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You wrote Part A of your Final Exam today in class. Please remember that you have your Unit 3Final Exam tomorrow. You can find the study guide for this exam here.
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I showed you where to find the study guide for the Trial Final and the Diploma Exam on the Social 30-1 wiki. We looked at a few examples of WRA I assignments as well. Please attempt either the Social 30-1 or the 30-2 Quest A+ practice exam tonight. You are writing your Trial Final tomorrow.
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I showed you another documentary from the BBC 20th Century History series, today's episode was called "Britain Alone". We also watched a bit of "Pearl Harbor" so you have an idea of how the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii led to the American entry into the Second World War.
Yesterday, we discussed the causes of World War II, and then started watching a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Why Appeasement?" We finished this documentary today. We then watched "Blitzkrieg to the Bomb" which should have given you a nice overview of how the war was fought in all of the theatres of war.
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You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam yesterday, and so you got the results back today. You had to make a decision as to which exam result you would wipe out with Thursday's Trial Final Exam. If you want a study guide for the Trial Final Exam, there is a Diploma Exam Study Guide posted on the wiki that you could use. You can find this study guide on the Social 30-1 wiki under Diploma Exam Review.
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For all of class yesterday you completed a Unit 4 pair practice test. We continued with Unit 4 multiple choice questions again today, and then moved on to Unit 3 questions. I did a homework check on your Chapter 14 and 15 Key Terms and Questions today. Please remember that your Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday, January 10th. Please remember that Part A of your Final Exam, a WRA II Essay is tomorrow in the Red Lab in the Library. Please go there directly tomorrow morning. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, January 9th, please see the study guide here.
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on "Regional Disparity", which is part of Unit 4. Your Chapter 13 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 14-15 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, January 7th. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, January 9th, please see the study guide below.
Social 20-1 Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:
Please review all of the Unit 3 PowerPoint presentations that I have sent to you:
"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
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We finished watching "Shouting Fire" today. We also started looking at the issue of right to privacy. In addition to CCTV cameras in the UK, you might want to also check into NSA surveillance into the lives of American citizens. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Monday, January 6th, please see the study guide below.
Social 30-1 Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:
This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Monday, January 6th. 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 notes/packages:
Democratic Systems
Non-Democratic Systems
types of dictatorships
techniques of dictatorships
Civil Rights Movement
authoritarian systems (China notes)
review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act)
FLQ Crisis 1970
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
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You handed in your IA today. We continued watching "It's a Wonderful Life".
We completed our economic forum today and started watching "It's a Wonderful Life", which we'll continue tomorrow. Please remember to bring two hard copies of your IA to class tomorrow. You must be ready to hand it in at the beginning of class.
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We started to examine free speech issues today by watching the HBO documentary "Shouting Fire". We'll finish this documentary off tomorrow.
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You wrote your Unit 3 essay in class today. We'll cover another major Unit 4 concept tomorrow, and that is regionalism and regional disparity in Canada. Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.
Today was all about getting you into your TOK presentation groups. You had some class time to get yourselves organized, pick an area of knowledge and start thinking of knowledge questions and presentation format. We have our economic forum tomorrow. Please make sure that you are ready to hand in two hard copies of your IA on Wednesday.
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I did a homework check on your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions and your Foreign Policy Worksheet at the beginning of class. Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday. You are writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay tomorrow.
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You wrote your Unit 3 WRA II Essay today, which took the entire class.
You wrote an analysis of a propaganda poster today for part of the class, and then we watched a short video from the CBC News in Review series that looked at "9/11: The Day that Changed the World". Please make sure that you have all of the answers to the video questions, and that you have read the entire package. You need to understand the historical context of 9/11 in order to understand the American political response to the terrorist attacks. In the days to come we'll examining the USA PATRIOT Act, the Anti-Terrorism Act, no-fly lists and other restrictions to civil liberties that have occurred in Canada, the United States and even the UK. You'll be writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay on Monday, you will not have access to the essay source in advance.
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I showed you your results for the Unit 2 Final Exam at the beginning of the class, along with your current mark in the course. I finished off the PowerPoint on "Internationalism and Nationalism" today as well. I gave you the Unit 3 WRA II Essay question sheet today (one day in advance). You will be writing this essay on Tuesday, December 17th. Please check the wiki for some ideas on writing the Unit 3 essay, argumentation and evidence. Check under WRA II Essay Writing on the Social 20-1 wiki.
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You wrote the Social 30-1 Market and Mixed Economy Test today. If you missed today's class, you'll be writing this exam tomorrow in Period 2 (and if necessary write it into the break). Here's a link to the study guide for this exam. We'll be preparing for the economic forum tomorrow.
