October 1

IB 20 HOTA

We started our Constitutional Convention today, and we'll continue tomorrow and Wednesday. It took us a while to set the order of the agenda, but once we did that we had some good debate. It is pretty clear that many of you have done your research. If you didn't speak much (or at all today) you have two classes to get involved in the debate. Remember, you're being evaluated on not only research and preparation for the convention, but also the quality and content of your speeches. Raise your placard during the debate, and I will call on you. Please remember that you have your American Revolution Test on Thursday (please see the study guide below).

IB 20 - AMERICAN REVOLUTION EXAM STUDY GUIDE

There will be 20 matching and 45 multiple-choice questions.

Know the various Acts that took place before/during the Revolution:
* Stamp, Sugar Act
* Townshend Acts
* Intolerable Acts

Causes of the Revolution:
* French Indian War
* Significant events that led up to the Revolutionary War – chronological order
* Grievances of the colonies – taxation, representation

Know significant individuals such as:
* James Madison
* John Adams
* Thomas Jefferson
* Thomas Paine
* George Washington
* Samuel Adams
* Benjamin Franklin

The Revolutionary War:
* British vs. American military strategy
* Advantages and disadvantages of both sides
* The challenges of the Continental Army
* Battle of Saratoga - significance
* Battle of Yorktown - significance
* Phases of the progression of the war

Differences between First and Second Continental Congress

The Founding Documents of the United States:
* Declaration of Independence
* Articles of Confederation
* US Constitution
* Bill of Rights

Please read the sections in your History of the Americas textbook that relate to the American Revolution as well.

SOCIAL 30-1

I taught you the Boom and Bust Cycle (Business Cycle) today, and I went through a PowerPoint lecture called "Responding to Classical Liberalism". While I was lecturing, you should have completed the chart in your Social 30-1 coursebooks. Keep working on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions tonight. We'll continue talking about the transformation from classical liberalism to welfare capitalism to modern liberalism. 

SOCIAL 10-1

You had some class time today to work on your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions. I will do a homework check on the Chapter 5 work tomorrow. You're writing the Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow, and the Unit 1 WRA I on Wednesday. 

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Tuesday, October 2nd. 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!

September 27

Social 10-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today in class. Please remember to go directly to Room 241 tomorrow for your class. We're going to do some practice WRA Is in Google Docs in preparation for your Unit 1 WRA I next week (Wednesday, October 3rd). Please remember that I've moved the Unit 1 Final Exam to Tuesday, October 2nd. You can find the study guide below.

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Tuesday, October 2nd. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

Please study your key terms from Chapters 1-5, and the topics covered in that unit.
1. Key Terms/Key Concepts in Unit 1:

• globalization
• pluralistic society
• transnationals
• society
• “the global village”
• United Nations
• G-8
• La Francophonie
• NATO
• individual identity
• collective identity
• traditions
• minority group
• official bilingualism
• universalization of pop culture
• hybridization
• media transnationals
• media consolidation
• CBC/SRC
• Official Languages Act
• CRTC
• Canadian Content (CanCon)
• homogenization
• monoculture
• assimilation
• marginalization
• accommodation
• secularism
• integration
• cosmopolitan
• acculturation
• cultural revitalization
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms

2. Know your case studies extremely well!
3. Be able to apply key concepts!

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA II Essay today in class. Hopefully I'll get a chance to mark them sooner rather than later. We're back in classroom tomorrow continuing on with Unit 2 material.

IB 20 HOTA

I did a homework check on your Declaration of Independence and Thomas Paine's Common Sense source-based questions. Please make sure that you have printed off and read the summaries of the Articles of Confederation and added this to your notes. I gave you your historical figure assignment for our Constitutional Convention simulation next week. The convention will run for three class periods: Monday to Wednesday. Now that you have your character assignment, you can get started with your research. You will have today's class and tomorrow's class (and perhaps the weekend) to prepare for this simulation.Please go directly to Room 241 tomorrow. One week from today (Thursday, October 4th) you will have your American Revolution Test. Please see the study guide below.

IB 20 - AMERICAN REVOLUTION EXAM STUDY GUIDE

There will be 20 matching and 45 multiple-choice questions.

