October 7

Social 10-1

You spent today's class in the library doing research for your Imperialism Research Project. This project will be due on Friday, October 23rd. We'll talk about this project tomorrow. Please make sure that you have printed off the "Legacies of Historical Globalization" PowerPoint presentation for homework check marks tomorrow.

Social 30-1

We watched a video called "Joseph Stalin: Red Terror" and completed a film study for part of today's class. I gave you some very detailed notes on the Soviet Economy and another handout with characteristics and advantages and disadvantages of the command economy. Tomorrow, I will be sending you some notes by e-mail which will detail the economic conditions in the USSR after Stalin, prior to the reforms introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev. Tomorrow you have your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam, please see the study guide here. You don't have school on Friday, Monday or Tuesday. Next week, on Wednesday, we'll be looking at the political and economic reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev. Next Thursday, you will have an exam on economic systems next Thursday, October 15th. I will post the study guide for this exam tomorrow on the blog.

October 6

Social 30-1

I started a PowerPoint presentation today called "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism", in which I emphasized the radical and reactionary ideologies that rejected liberalism in the 20th century: communism and fascism. I will be focusing on communism for the next few days, and the economic systems that was was associated with the former USSR. I gave you some handouts as well today that covered the command economy. I have sent you today's handouts to your e-mail accounts as well. I did a homework check on your Chapter 5 Key Terms today as well. Please remember that you should be studying for your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam, which is on Thursday. It's 70 multiple choice questions, and it's difficult! That's why I haven't assigned any homework tonight, my expectation is that you are reviewing for this exam. Please see the study guide here.

Social 10-1

We finished watching "Tools of Exploitation" today, and we also finished the "Legacies of Historical Globalization" PowerPoint presentation. I will send this presentation to you by e-mail this afternoon. We also drew lots and picked countries for our Imperialism Research Project. We will be in the library tomorrow, so please go directly there instead of coming to the classroom. You will only get one class period for research, you will have to work on the project outside of class time.

October 5

Social 30-1

I did a quick review (and notes on the board) of differences between supply-side economics and demand-side economics. I then gave you some background information on Russian-Soviet History (notes on the board), these notes will connect to some notes that I have sent to you today. Please check your e-mail for notes on Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. I also gave you a handout that covered the different strands of socialism: Utopian socialism, democratic socialism (which we have already looked at) and scientific socialism (also known as revolutionary socialism, or more commonly as communism, if you remember back to our economic-political grid, you'll remember that it was called dictatorial socialism as well). I also showed you a video today which looked at "Stalin and Modernization of the USSR", this video is from the BBC 20th Century History series. As you watched this video, you were to take some notes. We'll be looking at the economic system in the former Soviet Union, as this will be material that will appear on your Economic Systems Exam, this exam will be next week, on Thursday, October 15th. You have an exam this week, on Thursday, and it will cover the Market Economy and the Mixed Economy. This exam is 70 multiple choice questions, and you must do some review this week to be ready for it. Please see the study guide here. You do have some homework tonight, please read Chapter 5 and complete the Chapter 5 Key Terms (you don't have to worry about the Chapter 5 Questions yet). I also did a homework check today to see if you printed off the PowerPoint presentation called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism".

Social 10-1

I did a couple of homework checks, one of the homework checks was to see if you printed off the "Historical Globalization and Imperialism" PowerPoint presentation from last week. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions. I started another PowerPoint presentation/lecture today on the "Legacies of Historical Globalization". I will finish this presentation tomorrow. We also started a video today, that we will finish up tomorrow called "Tools of Exploitation".

October 2

Social 30-1

You wrote your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" today, which corresponds to material in Chapter 3 and part of Chapter 4. I also did a homework check on Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions today as well. Next Thursday, you have a test on Market Economy and Mixed Economy (covering material from Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6). Please see the study guide below.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

• Chapters 3-4 and Chapter 6 in Perspectives on Ideology
• 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)
• nationalization
• 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
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession
  
  
  

Social 10-1

I gave you results back for your Unit 1 Written Response Assignment I and your Unit 1 Final Exam. I also did a PowerPoint presentation called "Historical Globalization and Imperialism". This presentation corresponds to Chapter 7 in your textbook, with some supplementary material. I have sent this PowerPoint presentation to you already, please print it off (4-6 slides per page) and add it to your notes. I will be doing a homework check on this on Monday. As well, your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. Please see the instructions below if you're not sure how to print off a PowerPoint presentation.

