October 11

IB 20

We started our constitutional convention today. We'll continue this tomorrow.

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class. I delivered a PowerPoint lecture called "Historical Globalization and Imperialism". I have sent this presentation to you already.

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below (it may be slightly different on newer versions of Microsoft Word):

IB 30/35

We talked a little bit about historiography of the Reconstruction period, and major legislation passed during Reconstruction. These documents are already on the IB 30/35 wiki under the United States Civil War section. We started our next unit which is The Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs. I delivered a PowerPoint presentation on this topic, which introduced you to several concepts related to American expansionism (manifest destiny, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Spanish-American War). Tomorrow you have Part 1 of your Civil War Test (matching and multiple choice), the full study guide is on wiki.

February 3

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "Identity and Ideology". I have sent this presentation to you already, so please check your e-mail accounts tonight, and print off this presentation and add it to your notes (4-6 slides per page when you print it off). Please make sure that you print off the Ideology Notes from the Black Gold School District, and read them! Actually I recommend that you read, highlight and annotate these notes. Please make sure that you have read these notes over before coming to class tomorrow. Your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Also, make sure that you have read Chapter 1 as well. Your Chapter 1-2 Quiz will be on Thursday, February 10th, please see the study guide below.

Upcoming Important Dates for 30-1 Students:

• Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, February 4th
• Print off Ideology Notes prior to February 4th class (read, highlight, annotate)
• Chapter 1-2 Quiz is on Thursday, February 10th (please see study guide below)
• Unit 1 Final Exam is on Friday, February 11th (study guide will go up on the blog tomorrow)

Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Thursday, February 10th. It is a mixed format test, it will have a matching section and a short answer section. Here is what you should review/study for this test:

• Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms/Concepts and the Supplementary Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
• be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (hopefully you have quality answers to study from!)
• you must know the 19th century political spectrum and the 20th century political spectrum
• know similarities and differences between communism and fascism
• be able to label political and economic spectrums and the values associated with these ideologies
• be able to label the political-economic grid and know examples of the ideologies in the quadrants (study the Ideology Notes and the notes I gave you in class)
• know the differences between individualism and collectivism, be able to apply your understanding of these concepts
• know the key ideas associated with Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (for example, view of the nature of human beings, etc.)

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below:

Social 10-1

We played a little "Global Bingo" today as well (don't lose those sheets, you'll need them for a subsequent mapping assignment). You have some homework tonight: you must create a 25 item chart (please see instructions below). I gave you some time to work on your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions today, these will be due in one week's time. You will have a World Geography Test next Friday, the study guide for this test will go up tomorrow on the blog.

25 Item Chart Instructions:

• find 25 items from 25 different countries (you can't have 5 items from one country!)
• find items from any of the following categories: food, clothing, electronics, household goods, entertainment, and miscellaneous (if it doesn't fit into any of the previous categories)
• don't just find items from one category (for example, 25 food items)
• try to find 4-6 items from each category
• collect your information about your items in a 3-column chart (item, country, category)
• don't assume that an item is from a particular country (for example, a Sony PS3 may be manufactured in Indonesia, Malaysia or South Korea, that is the information that we want
• for entertainment, for example a CD (or MP3) we want to know where the recording artist is from, not where the CD was manufactured, this will better illustrate social globalization
  when you are collecting the information for your chart, number off the items (1-25) and have the categorized separate (in other words, the first 5 items on your chart should belong to the same category, etc.)
• the more organized your chart is, the easier it will be to put that information on to a map!
  

September 8

Social 20-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation called "Nation and Identity" today. I will be sending to this to you today, so please check your e-mail and print it off 4-6 slides per page (see instructions below). Your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, September 10th. You also have a World Geography Test on Friday, September 17th, please see the study guide below.

Social 20-1 World Geography Test Study Guide

This test will take place on Friday, September 17th. It is simply a country identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:

• any of the EU countries (there are 27 countries in the EU, a map of the EU is in your textbook on page 265)
• any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
• any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
• full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
• to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
• other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica, Serbia, Georgia, China,
  India, Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq,
  Israel
• **BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**

Geography Games

• World Geography Games
• Test Your Geography Knowledge
• Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below:

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "Identity and Ideology" that I have already sent to your e-mail accounts. Please print off both of the PowerPoint presentations and bring them to class tomorrow for homework check marks. Your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 1-2 Test is on Wednesday, September 15th (please see the study guide below). Please print off the Ideology Notes from the Black Gold school district. One week from today you have your Chapter 1-2 Test. This is the only test this semester that will have matching and short answer on it. Please see the study guide below.

Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide:

The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Wednesday, September 15th. It is a mixed format test, it will have a matching section and a short answer section. Here is what you should review/study for this test:

• Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms/Concepts and the Supplementary Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
• be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (hopefully you have quality answers to study from!)
• you must know the 19th century political spectrum and the 20th century political spectrum
• know similarities and differences between communism and fascism
• be able to label political and economic spectrums and the values associated with these ideologies
• be able to label the political-economic grid and know examples of the ideologies in the quadrants (study the Ideology Notes and the notes I gave you in class)
• know the differences between individualism and collectivism, be able to apply your understanding of these concepts
• know the key ideas associated with Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (for example, view of the nature of human beings, etc.)

