March 11

Social 30-1

I started a lecture on "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" today, which I will try to finish off tomorrow. This lecture covers part of Chapter 4 and Chapter 6. On Friday, you are writing the Chapter 3-4 Test (Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test), please see the study guide below.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is on Friday, March 13th. This is a multiple choice test.

 1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations:

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

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

Social 10-1

We were able to do an activity based around the story "The Rabbits". This book addresses some of the themes that we'll be looking at Unit 2, such as cultural contact, assimilation, imperialism, differing world views, and residential schools. We spent a fair bit of time looking at the symbolism in the book and some of the themes that the book introduces. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. You are writing the Unit 1 WRA II position paper tomorrow in the Blenheim Room. 

IB 30/35

I started a lecture today on "US Foreign Policy in Latin America", please go through the remaining slides are your own. We also watch the "Backyard" episode of the CNN Cold War series. I've posted notes on the IB 30/35 wiki for this episode. Please be ready for tomorrow's activity!

October 16

IB 20 HOTA

I showed you the A & E Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte today. You have a homework assignment on Napoleon's domestic policies that is due tomorrow. One week from today your French Revolution DBA Assignment is due. I've uploaded the most recent version of this assignment to the IB 20 wiki. We'll be discussing the causes of the French Revolution tomorrow and Napoleon's domestic policies. On Friday, I'm going to re-teach you how to write a three source interpretation (WRA I) in advance of your WRA I on the French Revolution that you're writing next week. Please have a look at the upcoming important dates for IB 20.

Upcoming Important Dates for IB 20 HOTA:

• French Revolution WRA I is on Monday, October 22nd
• IA research session, Blue Lab booked Tuesday, October 23rd
• French Revolution DBA Assignment is due October 23rd
• French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Test is on Wednesday, October 24th (please see the study guide below)

Unit 5 Test Study Guide: (French Revolution and Napoleonic Age Test) 

This test will have a mixed format: matching section, short answer section and a multiple choice section. This test will be written on Wednesday, October 24th. Please use the following study guide tips.

• study "The French Revolution" Google Slides presentation (on the IB 20 wiki)
• study "The Napoleonic Age" Google Slides presentation (on the IB 20 wiki; this presentation also contains information on the Congress of Vienna)

1. Study the following key terms, key events and key people associated with the French Revolution: (check the glossary of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Age that is on the wiki; also check out the Timetoast timeline links on the IB 20 wiki)

• cahiers
• Law of Suspects
• Marat
• the “Plain”
• National Assembly
• the Directory
• Civil Constitution of the Clergy
• Danton
• Committee of Public Safety
• the Three Estates
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• Clergy
• Nobility
• Bourgeoisie
• “nobles-of-the-sword”
• “nobles-of-the-robe”
• “nobles-of-the-bell”
• corvée
• gabelle
• vingtièmes
• Levée en Masse
• National Convention
• September Massacres
• Reign of Terror
• Robespierre
• Parlement du Paris
• the Tennis Court Oath
• the National Guard
• the Marquis de Lafayette
• Paris Commune
• National Guard
• émigrés
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• Estates-General
• Republic of Virtue
• Revolutionary Tribunal
• Declaration of the Rights of Man

2. Other study tips:

• know the causes of the French Revolution (short term, long term, economic, political, social, intellectual)
• know the structure of French society during the Old Regime
• know Napoleon's domestic policy
• know Napoleon's foreign policy (Continental System in particular)
• know key battles in the Napoleonic Wars (results of the Battle of Trafalgar, Russian campaign, the Battle of Leipzig, and the Battle of Waterloo)
• know chronology of key events in the French Revolution
• know the chronology of key events in the Napoleonic Age
• know the key players at the Congress of Vienna (country and representatives)
• what were the major decisions of the Congress? what were the guiding principles at the Congress of Vienna
• know the 19th century political spectrum (please see the graphic below; values and characteristics of the various positions on the spectrum; what groups are represented on the various positions on the spectrum?; what phases/accomplishments of the French Revolution are represented on the spectrum?)

3. Study the 19th century political spectrum (click on the graphic to enlarge it)

If you're still worried about the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Age, here is a Crash Course in History video hosted by John Green (yes, the author of "The Fault in Our Stars"; I had no idea he wrote young adult novels until recently, to me, he was "the Crash Course in History guy"). Enjoy!

