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". 

October 2

IB 30/35

The rough draft of your IA was due today. I will be checking to see if you all did in fact submit it today. I went through a reading booklet on monetary and fiscal policy today, and started another video from the BBC 20th Century History series. Today's video was called "FDR and the New Deal", and we'll finish it off tomorrow.

Social 10-1

I taught you the difference between argumentation and evidence when writing a WRA II essay. This still of essay is called a position paper or an argumentative essay. To help you understand the difference between argumentation and evidence, I had you brainstorm individually on the following topic: How would you convince a friend to come to Churchill? What arguments would you use to persuade them? In your brainstorm lists you really weren't writing arguments, despite the prompts, but rather some ideas that we could build into an argument.

 Please don't forget these key events this week:

• Chapter 3-4 Test is tomorrow (please see the study guide below)
• Unit 1 WRA I is on Wednesday, October 4th (this is a three source analysis assignment that is written in class)

CHAPTER 3-4 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test will be written on Tuesday, October 3rd. 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

October 6

Sorry for not posting yesterday, it completely slipped my mind.

IB 30/35

Yesterday we finished watching Episode 9 of "The Civil War". Today, I had you complete an acitivity called "What was the Civil War about?" which had perspectives from Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. After discussing the answers to the questions, we looked at C-SPAN rankings of U.S. Presidents from 2009 and saw that Lincoln was the highest ranked president on the list. I then started going through the assessment of the Lincoln presidency, but I didn't finish this. Please make sure that you check this document out on the IB 30/35 wiki under American Civil War. Tomorrow, we will start examining the Reconstruction era.

Social 30-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (I skipped over some slides, so make sure that you study them). Tomorrow, I'll be going over how demand-side economics and supply-side economics deal with a recession, then I'll be moving on to our case study of a dictatorial socialist society from Chapter 5, the Soviet Union. Over the course of the next few days we'll be dealing a command economy in the USSR. You're writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Thursday, October 8th, please see the study guide below.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations: 

• "The Development of Classical Liberalism"
• "Responding to Classical Liberalism"

2. Be familiar with key concepts introduced in Chapters 3 and 4.
3. The Industrial Revolution:

• understand fundamental economic, social and political changes that were caused by the Industrial Revolution
• understand the connection between the Agricultural Revolution and the Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution
• understand the differences, advantages and disadvantages of the cottage system and the factory system

4. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet
5. Key Beliefs of the Various Ideologies (review the spectrums briefly); also review this material from the "Responding to Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation:

• Adam Smith
• laissez faire economics/capitalism (key ideas)
• John Stuart Mill
• Karl Marx (key ideas and beliefs associated with Marx, Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, withering away of the state, dictatorship of the proletariat, view of history, etc. ) and Friedrich Engels (see "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet)
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

6. Some questions may require you to make connections between this year's material and what you learned in 10-1 and 20-1 as well

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam yesterday. I started teaching you about essay writing and positional-thinking today in preparation for your WRA II Essay that you'll be writing on Thursday and Friday. You'll be able to write your first paragraph on Thursday, and get a peer to edit it, and then you will have all of Friday's class to write the rest of the essay. We started looking at the differences between argumentation and evidence today.

March 18

IB 30/35

Most of you wrote your Cold War Exam today, and if you did write it today, you should get the results back tomorrow. If you missed writing the exam today, you will either write it during a spare tomorrow, or during class time. We'll continue our examination of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement unit tomorrow. Please remember that your Civil Rights Movement assignment will be due on Friday, April 4th. If you missed getting this handout from me in class, please pick up a copy from the file folders at the front of the room tomorrow.

IB 20 HOTA

Today was the last day of the constitutional convention. Given the feedback that I've received for the last two years on the constitutional convention, we'll have to extend it to three days next year. Tomorrow, we'll have to move on to looking at the IA again. Please bring all relevant materials to class tomorrow and on Thursday for completing sections of your IA in class this week. The upcoming Spring break would be a great time to get some reading and research completed on your IA. DON'T PROCRASTINATE!!

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA II Essay today in class. You had the entire period to complete it. Please remember that your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. We are obviously moving on to Unit 2 material tomorrow.

October 9

IB 30/35

We briefly assessed Lincoln's time as President, and the differing perspectives on his abilities as leader of the nation. As I said in class, C-SPAN does a survey every so often that ranks the U.S. Presidents. If you're interested, here is a link to their 2009 Presidential survey.
I also started a lecture on the Reconstruction Era. I have made some changes to the PowerPoint, so I will post the new version on the wiki tomorrow. Please remember to study for your Civil War Test (on Friday and Monday), please see the study guide on the wiki in the U.S. Civil War section.

IB 20

You wrote "The Patriot" quiz at the start of class. I then had you move back into your Articles of Confederation groups  to continue the activity that we started on Friday. You have to understand a few things about the Articles of Confederation, for one, it was a product of its time, so it's important to bear in mind the historical context in which this document was created. The United States had just successfully defeated the British in the Revolutionary War and there was a feeling among many Americans that they had just overthrown tyranny in their everyday lives. They didn't want a strong central government that they feared could grow just as powerful as the tyrannical government that had rid themselves of. That's why you see certain measures in the Articles of Confederation such as no executive branch. There are several conditions that led to the creation of the U.S. Constitution. There is a document on the IB 20 wiki under the Independence Movements section that is entitled Conditions in the USA 1781-1787 that should help you understand the motivations behind wanting to re-write the constitution. I started to deliver a lecture on the U.S. Constitution today, which I should be able to finish tomorrow. On Thursday, we will be having a constitutional convention simulation and you have all be assigned an actual delegate to that convention. Please follow the delegate research guide that I put up on the wiki. Check your e-mail for the link to the page on the wiki. I tried to include a mix of delegates who actually signed the Constitution, and those that did not.

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA II Essay today in class. This took all the period.