February 2

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "Introducing Government", which I will be sending to your e-mail accounts. If you gave me a Hotmail e-mail address you will probably need to look for my e-mail message in your junk mail. You will need to set me up as someone that you want to get e-mails from (and you want to get e-mails from me). As I was going through this presentation, you were to take notes and fill out a chart on Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau that covered their view of human nature, how they felt society should be organized and the role of citizens. You should definitely read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of your textbook and complete the Chapter 1 Key Terms for homework tonight. These key terms are from the Unit 1 Worksheet that I gave you in class today. I will also send you some supplementary notes on Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau that will be useful and you should probably read them and print them off and add them to your notes.

Social 20-1

I gave you a couple of organizational webs for the course today, one for the entire course and the other for Unit 1. I went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "Nation and Identity". I have sent this presentation to you, so please check your e-mail (check your junk mail if you have a Hotmail account). Your homework assignment is to read Chapter 1 tonight.

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below:

October 2

Social 30-1

You wrote your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" today, which corresponds to material in Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4. I also did a homework check on Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today as well. Next Thursday, you have a test on Market Economy and Mixed Economy (covering material from Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6). Please see the study guide below.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

• 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)
• 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 10-1

I gave you results back for your Unit 1 Written Response Assignment I and your Unit 1 Final Exam. I also did a PowerPoint presentation called "Historical Globalization and Imperialism". This presentation corresponds to Chapter 7 in your textbook, with some supplementary material. I have sent this PowerPoint presentation to you already, please print it off (4-6 slides per page) and add it to your notes. I will be doing a homework check on this on Monday. As well, your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. Please see the instructions below if you're not sure how to print off a PowerPoint presentation.

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below:

September 17

Social 10-1

Your Illustrated Concept Map Assignment was due today, and it looks like most of you handed it in today. If you didn't hand the assignment in today, it is subject to a 10% off per day that it is late penalty. I gave you some class time to study for your Chapter 1-2 Quiz, which is tomorrow (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it). Please remember that your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, September 21st.

Social 30-1

I covered a lot of material today in class. I did some review of the political spectrum, the economic spectrum, the political-economic grid, and then started to focus in on the connections between classical liberalism and its political basis (the Enlightenment, and in turn, the development of the principles of individualism) and its economic basis (the Industrial Revolution, the ideas of Adam Smith and laissez faire economics). We started to look at basic economics, economic systems in general, and then specifically capitalism. Please check your e-mail inbox today, I'm sending you a lot of notes that connect to ideas that I touched upon in today's class (these notes will be "gold"). Please remember that your Chapter 3 Questions are due tomorrow.

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below:

September 8

Social 10-1

Please check your e-mail! I have sent you a message!
I did a homework check on your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class, and then you got this homework assignment back at the end of class. I also did a homework check on your 25 item chart that was also due today. I gave you an assignment that built upon this homework assignment the game of Global Bingo that we played last week. I'm putting instructions on the blog here (just in case you didn't get this written down in class):

Here are some reminder instructions for the map:

• People on the map should be represented by circles, color the circles and make sure there is a number beside each circle
• Make sure that you have colored and labelled the 25 different countries (color the entire country), these countries represent the 25 items that you found for homework and put into your chart
• Make sure that you have labeled every country that you or a classmate has a connection to
• Choose different colors to represent your different categories (food, clothing, electronics, entertainment)
• Make sure that you have a detailed key on the back of your map (reproducing your 25 item chart's information with color codes for the different categories)
• Make sure that you have a title for your map
• Make sure that you have a simplified key on the front of your map (color code for the different categories, and people)
• No border is necessary
• No compass rose is necessary
• You don't need to color the oceans or bodies of water (if you feel the need to color them, simply do a blue outline of the land masses that touch the major oceans and seas)
• Don't forget to color ALL of a country (for example, Alaska is part of the USA and should be colored, don't forget to color the islands in the Arctic Ocean that are part of Canada if you have a connection to Canada)

I also gave you your access codes to the wiki. Hopefully, we have a few pages of content put up on the wiki tonight, and I'd like to see you add to the Unit 1 Key Terms and specifically the Chapter 1 Key Terms (put them in alphabetical order too). If I see that people aren't voluntarily using the wiki I might be more direct in asking people to contribute (i.e. making it a homework assignment). Your global connections maps are due on Wednesday. Please make sure that you follow the directions!

Social 20-1

I did a homework check on the Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class, if you didn't get this back, it was because I was pressed for time to keep both sections at the same point in my lecture. I'll be working through this lecture for a few days, so I won't be sending it out right away. Please read the following pages in your textbook: p. 43-47, 50, 52-53. This will prepare you for tomorrow's class. If you feel like moving on to working on the Chapter 2 Key Terms or Questions, please feel free to do so. Just know that I've added some key concepts that aren't in your textbook. I'd like to see some work done on the wiki tonight, some additions to the Glossary and Unit 1 Key Concepts, maybe also some collaborative notes on the differences between a nation, a nation-state and nationalism, for example.

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below:

February 23

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below:

Social 33

You wrote your Democracy Quiz today in class. Then we watched an episode of the Simpsons where Krusty runs for Congress. Please make sure that you have that chart completed in that Canadian and American Government comparison for Monday.

Social 10

I delivered a presentation today for most of the period called "A History of French-English Relations" which I will be sending to you today. Please print it off and add to your notes. This is your only weekend that you will have to work on your Regional Brochure assignment. Your Regionalism booklet will be collected on Tuesday.