Know the various Acts that took place before/during the Revolution:
* Stamp, Sugar Act
* Townshend Acts
* Intolerable Acts

Causes of the Revolution:
* French Indian War
* Significant events that led up to the Revolutionary War – chronological order
* Grievances of the colonies – taxation, representation

Know significant individuals such as:
* James Madison
* John Adams
* Thomas Jefferson
* Thomas Paine
* George Washington
* Samuel Adams
* Benjamin Franklin

The Revolutionary War:
* British vs. American military strategy
* Advantages and disadvantages of both sides
* The challenges of the Continental Army
* Battle of Saratoga - significance
* Battle of Yorktown - significance
* Phases of the progression of the war

Differences between First and Second Continental Congress

The Founding Documents of the United States:
* Declaration of Independence
* Articles of Confederation
* US Constitution
* Bill of Rights

Please read the sections in your History of the Americas textbook that relate to the American Revolution as well.

April 11

SOCIAL 10-1

I showed you the documentary "China Rises: Getting Rich" today. As you watched this documentary you were supposed to complete the film study that went along with it. The Chapter 10 Key Terms are due on Thursday, April 12th. I've split you into two groups for Friday's debate. Tomorrow, we'll be in Room 241 to work on debate preparation. The topic "BIRT the 21st century will belong to China" was debated at the Munk Debates. Please have a look at their website: https://www.munkdebates.com/The-Debates/China (scroll down to find video from the debate). 

On Tuesday, April 17th, you will be writing the Unit 2 Final Exam. You can find the study guide below.

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 2 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This final exam is entirely multiple choice format. There are 57 multiple choice questions. This Unit 2 Final Exam will be on Tuesday, April 17th. Please make sure that you study your key terms from Unit 2 (Chapters 6-9), as well as the three PowerPoint presentations from this unit:

• "Historical Globalization and Imperialism"
• "Legacies of Historical Globalization"
• "Legacies of Historical Globalization in Canada"

Key Concepts from Unit 2:

• world views
• historical globalization
• cultural contact
• depopulation
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• entrepreneurs
• Adam Smith
• exploitation
• communism
• industrialization
• Industrial Revolution
• cottage industries
• imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence
• paternalistic
• Confederation
• residential schools
• the Oka crisis
• First Nations Policing Policy
• legacy
• ethnocentrism
• Eurocentrism
• Scramble for Africa
• Leopold II
• migration
• displacement
• British East India Company
• Queen Elizabeth I
• the Raj
• Mohandas Gandhi
• swadeshi
• deindustrialization
• colonization
• the Hundred Associates
• Hudson’s Bay Company
• Rupert’s Land
• North West Company
• Seven Years’ War
• Proclamation of 1763
• Quebec Act of 1774
• the Numbered Treaties
• the Indian Act
• Status Indian
• Non-Status Indian
• multiculturalism
• specific claims
• comprehensive claims

SOCIAL 20-1

We started watching "Schindler's List" today. We should be able to finish this film by Friday. 

IB 30/35

We watched Episode 5 of "Eyes on the Prize" today, so the questions are due tomorrow. Please make sure that you're working on your Google Docs group on your Paper 3 essay questions prep. On April 17th, you'll be writing a Civil Rights Movement Test, you can find the study guide below. If I don't see some activity on your Paper 3 Prep Google Doc Groups soon, I will set due dates for the questions. 

U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test has multiple formats: there is a matching section, a short answer section, and 25 multiple choice questions. You will have the entire class period to write it. 

• study the "Civil Rights Movement" PowerPoint (you can find an electronic copy on the IB 30/35 wiki under Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas section)
• know key individuals in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement (Martin Luther King, James Farmer, John Lewis, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, etc.)
• know key organizations in the movement (NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, CORE, Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, and key players)
• know key events of the civil rights movement (chronology/sequence of events)
• know federal government responses to the civil rights movement from the Truman administration to the Johnson administration

March 20

IB 30/35

I showed you the rest of  Episode 1 of the Ken Burns' The Civil War and the key parts of the last episode. On your Paper 3 exam in May, please do not write on any of the Civil War topics. I'm just covering the Civil War to get to Reconstruction, so that you can see the historical context of the African-American Civil Rights Movement ()which we will look at after the Spring Break). 

SOCIAL 20-1

We brainstormed the causes of the Second World War in small groups, and then as a class we put together a massive mind map on the board. I also started the "Ultranationalism in WWII" PowerPoint lecture but didn't finish it. Please go over the rest of this lecture on your own, and I'll start with these concepts when we get back from the Spring Break. 

