July 15

SOCIAL 30-1

You wrote the Market and Mixed Economy Test at the beginning of the class. I gave back the Unit 1 WRA I Chart Assignment and the Unit 1 WRA II Essay today as well. We watched the A & E Biography "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler", and as you watched the video, you should have taken point form notes in your Social 30-1 course books. We went through some notes in your course books on non-democratic systems and democratic systems, the similarities and differences between communism and fascism, and totalitarianism.  You should work on the Chapter 7 Google Doc tonight. Chapter 7 covers the Cold War, and there are a lot of key terms to work on in the Google Doc. Make sure that you read Chapter 7 today. We continued looking at the command economy today. 

You should prepare yourself for a position paper on Tuesday, and the theme of the source will be economics. We also did a couple of practice cartoon interpretations at the end of the class (right before the exit slip), and I'm posting the cartoons that we looked at here on the blog. You wrote another exit slip at the end of the day too.

UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES AND HOMEWORK:

• Read Chapter 7 and complete the Chapter 7 Google Doc
• Unit 2 WRA II Essay is on Tuesday, July 16th
• Chapter 5 Test (communism, command economy, and fascism/20th Century Rejections of Liberalism) is on Wednesday, July 17th

CHAPTER 5 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Wednesday, July 17th. It is a 50 multiple choice question test (but it will be reduced down in number on the day). 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 spectrum and economic spectrum

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    

April 5

SOCIAL 20-1

I showed you a documentary called  "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb" which focuses on the entire course of WWII in 60 minutes. Please make sure that you read over the notes that went along with this video in your Social 20-1 course books. I did a homework check on your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today. Your Unit 2 WRA I Chart Assignment is due on Monday as well. 

On Monday, April 8th, you'll be writing the Chapter 5-6 Test. Please see the study guide below. 

CHAPTER 5-6 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

This test will have a matching section, and a long answer section.

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 Social 20-1 course book)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations; be able to link to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and the Italian invasion of Abyssinia)
• 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 30-1

If you forgot to hand in your transfer from Social 30-1 to 30-2 letter today, don't worry, you can hand it in on Monday. Thanks!

I collected your Unit 2 WRA I Chart Assignment today. I showed the A & E Biography on Hitler, and we went through the notes on types of dictatorships and totalitarianism. 

On Monday, April 8th, you're writing the Unit 2 WRA I (unless you're switching to Social 30-2, then I'll be teaching how to do the WA I, and you'll complete one in class). You will not be allowed to use the writing guide sheet (blue sheet of paper). 

On Tuesday, April 9th, you're writing the Chapter 5 Test in class, please see the study guide below.

CHAPTER 5 TEST STUDY GUIDE:

The Chapter 5 Test will be on Tuesday, April 9th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test (but it will be reduced down in number on the day). 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

November 21

Social 20-1

We finished off the CNN documentary "Scream Bloody Murder" today. We then started our film study of "Shake Hands with the Devil". We will hopefully be able to finish off this movie in tomorrow's class. Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, November 23rd.

IB 20 HOTA

I are responsible for going through the rest of the "Types of Political Systems" PowerPoint. You can find this on the IB 20 wiki under the Democracies unit. I went through the democratic systems section last week, but you need to go through the non-democratic systems section of this lecture. I went through a handout today on non-democratic systems (dictatorships, single-party states). I also gave you a handout on totalitarianism. You also have a comparative government assignment due on week from today. You will also be writing a Social 30-1 style on democratic systems on November 28th, this test will be entirely multiple choice format with past Alberta Social 30-1 Diploma Exam questions.

May 23

Sorry, I forgot to post on the blog yesterday....

IB 30/35

You wrote your Social 30-1 Chapter 1-2 Test on Friday. I have marked these tests already, so you can get the results on Monday. You will be writing your Social 30-1 Unit 1 Final Exam on Monday, May 26th. Please make sure that you study for this exam using the study guide below. Make sure that you check out the Social 30-1 review materials on the IB 30/35 wiki for Unit 1. Especially the Social Studies 30-1 Unit 1 Review Prezi when you think you're ready to review the unit.

Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Monday, May 26th. Make sure that you study the following:

• Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms (please see the Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide for a list of terms)
• Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file, on the IB 30 wiki)
• Study the 19th Century Political Spectrum
• Study the 20th Century Political spectrum
• Study the political-economic grid
• Know the values and ideas associated with the various ideologies (on the 19th century and 20th century spectrums)
• Study the Individualism and Collectivism booklet (this is on the IB 30/35 wiki under Social 30-1 Unit 1 materials)
• you need to be able to apply your knowledge and understanding of these concepts/ideas
• there are a lot of source-based questions on this exam! (there are references to Nazi Germany, the USSR, and other topics that we covered in Unit 7 and 8 last year in IB 20, and from earlier this year in IB 30/35)

Social 10-1

We played a Unit 3 Review Game on Friday. Sorry for all of the technical issues with the game. Please remember that you have your Unit 3 Final Exam on Monday. Please see the study guide 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 50 multiple choice questions.

IB 20 HOTA

You wrote your Unit 6 Paper 3 on Friday. You have homework this weekend. Please print off the Stalin reading PDF file (the first document on the chart under Unit 7 Dictatorships) and answer the questions on a separate piece of paper. This assignment will be due on Monday. You'll have a current events quiz on Monday (we didn't have time on Friday), and we'll watch the A & E Biography of Joseph Stalin too.