March 18

Social 20-1

I showed you the A & E Biography "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" today. Please make sure that you read the Interwar Years section in your Social 20-1 course books (pages 127-134). I gave back your Unit 1 WRA I Chart Assignment today. Tomorrow, you will get back your Unit 1 WRA I three source interpretation assignments. The Unit 1 WRA I will count rather heavily on your overall mark until we do another writing assignment.

Social 30-1

I finished off the PowerPoint lecture "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today. I also went through how demand-side and supply-side economics deal with a recession. It's good to visualize the percolator and the coffee maker to get the difference between the two.

April 26

Social 20-1

We finished watching "Shake Hands with the Devil" today. Please complete the four post-viewing questions and hand them in tomorrow.

Social 10-1

We continued watching "The Corporation" today, and we'll watch the third part of the documentary tomorrow in class. One week from today, you will be writing the Chapter 10-11 Test. Please see the study guide below.

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 Thursday, May 3rd. 

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?

IB 30/35

We continued watching the HBO documentary on Ronald Reagan. We finished watching this documentary today. We'll move on to the administration of George H. W. Bush tomorrow.

April 25

Social 10-1

We finished watching the segments of "Life + Debt" that we were going to watch today. We started "The Corporation" as well. We'll watch this documentary film over the course of the rest of this week. I'll be posting the Chapter 10-11 Test study guide tomorrow on the blog.

Social 20-1

We finished off CNN documentary "Scream Bloody Murder" today, and then we moved right into the Rwandan genocide case study. We'll watch the film "Shake Hands with the Devil" for next couple of classes.

IB 30/35

I went through a lecture on the Reagan administration today, and then in the time remaining we started an HBO documentary on Ronald Reagan. Hopefully, we'll be able to start the George H.W. Bush administration this week.

April 27

IB 30/35

I showed you the HBO documentary on Reagan today. Unfortunately, we didn't finish it off, and I don't think we'll have enough time to finish it off in the last two days.

Social 10-1

We finished off the film study for "Life + Debt" today, and then moved on to "The Corporation" film study. We'll continue watching this documentary for the rest of the week. Your Chapter 11 Questions are due tomorrow. One week from today you'll have your Chapter 10-11 Test, please see the study guide below.

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, May 4th. 

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

I returned some homework checks today, and gave you the results back for your Cold War Exam. We did a film study on the BBC documentary "10 Questions about Democracy". On Monday, May 2nd you'll be writing your Unit 2 Final Exam (please see the study guide below). One week from today, you'll be writing your Unit 2 WRA II Essay (May 4th).

Social 30-1 Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Wednesday, May 4th. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:

• study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
• study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
• study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
• 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), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
• characteristics of a mixed economy
• nationalization
• privatization
• 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 (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
• advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
• neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
• characteristics of a centrally planned economy
• advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
• modern liberalism
• features of the Nazi state
• Hitler's rise to power
• Characteristics of Democracy
• Characteristics of Dictatorship
• Democratic Systems notes
• Non-Democratic Systems notes
• Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
• A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
• Totalitarianism notes
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
• do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model

April 26

IB 30/35

We had the Ronald Reagan group present in today's class. It was a very detailed, thorough examination of his administration. All groups that have presented already, please make sure that you have uploaded a link to your Google Slides and videos on the IB 30/35 wiki. Tomorrow, we'll be watching an HBO documentary on Reagan.

 Here's the remaining schedule of presentations:

• George HW Bush is on Thursday, April 28th
• Bill Clinton is on Friday, April 29th

Please remember the following upcoming important dates for IB 30/35 History students: 

• Paper 1 and Paper 2 Review session is on Wednesday, May 4th (during regular class time)
• Paper 1 is on Friday, May 6th (pm)
• Paper 2 is on Monday, May 9th (pm)
• Paper 3 Review session is on Tuesday, May 10th (during regular class time)
• Paper 3 is on Thursday, May 12th (pm)

Social 30-1

You wrote your Chapter 7 Test (Cold War Exam) today, and you'll get the results tomorrow. Your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

Social 10-1

Your WTO chart is due tomorrow, and your Chapter 11 Questions are due on Thursday, April 28th. One week from tomorrow you will write your Chapter 10-11 Test. I will post the study guide for this test tomorrow. We started a film study of "Life + Debt" today, which we'll finish tomorrow. It will provide you a case study (Jamaica) and a means to criticize the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO, in addition to the Inter-American Development Bank. We'll finish off the film study tomorrow.