Please remember that you're writing the Unit 2 WRA I tomorrow in Room 104 (go there directly), and you will not be allowed to have any writing guides or analyzing political cartoon sheets out to assist you this time. You will also have the Chapter 5-6 Test on Wednesday, April 4th, please see the study guide below. 

Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide:

This test will have a matching section, and a long answer section.

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• the Black Hand
• Gavrillo Princip
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Battle of Tannenberg
• the Schlieffen Plan
• Plan 17
• General von Moltke
• Battle of the Marne
• Alsace and Lorraine
• total war
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• the Brusilov Offensive
• sinking of the Lusitania
• the Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• General Ludendorff
• Friedrich Ebert
• Paris Peace Conference
• David Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson
• Fourteen Points
• Georges Clemenceau
• Vittorio Orlando
• League of Nations
• plebiscites
• reparations
• collective security
• war debts
• Treaty of Versailles
• "war guilt clause"
• "Manchurian Incident"
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
• expansionism
• Hirohito
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Kristallnacht
• the Nuremberg Laws
• any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

• MAIN Causes of World War I
• the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
• the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
• the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
• Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years notes from the Unit 2 study booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
• failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
• appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism) 

SOCIAL 10-1

You had the entire class to work on Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions (these will be due after the Spring Break). 

You have your Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide below. 

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Wednesday, March 21st. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

Please study your key terms from Chapters 1-5, and the topics covered in that unit.
1. Key Terms/Key Concepts in Unit 1:

• globalization
• pluralistic society
• transnationals
• society
• “the global village”
• United Nations
• G-8
• La Francophonie
• NATO
• individual identity
• collective identity
• traditions
• minority group
• official bilingualism
• universalization of pop culture
• hybridization
• media transnationals
• media consolidation
• CBC/SRC
• Official Languages Act
• CRTC
• Canadian Content (CanCon)
• homogenization
• monoculture
• assimilation
• marginalization
• accommodation
• secularism
• integration
• cosmopolitan
• acculturation
• cultural revitalization
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms

2. Know your case studies extremely well!
3. Be able to apply key concepts!

Your Chapter 7 Test is on Wednesday, April 4th, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and ashort answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:

• historical globalization
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• Adam Smith
• entrepreneur
• communism
• industrialization
• the Industrial Revolution
• cottage system
• physiocrats
• exploitation
• imperialism
• Eurocentrism
• ethnocentrism
• European imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

• What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
• What values are associated with capitalism?
• Whose values did industrialization effect?
• Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
• What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
• In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

March 19

IB 30/35

I started talking about the American Civil War today, and then started Episode 1 of the Ken Burns' The Civil War. We'll finish this video off tomorrow. I've decided to not to teach you specific battles in the Civil War, but rather look at the sectionalism between the North and South, and how the war ends, which will lead to the Reconstruction period. I also gave you back the 30-1 WRA I that you wrote while I was in New York for NHSMUN, this writing assignment was on the Cold War.  

SOCIAL 10-1

I delivered a lecture on the "Legacies of Historical Globalization in Canada" today. This presentation is on the Social 10-1 wiki under Unit 2 Presentations if you want a digital copy or hard copy. I gave you back your Unit 1 WRA II Essays today as well. 

You have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday, March 21st, please see the study guide below. 

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Wednesday, March 21st. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

Please study your key terms from Chapters 1-5, and the topics covered in that unit.
1. Key Terms/Key Concepts in Unit 1:

• globalization
• pluralistic society
• transnationals
• society
• “the global village”
• United Nations
• G-8
• La Francophonie
• NATO
• individual identity
• collective identity
• traditions
• minority group
• official bilingualism
• universalization of pop culture
• hybridization
• media transnationals
• media consolidation
• CBC/SRC
• Official Languages Act
• CRTC
• Canadian Content (CanCon)
• homogenization
• monoculture
• assimilation
• marginalization
• accommodation
• secularism
• integration
• cosmopolitan
• acculturation
• cultural revitalization
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms

2. Know your case studies extremely well!
3. Be able to apply key concepts!

Your Chapter 7 Test is on Wednesday, April 4th, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and ashort answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:

• historical globalization
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• Adam Smith
• entrepreneur
• communism
• industrialization
• the Industrial Revolution
• cottage system
• physiocrats
• exploitation
• imperialism
• Eurocentrism
• ethnocentrism
• European imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

• What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
• What values are associated with capitalism?
• Whose values did industrialization effect?
• Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
• What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
• In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

SOCIAL 20-1

I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?". We also looked at the Munich Conference is greater detail and did an activity from your Social 20-1 coursebooks called "Was Appeasement a Good Idea?" 

