April 4

Social 10-1

You wrote your Chapter 7 Test today, hopefully you'll get the results back this week. Please remember that you're writing your Unit 2 WRA I in the Blue Lab in the Library tomorrow, so please go there directly.

Social 20-1

We looked at the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor today. The focus was mainly on the internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII. There's a PowerPoint lecture in your Social 20-1 coursebook that I recommend you read over, and I showed a documentary today called "Tides of War".  The Chapter 5-6 Test is on Thursday, April 5th (tomorrow)

CHAPTER 5-6 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• the Black Hand
• Gavrillo Princip
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Battle of Tannenberg
• the Schlieffen Plan
• Plan 17
• General von Moltke
• Battle of the Marne
• Alsace and Lorraine
• total war
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• the Brusilov Offensive
• sinking of the Lusitania
• the Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• General Ludendorff
• Friedrich Ebert
• Paris Peace Conference
• David Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson
• Fourteen Points
• Georges Clemenceau
• Vittorio Orlando
• League of Nations
• plebiscites
• reparations
• collective security
• war debts
• Treaty of Versailles
• "war guilt clause"
• "Manchurian Incident"
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
• expansionism
• Hirohito
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Kristallnacht
• the Nuremberg Laws
• any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

• MAIN Causes of World War I
• the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
• the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
• the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
• Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years notes from the Unit 2 study booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
• failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
• appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism) 

IB 30/35

It is very timely that we are talking about the U.S. civil rights movement right now, since today marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King. Please have a look at the YouTube video that I have posted below. I finished off the PowerPoint lecture today that I started yesterday, and even had time to give you an idea of how difficult literacy tests were by having you write one in 10 minutes that was used in Louisiana to deny African-Americans to right to register to vote. We'll start the PBS documentary series "Eyes on the Prize" tomorrow.

April 3

IB 30/35

I finished the lecture today on the Reconstruction era, and then I moved on to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. This unit will be extremely important for your IB exams in May, especially Paper 3. 

SOCIAL 20-1

You got your Unit 2 WRA I back today. We looked at Japanese ultranationalism today in class, and we got to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which pulled the USA into the Second World War. Please make sure that you go over the PowerPoint notes in your Social 20-1 coursebook called "Ultranationalism in WWII" (you need to cover Germany and Italy on your own). I showed you an excerpt from the movie "Pearl Harbor" as well. 

You will also have the Chapter 5-6 Test on Thursday, April 5th, please see the study guide below. 

CHAPTER 5-6 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test will have a matching section, and a long answer section.

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• the Black Hand
• Gavrillo Princip
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Battle of Tannenberg
• the Schlieffen Plan
• Plan 17
• General von Moltke
• Battle of the Marne
• Alsace and Lorraine
• total war
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• the Brusilov Offensive
• sinking of the Lusitania
• the Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• General Ludendorff
• Friedrich Ebert
• Paris Peace Conference
• David Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson
• Fourteen Points
• Georges Clemenceau
• Vittorio Orlando
• League of Nations
• plebiscites
• reparations
• collective security
• war debts
• Treaty of Versailles
• "war guilt clause"
• "Manchurian Incident"
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
• expansionism
• Hirohito
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Kristallnacht
• the Nuremberg Laws
• any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

• MAIN Causes of World War I
• the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
• the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
• the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
• Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years notes from the Unit 2 study booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
• failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
• appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism) 

SOCIAL 10-1

We started a film study of the residential school system called "Where the Spirit Lives" today. We'll finish it on Friday. You're writing the Chapter 7 Test tomorrow, and you're writing the Unit 2 WRA I on Thursday, April 5th.

Your Chapter 7 Test is on Wednesday, April 4th, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and ashort answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:

• historical globalization
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• Adam Smith
• entrepreneur
• communism
• industrialization
• the Industrial Revolution
• cottage system
• physiocrats
• exploitation
• imperialism
• Eurocentrism
• ethnocentrism
• European imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

• What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
• What values are associated with capitalism?
• Whose values did industrialization effect?
• Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
• What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
• In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

March 30

IB 30/35

I finished off the "Civil Rights Movement" PowerPoint lecture today, and we started watching Episode 1: Awakenings of the PBS series "Eyes on the Prize". You have a film study sheet that goes with Episode 1, so as you watch the documentary series I want you to answer the questions on a separate piece of paper. You will be submitting these for homework check marks. On April 13th you will be writing a Civil Rights Movement Test, and on April 20th you will be writing a Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement. Here's a list of upcoming important dates:

• Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Wednesday, April 6th
• Paper 3 Essay Outline (Diploma students only) is due on April 11th
• Civil Rights Movement Test is on April 13th
• Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement is on April 20th

Social 10-1

I showed you a couple of videos today, although one of them messed up due to the shoddy Internet connection at the school. I'm embedding both videos below. I also gave you time to work on your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Friday. Please don't forget that you have your Chapter 7 Test on Monday, April 4th (please see the study guide below).

