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.

July 22

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today, the results have been posted on PowerSchool. You are writing more tests this week, please see the upcoming important dates below. I went through the PowerPoint lecture called "Political Challenges to Liberalism" today. We went through some key terms and organized these terms based on whether they were characteristics of parliamentary democracy, presidential democracy, both or neither. We then looked at the Modern History of China Notes from the Social 30-1 coursebooks, and watched a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series called "One Man's Revolution" and "China since Mao". I started another lecture today called "The Imposition of Liberalism", I'll finish this one of tomorrow after you write the Unit 3 WRA I. You'll be writing the Unit 3 WRA I in Room 109. Please go there directly tomorrow morning.

 Please have a look at the other key dates below (and study guides).

UPCOMING KEY DATES:

• Unit 3 WRA I is on Tuesday, July 23rd in Room 109 (Social 30-2 students will write a WA I and WA II)
• Chapter 10 Test is on Wednesday, July 24th (see the study guide below)
• Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, July 25th (see the study guide below)
• Trial Final Exam is on Friday, July 26th
• Social 30-1 Diploma Exam Part A (written component) is on Friday, August 2nd (9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.)
• Social 30-1 Diploma Exam Part B (multiple choice) is on Thursday, August 8th (9:00 a.m. start)

CHAPTER 10 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions. 

Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism". 

You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Google Doc. Please review the following as well: 

• Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Structure of Canadian Government
• Structure of American Government
• similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• authoritarian systems
• proportional representation concept
• first past the post system
• review political and economic spectrum (again!)

SOCIAL 30-1 UNIT 3 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

Please study the following material: 

• make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
• study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
• "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)

Review the following notes/packages:

• Democratic Systems
• Non-Democratic Systems
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• Civil Rights Movement
• authoritarian systems (China notes)
• review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
• re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act)
• FLQ Crisis 1970

Know the following key concepts/key events/key terms/key people:

• assimilation
• self-interest
• humanitarianism
• Indian Act
• residential school system
• enfranchisement
• the White Paper
• the Red Paper
• “war on terror"
• authoritarianism
• consensus decision-making
• direct democracy
• military dictatorship
• oligarchy
• one-party state
• party solidarity
• representation by population
• proportional representation
• representative democracy
• responsible government
• democracy
• single-member constituency (first past the post)
• the Senate
• the House of Commons
• the House of Representatives
• the Senate
• mixed-member proportional system
• lobby groups
• American Bill of Rights
• Anti-Terrorism Act
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• emergency and security legislation
• illiberal
• language legislation
• Bill 101
• Bill 178
• Bill 86
• Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
• respect for law and order
• terrorism
• rendition
• the War Measures Act
• enemy aliens
• internment
• the Emergencies Act
• USA PATRIOT Act
• consumerism
• environmental change
• extremism
• pandemics
• postmodernism

May 23

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 3 WRA II Essay yesterday in class. A few of you missed class yesterday, so you made up this position paper in today's class. If you were in class today, you would know that we continued talking about the key concept of illiberalism, specifically post-9/11 anti-terrorism legislation. We focused on the USA PATRIOT Act today by watching a CBC News in Review on 9/11 and the passage of the Patriot Act. I tried to emphasize today that 9/11 had domestic impacts on the United States, with the passage of the Patriot Act (illiberalism), and international impacts with the imposition of liberalism in Afghanistan and Iraq as part of a larger "war on terror". Please remember that your Chapter 10 Test is tomorrow, please see the study guide below. Your Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due tomorrow as well. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Wednesday, May 29th, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 10 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions. Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism". You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Worksheet. Please review the following as well: 

• Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Structure of Canadian Government
• Structure of American Government
• similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• authoritarian systems
• proportional representation concept
• first past the post system
• review political and economic spectrum (again!)

Social 30-1 Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Your Unit 3 Final Exam will be on Wednesday, May 29th.

Please study the following material: 

• make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
• study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
• "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)

Review the following notes/packages:

• Democratic Systems
• Non-Democratic Systems
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• Civil Rights Movement
• authoritarian systems (China notes)
• review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
• re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act)
• FLQ Crisis 1970

Know the following key concepts/key events/key terms/key people:

• assimilation
• self-interest
• humanitarianism
• Indian Act
• residential school system
• enfranchisement
• the White Paper
• the Red Paper
• “war on terror"
• authoritarianism
• consensus decision-making
• direct democracy
• military dictatorship
• oligarchy
• one-party state
• party solidarity
• representation by population
• proportional representation
• representative democracy
• responsible government
• democracy
• single-member constituency (first past the post)
• the Senate
• the House of Commons
• the House of Representatives
• the Senate
• mixed-member proportional system
• lobby groups
• American Bill of Rights
• Anti-Terrorism Act
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• emergency and security legislation
• illiberal
• language legislation
• Bill 101
• Bill 178
• Bill 86
• Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
• respect for law and order
• terrorism
• rendition
• the War Measures Act
• enemy aliens
• internment
• the Emergencies Act
• USA PATRIOT Act
• consumerism
• environmental change
• extremism
• pandemics
• postmodernism
• global warming
• Kyoto Protocol
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• drought

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 3 WRA II Essay today in the Blenheim Room, you should get the results back within two weeks.

May 16

Social 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint lecture called "The Imposition of Liberalism". If you missed class on Thursday, please check out the Google Slides version of this lecture on the Social 30-1 wiki on the Unit 3 Presentations page. Make sure that you complete your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions for Tuesday. On Friday, May 24th you will be writing your Chapter 10 Test, you can find the study guide below. You're writing the Unit 3 WRA II Essay on Wednesday, May 22nd.

CHAPTER 10 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions. Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism". You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Worksheet. Please review the following as well: 

• Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
• Structure of Canadian Government
• Structure of American Government
• similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• authoritarian systems
• proportional representation concept
• first past the post system
• review political and economic spectrum (again!)

Social 20-1

I started a lecture in Thursday's class called "Internationalism and Nationalism" which I will finish on Tuesday. Please don't forget that your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, March 21st.

December 5

SOCIAL 30-1

I went through a lecture on "The Imposition of Liberalism" today, focusing mostly on how the imposition of liberalism has affected Aboriginal groups in Canada. I'll post this lecture on the wiki today since it's not in your coursebooks. For 30-1 students: remember that your Unit 3 WRA I source interpretation chart is due tomorrow. For 30-2 students: your WRA II writing sample is due tomorrow. Please don't forget that your Canada-USA Comparative Government Assignment is due on Monday, December 10th. 

SOCIAL 10-1

I collected your TNC Dossier Assignments today at the beginning of class. I started a lecture on "Globalization and Sustainability". I started a short documentary called "Made in Bangladesh" which I'll finish off tomorrow.Your Chapter 13 and 14 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, December 6th (tomorrow). 

IB 20 HOTA

You wrote your Paper 2 Essay today in class. You had some time to touch base with your dictator groups at the end of the period today. Please go directly to the Blue Lab tomorrow (sit with your dictator group as much as possible).