April 28

IB 30/35

I showed you a video from the United States History series that covered U.S. Politics from 1980 to 2000 (the Reagan to the Clinton administrations). While you watched the video, you should have taken notes. I talked a little bit about the 2000 U.S. Presidential election today as well. We're getting into Social 30-1 material tomorrow when we start talking about illiberalism and the USA PATRIOT Act.

Social 10-1

I showed you a video today called "Life + Debt", which is a good case study of Jamaica's increasing foreign debt, and impacts of economic policies from the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and the Inter-American Development Bank. We looked at the impact on the Jamaican produce industry, the dairy industry, the banana industry and the impact of the "free zones". We'll Please remember that your WTO charts are due tomorrow, and your Chapter 11 Questions are due on Wednesday.

IB 20 HOTA

We finished off the War of 1812 documentary today and then you wrote your Unit 6 Quiz afterwards. Your War of 1812 Website Assignment is due tomorrow.

April 24

IB 20 HOTA

I finished off the PowerPoint lecture "Forging the New Republic", and then we started the PBS documentary on the War of 1812. We'll be able to finish off the documentary tomorrow. Make sure that you read everyday from the War of 1812 booklet in preparation for the four options debate on the War of 1812 that we'll be having on Wednesday. Please remember that you'll be writing a Unit 6 Quiz on Monday that will have a matching section and an OPVL document analysis section.

Social 10-1

I lectured a bit today about John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. I also taught you about the boom and bust cycle and the Keynesian economic response to the various stages of the boom and bust cycle. Your Chapter 11 Key Terms are due tomorrow.

IB 30/35

We finished off the HBO documentary "Reagan" today, and then I began discussing the George H.W. Bush administration. We'll continue with the Bush administration tomorrow. Read my lips: no new taxes!

April 23

Social 10-1

We completed our debate today on "BIRT the 21st century will belong to China". We'll continue with Unit 3 material tomorrow.

IB 20 HOTA

I continued the PowerPoint lecture called "Forging the New Republic". I should be able to finish off this lecture tomorrow. We'll start a documentary on the War of 1812 tomorrow. I gave you the War of 1812 reading package that you'll need for our four options debate on the War of 1812 next Wednesday. Your Latin American revolutionary leaders Facebook assignment is due tomorrow.

IB 30/35

I finished off the PowerPoint on Ronald Reagan, and then started showing you the HBO documentary "Reagan". We'll finish off the documentary tomorrow, and then transition into the George H.W. Bush administration.

April 22

Sorry for the later post tonight...

IB 30/35

We looked at America in the 1970s, specifically the presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. I also started a lecture on Ronald Reagan, which I'll finish off tomorrow. We'll start a documentary on the Reagan presidency tomorrow too.

IB 20 HOTA

I started a new lecture today called "Forging the New Republic", which I will split up over three days. This PowerPoint presentation is already on the IB 20 wiki under Unit 6: Nation-Building and Challenges. I also talked a little bit about the election of 1800, and I showed you a short YouTube video that used quotes that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson said about each other, and re-imagining the quotes as material for attack ads.



Tomorrow, I'll talk a little bit about the Jefferson presidency and the emergence of political parties.

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today. You'll get the results back tomorrow (please remind me to share them with you). You have your debate tomorrow on the following topic: "BIRT the 21st century will belong to China."

April 29

IB 30/35

I gave you back your Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement today. We watched a video from the US History series that covered U.S. Politics from 1980-2000. While the video was playing, you were supposed to take notes. We also did some exercises related to Paper 1.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam today. You'll get the results back tomorrow. Please remember that your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd. Please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 20-1

We finished our film study of "Gandhi" today. The film study questions (the content questions) are due on Thursday. I have bumped the due date for the Unit 2 Research Project until Monday, May 6th because I forgot to send out the rubrics.

