November 19

IB 30/35

We went through the sample Paper 1 that you got yesterday, and talked about your answers to questions 9-11 that you worked on last night. We then tackled question 12 in small groups and discussed possible ways to approach the mini-essay. You're writing the Paper 1 on Japanese Expansionism tomorrow. You'll have 5 minutes to read the sources and 60 minutes to write it. Make sure that you visit the Paper 1 page on the IB 30/35 History Wiki to see how to write the Paper 1 (there's lots of advice/strategies on this page).

Social 20-1

We finished off the CNN documentary "Scream Bloody Murder" today. I also collected your Unit 2 Research Projects as well. Tomorrow, we'll look at the Rwandan genocide in greater detail.

Social 30-1

We'll finish preparing for the position paper tomorrow, and we'll move on to Unit 3 material tomorrow as well. Please work on your argumentation tonight, and start planning out what evidence you will use to support your position. You're writing the Unit 2 WRA II Essay on Thursday in the Blenheim Room. On Monday, November 25th you will be writing the Unit 2 Final Exam, please see the study guide below.

SOCIAL 30-1 UNIT 2 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, November 25th. It will be a 50 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
• 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

November 18

IB 30/35

I went through a lecture on the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor today. I also gave you a homework assignment tonight, it's a Paper 1 sample. Please complete questions 9-11. We'll go through the questions tomorrow in class, and then we will go through question 12 in small groups. Please remember that you're writing the Paper 1 on Case Study 1 on Wednesday, November 20th.

Social 30-1

I went through a lecture today called "The Imposition of Liberalism", please go through the videos at the end of the Google Slides version of this lecture. One week from today (November 25th) you will be writing the Unit 2 Final Exam. I'm posting the study guide below. The results of your Chapter 7 Test have been posted in PowerSchool. You are writing Unit 2 WRA II Essay this Thursday, November 21st. You will get the essay question sheet in advance. I will re-teach how to write a position paper tomorrow and Wednesday, then on Thursday you will write the position paper.

SOCIAL 30-1 UNIT 2 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, November 25th. It will be a 50 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
• 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

 

Social 20-1

I went through a lecture on "The Eight Stages of Genocide" and we started a documentary called "Scream Bloody Murder". We'll finish off the documentary tomorrow.

April 24

Social 30-1

You started watching "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" today. You should be able to finish this documentary off tomorrow. You should be working on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions tonight, they are due on Friday. You should also re-read the section in Chapter 7 on McCarthyism tonight at home. It's on pages 265-267 in Perspectives on Ideology textbook. Please see the study guide below for the Chapter 7 Test (The Cold War). The Chapter 7 Test is on Wednesday, May 1st.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions, but with all of the omitted questions, it will be closer to 60 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 (deterrence, detente, brinkmanship, etc.)
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline)
• 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)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence" (Eastern Europe for example)
• anything that I gave you as a handout in your Social 30-1 coursebooks is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 20-1

You finished watching "Scream Bloody Murder" today, and starting watching the film "Shake Hands with the Devil". We might be able to finish off the film tomorrow.

April 23

Social 20-1

You should have handed in your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions for homework check marks at the beginning of class today. We went through the "8 Stages of Genocide" presentation. There is a Google Slides version of this lecture on the Social 20-1 wiki on the Unit 2 Presentations page. We started the documentary "Scream Bloody Murder" today as well.

Social 30-1

You watched the video "Escape from Berlin" from the Discovery series Cold War into Guerrilla War. You had the remainder of class time to work on the Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Friday, April 26th. Make sure that you read the Vietnam War section in your Social 30-1 course books (pages 208-209, and pages 212-217)

Please note that I have moved a few of your upcoming assessments to different dates. Please check the upcoming important dates below:

• Chapter 7 Test (Cold War) is on Wednesday, May 1st
• Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Monday, May 6th
• Unit 2 Final Exam is on Wednesday, May 8th

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 24

IB 30/35

You wrote your Paper 3 on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement today. Hopefully, I'll be able to give you back your results next week. However, with the weather getting nicer this week, do I really want to be indoors marking your essays? Hmm.......

Social 20-1

We watched a CNN documentary today called "Scream Bloody Murder", which we will continue tomorrow. As you watched this documentary you should have been taking notes on the key players in the genocides, and the witnesses to the killings.

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your WTO charts, and I handed back some previously checked homework too. I started showing a documentary called "Life + Debt" today. As you watched this film, you were supposed to take notes on the film study sheet provided. I paused the video numerous times to discuss issues raised in the film with you. We'll finish this film off tomorrow.

April 23

IB 30/35

I lectured on the Nixon administration today. I shared with prior to class a PowerPoint lecture called "The Nixon Years". You are writing your Paper 3 tomorrow on the Civil Rights Movement. Remember, I will choose one question from each Google Doc working group and include it as a choice on this exam. I'll probably start talking about Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter tomorrow.