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and a short answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:

• historical globalization
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• Adam Smith
• entrepreneur
• communism
• industrialization
• the Industrial Revolution
• cottage system
• physiocrats
• exploitation
• imperialism
• Eurocentrism
• ethnocentrism
• European imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

• What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
• What values are associated with capitalism?
• Whose values did industrialization effect?
• Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
• What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
• In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

Social 30-1

We went through the "Gorbachev to Collapse" reading today, and you had time to work on either your Chapter 5 Questions (due tomorrow, March 31st) or the "Economic Planning in the USSR" section in your Social 30-1 workbook.

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be written on Monday, April 4th. 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)

March 29

IB 30/35

We started a new unit today on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. We're half way through this lecture, which we should be able to finish off tomorrow. I also gave you back your Social 30-1 WRA I assignment.

Social 30-1

We covered the Soviet economic system today in class, and we covered some general notes on the Soviet leaders. You have to go through the readings that I assigned from your 30-1 workbook.

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be written on Monday, April 4th. 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

I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "Legacies of Historical Globalization" today. we'll be talking about the Scramble for Africa in greater detail tomorrow. I gave you back your Unit 1 WRA II Essay today as well.

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and ashort answer section.

1. Key Terms for Chapter 7 Test:

• historical globalization
• the Silk Road
• international trade
• the Columbian exchange (the grand exchange)
• mercantilism
• capitalism
• free market
• Adam Smith
• entrepreneur
• communism
• industrialization
• the Industrial Revolution
• cottage system
• physiocrats
• exploitation
• imperialism
• Eurocentrism
• ethnocentrism
• European imperialism
• "old" imperialism
• "new" imperialism
• colony
• protectorate
• sphere of influence

2. Study the Questions for Inquiry from Chapter 7 (be able to answer these questions using case studies and examples that we have covered in class):

• What were the beginnings of global trading networks?
• What values are associated with capitalism?
• Whose values did industrialization effect?
• Why did England industrialize before other European powers?
• What were some of the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
• In what ways did imperialism benefit one people over another?

July 28

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam today, and most of you got the results back today. I also gave back your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment, and your Unit 3 WRA I three source analysis assignment. We also did a little preparation for a WRA II essay outline. I'll post the essay outline that we did in class on the Social 30-1 wiki. I did a homework check on your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions, the background knowledge questions from your Civil Rights Movement assignment sheet, and I took in your essay outlines as well. Please remember that you have your Trial Final on Wednesday, the study guide is in your Social 30-1 workbooks. Make sure that you read the article in your workbooks on CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom.

April 10

IB 20 HOTA

You should have watched the following YouTube video from the Crash Course World History series on the Haitian Revolution.



Most of today's class should have been spent preparing for tomorrow's four option debate. You should have met with other members of your option to prepare opening statements, and your arguments and counter-arguments.

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I three source analysis assignment today, and it should have taken about 65 minutes to write. In the remaining class time, you should have read Chapter 10 in Perspectives on Globalization.

IB 30/35

You wrote your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Test today. Please remember that your edited group task pages on the wiki need to be completed 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.

March 17

IB 30/35

We started the U.S. Civil Rights Movement today. I started a PowerPoint lecture on this topic, and then I showed an excerpt from Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. We'll return to this topic on Wednesday. Please remember that you have your Cold War Exam tomorrow, this is a Social 30-1 multiple choice exam. Please see the study guide below.

Cold War Exam Study Guide:

Make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts:

• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention

Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security

• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
• anything that I gave you as a handout/notes on the wiki is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 10-1

You did a first draft of your introductory paragraph for your Unit 1 WRA II Essay for part of today's class. You then had an opportunity to get two other students do a peer edit of the essay when we returned to the classroom. Tomorrow you'll go directly to Room 104 to finish writing your essays.

IB 20 HOTA

We started our constitutional convention today, and we'll finish it off tomorrow.

April 15

IB 30/35

You wrote your Civil Rights Movement Test for part of the period today. I then delivered a PowerPoint lecture on "LBJ and the Great Society". This presentation should already be on the wiki under American Presidents. Hopefully, you'll finish off this lecture tomorrow. Please remember that for April 16th to 18th that I'll be in Toronto for SOMA, so you need to go directly to Room 121 for class. You're writing a Paper 3 on Thursday. I also returned homework to you.

Social 30-1

We watched a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series today. One was called "The Road to Berlin" and the other "Cold War Confrontations". I also covered the Korean War today as best I could. I gave you the Korean War notes today that went along with the PowerPoint.