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below:

October 1

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam today, which took some of you most of the class period. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Monday, October 5th.

Social 30-1

I delivered a PowerPoint presentation today that hit on the second half of Chapter 4 (Keynesian economics, which we've already talked about), and the important material in Chapter 6. This presentation was called "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism", and I have already set it to you, so please check your e-mail. Print this PowerPoint presentation off, add it to your notes. I will do a homework check on this on Monday. Please remember that you have your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" tomorrow. It's 55 multiple choice questions and it covers material in Chapter 3 and the first half of Chapter 4. Please see the study guide here.

September 30

Social 10-1

We looked at a book today called "The Rabbits" and analyzed the symbolism int he artwork of this story. This book is a very nice introduction to some of the concepts that we'll be looking at Unit 2. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide here.

Social 30-1

We continued our look at mixed economies today by watching a couple of videos of countries that employ elements of the welfare state. Both of the segments were from 60 Minutes, one was called "Welfare a la Carte" and examined the Norwegian brand of democratic socialism, and the other was called "Dutch Treat" which looked at the Netherlands (please see your textbook for the changes introduced in the Netherlands since this video was made). As you watched these videos you were make note of advantages and disadvantages of these systems. We'll continue looking at mixed economies tomorrow as well. I did a homework check on your "Democratic Socialism: Sweden" booklets at the end of class. Please remember that your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow, and you have a test on Friday (please see the study guide here).

September 29

Social 30-1

I went through the handout that I sent you by e-mail called "Using Monetary and Fiscal Policy to Stabilize the Economy". If you understand the concepts in this handout, along with the basics of fiscal and monetary policy already, then you'll be fine for your Diploma Exam on this topic. I also gave you a handout on the Great Depression in the USA, the American government's response (FDR's New Deal). I gave you a handout that covered democratic socialism and the mixed economy. Once you finished this reading, you were to answer some questions based on one of our case studies of democratic socialism: Sweden. I will be doing a homework check on this booklet tomorrow, so make sure that it's done. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday. Don't forget that your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test" is on Friday, October 2nd, please see the study guide here.

Social 10-1

I gave you some class time today to work on the Unit 2 Worksheet, specifically, the Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions. I didn't formally assign these as homework. You should study for your Unit 1 Final Exam which is on Thursday, October 1st, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

September 28

Social 30-1

I did a quick review of the business cycle and the use of demand-side economics to stablize the economy. You have received some notes by e-mail from me on stabilizing the business cycle through monetary and fiscal policy. Please print these notes off tonight, read them, highlight them, make annotations to yourself in the margins. Tomorrow, we'll be looking at these notes as well as looking at the Great Depression in the United States, and the American government's response to that economic crisis. You start to be able to draw parallels between what FDR did during the Depression and what Barack Obama's administration is doing currently during the global economic crisis. Please remember that you have your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test on Friday, October 2nd, please see the study guide here.

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 1 Written Response Assignment I in class today, which took most of the period. I gave you back your "Bend It Like Beckham" film studies (finally) and gave you the results of your Chapter 3-4 Quiz as well. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Thursday, October 1st. Please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

September 25

Social 30-1

You did your in-class political cartoon analysis assignments in today's class. Next Friday (October 2nd), you will have a 55 question multiple choice test that covers material from Chapter 3 and the first half of Chapter 4. Please see the study guide below.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

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 Chapter 3-4 Quiz today. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Written Response Assignment I (3 source analysis) in class time on Monday, September 28th. You also have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Thursday, October 1st, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

September 24

Social 10-1

I went through how to write a Written Response Assignment I (three source analysis in-class writing assignment). I will be sending the Word document with the advice on how to write the "Part A" to you by e-mail, so please check your e-mail tonight. You have your Chapter 3-4 Quiz tomorrow, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Please see the important dates below.

Important Dates for Social 10-1 Students:

• Chapter 3-4 Quiz is on Friday, September 25th
• Unit 1 Written Response Assignment I is on Monday, September 28th
• Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday, October 1st (please see the study guide here)

Social 30-1

I showed you a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series, one of which is called "Boom and Bust" and the other "FDR and the New Deal". I also quickly went through a handout on Analyzing Political Cartoons. Tomorrow, you will have an in-class assignment where you will be writing an analysis of a political cartoon. There will be a lot of political cartoons posted on the blackboard tomorrow. Have a quick look at them, pick one, and write your analysis. Most of the cartoons will have themes/concepts that we have looked at so far in Social 30-1, from both Unit 1 and Unit 2. Please remember that your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow as well.

