September 24

IB 30/35

You wrote the WW I Quiz today. I also started "The Roaring Twenties" Google Slides today, you can download this lecture off of the IB 30/35 wiki. I'll continue it tomorrow. The rough draft of your IA is due on September 30th. 

SOCIAL 20-1

We finished off the lecture on "The Growth of Quebecois Nationalism" today. Make sure that you work on your French Revolution DBA Assignment, it's due on Wednesday, September 25th (I've corrected this date on the blog). Your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, September 30th. 

SOCIAL 30-1

I went through the recipe for success for writing WRA II Essays today. I'm continuing on with Chapter 3 and 4 material tomorrow. I shared the Chapter 4 Google Doc with you last night, please get working on it! Make sure that you have gone through the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution sections of the lecture on "The Development of Classical Liberalism" that I delivered last week.  

September 25

IB 20 HOTA

We finished off the "Revolution" episode of America: The Story of Us today, and then I also showed you a video from the U.S. History series called "The American Revolution". You might want to also check out the Crash Course in American History video below as well. We just started talking about the Declaration of Independence at the end of the class too. We'll talk more about this founding document and others tomorrow and in the days to come. Please bring your History of the Americas textbook to class tomorrow as well.

Social 10-1

You wrote your Chapter 1-2 Test today. You're writing your Chapter 3-4 Test on Thursday (please see the study guide below). You should have also handed in your "Bend it Like Beckham" film study booklets as well today.

CHAPTER 3-4 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test will be written on Thursday, September 27th. It is a matching test with a long answer section. 

• Know the key terms from Chapter 3-4
• Be able to answer the Questions for Inquiry in Chapters 3-4 (they appear on p.49, p.53, p.58, p.73, p.80)
• Know relevant case studies from Chapters 3-4: the Francophones, the Aborigines and the Lubicon, as well as other relevant examples related to assimilation, marginalization, accommodation and integration

Social 30-1

We continued looking at preparing for the Unit 1 WRA II Essay by looking at what I call the "recipe for success". We'll be doing more essay preparation tomorrow for Thursday's Unit 1 WRA II Essay.

March 8

Social 20-1

Today you worked in small groups as representatives of Russia, France, Great Britain, and Austria-Hungary, and tried to avert the outbreak of the First World War. Hopefully you had fun!

Social 10-1

You went through the "recipe for success" today in class, and you had a chance to see a sample WRA II essay sheet. In small groups you should brainstormed argumentation and evidence. In tomorrow's class you will get the actual Unit 1 WRA II Essay question sheet.

IB 30/35

You watched the final episode of the CNN Cold War series "Conclusions" (1989-1991). I created a Google Doc for this video, so hopefully you've added your notes to it. Please be aware that you have your Cold War Exam on Tuesday, March 13th, 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

March 7

Social 10-1

You were taught the difference between argumentation and evidence today. You would have been presented the following question: "How would you convince a friend to attend Churchill? what arguments would you use to convince them?"

Social 20-1

You wrote the Unit 1 Final Exam today, and hopefully you'll get the results back tomorrow.

IB 30/35

You wrote your Social 30-1 WRA I style assignment on the Cold War today. I'll mark it when I get back from New York next week.

October 5

Social 10-1

I went through the "recipe for success" for writing a WRA II Essay in class today. Tomorrow, we'll talk about other side arguments (OSAs) and arguments (As), and sentence starters for both. We'll also collectively write an essay together based on the sample that I gave you in class today.

 You are writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on October 10th, please see the study guide below.

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Tuesday, October 10th. 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!

IB 30/35

I gave you an assignment that I want to able to check in Google Docs by next Friday. Working with a small team of people, you're going to build study notes/chart on how the following leaders dealt with the effects of the Great Depression, and what criticisms were leveled against them for their actions. The four leaders were Hoover, FDR, Bennett, and King. The focus here is obviously on Canada and the United States. Tomorrow, we'll talk a little bit more about economics, and specifically private enterprise/market economy. We'll also start watching "The Commanding Heights". 

May 3

Social 20-1

I gave you a handout today in class called the "Recipe for Success", which you're allowed to have out on Monday when you're writing your Unit 2 WRA II Essay on Monday, May 8th. Please remember that you're writing your Unit 2 WRA I tomorrow in Room 241, please go there directly. In Friday's class you'll get your essay question sheet and we'll start writing the essay outline. On Tuesday, May 9th, you'll be writing your Chapter 7-8 Test (please see the study guide below).

CHAPTER 7-8 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is on Tuesday, May 9th. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3-4 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:

• "The Holocaust" (this is posted on the wiki)
• "8 Stages of Genocide" (it's also posted on the wiki)
• "Contemporary Examples of Genocide" (this is posted on the wiki)

Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:

• 36 Questions About The Holocaust  
• White Light/Black Rain (film notes)
• Shake Hands with the Devil (film notes + package)
• Unit 2 Worksheet (chapter questions for Chapter 7 and 8)
• make sure that you have read Chapters 7 and 8!