Social 20-1

We finished watching "White Light/Black Rain" today. You should have completed the film study sheet that went along with the video. I'm including some links here to the CBC Digital Archive on the Hiroshima Maiden Project. If you have some time, you might want to check out these stories.

• CBC Digital Archive: Hiroshima Maidens
• Hiroshima Bombing was justified says survivor

April 12

I just realized that I forgot to post this on Friday. Sorry for the delay...

IB 30/35

We met in Room 121 to watch an A & E Biography of Malcolm X. Please remember that you have your Civil Rights Movement Test on Monday. You also have your Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement on Thursday, April 18th.

Make sure that you review your IB command terms again! Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:

• What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
• What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
• Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
• To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
• How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
• Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
• What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
• Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
• What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
• The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
• Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.

Social 30-1

I finished off the "Origins of the Cold War" PowerPoint presentation today. I will send it to you this weekend. Please remember that your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, April 18th.

Social 20-1

We watched a documentary video from the History's Turning Points series called "The Atomic Bomb" today, and we also started watching "White Light/Black Rain" which covered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We'll finish off the video next week. As you were watching "White Light/Black Rain" you were supposed to be completing a film study sheet.

April 10

Social 30-1

You wrote your Nazi Germany Quiz today. You'll get the results of this quiz tomorrow. We watched a little bit of "Triumph of the Will" and then you were to use the remainder of class time to read Chapter 7 in your textbook. Make sure that you read this chapter prior to tomorrow's class since we're starting the Cold War tomorrow.

Social 20-1

After having another look at some exemplars of the Unit 2 dossier research assignment, we watched a documentary film called "Genocide". Tomorrow we'll continue with the Holocaust by watching excerpts from "Schindler's List" and the prosecution of the Nazi war criminals at the conclusion of WWII.

IB 30/35

We watched Episode 6 of the PBS documentary series "Eyes on the Prize" today, it was called "Bridge to Freedom". While you watched the film you were to answer questions from the film study worksheet. Your answers to these questions are due tomorrow. Please remember that you have a Civil Rights Movement Test on Monday, April 15th and a Paper 3 on the Civil Rights Movement on Thursday, April 18th.

Make sure that you review your IB command terms again! Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:

• What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
• What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
• Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
• To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
• How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
• Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
• What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
• Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
• What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
• The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
• Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.

April 9

IB 30/35

We watched Episode 5 of the PBS series "Eyes on the Prize" today. This episode was called "Mississippi: Is This America?" and centered obviously on the civil rights struggle in the state of Mississippi. Please make sure that you complete your answers to this episode and hand them in tomorrow. I did a homework check on Episode 4 questions to "Eyes on the Prize" today as well as your major U.S. Civil Rights Movement assignment.

Social 20-1

I started a PowerPoint lecture today that covered the Holocaust and the Nuremberg Trials. I finished most of the lecture today. We also drew lots today and you drafted topics of interest from Unit 2. One week from today you will get one period of research in library. If you think that you will need more time to research, start doing research now on the topic that you picked.

Social 30-1

Most of today's class was spent writing your Chapter 5 Test. You will get the results of this test tomorrow. Tomorrow you will be writing a matching quiz on Nazi Germany. Please see the study guide below.

Nazi Germany Quiz Study Guide:

This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. This quiz will be written on Wednesday, April 10th. What you'll have is a list of key people, key terms and key events associated with Nazi Germany (this is your word bank) and then you'll have a description that you'll have to match it up with. Here's a list of possible key terms that you might see on this quiz:

• anti-Semitism
• Aryan
• concentration camp
• corporate state
• Dachau
• decree
• deportation
• dissent
• elite
• Enabling Act
• ethnic
• Führerprinzip
• Gestapo
• Hitler
• Holocaust
• indoctrination
• inequality
• inflation
• judicial
• jugend
• Mein Kampf
• Kristallnacht
• nationalism
• Nazi
• Niemoller
• Nuremberg
• passive
• plebiscites
• pogrom
• Reichstag
• Ruhr
• SA
• SS
• state
• swastika
• War Guilt Clause
• White Rose

April 8

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent watching Episode 4 "No Easy Walk (1961-1963)" from the PBS series "Eyes on the Prize". Your answers to this episode's questions are due tomorrow, as is your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment. You will have a Civil Rights Movement Test on Monday, April 15th. You can find the study guide for this test below. Also next week, on Thursday, April 18th you will be writing a Paper 3 on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:

• What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
• What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
• Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
• To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
• How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
• Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
• What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
• Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
• What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
• The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
• Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.

Social 30-1

Most of today's class was spent writing your Unit 2 WRA I. Please don't forget that you have your Chapter 5 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). You also have your Nazi Germany Quiz on Wednesday, please check out the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 20-1

The entire class period today was spent writing your Chapter 5-6 Test. We'll begin our examination of the Holocaust tomorrow.