April 24

Social 30-1

We started looking at the film "Good Night, and Good Luck" today in class. This film explores McCarthyism in the early 1950s. The film study that I provided you with also has a film review (if you are having a hard time understanding the film so far, it might be a good idea to read this over tonight), and some study questions and some discussion questions. This film definitely has relevance in today's world (which we'll be talking about more tomorrow and in Unit 3 of the course). Hopefully, we'll finish off the film tomorrow, and be able to have a short discussion period of some of the issues the film raises. In all likelihood, the study questions from the film study will be due on Monday. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Exam (Cold War Exam) on Monday, April 26th and your Unit 2 Final Exam on Thursday, April 29th. Please see the study guides for both exams here (scroll down to find the study guides).

Social 20-1

I gave you a reading from Pulitzer Prize winning writer Samantha Power today. I would like you to read her article entitled "Never Again-The World's Most Unfulfilled Promise". I will also be sending you a PowerPoint presentation on other genocides that have occurred in the 20th century. We have now moved on to another topic in Unit 2, that being a case study of the Indian independence movement. I gave you a background reading booklet and a case study booklet. You were given the entire class period to complete the "Background and Colonial Period for India" section questions in the case study booklet. These questions will be due tomorrow. We'll begin our film study of "Gandhi" tomorrow.

IB 30/35

We finished off the HBO documentary on Ronald Reagan today, and then we started looking at his successor George H.W. Bush.

April 23

IB 30/35

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation on Ronald Reagan in class today, then we went down to Room 121 to watch an HBO documentary on Reagan.

Social 20-1

We finished watching "Shake Hands with the Devil" today. Please remember that the film study questions are due tomorrow. Your Unit 2 Research Project is due on April 30th, one week from today.

Social 30-1

We started tying up some loose ends with the Cold War today. We look at bilateral and multilateral disarmament agreements and treaties, and we also talked about key features of the post-Cold War world. I sent you some notes as well today, so please check your e-mail. Please remember that your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam is on Monday, April 29th. You can find the study guide for this exam below. Please also remember that your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd; you can find the study guide for this exam below as well.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 30-1 Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:

• study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
• study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
• study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
• study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
• 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), #16 (Japan), #17 (Fascism and Nazism)
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics)
• characteristics of a mixed economy
• nationalization
• privatization
• 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 (remember "the percolator": increase circulation of money reducing taxes, increase government spending on "make work" projects, and reduce interest rates, which according to Keynesian economics is going increase demand for goods and services and lead to more money circulating in the economy)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (remember "trickle down coffee maker": government should stimulate the goods and services sector of the economy by reducing corporate and personal taxes, eventually benefits will "trickle down" to the middle class and working class, make connections between supply-side economics and laissez faire economics/classical liberalism)
• advantages and disadvantages of a mixed economy
• neo-conservative criticism of government intervention
• characteristics of a centrally planned economy
• advantages and disadvantages of a centrally planned economy
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
• modern liberalism
• features of the Nazi state
• Hitler's rise to power
• Characteristics of Democracy
• Characteristics of Dictatorship
• Democratic Systems notes
• Non-Democratic Systems notes
• Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
• A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
• Totalitarianism notes
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
• do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model

April 22

IB 30/35

We picked up where Mr. Johnson left off last week. I covered the Ford and Carter administrations very quickly. I will post this presentation on the wiki. Make sure that you check out the sections in your Modern America, your IB History Companion textbook, and The United States and Its People textbook for more information on these two administrations. I also started the Reagan administration as well today.

Social 30-1

Most of today's class was spent watching the documentary film "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam". One week from today you will be writing your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam. Please see the study guide below. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 2nd. I will post the study guide for this exam later this week.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 20-1

We started our film study of "Shake Hands with the Devil". We should be able to finish off this video tomorrow. The film study questions are due on Wednesday, April 24th.