April 6

IB 30/35

We continued watching the PBS series "Eyes on the Prize", we watched Episode 2 today. Your Episode 2 questions are due on Monday. If you missed class today, you can find this episode on the IB 30/35 wiki, on the Civil Rights Movement page (scroll down to find it). You can also find the entire PDF for each episode on the wiki as well (usually the readings and questions are on the first two pages of the PDF).

Social 10-1

We finished watching "Where the Spirit Lives" today, and you also wrote a quiz on the film as well. I gave you a reading on the Canadian government's apology for the residential school system. I also showed you a CBC New in Review series on the residential schools as well. We'll be starting Unit 3 material on Monday.

Social 20-1

We watched the documentary "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb" today, which took most of the class period. You should get the results for your Chapter 5-6 Test next week. You should also look over the maps and readings that are in your Social 20-1 coursebook (pages 172-183).

April 5

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 5-6 Test today. If you missed class today, you'll be expected to write this test tomorrow in class. We will be continuing to discuss the outbreak of WWII in Europe tomorrow.

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 2 WRA I today in the Blue Lab. If you missed class today, you'll be expected to write this three source analysis tomorrow. We will be finishing off the film study of "Where the Spirit Lives" tomorrow.

IB 30/35

We started watching the critically-acclaimed PBS documentary series "Eyes on the Prize" today in class. We started with Episode 1: Awakenings. As you watched the video you should have been taking jot notes so you could complete the assigned questions for this documentary.

October 27

IB 30/35

I finished lecturing on how Japan emerged as an imperial power. We've covered the first topic in Prescribed Subject 3, and hopefully you have a better understanding of Japanese history prior to the 1920s to help you better understand the main topics that we're going to get into next week.

Don't forget that the good copy of your IA is due on Tuesday, October 31st. Please remember it is counts 20% to your overall mark with the IB. Please have a look at the upcoming important dates. 

UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES FOR IB 30/35 STUDENTS:

• Social 30-1 WRA II Essay on economic systems is on Wednesday, November 1st
• Economic Systems Exam is on Thursday, November 2nd (please see the study guide below)

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be written on Thursday, November 2nd. 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)
• 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/"womb to tomb 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)
• 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 (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• Lenin notes (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• Stalin notes (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev) (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• Market Socialism (on the wiki, under Unit 2)

Social 10-1

We finished off the film "Where the Spirit Lives" and then you had to write a short quiz on the film. You had the remaining time to work on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Tuesday, October 31st. Next week, we'll look at the residential school apology and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's work, and then we'll start Unit 3. Please remember that you are writing your Chapter 7 Test on Monday (please see the study guide below).

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

On Monday, October 30th, you will be writing your Chapter 7 Test, please see the study guide below. This test 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?

October 26

SOCIAL 10-1

We started a film study today called "Where the Spirit Lives", this film connects to themes that we have been looking at related to the residential school system. 

Chapter 7 Test Study Guide:

On Monday, October 30th, you will be writing your Chapter 7 Test, please see the study guide below. This test 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?

IB 303/35

I continued the lecture that I started yesterday on Japanese militarism and nationalism. We also started looking at the first Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. 

Don't forget that the good copy of your IA is due on Tuesday, October 31st. Please remember it is counts 20% to your overall mark with the IB. Please have a look at the upcoming important dates. 

UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES FOR IB 30/35 STUDENTS:

• Social 30-1 WRA II Essay on economic systems is on Wednesday, November 1st
• Economic Systems Exam is on Thursday, November 2nd (please see the study guide below)

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS EXAM STUDY GUIDE:

This exam will be written on Thursday, November 2nd. 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)
• 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/"womb to tomb 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)
• 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 (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• Lenin notes (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• establishment of the Soviet Union
• Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
• Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
• Stalin notes (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• "Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev) (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• Gorbachev to Collapse Notes (on the wiki, under Unit 2)
• Market Socialism (on the wiki, under Unit 2)

April 4

Social 10-1

We finished watching "Where the Spirit Lives" and you wrote a short quiz on the film. I also showed you a short video from the CBC New in Review on the Canadian government's apology for the residential school system. I also gave you a reading on this topic that you should have completed by tomorrow. You are writing your Chapter 7 Test tomorrow, and the Unit 2 WRA I on Thursday. Please review how to write a WRA I prior to Thursday.