Social 10-1

We were able to do an activity based around the story "The Rabbits". This book addresses some of the themes that we'll be looking at Unit 2, such as cultural contact, assimilation, imperialism, differing world views, and residential schools. You would have spent a fair bit of time looking at the symbolism in the book and some of the themes that the book introduces.Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. 

Social 30-1

You wrote your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test today. I'll post the results today on PowerSchool. Next Wednesday, you will be writing the Market and Mixed Economy Test, please see the study guide below.

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Wednesday, October 24th

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• 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), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
• nationalization
• 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
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession

March 9

IB 30/35

You watched a National Geographic video called "Inside North Korea" today in class. This video was set during the time of Kim Jong-il, but North Korea is relatively unchanged since the making of the video. The divided Korean peninsula is a legacy of the Cold War, and Mr. Kerr may have discussed current events surrounding Kim Jong-un and North Korean missile testing. Please be ready to write your Cold War exam next Tuesday (March 13th), you can find the study guide below.

SOCIAL 10-1

We were able to do an activity based around the story "The Rabbits". This book addresses some of the themes that we'll be looking at Unit 2, such as cultural contact, assimilation, imperialism, differing world views, and residential schools. You would have spent a fair bit of time looking at the symbolism in the book and some of the themes that the book introduces.Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. 

Social 20-1

Mr. Kerr would have lectured today on how the Allied Powers won the First World War, and how that led into the Paris Peace Conference. I'll continue lecturing on this topic on Monday.

October 10

Social 10-1

We were able to do an activity based around the story "The Rabbits". This book addresses some of the themes that we'll be looking at Unit 2, such as cultural contact, assimilation, imperialism, differing world views, and residential schools. We spent a fair bit of time looking at the symbolism in the book and some of the themes that the book introduces.Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Please prepare for your Unit 1 WRA II Essay tonight. My Period 3 class is booked into the Blue Lab (please go there directly tomorrow), and my Period 4 class is in Room 104. You'll be able to write your first paragraph and have it peer edited in class.  

IB 30/35

I went through a lot of handouts/notes today on the command economy. If you missed today's class, you should get these handouts and notes from a friend.

MARKET ECONOMY AND MIXED ECONOMY TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be on Wednesday, October 18th

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• 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), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
• nationalization
• 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
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession

March 15

Social 20-1

I showed you a couple of videos today, one from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay", and the other was A & E Biography called "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". Hopefully you completed the Interwar Years reading assignment prior to today's class.

Social 10-1

We were able to do an activity based around the story "The Rabbits". This book addresses some of the themes that we'll be looking at Unit 2, such as cultural contact, assimilation, imperialism, differing world views, and residential schools. We spent a fair bit of time looking at the symbolism in the book and some of the themes that the book introduces.Your  Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, March 17th. 

March 10

IB 30/35

I showed you a short documentary from the Discovery Channel called "Escape from Berlin" which detailed the construction of the Berlin Wall. We then did a review of how to write a WRA I, and I gave you a sample Social 30-1 WRA I from the Great Depression. Please remember that you're writing a Social 30-1 WRA I on the Cold War tomorrow.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test today. You will get the results of this test back tomorrow. You'll also find out what your overall mark is in Social 30-1 to this point in the semester. The deadline to switch from Social 30-1 to 30-2 is March 17th. Your parents need to sign the form, so if you're switching, you need to take these forms home soon.

Social 10-1

We were able to do an activity based around the story "The Rabbits". This book addresses some of the themes that we'll be looking at Unit 2, such as cultural contact, assimilation, imperialism, differing world views, and residential schools. We spent a fair bit of time looking at the symbolism in the book and some of the themes that the book introduces. Please read Chapter 7 tonight. 

 

October 15

IB 30/35

You wrote your Civil War and Reconstruction Test today. Remember, you have your Paper 3 on the Civil War and Reconstruction tomorrow.

