November 17

Social 30-1

You wrote your Cold War Exam today. I also did a homework check on your "Good Night, and Good Luck" film study assignment. Please remember that you have your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions due tomorrow. You have another major assessment this week, your Unit 2 Final Exam on Thursday. Please see the study guide below. STUDY!

You will get the results of your Cold War Exam tomorrow.

Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, November 20th. It will be a 70-75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. It is recommended that you focus on your review on the PowerPoint lectures and material from your Social 30-1 study booklet. 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
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• 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 (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
• A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
• Totalitarianism notes
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
• do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model

IB 20 HOTA

You got some marked assignments back from me today: your French Revolution DBA Assignment and your Latin American Revolutionary Leader Facebook Assignment. I showed you a Crash Course in History YouTube video on the War of 1812 to start with, and then we started watching a documentary on the War of 1812 today. Please remember that you have a Unit 6 Quiz on Wednesday (matching and OPVL analysis) which covers the "Forging the New Republic" PowerPoint lecture and the War of 1812 (make sure you study the causes, practices and effects on the wiki under Collaborative Notes and the War of 1812 booklet).

Here is the YouTube video that I showed you in class:

November 14

Social 30-1

I went through the differences between positive and negative freedoms. I gave you the remainder of time to work on your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Tuesday, November 18th. Your film study questions on "Good Night, and Good Luck" are due on Monday, November 17th. Please remember that you are writing your Cold War Exam on Monday as well. You can find the study guide for the Chapter 7 (Cold War) Exam below. You're also writing your Unit 2 Final Exam on Thursday, November 20th, and you can find the study guide below.

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

It is a multiple choice test with 70-75 multiple choice questions. This test is on Monday, November 17th. Please make sure that you have read Chapter 7. Here are some other study tips:

• study "The Origins of the Cold War (ppt)"
• study all notes on the Origins and Causes of the Cold War
• study notes on the Korean War
• study notes on the Cuban Missile Crisis
• study notes on the Vietnam War (see notes package and Vietnam War booklet, and the notes that I sent to you on the Vietnam War)
• make sure that you know all the Cold War Concepts
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timeline and the Vietnam War timeline, and the end of the Cold War timeline that I will be giving you in subsequent class)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I will give you next week on this topic.
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 30-1 Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 2 Final Exam is on Thursday, November 20th. It will be a 70-75 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
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• 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 (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
• A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
• Totalitarianism notes
• Fascism/Nazism booklet (has techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
• do a brief review of the political spectrum and economic spectrum and the quadrant model

IB 20 HOTA

I finished off the "Forging the New Republic" PowerPoint presentation today. You can find this lecture on the IB 20 wiki under Unit 6. I also gave you the War of 1812 reading booklet today as well. We'll be doing a four options debate on the War of 1812 on November 24th.

April 28

IB 30/35

I showed you a video from the United States History series that covered U.S. Politics from 1980 to 2000 (the Reagan to the Clinton administrations). While you watched the video, you should have taken notes. I talked a little bit about the 2000 U.S. Presidential election today as well. We're getting into Social 30-1 material tomorrow when we start talking about illiberalism and the USA PATRIOT Act.

Social 10-1

I showed you a video today called "Life + Debt", which is a good case study of Jamaica's increasing foreign debt, and impacts of economic policies from the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and the Inter-American Development Bank. We looked at the impact on the Jamaican produce industry, the dairy industry, the banana industry and the impact of the "free zones". We'll Please remember that your WTO charts are due tomorrow, and your Chapter 11 Questions are due on Wednesday.

IB 20 HOTA

We finished off the War of 1812 documentary today and then you wrote your Unit 6 Quiz afterwards. Your War of 1812 Website Assignment is due tomorrow.

April 25

IB 30/35

I finished off the lecture of George H.W. Bush administration and then I moved to cover the Bill Clinton administration. This would be a great weekend to do some IB History review. You should edit pages on the Collaborative Notes section of the wiki for the American Presidents that we've been studying lately.

Social 10-1

I gave you back your Unit 2 WRA I three source analysis assignments today. I will be going through these assignments on Monday in tutorial (starting at 8:15), you are strongly encouraged to attend tutorial. I went through a PowerPoint lecture today called "Expansion of Economic Globalization" today. I also gave you a booklet on the WTO today as well. You must make an advantages and disadvantages chart on the WTO, make it a detailed chart too. The WTO chart is due on Tuesday. Your Chapter 11 Questions are due on Wednesday.

