I, this time on October 18th covering Unit 2 material. I started a PowerPoint presentation called "Allied Victory in World War I and the Paris Peace Conference". I'll finish off the lecture tomorrow. Please make sure that you read the "Issue of Responsibility" and "Canada's Role in World War I" readings from the Social 20-1 blue study booklets.

March 12

Parent Student Teacher Interviews will be held on Wednesday, March 13th from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The Social Studies department will be in the Main Gym. No appointments necessary.

IB 30/35

We got together with Mr. Johnson's class today to watch a video on the construction of the Berlin Wall. If you are a Diploma student, your TOK Essay is due today.

TOK Essay information:
You now have your personal user code and PIN to upload the TOK essay - you must upload the essay to the https://candidates.ibo.org website.

Social 20-1

We continued with the "Allied Victory in WWI and the Paris Peace Conference" PowerPoint lecture today. I have sent this PowerPoint presentation to you already. You also completed a GCSE "Making Peace" activity and we had time to go over the answers in class.

Social 30-1

You had the entire period to study for your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test, which is on Thursday, Please see the study guide below.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, March 14th.

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

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

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. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet
5. 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 (see "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet)
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

6. 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