March 4

Social 20-1

I did a homework check on the Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions today. Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Unit 1 WRA I Chart Assignment is due on Wednesday as well. I started Unit 2 material today by looking at the Causes of World War I. If you missed class today, you need to get the notes from a classmate. Please remember that you are writing the Chapter 3-4 Test this Friday, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTERS 3-4 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test will be on Friday, March 8th. It will consist of a matching section (10 key concepts) and a short answer section.

• make sure that you study the PowerPoint presentation "Contending Loyalties"
• make sure that you have read Chapters 3 and 4 (it is all testable material)
• know the key concepts/key terms from Chapters 3 and 4 (please see the Unit 1 Worksheet for these)
• study your answers to the Chapter 3 and 4 questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (all could potentially be on the test)

Social 30-1

Please remember that your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due Thursday, March 7th. I finished off the lecture called "Responding to Classical Liberalism". While I completed this lecture you should have taken notes in the corresponding chart in your course books. I also started talking about the shift from classical liberalism to modern liberalism in the early 20th century. We'll continue looking at this topic tomorrow. 

March 3

IB 30/35

You watched "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" today. Please complete an OPVL chart of the letters featured in the documentary.

Social 30-1

You went through the "Great Depression in the USA" handout (pages 63-64), and "Democratic Socialism and the Mixed Economy" (pages 65-67). You were also supposed to complete the activities "The Welfare State: Case Study of Sweden" section of the workbook.

IDEOLOGICAL REACTION TO INDUSTRIALIZATION TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Friday, March 13th. This test covers material from Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4. 

1. Please review material from these PowerPoint presentations: 

• "The Development of Classical Liberalism"
• "Responding to Classical Liberalism"

2. Be familiar with key concepts introduced in Chapters 3 and 4. 
3. The Industrial Revolution: 

• understand fundamental economic, social and political changes that were caused by the Industrial Revolution
• understand the connection between the Agricultural Revolution and the Enclosure Acts and the Industrial Revolution
• understand the differences, advantages and disadvantages of the cottage system and the factory system

4. Review material in the "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet 
5. Key beliefs of the various ideologies (review the spectrums briefly); also review this material from the "Responding to Classical Liberalism" PowerPoint presentation: 

• Adam Smith
• laissez faire economics/capitalism (key ideas)
• John Stuart Mill
• Karl Marx (key ideas and beliefs associated with Marx, Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, withering away of the state, dictatorship of the proletariat, view of history, etc. ) and Friedrich Engels (see "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklet)
• Edmund Burke and classical conservatism

6. Some questions may require you to make connections between this year's material and what you learned in 10-1 and 20-1 as well 

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today in the Blenheim Room, which took most of the class time.