IB 20 HOTA

You wrote a current events quiz today. We continued watching the PBS documentary on the War of 1812, we didn't finish it, so hopefully we'll be able to finish it on Monday. You do have a homework assignment this weekend (although it is due on Tuesday): please go to the IB 20 wiki this weekend, go to the Unit 6: Nation Building and Challenges section. Please complete the War of 1812 Website Assignment for Tuesday, April 29th. Please remember that you have your Unit 6 Quiz on Monday. This quiz has a matching section and an OPVL analysis section.

April 24

IB 20 HOTA

I finished off the PowerPoint lecture "Forging the New Republic", and then we started the PBS documentary on the War of 1812. We'll be able to finish off the documentary tomorrow. Make sure that you read everyday from the War of 1812 booklet in preparation for the four options debate on the War of 1812 that we'll be having on Wednesday. Please remember that you'll be writing a Unit 6 Quiz on Monday that will have a matching section and an OPVL document analysis section.

Social 10-1

I lectured a bit today about John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman. I also taught you about the boom and bust cycle and the Keynesian economic response to the various stages of the boom and bust cycle. Your Chapter 11 Key Terms are due tomorrow.

IB 30/35

We finished off the HBO documentary "Reagan" today, and then I began discussing the George H.W. Bush administration. We'll continue with the Bush administration tomorrow. Read my lips: no new taxes!

April 23

Social 10-1

We completed our debate today on "BIRT the 21st century will belong to China". We'll continue with Unit 3 material tomorrow.

IB 20 HOTA

I continued the PowerPoint lecture called "Forging the New Republic". I should be able to finish off this lecture tomorrow. We'll start a documentary on the War of 1812 tomorrow. I gave you the War of 1812 reading package that you'll need for our four options debate on the War of 1812 next Wednesday. Your Latin American revolutionary leaders Facebook assignment is due tomorrow.

IB 30/35

I finished off the PowerPoint on Ronald Reagan, and then started showing you the HBO documentary "Reagan". We'll finish off the documentary tomorrow, and then transition into the George H.W. Bush administration.

November 20

IB 30/35

We finished off the "Japanese Invasion of Manchuria" PowerPoint presentation today in class. I will post this presentation on the IB 30 wiki. You have a homework assignment due tomorrow from your Paper 1 Study Booklet. Please make sure that you complete the Student Study Section on page78 and on page 80. Please continue to prepare for your Paper 1 on Prescribed Subject 1 on Friday.

IB 20

We had our War of 1812 debate today which took most of the class. On Thursday, you will have a matching quiz on material from Unit 6 up to the War of 1812. Tomorrow we'll look at Andrew Jackson's presidency.

Social 10-1

We finished our film study of "The Age of Wal-Mart" today. Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday. Tomorrow, you'll be writing your Chapter 10-11 Test, please see the study guide here.

November 19

IB 30/35

You wrote your Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs Unit Test today. You will get your individual results tomorrow in class. After the test, we started looking at the Japanese Invasion of Manchuria, which we will continue tomorrow. Please start preparing for your Paper 1 that will happen on Friday.

Social 10-1

We finished off "The Corporation" today, and then we went right into "The Age of Wal-Mart" film study. We'll finish off that film study tomorrow. Please remember that you have your Chapter 10-11 Test on Wednesday, please see the study guide here. Here's the video that I tried to show you in class:

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IB 20

I gave you some notes on the formation of American political parties which will help you not only this year, but next year. I gave you the remainder of the class time to work in your groups for tomorrow's War of 1812 debate. On Thursday you will have a matching quiz on material covered so far in Unit 6.

November 16

I apologize for not posting on the blog last night, it was a busy afternoon and evening...

IB 20

You should have submitted your Facebook timeline assignment to me by now. I want a link to the group not to the individual profiles! We finished watching the PBS documentary on the War of 1812. I want you to complete the TOK Links in your History of the Americas textbook on pages 86-87. You should also complete the War of 1812 website assignment that is in Unit 6 Nation Building and Challenges on the IB 20 wiki.

Social 10-1

We continued our film study of "The Corporation", and I was able to show you some exemplars of the TNC Dossier Assignment as well. The TNC Dossier Assignment is due on November 28th, and you will not receive any class time to complete it. Don't forget that you have your Chapter 10-11 Test on Wednesday, please see the study guide here.

IB 30/35

I finished off the lecture on disarmament conferences in the Interwar Years at the beginning of class, and then you had some time to complete your homework assignments that are due on Monday. Please remember that you have your Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs Test on Monday, please see the study guide here.