Social 10-1

I gave you some class time to work on an advantages and disadvantages chart on the WTO. This chart is due tomorrow. I went through a PowerPoint lecture on the "Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Globalization", which I finished in class. I have posted the results from your Unit 2 Final Exam on HomeLogic.

Social 20-1

I gave you the Unit 2 Research Project booklet today, and you drew lots and "drafted" topics to study. This project is due on Tuesday, May 15th, so you have lots of time (don't procrastinate). I also went through the Eight Stages of Genocide as well. Tomorrow, we'll be watching a documentary that covers many genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries called "Scream Bloody Murder". We should be able to start our case study of the Rwandan genocide this week as well.

April 26

Social 20-1

We continued looking at contemporary examples of genocide by watching a CNN documentary called "Scream Bloody Murder" which examined genocides in Cambodia, Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, and in the Darfur region of Sudan. In each case Christianne Amanpour (the CNN reporter in the film) focused on certain individuals who witnessed genocide in these cases firsthand. In Cambodia, French Catholic priest Francois Ponchaud witnessed the rise of the Khmer Rouge regime. In Iraq, Peter Galbraith called Saddam Hussein's government use of chemical weapons on the Kurds in northern Iraq qualified as genocide. In Bosnia, the "Scream Bloody Murder" documentary profiled Richard Holbrooke and his efforts to recognize the atrocities of the Bosnian Serbs against the Bosnian Muslims. Next, the documentary profiled Romeo Dallaire and his efforts to get the UN to intervene in the Hutu killing of the Tutsi minority. We'll look more at the case of the Rwandan genocide tomorrow in class when we watch "Shake Hands with the Devil". Finally, the documentary examined the first genocide of the 21st century in the Darfur region of western Sudan with Mukesh Kapila witnessing the actions of the janjaweed. 

Social 10-1

Today we watched part of the documentary film "Life + Debt", and while you watched the video, you were supposed to complete film study questions. We'll finish this video off tomorrow (and start another one).

April 25

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your WTO charts today at the start of class. I gave you a short reading entitled, "Dilemmas of Global Trade". In each of the short scenarios that were presented you had to take a position on the question raised by the scenario, and then we did a 4 four corners debate on the issues raised by the dilemmas.  Please come to class tomorrow ready to ask any questions that you might have about "Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Globalization". You should print this PowerPoint off (it's on the wiki under Unit 3 Presentations), highlight it, and annotate with your questions. Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday (April 28th), so I gave you about 25-30 minutes to get started on this work.

Social 20-1

I talked about the "8 Stages of Genocide" today, and we started watching the CNN documentary "Scream Bloody Murder", which covered major genocides of the 20th and 21st century. We'll finish off this documentary tomorrow.

November 21

Social 20-1

We finished off the CNN documentary "Scream Bloody Murder" today. We then started our film study of "Shake Hands with the Devil". We will hopefully be able to finish off this movie in tomorrow's class. Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, November 23rd.

IB 20 HOTA

I are responsible for going through the rest of the "Types of Political Systems" PowerPoint. You can find this on the IB 20 wiki under the Democracies unit. I went through the democratic systems section last week, but you need to go through the non-democratic systems section of this lecture. I went through a handout today on non-democratic systems (dictatorships, single-party states). I also gave you a handout on totalitarianism. You also have a comparative government assignment due on week from today. You will also be writing a Social 30-1 style on democratic systems on November 28th, this test will be entirely multiple choice format with past Alberta Social 30-1 Diploma Exam questions.

November 18

Social 20-1

We started a film study of a CNN documentary called "Scream Bloody Murder", which we will finish on Monday. We'll be moving on to our examination of the Rwandan Genocide. Please remember that your Unit 2 Dossier Assignments are due on December 6th. This would be a great weekend to get some research/work done on this assignment.

IB 20 HOTA

I started off with your long overdue current events quiz today. Your next current events quiz will be on November 24th because there's a PD Day on Friday, November 25th. I started a PowerPoint lecture on the "Types of Political Systems" which provides an overview of both democratic and non-democratic systems. I'll start in on the non-democratic systems on Monday.

November 13

Social 20-1

We finished off the film study of "Scream Bloody Murder" today. I also told you to read the following sections in your Social 20-1 blue study booklets:

• Contemporary Examples of Genocide (ppt) on pages 227-231
• Ukraine Famine (the Holodomor) on pages 232-234
• If you're doing your Unit 2 Research Project (due on November 25th) on a 20th century genocide, you might want to read the Samantha Power article "Never Again: The World's Most Unfulfilled Promise"

We'll continue with the topic of genocide this week by examining a case study of the Rwandan genocide. We'll start "Shake Hands with the Devil" tomorrow.

