December 4

Social 30-1

We continued looking at the concept of illiberalism today, by going through another case study on the usage of the War Measures Act in Canadian history, namely, the FLQ Crisis of 1970. We watched a video from the Turning Points in History series on the FLQ Crisis, and while you were watching this video you should have completed the fill in the blanks film study activities. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions. Please remember that the Civil Rights Assignment is due on Friday (just the front side of the assignment, questions 1-14). You're writing the Unit 3 WRA II position paper on Monday, December 9th (you'll get the essay question sheet in advance). One week from today (Wednesday, December 11th), you are writing the Chapter 10 Test (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 
• 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

We started Unit 3 material today. I had you do a survey on internationalism today, as well starting a lecture on "Nations, Nation-States, and Internationalism". We'll finish off this lecture tomorrow. I also shared with you the upcoming key dates for Social 20-1 (please see below).

• Unit 2 Final Exam is on Monday, December 9th
• Unit 3 WRA II position paper is on Monday, December 16th
• Unit 3 Final Exam is on Wednesday, December 18th
• Social 20-1 Part A is on Wednesday, January 8th (it's a position paper)
• Social 20-1 Part B is on Tuesday, January 14th 1-3 pm in the Main Gym (80 multiple choice questions)

IB 30/35

I went through a lecture on the international response to German expansion (1933-1940), which obviously took us into WWII.

I gave you a Take Home Paper 1 to do tonight. Take 60 minutes to write it at home tonight. We'll be in small groups tomorrow going through and making a key. I will also give you sample responses to the question, and you will have to decide as a group what mark the student should have received. Please remember that your Paper 1 Assignment is due on Friday, December 6th. You should also complete the following note-taking chart.

May 12

IB 30/35

You wrote your Paper 3 exam today, so obviously you didn't have class today. You will have class again on Monday, May 16th, when we will start Social 30-1 topics.

Social 30-1

You have a considerable amount of work to do over the next few days, so I gave you a work period today. Please look at the upcoming important dates.

Upcoming Important Dates:

• USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due tomorrow (May 13th)
• Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Monday, May 16th
• Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due on May 16th
• Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, May 17th (you will get a partial work period tomorrow to work on this)
• Unit 3 WRA I is on Thursday, May 19th

Social 10-1

We finished watching "Shipbreakers" today in class, and I continued with the "Globalization and Sustainability" presentation today. I'll finish off this lecture tomorrow. In tomorrow's class you'll get your Unit 3 essay question sheet. Your Unit 3 WRA II Essay is on Wednesday, May 18th.

December 4

Social 30-1

I went through some additional notes for page 267 in your Social 30-1 study booklets. We also talked a little about the controversy and debate that is taking place in Alberta Legislature surrounding Bill 10 and Bill 202. Here is a link to an article with some videos about both Bill 10 and Bill 202.

Here are some very important due dates for next week:

• USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due on Monday, December 8th
• US Civil Rights Movement Essay Outline is due on Tuesday, December 9th
• Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, December 10th
• Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday, December 11th

IB 20 HOTA

I continued with the Joseph Stalin and the USSR PowerPoint lecture today. I also showed you the Stalin and the USSR PDF that Ms. Breadner put up on the IB 20 wiki from an IB companion textbook for Topic 3 on the Paper 2. You must complete questions in both work sections from the "stalinandtheussr" PDF document that you can find on the IB 20 wiki under Unit 7 Dictatorships.

July 25

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 3 WRA I three source analysis assignment today. I should be able to have this marked for you by Monday. When we returned to the classroom, I returned your Unit 2 WRA II Essays back to you. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions today. We discussed a couple of important issues today: privacy and free speech. I showed you a documentary on free speech and the First Amendment rights in the U.S. The HBO documentary was called "Shouting Fire". As you watched this video, you should have taken notes on the case studies in the video (Ward Churchill, academic freedom post-9/11, conservative think-tanks going after left-wing academics; Debbie Almontaser, Principal of Khalil Gibran International Academy getting into trouble over t-shirts labelled as "Intifada NYC"; ACLU defense of Nazi Party of USA's march through Skokie, Illinois; Chase Harper's t-shirt protest against the "day of silence"; the fight to publish the Pentagon Papers; protests against at the Republican Nation Convention in New York City.)

Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Monday. Also due on Monday, is your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment. There are two parts to this assignment: the background knowledge questions on the front side of the assignment sheet, and an essay outline. The background knowledge questions will be counted as a homework check. The essay outline (see the Social 30-1 wiki, under Unit 3 Assignments you'll see the essay outline Word documents and a sample outline. Pick an essay question, save that document to your computer, write your essay outline in the Word document, save it to your computer, print off a hard copy to bring to class to have it marked. You will also be writing your Unit 3 Final Exam on Monday, please see the study guide below.

Upcoming Important Dates:

• Unit 3 Final Exam is on Monday, July 28th
• U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Monday, July 28th
• Social 30-1 Trial Final Exam is on Wednesday, July 30th (the study guide is in your blue workbooks on pages 333-345)

 Please check out the following links:

• Examples of the Standards of Students' Writing (this will give you an idea of what the standards are for the marking of Part A of the Diploma Exam. Remember, these are "low basket Es" that they put up)
• Quest A Plus website with Social 30-1 multiple choice exam questions (click on Practice Tests, and you can find multiple choice questions for all of your Diploma Exam courses)

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Monday, July 28th. 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 handouts/notes/packages:

• Democratic Systems (p.134-137)
• Non-Democratic Systems (p. 138-141)
• types of dictatorships (p. 142-143)
• techniques of dictatorships (p. 142- 143)
• Civil Rights Movement (study your notes from the Civil Rights Movement Assignment, p. 248-249)
• authoritarian systems (China notes/booklet, p. 250-255)
• review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
• re-read the notes on rights from your study booklets on p. 267 (civil rights, human rights, Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act, etc.)
• FLQ Crisis 1970 film study and document analysis booklet (p. 268-273)

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