Please remember that you're writing the Unit 2 WRA I on Wednesday, March 21st, and you will not be allowed to have any writing guides or analyzing political cartoon sheets out to assist you this time.

March 16

IB 30/35

We finished watching "The Causes of the Civil War" video that we started yesterday at the beginning of class today. We also finished off a PowerPoint lecture on the causes of the American Civil War today too. We'll talk about the Civil War briefly next week and hopefully get into the Reconstruction period as well, but that might be pushing it, since it is a short week next week. I have shared with you my last two major lectures on the Antebellum South and the Causes of the Civil War, so please add them to your Google Drive and put them into your Paper 3 folder. No homework this weekend.

Social 10-1

We finished off the "Legacies of Historical Globalization" lecture today. I did a homework check on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class as well. 

You have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday, March 21st, please see the study guide below. 

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Wednesday, March 21st. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

Please study your key terms from Chapters 1-5, and the topics covered in that unit.
1. Key Terms/Key Concepts in Unit 1:

• globalization
• pluralistic society
• transnationals
• society
• “the global village”
• United Nations
• G-8
• La Francophonie
• NATO
• individual identity
• collective identity
• traditions
• minority group
• official bilingualism
• universalization of pop culture
• hybridization
• media transnationals
• media consolidation
• CBC/SRC
• Official Languages Act
• CRTC
• Canadian Content (CanCon)
• homogenization
• monoculture
• assimilation
• marginalization
• accommodation
• secularism
• integration
• cosmopolitan
• acculturation
• cultural revitalization
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms

2. Know your case studies extremely well!
3. Be able to apply key concepts!

Your Chapter 7 Test is on Wednesday, April 4th, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and ashort answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:

• historical globalization
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• Adam Smith
• entrepreneur
• communism
• industrialization
• the Industrial Revolution
• cottage system
• physiocrats
• exploitation
• imperialism
• Eurocentrism
• ethnocentrism
• European imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

• What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
• What values are associated with capitalism?
• Whose values did industrialization effect?
• Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
• What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
• In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

Social 20-1

I gave you time today to read, highlight and annotate the Interwar Years reading in your Social 20-1 workbooks. I taught you a mnemonic device on the League of Nations (FAILURe) as well today. We also stated talking about the concept of appeasement as well, which we talk about again next week.

Please remember that you're writing the Unit 2 WRA I on Wednesday, March 21st, and you will not be allowed to have any writing guides or analyzing political cartoon sheets out to assist you this time.

March 15

Social 20-1

I showed you a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay", while you were watching the video you should have been answering the questions on the film study sheet that's in your Social 20-1 coursebook. I did a quick review of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe), and gave you a definition of a demagogue, and make links between the definition and what Hitler and the Nazis were trying to achieve in Germany. We also started watching "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" today, and we'll finish this video up tomorrow. Please remember that on March 21st you will be writing a WRA I on Unit 2 material. The Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

Social 10-1

We finished off the "Historical Globalization and Imperialism" lecture today. We also started looking at the "Legacies of Historical Globalization". Please remember that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, March 16th. 

You have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday, March 21st, please see the study guide below. 

SOCIAL 10-1 UNIT 1 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Wednesday, March 21st. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

Please study your key terms from Chapters 1-5, and the topics covered in that unit.
1. Key Terms/Key Concepts in Unit 1:

• globalization
• pluralistic society
• transnationals
• society
• “the global village”
• United Nations
• G-8
• La Francophonie
• NATO
• individual identity
• collective identity
• traditions
• minority group
• official bilingualism
• universalization of pop culture
• hybridization
• media transnationals
• media consolidation
• CBC/SRC
• Official Languages Act
• CRTC
• Canadian Content (CanCon)
• homogenization
• monoculture
• assimilation
• marginalization
• accommodation
• secularism
• integration
• cosmopolitan
• acculturation
• cultural revitalization
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms

2. Know your case studies extremely well!
3. Be able to apply key concepts!

IB 30/35

We finished watching "12 Years a Slave" today. I think you can all agree that this was an excellent movie, and very deserving of winning the Oscar for Best Picture in 2014, along with two other Oscar wins (Lupita Nyong'o also won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of Patsey). I had enough time to show you a video from the U.S. History video series, on the causes of the American Civil War. I'll lecture on this topic tomorrow.