April 9

IB 30/35

We watched Episode 3 of the PBS documentary series "Eyes on the Prize" today. The questions from this episode are due tomorrow.

Social 10-1

We started Unit 3 material today. I started a lecture on "The Foundations of Economic Globalization", which I should be able to finish tomorrow. I'll give you the Unit 3 Worksheet tomorrow, so you can start on your Chapter 10 Key Terms. One week from tomorrow, you will be writing your Unit 2 Final Exam, the study guide will be posted here on the blog tomorrow.

Social 20-1

We looked at the Normandy invasion today, so I showed you an excerpt from "Saving Private Ryan", hopefully you'll get a chance to finish watching this film on your own. We'll start our examination of the Holocaust tomorrow.

November 6

IB 30/35

In today's lecture I covered Japan after the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) to the 1920s. We'll talk more about the Great Depression and its impacts on Japan, how Japan decided to invade Manchuria in 1931. You should probably read in your textbook, The Move to Global War, pages 23-30 at the minimum. Don't forget that your create a Paper 1 assignment is due on November 20th (two weeks from today).

Social 10-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation on "The Foundations of Economic Globalization". You really need to focus in on Keynes, Hayak, and Friedman from this lecture for the yet-to-come Chapter 10 Test. Your Chapter 10 Key Terms are due on Wednesday, and your Chapter 10 Questions are due on Thursday.

One week from today, you're writing your Unit 2 Final Exam, please see 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 Monday, November 13th. 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

November 3

Sorry, I didn't get around to posting this yesterday.

IB 30/35

We were in the Blenheim Room today. I shared with you a sample Paper 1 so you could see some of the structure of the exam paper. It was missing a question 4 but other than that it had all of the elements of a Paper 1. Most of you were working on creating your own Paper 1 (remember this assignment is due on November 20th). I also gave you a copy of the Prescribed Subject 3 curriculum. Remember, you need to pick ONE bullet to focus in on, from either Case Study 1 or Case Study 2. I forgot to bring the scantron sheets to class to show you how well you did on the Economic Systems Exam.

Social 10-1

I continued on with the lecture on "The Foundations of Economic Globalization" that I started on Wednesday. I didn't finish it, so I'll probably finish it off on Monday. Please remember that your Chapter 10 Key Terms are due on Wednesday, November 8th, and your Chapter 10 Questions are due on Thursday, November 9th.

November 2

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I today in class. If you missed class today it is your responsibility to remind me that you need to write the WRA I. We're going to continue looking at "The Foundations of Economic Globalization" tomorrow.

IB 30/35

You wrote your Economic Systems Exam today, and you'll get the results back tomorrow. We'll also get back into our Prescribed Subject 3 tomorrow. We'll be meeting in the Blenheim Room. I have a few sample Paper 1 exams that I'd like you to get some practice working on.

November 1

IB 30/35

You had the entire class to write your WRA II essay on economic systems. If you missed class today, you'll have to write it next week, because you're writing your Economic Systems Exam tomorrow (please see study guide below).

UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES FOR IB 30/35 STUDENTS:

• Economic Systems Exam is on Thursday, November 2nd (please see the study guide below)

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be written on Thursday, November 2nd. It is a multiple choice question format test. 
This is a comprehensive exam that covers all of the major economic systems: market economy, mixed economy, and command economy. It is 74 multiple choice questions. 

• Chapters 3-6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study the applicable PowerPoint presentations that are on the wiki under Unit 2 (check your notes): The Development of Classical Liberalism, Responding to Classical Liberalism, The Evolution of Modern Liberalism, 20th Century Rejections of Liberalism (just the USSR section of this PowerPoint)
• In Chapter 5, just focus on the Soviet Union, and left-wing of economic spectrum (command economy), we haven't covered aspects of dictatorships or Nazism yet (the techniques of dictatorship and fascism will be on a Chapter 5 Test)
• 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/"womb to tomb 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)
• 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 (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• Lenin notes (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• Stalin notes (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev) (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• Market Socialism (on the wiki, under Unit 2)

Social 10-1

We started Unit 3 material today in class. I lectured for about 40 minutes on "The Foundations of Economic Globalization". You can find this presentation on the Social 10-1 wiki under Unit 3 Presentations. You had the remainder of class to start working on your Chapter 10 Key Terms (due on November 8th). We'll pick up this lecture again on Friday.You're writing your Unit 2 WRA I tomorrow. Period 3 is in the Blue Lab and Period 4 is in Room 104.

April 7

Social 20-1

I showed you an excerpt from "Saving Private Ryan" today to demonstrate conditions on June 6, 1944 when the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy. You can watch the rest of the movie if you have Netflix. We also got our topic assignments for the Unit 2 research project sorted out today. This project is due on May 1st. We'll be going to the library on April 24th (our only research period).

Social 10-1

I started on Unit 3 material today by beginning a lecture on "The Foundations of Economic Globalization", which we will continue on Monday. Please read Chapter 10 this weekend.  It might also be a good idea to print off a copy of the PowerPoint for yourself for Monday's class.