Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free speech. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

December 17


We finished off the Google Slides presentation on the Second World War in Asia today, and then I started the "Effects of the Second World War" lecture. I'll try to finish off this lecture tomorrow. Please bring a hard copy of the lecture to class tomorrow, and make sure that you bring the charts that go along with this section in your Causes and Effects of 20th Century Wars textbooks.




You had time today to work on your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions, which are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday.
  Tomorrow, you are writing the Unit 3 Final Exam, please see the study guide below.



Please review all of the Unit 3 PowerPoint presentations:
  • "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism"
  • "Canada's Foreign Policy" 
  • "Nationalism and Internationalism" 
Please review all of the Unit 3 Key Terms from the Unit 3 Worksheet in addition to the key concepts that were introduced in the PowerPoint presentations.

In addition to this, I would like to emphasize the following points with you: 
  • know the difference between multilateralism, unilateralism and bilateralism and know examples of each 
  • know the spectrum of foreign policy: internationalism, nationalism, ultranationalism, and supranationalism 
  • know the different foreign policy options 
  • know the 6 themes of Canadian foreign policy/Canada's foreign policy goals what influences foreign policy decisions? 
  • methods of foreign policy 
  • motivations for nations involvement or non-involvement in international affairs 
  • how can foreign policy promote internationalism? 
  • tied aid, bilateral aid, multilateral aid 
  • examples of INGOs and IGOs 
  • the United Nations (organization/structure, bodies, etc.) 
  • peacemaking vs. peacekeeping (and examples) 
  • different understandings of internationalism (types of internationalism) 
  • why do international organizations exist? purposes and examples


We looked at the issue of free speech in the United States today. I showed you an HBO documentary called "Shouting Fire" to this end. Tomorrow, we'll be doing some research on social protest movements as this pertains to Unit 4 material.

Monday, June 08, 2015

June 8


We finished watching the HBO documentary "Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech" today. I also reminded you that you will be writing Part A of your Diploma Exam one week from today. I went through the active citizenship essay outline today. You can find this outline on the Social 30-1 wiki, as well as this essay with comments on it. Please remember that you have your Trial Final on Wednesday, use the study guide in the back of your Social 30-1 booklets.


You were given Unit 4 multiple choice questions today that you answered while working with a partner. On your Final Exam Part B there will be 100 multiple choice questions, and 10 of them will come from Unit 4.

Friday, July 25, 2014

July 25


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.


  • 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)



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