September 23

Social 10-1

We finished watching "Bend It Like Beckham" today, your film study is due tomorrow, I will take it in for homework check marks. Please remember that you have your Chapter 3-4 Quiz on Friday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). You have your Unit 1 Written Response Assignment I (three source analysis assignment) on Monday, September 28th. I will be teaching you how to write these in-class writing assignments in tomorrow's class. This type of writing assignment will be the same style as Part A of your Final Exam in Social 10-1. Your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday, October 1st, please see the study guide below.

Social 10-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

Unit 1 Final Exam will be Thursday, October 1st. The format for the exam is entirely multiple choice. It will consist of 55 multiple choice questions, 60-65% of the questions will be "source-based" questions, while the remainder will be simply knowledge and comprehension style questions. In other words, the source-based questions will use political cartoons, timelines, a chart or diagram, a graph, a reading, a photo or a map, and you will have answer questions related to that source. The source-based questions will be difficult to prepare for. You must have a firm grasp of the concepts and key terms that were introduced in Unit 1, because that will allow you to apply the knowledge that you have to answer the multiple choice questions.

Please study your key terms from Chapters 1-5, and the topics covered in that unit.
1. Key Terms/Key Concepts in Unit 1:

• globalization
• pluralistic society
• transnationals
• society
• “the global village”
• United Nations
• G-8
• La Francophonie
• NATO
• individual identity
• collective identity
• traditions
• minority group
• official bilingualism
• universalization of pop culture
• hybridization
• media transnationals
• media consolidation
• CBC/SRC
• Official Languages Act
• CRTC
• Canadian Content (CanCon)
• homogenization
• monoculture
• assimilation
• marginalization
• accommodation
• secularism
• integration
• cosmopolitan
• acculturation
• cultural revitalization
• Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  

2. Know your case studies extremely well!
3. Be able to apply key concepts!

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 10-1 Students:

• "Bend It Like Beckham" Film Study is due tomorrow (Thursday, September 24th)
• Chapter 3-4 Quiz is on Friday, September 25th
• Unit 1 Written Response Assignment I is on Monday, September 28th
• Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday, October 1st

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on your "Philosophies of Industrialism" booklets today. I then went through some notes on the board to show the connection between industrialization, classical liberalism and laissez faire economics and reform movements. I focused on welfare capitalism and modern liberalism today as a transition away from classical liberalism, and what brought about these changes. I gave you a handout that covered the emergence of welfare capitalism and modern liberalism and the Great Depression (we'll be looking at the Great Depression in greater detail tomorrow). We also started to look at Keynesian economics (demand-side economics) today. I walked you through monetary and fiscal policy (we'll be going into more detail with this as well), and a government's response to the boom and bust cycle using Keynesian economic theory. I will be sending today's handouts to you tonight by e-mail. Please remember that your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday.

September 22

Social 30-1

I gave you some in-class work to do today, a booklet called "Philosophies of Industrialism", which is due tomorrow. A lot of you finished this in class, which is great. Many of you picked up a copy of the Chapter 4 Worksheet as well, so you can start working on that if you wish. I will be doing a homework check on the "Philosophies of Industrialism" tomorrow.

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class today. If you didn't get your results back for the Chapter 1-2 Quiz, you'll get a chance to do that tomorrow. We started a film study today on "Bend It Like Beckham", which we'll finish up tomorrow. Please remember to study for your Chapter 3-4 Quiz, which is on this Friday. Here is the study guide for the Chapter 3-4 Quiz (scroll down to find it).

September 21

Social 30-1

I gave you back your comment sheets for your Unit 1 In-Class Position Paper today. I gave you some general comments for improving your essay writing. If you have more specific issues or questions, please see me during tutorial (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in Room 111 from 8:15-8:45). You will get your actual essays back at the end of the semester.
I also went through a PowerPoint presentation today called "Responding to Classical Liberalism and Industrialization", which covered the emergence of several ideologies in reaction to classical liberalism and the economic inequalities brought on by industrialization. I touched upon classical liberalism again, classical conservatism, socialism, communism, and I threw in social Darwinism as well. I have already sent this PowerPoint to you, along with the retrieval chart that went with it. Please print off the PowerPoint presentation (4-6 slides per page) for homework check marks tomorrow. I have also sent you the Laws of Supply and Demand notes that I forgot to send out on Friday, and summary notes on Private Enterprise from the textbook Ideologies (which some students/classes are also using in addition to Perspectives on Ideology). I have summary notes for most of the Ideologies textbook, so from time-to-time I will be sending these notes to you.