Social 30-1

We finished off the tail-end of the "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" documentary today. I also gave you some handouts on the Korean War today (I realize that I was back-tracking with this, but it was necessary because we need to talk next week at the consequences of the Cold War in the present day). I also gave you some notes on the board on bilateral arms agreements between the USA and the USSR and multilateral arms control agreements. Make sure that you understand the concepts of deterrence, MAD (mutually assured destruction), arms race, SALT I, INF Treaty, SALT II, and START I and START II, and detente. Make sure that you read section on McCarthyism (p. 265-267) in Perspectives on Ideologies prior to class tomorrow. We'll be starting a film study of "Good Night, and Good Luck." Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam on Tuesday, November 19th, please see the study guide here. Please remember that your Vietnam War Assignment is due on Friday, November 15th.

IB 30/35

We actually covered a lot of ground today. We finished off the "League of Nations" PowerPoint presentation, and also talked about the League of Nations' mandate system. We also watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay". While you watched this video you should have been taking notes. You do have a brief homework assignment tonight that you can find on the IB 30/35 wiki under Prescribed Subject 1 on the Convenant of the League of Nations. It should take you about 20 minutes to complete this homework assignment that is due tomorrow.

November 12

IB 30/35

We examined the League of Nations today, and we'll continue this topic tomorrow. You were also assigned your Prescribed Subject 1 duotangs today. If you missed class today, you'll need to get one of these duotangs from me tomorrow. If you missed class today, and you missed an assessment that happened last week, you'll need to write it tomorrow.

Social 30-1

We watched part of "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" today. I did a homework check on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions as well. Your Vietnam War Assignment is due on November 15th (Friday). Please see the Chapter 7 Cold War Exam study guide below.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. You will write this test on Tuesday, November 19th. 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

Most of today's class was spent watching the CNN documentary "Scream Bloody Murder" which should help you to understand contemporary examples of genocide in the 20th and 21st century. We'll finish this video off tomorrow. We should be able to get into our case study of the Rwandan genocide this week as well.

July 19

Social 20-1

We continued looking at genocide today by watching the CNN Special "Scream Bloody Murder". As you watched the film you should have been taking notes on the following genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries: Cambodian Killing Fields, Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur.

We also started our film study of "Shake Hands with the Devil". While you watched the video, you should have been answering questions from the Unit 2 study booklet.

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA II Essay in the Blenheim Room after the break. Don't forget that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, and your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday. Your Chapter 7-8 Test is on Tuesday (July 23rd), please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Wednesday, July 24th, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Please make sure that you keep up with the readings from the green study booklet, specifically the following:

• Down the Road to World War II
• Blitzkrieg to the Bomb
• Blitzkrieg! (reading on front with map on back)
• Barbarossa
• Japan's Pacific Blitzkrieg
• The Turn of the Tide: Hitler Tastes Defeat
• The Defeat of Hitler's Germany
• Japanese Defeat in the Far East
• Canada's Role in WWII

(The readings above were assigned on July 16th)

Some more readings and topics from the Unit 2 study booklet that you should be looking at this weekend are:

• "Contemporary Examples of Genocide" (this is a PowerPoint presentation that won't be delivered in class but contains valuable information)
• Contemporary Examples of Genocide readings (particularly focus in on Rwanda)

July 18

Social 20-1

We finished off looking at the Holocaust today by watching excerpts from "Schindler's List". We then moved on to our final topic of World War II, the usage of atomic bombs against Japan to end the war. We watched an HBO documentary called "White Light Black Rain" which covered the bombing and destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As you watched the film you should have been completing the film study questions from your Unit 2 study booklet. I did a class check on this film study. Tomorrow, we'll be watching a CNN special called "Scream Bloody Murder" to look at genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries. You'll also be writing your Unit 2 WRA II Essay tomorrow from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm in the Blenheim Room. Don't forget that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, and your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday. Your Chapter 7-8 Test is on Tuesday (July 23rd), please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Wednesday, July 24th, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

April 18

Social 20-1

You should have finished the "Scream Bloody Murder" documentary today. After the video was over you should have been given a booklet on Contemporary Examples of Genocide. Make sure that you study the contents of this booklet.

Social 30-1

Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions were due today. Most of today's class was spent watching excerpts from the film "Born on the Fourth of July".

IB 30/35

You wrote your Paper 3 today in Room 121. We'll continue looking at various American presidential administrations next week.

April 17

Social 30-1

You had time today to work on your Southeast Asia booklets. You should have completed this work during class time. You should have also picked up notes on the Vietnam War, and picked up the Vietnam War Assignment. This assignment is due on April 24th.

Social 20-1

Today was spent looking at genocide more closely, specifically by going through the eight stages of genocide. Hopefully you also started the CNN documentary, "Scream Bloody Murder". 

IB 30/35

You should have started the Nixon administration. There is a PowerPoint posted on the wiki that covers the Nixon administration really well, you'll find it under the American Presidents section. You're writing a Paper 3 tomorrow, so make sure that you review your IB command terms!