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and along 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 20-1

We did a small group activity where you discussed the causes of World War II. Then as a whole class we built a concept web covering the same topic on the board. You need to complete the readings in your Social 20-1 workbook by Thursday's class: pages 172-183. Please remember that you have your Chapter 5-6 Test tomorrow. Please see the study guide below.

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) 

April 3

Social 20-1

We looked at the case study of the Japanese-Canadian internment during World War II today by watching the documentary "Tides of War". While you watched this film you had to complete the film study questions. Please also make sure to read, highlight and annotate the PowerPoint on the "Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII" that is in your Social 20-1 study booklets. You're writing your Chapter 5-6 Test on Wednesday, April 5th.

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) 

Social 10-1

We continued looking at the residential school system today by watching the film "Where the Spirit Lives". We'll finish it off tomorrow. Please remember that you're writing your Chapter 7 Test on Wednesday (please see the study guide below) and you're writing your Unit 2 WRA I on Thursday. Your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

Your Chapter 7 Test is on Wednesday, April 5th, please see the study guide below. You're also writing a Unit 2 WRA I (three source analysis) on Thursday, April 6th. 

CHAPTER 7 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz will have three sections: a matching section, a multiple choice section, and along 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?

April 5

IB 30/35

We finished off another episode of "Eyes on the Prize" today called "No Easy Walk". I gave back your homework checked Episode 2 and 3 questions. Please remember that your Episode 4 questions are due tomorrow, as is your Civil Rights Movement Assignment.

Episode 4 questions are due tomorrow (April 6th)

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 30-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation and notes from the Social 30-1 workbook on how to write the WRA I. You can find the PowerPoint on the wiki. You'll be writing your Unit 2 WRA I tomorrow in the Blenheim Room.


Upcoming Important Dates for Social 30-1:

• Unit 2 WRA I is on Wednesday, April 6th
• Chapter 5 Test is on Thursday, April 7th 
• Nazi Germany Quiz is on Friday, April 8th

Chapter 5 Test Study Guide: 

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Wednesday, October 28th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes (see 30-1 booklet)
• Lenin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
• Stalin notes (see 30-1 booklet)
• Soviet Economy notes
• Soviet Economic System notes
• Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
• Gorbachev to Collapse notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• 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 and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!

• centrally planned economies
• initiative
• FDR and the New Deal
• Reaganomics
• consumer sovereignty
• invisible hand
• Keynesian economics
• laissez faire economics
• War Communism
• Five Year Plans
• mixed economies
• indicative planning
• proportional representation
• democracy
• dictatorship
• political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
• status quo
• egalitarianism
• conservative
• reactionary
• liberal
• radical
• SA
• Hitler
• Bolshevik
• fascism
• communism
• indoctrination
• controlled participation
• terror and force
• direction of popular discontent
• democratic socialists
• supply-side economics
• authoritarian
• tyrant
• totalitarian
• totalitarianism
• ultranationalism
• nationalization
• privatization
• propaganda
• progressive taxation
• Marx
• Lenin
• utopian socialism
• Gorbachev
• martial law
• Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
• referendum
• collectivization
• modernization
• classical liberal
• laissez faire free market economy
• mixed economy
• planned economy
• (review your economic political quadrant model)
• Das Kapital
• Mein Kampf
• The Wealth of Nations

NAZI GERMANY QUIZ STUDY GUIDE:

This quiz is a short matching quiz, with a word bank. 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
• Fuehrer
• Gestapo
• Hitler
• Holocaust
• indoctrination
• inequality
• inflation
• judicial
• jugend
• Mein Kampf
• Kristallnacht
• nationalism
• Nazi
• Niemoller
• Nuremberg
• passive
• plebiscites
• pogrom
• prinzip
• Reichstag
• Ruhr
• SA
• SS
• state
• swastika
• War Guilt Clause
• White Rose

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions. I gave you some notes on the residential school system before I started showing you the film, so if you missed class today . We started watching "Where the Spirit Lives". I gave you a film study sheet to go along with the video. We'll finish off the film tomorrow. Your Unit 2 WRA I is on Thursday, April 7th in the Blenheim Room.