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class today. I went through a PowerPoint presentation that covered material from Chapter 4 and 5, looking at the "Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization", as I went through this presentation, you were to take notes on a concept web that I gave you. Your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Please remember that your Chapter 3-4 Quiz is on Friday, September 25th, please see the study guide here.

September 18

Social 30-1

I covered a few key concepts related to capitalism today that will help us to understand subsequent concepts in economics that we'll be dealing with in the coming weeks. I went through the law of supply and demand (please check your e-mail today for some supplementary notes on this topic) and the business cycle. For the business cycle, it's really important to be bale to describe what the economy is doing at the various stages of the business cycle, I call these "economic snapshots". When we review the business cycle down the road, I might ask you to "paint me a picture" of what's going on in the economy at those various stages, and you'll have to able to describe what is going on. Please read Chapter 4 of your textbook this weekend, it will help you immensely when we get into those topics next week. I did a homework check on your Chapter 3 Questions today, and you'll get those back on Monday.

Social 10-1

You wrote your Chapter 1-2 Quiz for most of the period. If you finished up early, you had an opportunity to work on your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions, which are due on Monday. You have your Chapter 3-4 Quiz on Friday, September 25th. Please see the study guide below. Have a great weekend!

Chapter 3-4 Quiz Study Guide:

• Know the key terms from Chapter 3-4
• Be able to answer the Questions for Inquiry in Chapters 3-4 (they appear on p.49, p.53, p.58, p.73, p.80)
• Know relevant case studies from Chapters 3-4: the Francophones, the Aborigines and the Lubicon, as well as other relevant examples related to assimilation, marginalization, accommodation and integration

September 17

Social 10-1

Your Illustrated Concept Map Assignment was due today, and it looks like most of you handed it in today. If you didn't hand the assignment in today, it is subject to a 10% off per day that it is late penalty. I gave you some class time to study for your Chapter 1-2 Quiz, which is tomorrow (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it). Please remember that your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, September 21st.

Social 30-1

I covered a lot of material today in class. I did some review of the political spectrum, the economic spectrum, the political-economic grid, and then started to focus in on the connections between classical liberalism and its political basis (the Enlightenment, and in turn, the development of the principles of individualism) and its economic basis (the Industrial Revolution, the ideas of Adam Smith and laissez faire economics). We started to look at basic economics, economic systems in general, and then specifically capitalism. Please check your e-mail inbox today, I'm sending you a lot of notes that connect to ideas that I touched upon in today's class (these notes will be "gold"). Please remember that your Chapter 3 Questions are due tomorrow.

Printing PowerPoint Presentations

When I send you presentations, here is what I recommend that you do: keep an electronic copy of the presentation, preferably in an appropriately named folder. Next you'll need to print it off. I recommend that you print off 4 slides per page. Here's how you do it. Open the presentation up in PowerPoint, then go under File and select Print. Then set things up like the picture below:

September 16

Social 10-1

I gave you some notes today called "Media Giants and Me" which covered some prominent media transnational corporations. If you missed class today, you will need to get notes from a classmate. I also did a homework check today on your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions. I gave you some class time to study for your Chapter 1-2 Quiz (which is on Friday, please see the study guide here, please scroll down to find it). Please remember that your Illustrated Concept Map Assignment is due tomorrow.

Social 30-1

I finished off the PowerPoint presentation called "The Development of Classical Liberalism" today and I will send it to you tonight. I did a homework check on your Chapter 3 Key Terms today. I assigned your Chapter 3 Questions for homework, these questions will be due on Friday.

September 15

Social 30-1

I started a PowerPoint presentation today called "The Growth of Classical Liberalism" that I will be working through over the course of the next day or so. This PowerPoint presentation corresponds to material in Chapter 3 of the textbook. For homework tonight please complete the Chapter 3 Key Terms. DO NOT work on the Chapter 3 Questions, they are not due yet. You would be better off reading all of Chapter 3 tonight, it will help you make sense of the individuals that I talked about today in class, and some of the topics that I will touch upon tomorrow such as the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.

