Showing posts with label Sweden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sweden. Show all posts

Thursday, October 03, 2019

October 3

We continued with the "FDR and the New Deal" Google Slides lecture today. The "Challenges to the New Deal Assignment" is due on Monday, October 7th. Please go to the D2L shell called "Social Studies 30-1_cohort IB HL", find the IA Submissions folder in the Assignments folder and upload your IA today. We still need nine of you to submit your IA still. Thanks!



Thursday, October 11, 2018

October 11


I gave you a work period to read Chapter 6 and work on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Tuesday. Please remember that you are writing the first paragraph of the Unit 1 WRA II Essay tomorrow. Please make sure that you check out the sample essays on the wiki (don't repeat/copy evidence from those sample essays). Please go directly to Room 104 tomorrow. You'll finish the essay on Monday.


You wrote an analysis of a political cartoon today in class, and then we talked about democratic socialism and a case study of Sweden. We'll be looking at the Netherlands and Norway tomorrow. On Tuesday, October 16th you'll be writing the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test, please check out the study guide below.


This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Tuesday, October 16th. 

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. 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 
  • Edmund Burke and classical conservatism
5. 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 






I continued the lecture on "The French Revolution" today. I should be able to finish this lecture off tomorrow. Make sure that you print off the glossary of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age from the wiki and add it to your notes.


Thursday, March 03, 2016

March 3


You watched "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" today. Please complete an OPVL chart of the letters featured in the documentary.


You went through the "Great Depression in the USA" handout (pages 63-64), and "Democratic Socialism and the Mixed Economy" (pages 65-67). You were also supposed to complete the activities "The Welfare State: Case Study of Sweden" section of the workbook.


This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Friday, March 13th. This test covers material from Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4. 

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 


You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today in the Blenheim Room, which took most of the class time.