Social 30-1

You watched the A & E Biography of Joseph Stalin, which was called "Stalin: Red Terror". As you watched this documentary, you should have completed all of the film study questions. You had the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 5 Questions. Please check out the study guides below for your upcoming tests.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test Study Guide:

This exam will be on Monday, October 19th

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• 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), you can find this on the Social 30-1 wiki
• nationalization
• 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
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession

Economic Systems Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be written on Thursday, October 22nd. 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), page 78-80 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
• supply-side economics (page 84 in study booklet)
• boom and bust cycle/business cycle (pages 50-54 and pages 56-62 in 30-1 study booklet)
• 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 (pages 63-64 in 30-1 study booklet)
• 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): pages 73-76 in the study booklet
• also see the Democratic Socialism booklet on Sweden (indicative planning, "cradle to the grave" economics/"womb to tomb economics"): pages 65-72 in 30-1 booklets
• 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) pages 81-82 in the Social 30-1 study booklet 
• 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): pages 81-82 in the 30-1 booklet
• 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 (pages 94-96 in 30-1 booklet)
• Lenin notes (pages 97-98 in 30-1 booklet)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process): study pages 105-114 in the Social 30-1 booklet
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• "Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
• Stalin notes (pages 99-101)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev): pages 116-117 in 30-1 booklet
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes: pages 118-121 in 30-1 booklet
• Economic Planning in the USSR: pages 122-129 in 30-1 booklet
• Market Socialism (pages 130-132 in the Social 30-1 booklet)

 

Social 10-1

 

We were able to do an activity based around the story "The Rabbits". This book addresses some of the themes that we'll be looking at Unit 2, such as cultural contact, assimilation, imperialism, differing world views, and residential schools. We spent a fair bit of time looking at the symbolism in the book and some of the themes that the book introduces. I did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today. Please read Chapter 7 tonight.

 

March 19

Social 10-1

We were able to do an activity based around the story "The Rabbits". These book addresses some of the themes that we'll be looking at Unit 2, such as cultural contact, assimilation, imperialism, differing world views, and residential schools. We spent a fair bot of time looking at the symbolism in the book and some of the themes that the book introduces. I did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today. Please remind me tomorrow to show you the results of your Unit 1 Final Exam.

IB 20 HOTA

We spent the entire period discussing the IA. I gave you a booklet that you should use as a guide to complete the various sections of your IA. We're booked into a computer lab tomorrow so that you can start working on your IA.

IB 30/35

We watched Episode 1 of "Eyes on the Prize" today. You were given a question sheet to go along with this episode, the questions from this worksheet are due tomorrow (April 4th). Episode 1 of "Eyes on the Prize" focused in on the murder of Emmett Till and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. On the timeline that is on the video study guide for this episode it also mentions the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, however, the makers of Eyes on the Prize focus in on Emmett Till's murder, and the short public trial of his murderers. You can see Till's murder as a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement, and the open casket funeral of Emmett Till and the publication of the photos in Jet magazine as a catalyst for change in America's attitudes. Mississippi, where Till's murder took place gained national notoriety as a hotbed for white supremacy as well. If you are interested in the Till case you might want to do a little investigation of your own into the impact that the murder had on popular culture. Numerous songs, plays, poems, novels, TV shows and movies have drawn inspiration from the murder of Emmett Till and the court case. You may see parallels between the Till case and Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird (one of my personal favorites) to the TV show In the Heat of the Night (it was previously a movie too),and to the Bob Dylan song "The Death of Emmett Till". With the Montgomery Bus Boycott segment of the episode you saw the emergence of Martin Luther King on the national stage. We'll be exploring his role and leadership in the movement in the days to come.

I also talked briefly about rhetoric in the speeches of Martin Luther King. Check out this link for a bit of rhetorical analysis of the "I Have a Dream Speech", and a transcript of the speech.

October 12

IB 30/35

You wrote your Civil War and Reconstruction Test today. You'll write the second part of this exam on Monday when you write your in-class document analysis assignment. You have a Paper 3 on Tuesday, so please check out the PowerPoint that I posted on the wiki which gives you some advice on writing a Paper 3 on the Civil War and Reconstruction. Check out the historiography documents on the wiki as well.

Social 10-1

We did an activity based around the story "The Rabbits". This book addresses some of the themes that we'll be looking at Unit 2, such as cultural contact, assimilation, imperialism, differing world views, and residential schools. We spent a fair bit of time looking at the symbolism in the book and some of the themes that the book introduces. Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday.

IB 20

We finished our constitutional convention today. Unfortunately we didn't have time to get to all of the agenda items. We'll be examining the U.S. Constitution some more on Monday, and I'll teach you how to write a Paper 1 as well. On Tuesday, you'll be writing a Paper 1 on the American Revolution. You'll also be having an American Revolution Test next week as well.