Social 10-1

We finished watching "Whale Rider" today and completed the film study questions as well. Your homework tonight is to finish the Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions. I gave you class time to work on this today, and if you finished the Chapter 3 material, you could move on to Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions. Your Illustrated Concept Map Assignment is due on Thursday, September 17th. Please remember that your Chapter 1-2 Quiz is on Friday, September 18th, please see the study guide here.

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 10-1 Students:

• Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, September 16th
• Illustrated Concept Map Assignment is due on Thursday, September 17th
• Chapter 1-2 Quiz is on Friday, September 18th
  

September 14

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 1 In-Class Position Paper today in the Blenheim Room. I will try to have these essays marked within a week's time. You will get the results back for your Unit 1 Final Exam which you wrote on Friday in tomorrow's class.

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class today. Your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, so tonight might be a good night to work on your Illustrated Concept Map Assignment (which is due on Thursday). We started a film study today on the movie "Whale Rider", which we will finish tomorrow. I think the film does a very good job of providing examples of collective identity of the Maori. Please remember that you have your Chapter 1-2 Quiz on Friday, here is a link to the study guide.

September 11

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 1 Final Exam today. You will get the results of this unit exam back on Tuesday. On Monday, you have your Unit 1 In-Class Position Paper, which is one of the types of written response assignments you will be expected to write for Part A of your Diploma Exam. I gave you the essay sheet at the end of class, you are allowed to prepare notes on the bottom quarter of this sheet and bring it with you into the Blenheim Room on Monday. The notes must be hand-printed/hand-written and can only be below the line clearly marked on the essay question sheet. Here is the text-based source:

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

As always, the essay question will be the same throughout the semester:

To what extent should we embrace the ideological perspective(s) in the source?

Use this weekend to prepare ideas, arguments, specific and detailed evidence to support your position. You are not allowed to write the essay ahead of time or anything like that, but prepare for it. Use the essay outline sheet that I have e-mailed to you, and start organizing your essay. Go back over the "Recipe for Success" as well and make sure that you follow the checklists of what needs to be in each paragraph of your essay (particularly that first paragraph). Good luck!

Martin Luther King Jr.

Social 10-1

You wrote your World Geography Test today, and I marked it while you were doing your work for the rest of the period. You'll get the results of this test back next week. Your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, although my expectation is that these have already been completed. I gave you some more class time today to work on key terms and questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet, you should probably have the Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions finished already as well. This is the weekend when you should be working most of the work on your Illustrated Concept Map Assignment, which is due on Thursday, September 18th. Don't put off working on this project, it takes a lot of time to do it right.

Upcoming Important Dates for Social 10-1 Students:

• Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday, September 14th
• Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday, September 16th
• Illustrated Concept Map Assignment is due on Thursday, September 17th
• Chapter 1-2 Quiz is on Friday, September 18th (please see study guide below)

Chapter 1-2 Quiz Study Guide:

1. Study your Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms
2. Review the case studies from the textbook in Chapters 1 and 2, specifically the Metis, the Francophones, the Hmong, and the Maori
3. Be prepared to answer any of the "Questions for Inquiry" from Chapters 1 and 2 (they are on the following pages: p.9, p.14, p.20, p.29, p.35, p.39):

• How does globalization affect economic aspects of people's lives?
• How does globalization affect social aspects of people's lives?
• How does globalization affect political aspects of people's lives?
• What is the difference between individual and collective identity?
• What is the relationship between identity and language?
• How does cultural exchange shape people's identities?
  

4. Make sure that you can answer the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet for these chapters.

September 10

Social 10-1

I gave you some time to work on your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions today (they're due Monday) and if you finished those key terms and questions you should move on to Chapter 3 material. Your Illustrated Concept Map Assignment is due one week today (Thursday, September 17th), so if I were you, I would start working on this assignment. You have your World Geography Test tomorrow, please see the study guide here.

Please use the following links for studying for this test:

• World Geography Games
• Test Your Geography Knowledge
• Maps.com Online Games (the "Find It" games are excellent!)
  

Social 30-1

I gave back your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions and your Individualism vs. Collectivism booklets today. You'll need them to study for your Unit 1 Final Exam, which is tomorrow. We finished watching "Sicko" today as well.