1. Please study the following key concepts/key people/key events:
genocide:

• crimes against humanity
• war crimes
• the Holocaust
• ethnic cleansing
• lebensraum
• Weimar Republic
• Final Solution
• decolonization
• successor state
• self-determination
• Wansee Conference
• Nuremberg Trials
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Mohammed Ali Jinnah
• home rule
• Hutu
• Tutsi
• Romeo Dallaire
• Manhattan Project
• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki
• Robert Oppenheimer
• FDR
• Harry Truman
• Potsdam Conference
• Slobodan Milosevic

2. You should be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 2 worksheet.

Social 10-1

We finished watching "The Age of Wal-Mart" today, and you had some class time to work on your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions. Please remember that you have your Chapter 10-11 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide below. JibJab video Big BoxMart:
http://www.jibjab.com/originals/big_box_mart

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 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?

December 14

Social 20-1

I gave you back your results of your Unit 2 Final Exam today. We also finished our food drive competition between the two 20-1 classes. Although the Period 4 class won the food drive challenge, they voted and decided that both classes (Period 1 and Period 4) will be able to write the Unit 4 Final Exam which will allow you to wipe out your lowest test mark over the course of the semester.

I started the lecture called "Internationalism and Nationalism" today in class. I'll finish it off tomorrow. Please remember that we're having a Christmas Party on Friday (bring snacks).

IB 20 HOTA

We started looking at how to write a 30-1 WRA II Essay in class today. We talked about argumentation and evidence. Tomorrow we'll be looking at the "recipe for success" for argumentative essays.

September 9

Social 30-1

I continued where I left off yesterday with the economic-political grid. We also talked about techniques of dictatorship. We also talked about the "recipe for success" on Written Response Assignment II essays, the position paper. You are writing the Unit 1 WRA II essay on Tuesday, September 16th (one week from today). We did a little brainstorming for what arguments you would use to convince a friend to attend Churchill. Tonight's assignment is come up with evidence for the argument that SWC has a tradition of academic excellence. What arguments would you use to support this argument? Create a bullet list of evidence ideas for this argument. We'll talk more about the essay tomorrow. Also, you have to complete the individualism vs. collectivism booklets from your Social 30-1 study booklets, this should not take you too long to complete. I will be checking this tomorrow in class. Your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday. Your Chapter 1-2 Test is on Friday, September 12th. Please see the study guide for the test here. You also have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, September 15th, please check out the study guide here.

IB 20 HOTA

We finished off the "Age of Enlightenment" PowerPoint presentation today. Please remember that you will be writing an Enlightenment Thinkers Quiz tomorrow. Please see the brief study guide for this quiz below. I also introduced you to the principles of individualism (PRICES) today. Tomorrow, after the Enlightenment Thinkers Quiz I will be introducing you to an assignment called the "Seeds of Change" and assigning you an Enlightenment thinker to investigate in greater detail.

Enlightenment Thinkers Quiz Study Guide:

This is a matching quiz, and it is on Wednesday, September 10th. Please make sure that you focus your review on the following Enlightenment thinkers:

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Adam Smith
• Francois Quesnay
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Voltaire

Please make sure that you know their views on the nature of human beings, quotes attributed to them, their main ideas/key beliefs, and their major works (what books, articles they wrote).

November 26

IB 30/35

You wrote your Paper 1 today, and I started to give back some IAs. Please remember that you have a Prescribed Subject 1 Quiz on Friday, which consists of a matching section and some other "surprises". Your 1920s Study Guide is due tomorrow.

Social 30-1

You got the results back for your Unit 2 Final Exam today. You also had class time to work on your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions, which are due tomorrow.

Social 20-1

We started looking at positional thinking today, and the differences between argumentation and evidence as well. Tomorrow, you'll get the "recipe for success" for writing WRA II essays. I will also give you the Unit 2 WRA II Essay Question Sheet, and we'll start building the essay together tomorrow. You will be writing the first paragraph of the Unit 2 WRA II essay on Friday, and then you'll finish it off on Monday. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7-8 Test on Thursday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

October 4

IB 20

We finished watching "The Patriot" today. We also talked a little bit about Thomas Paine's Common Sense and the Declaration of Independence. We watched part of a video on the Declaration of Independence. You have a homework assignment tonight. Go to the IB 20 wiki, under Unit 4 Independence Movements and download the Declaration of Independence Study Guide. Here's a link to the Declaration of Independence at the U.S. National Archives website. Using the text of the Declaration, answer the questions in the study guide. You'll also have a current events quiz tomorrow. We'll try to cover the Articles of Confederation tomorrow too. It's going to be busy!!

Social 10-1

We started to look at how to write position papers today. We went through an exercise as a class on distinguishing between arguments and evidence. I had you brainstorm a list of arguments that you would use to convince a friend to attend Churchill. From there we categorized some of the ideas that were generated into groups. We also got to look at the "Recipe for Success" when writing WRA II essays. You'll get the essay question sheet tomorrow in class.

IB 30/35

We finished watching Episode 8 "War is All Hell" of "The Civil War" and started the last episode "The Better Angels of our Nature". You'll have a current events quiz tomorrow, and then we'll try to finish off the documentary. You will have a two-part exam on the Civil War starting next week. On Friday, October 12th you'll write the first part of this exam, which includes 25-30 multiple choice questions and 20 matching terms. You'll the second part of the exam on Monday, October 15th. The second part will consist of a document analysis writing assignment. The full study guide has been posted on the IB 30/35 wiki in the United States Civil War section.