May 9

Social 10

Unit 3 Final Exam has been moved to Thursday, May 15th
You wrote your Unit 3 Part A In-Class Writing Assignment today in class. Hopefully, you'll get results back next week. I am moving your Unit 3 Final Exam (multiple choice) to next Thursday (May 15th). Your homework assignment: send me by e-mail 5 multiple choice questions (with answers), 1 find the fib set of statements, 1 clue-style question, and 1 list-style question. This must be sent to me by e-mail Friday before 9 p.m. The study guide for the Unit 3 Final Exam is below.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Please make sure that you have read Chapters 10-14. Please make sure that you have the following PowerPoint presentations, and that you study from them:

• "Foundations of Economic Globalization"
• "The Expansion of Economic Globalization"
• "Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Globalization"
• "The Impact of Economic Globalization on Environments"
• "Globalization and Sustainability"

Make sure that you have reviewed the Key Terms from Unit 3 (all the terms listed on the Unit 3 Worksheet, plus the extra key terms that appeared in the PowerPoint presentations). The Unit 3 Final Exam will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, and will be held on Thursday, May 15th.

Social 33

We played a review game for most of today's class which covered the Interwar Years and WWII period. You will have a test on these topics on Monday, May 12th. Here is the study guide for the Interwar Years and World War II.

Interwar Years and WWII Unit Test Study Guide:

Key Terms, Key People, Key Events:

• League of Nations
• Woodrow Wilson
• Nazis
• Treaty of Versailles
• Paris Peace Conference
• "Big Three"
• isolationist policy of the United States
• self-determination
• Manchuria
• Abyssinia
• Mein Kampf
• Neville Chamberlain
• appeasement
• Munich Conference/Munich Agreement
• Anschluss
• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
• blitzkrieg
• the Holocaust
• concentration/extermination camps
• Pearl Harbour
• collective security and the League of Nations
• Maginot Line
• Rhineland
• Stalin
• Battle of Britain

Other Tips:

• key points in the Treaty of Versailles (GARGLe)
• FAILURe of the League of Nations (why did the League of Nations fail?)
• examples of the failure of the League of Nations (Abyssinia, Manchuria, the Spanish Civil War)
• who were the "Big Three" at the Paris Peace Conference, and what did they each want?
• know about the breakup of empires in post-WWI world (Austro-Hungarian as an example)
• what is self-determination?
• Hitler's main ideas and how he put them into action
• what is appeasement? why did Chamberlain employ it at the Munich conference?
• how did Hitler rise to power?
• what is Anschluss?
• what does blitzkrieg mean? what tactics are used in blitzkrieg?
• be able to name some Nazi concentration camps
• significance of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
• major turning points in WWII (fall of France, attack on Pearl Harbour, D-Day landing, use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki)

December 11

Social 10

I finished the presentation "Effects of Globalization on Individuals and Communities" today in class. I then gave you time to work on your Chapter 17 Key Terms and Questions. Here is the study guide for your Unit 3 Final Exam:

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Please make sure that you have read Chapters 10-14. Please make sure that you have the following PowerPoint presentations, and that you study from them:

• "Foundations of Economic Globalization"
• "The Expansion of Economic Globalization"
• "Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Globalization"
• "The Impact of Economic Globalization on Environments"
• "Globalization and Sustainability"

Make sure that you have reviewed the Key Terms from Unit 3 (all the terms listed on the Unit 3 Worksheet, plus the extra key terms that appeared in the PowerPoint presentations). The Unit 3 Final Exam will consist of 55-60 multiple choice questions, and will be held on Tuesday, December 18.

Social 20

I finished the PowerPoint presentation that I started yesterday called "Sustainable Development". I will send this presentation to you today, so please check your e-mail. We then started watching the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" Here's the hyperlink to the Climate Crisis website. You may have to click on the hyperlink for "Take Action" and then click on "Calculate Your Personal Impact".

Social Studies 20 Topic B Final Exam Study Guide:

50-60 multiple choice questions
Tuesday, December 18th

• glossary of key terms (know them well!)
• themes (diversity, disparity, interdependence, etc.)
• demographics
• demographic key terms (infant mortality rate, death rate, natural increase, etc.)
• population pyramid (be able to analyze)
• demographic transition model (know the various stages, be able to analyze)
• Thomas Malthus
• geographic regions (DCs, LDCs, LLDCs, First World, Third World, North/South divide)
• be able to distinguish between DC and LDC using statistics
• appropriate technology
• foreign aid (different types, different situations when aid is given; effectiveness? criticisms of foreign aid; would make a good “speaker” question)
• demographic pressures on the land and resources
• quality of life and standard of living
• environmentalism
• greenhouse effect, global warming, climate change
• environmental pressures (deforestation, desertification, etc.)
• availability of food (undernourishment, food consumption, SNU, etc.)
• food production issues (production, price, cash crops, subsistence agriculture)
• world health issues (WHO, malaria, HIV/AIDS, sanitation, clean drinking water)
• resources and development (industrial development, sustainable development, renewable energy resources, alternative energy sources)
• development and the role of multinational corporations in the developing world
• IMF and World Bank (what are they? what do they do?)
• GNP and GDP (what's the difference?)
• poverty reduction in the developing world