I gave you back your Unit 2 WRA II Essays today. I also gave you back your Unit 2 Research Projects as well. Now that everyone has written the Unit 2 Final Exam, you'll get the results of this exam tomorrow. I started a PowerPoint presentation today that I'll finish off tomorrow called "Internationalism and Nationalism". You will be writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay on Tuesday, December 17th, and you'll get the essay question sheet on Friday.
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We finished off the FLQ Crisis video. I gave you a couple of handouts on how to write an analysis of propaganda posters. You'll be writing an analysis of a propaganda poster tomorrow. We'll continue looking at illiberalism this week by talking about the changes to the world caused by 9/11. Please remember that you have your Unit 3 WRA II Essay on Monday, December 16th.
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I tied up some loose ends today with supply side economics and how demand-side and supply-side deals with a recession. Please remember that you have your Social 30-1 Market and Mixed Economy Test tomorrow, please check out the study guide here(scroll down to find it).
We had some "housekeeping" items to take care of today: Grade 12 validation sheets, and the Tell Them From Me survey. You were also to complete the comparison chart of the Great Depression in Canada and the United States. Please hand those charts in on Wednesday. Your Market and Mixed Economy Test is on Thursday, please see the study guide here(scroll down to find it).
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We looked at the concept of illiberalism today. I gave you some background information before we jumped into the FLQ Crisis. We'll finish off the documentary tomorrow on the FLQ Crisis. Your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment was due today. Your Civil Rights Movement Assignment (don't forget to do the essay outline) is due on Thursday. Your Chapter 11 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday. You'll be writing an analysis of a propaganda poster in tomorrow's class, don't be late.
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You wrote your Unit 2 Final Exam today. If you were away today, you'll be writing this exam tomorrow in class. One week from today, you'll be writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay (December 17th). I will be returning marked essays tomorrow.
I showed you a video from the CBC News in Review series called "Afghanistan's Troubled Election". You were to complete the video study guide questions. Please make sure that you read the "Canada's Role in Afghanistan" section of the booklet. You had the remainder of class time to work on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions. These key terms and questions are due on Monday. Your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment is due on Tuesday. Your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment is due on Thursday, December 12th.
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You essentially had the entire period to finish off your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions (which are due on Monday). I made the recommendation that you also read Chapter 10, and complete those key terms and questions as well. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, December 10th, please see the study guide below.
Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
1. Study the following PowerPoint presentations from Unit 2:
The Causes of World War I
Total War-Allied Victory in WWI-Paris Peace Conference
Ultranationalism in WWII: Italy, Japan, Germany
The Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII
The Holocaust
Eight Stages of Genocide (from the Genocide Watch website)
Contemporary Examples of Genocide
2. Know the following key concepts:
national interest
domestic policy
foreign policy
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Treaty of Versailles
Big Four (Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando)
appeasement
ultranationalism
propaganda
conscription crisis
Adolf Hitler
Nazis
Hirohito
Tojo
Kristallnacht
The Way of Subjects
League of Nations
total war
internment
War Measures Act
Great Depression
the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
irredentism
genocide
crimes against humanity
war crimes
Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
Weimar Republic
Final Solution
decolonization
successor state
self-determination
3. Make sure that you review the following broad topics in your review of Unit 2 (and make sure that you can answer ALL of the questions on the Unit 2 Worksheet):
World War I (don't concern yourself with memorizing battles though)
Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
The Interwar Years
Rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Japan, and Italy
Causes of World War II and key events (turning points in the war)
The Holocaust
Contemporary examples of genocide (review case studies that were emphasized in class and in the textbook, review your notes for "Scream Bloody Murder", "Shake Hands with the Devil")
Decolonization and self-determination (quick review of "Gandhi" film study booklet, what are successor states? What is self-determination? Kosovo case study)
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You wrote a short quiz on the Great Depression at the start of class, and then we looked at the impact of the Great Depression on Latin America. You can find the PowerPoint lecture on the Great Depression in Latin America on the IB 30/35 wiki under "The Great Depression and the Americas". I will also be trying to upload a chapter on the Great Depression in Latin America next week. I strongly recommend that you look at the chapters that have been posted on the USA in the 1920s, the Wall Street Crash and the causes of the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover and the Depression, and the New Deal. As I've said many times Churchill students to pick essay questions on the Paper 3 that deal with either the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War in the Americas or on the Great Depression and the Americas. This is a topic that you should know extremely well for not only your IB exams, but also your Social 30-1 Diploma Exams in June. Your Social 30-1 Market and Mixed Economy Test is on Thursday, December 12th, 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)
I finished off the "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism" PowerPoint today. You can find a hard copy of this presentation in your Social 20-1 blue study booklets, and on the Social 20-1 wiki under Unit 3 Presentations. I also gave you some time to work on your Chapter 9 Key Terms and Questions as well. You will have class time to work on this textbook work tomorrow. Please remember to review for your Unit 2 Final Exam, it is a challenging exam in part because there is so much content and material to draw from. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is scheduled for Tuesday, December 10th. Please see the study guide below.
Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
1. Study the following PowerPoint presentations from Unit 2:
The Causes of World War I
Total War-Allied Victory in WWI-Paris Peace Conference
Ultranationalism in WWII: Italy, Japan, Germany
The Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII
The Holocaust
Eight Stages of Genocide (from the Genocide Watch website)
Contemporary Examples of Genocide
2. Know the following key concepts:
national interest
domestic policy
foreign policy
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Treaty of Versailles
Big Four (Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando)
appeasement
ultranationalism
propaganda
conscription crisis
Adolf Hitler
Nazis
Hirohito
Tojo
Kristallnacht
The Way of Subjects
League of Nations
total war
internment
War Measures Act
Great Depression
the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
irredentism
genocide
crimes against humanity
war crimes
Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
Weimar Republic
Final Solution
decolonization
successor state
self-determination
3. Make sure that you review the following broad topics in your review of Unit 2 (and make sure that you can answer ALL of the questions on the Unit 2 Worksheet):
World War I (don't concern yourself with memorizing battles though)
Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
The Interwar Years
Rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Japan, and Italy
Causes of World War II and key events (turning points in the war)
The Holocaust
Contemporary examples of genocide (review case studies that were emphasized in class and in the textbook, review your notes for "Scream Bloody Murder", "Shake Hands with the Devil")
Decolonization and self-determination (quick review of "Gandhi" film study booklet, what are successor states? What is self-determination? Kosovo case study)
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We covered authoritarianism in China today. I gave you a readings booklet on the "Modern History of China" and then we watched a couple of videos from BBC 20th Century History series. One of the videos was called "One Man's Revolution" and the other was "China Since Mao". Admittedly, these videos are a bit dated, however it should have given you a nice overview of Chinese history from the 1940s to the 1980s. Please make sure that you read the "Modern History of China" booklet. I also gave you a U.S. Civil Rights Assignment that is due on Thursday, December 12th.
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I went through the "Great Depressionin Canada" PowerPoint presentation today. Please make sure you complete the homework assignments that are due tomorrow: Hoover and Self-Reliance questions, and the Critics of the New Deal chart. Please remember that you have your Social 30-1 Market and Mixed Economy Test on Thursday, December 12th. Please see the study guide here.
I went through a PowerPoint presentation on "The New Deal" today. You can find this presentation on the IB 30/35 wiki under The Great Depression and the Americas section. As I went through this lecture, you were to complete a chart on the New Deal. Your homework assignment documents are posted on the wiki as well, and these assignments are both due onThursday, December 5th:
Hoover's Self-Reliance (find on the Great Depression and the Americas page of the wiki)
Critics of the New Deal (chart). You will also need to open up the PDF file called Challenges of the New Deal. You can find these handouts also on the Great Depression and the Americas page of the IB 30/35 wiki.
Next Thursday (December 12th) you will write your Social 30-1 Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test. Please see the study guide below to aid you in preparing for this multiple choice test.
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
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I covered a couple of key concepts at the beginning of class, including first past the post (FPTP) and proportional representation (PR). I also went through the PowerPoint lecture on the "Political Challenges to Liberalism". You can find this presentation on the Social 30-1 wiki under Unit 3 Presentations. I also gave you a reading from Maclean's magazine called "The End of Democracy?" (highly recommended reading). Please remember that your Canada-USA Comparative Government Assignment is due one week from today (December 10th).
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I started on a PowerPoint lecture today called "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism", which I should be able to finish off tomorrow. If you missed class today, you missed some good rants too. If you haven't written your Unit 2 WRA II Essay, it is expected that you will write it tomorrow. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is Tuesday, December 10th, please see the study guide below.
Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
1. Study the following PowerPoint presentations from Unit 2:
The Causes of World War I
Total War-Allied Victory in WWI-Paris Peace Conference
Ultranationalism in WWII: Italy, Japan, Germany
The Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII
The Holocaust
Eight Stages of Genocide (from the Genocide Watch website)
Contemporary Examples of Genocide
2. Know the following key concepts:
national interest
domestic policy
foreign policy
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Treaty of Versailles
Big Four (Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando)
appeasement
ultranationalism
propaganda
conscription crisis
Adolf Hitler
Nazis
Hirohito
Tojo
Kristallnacht
The Way of Subjects
League of Nations
total war
internment
War Measures Act
Great Depression
the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
irredentism
genocide
crimes against humanity
war crimes
Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
Weimar Republic
Final Solution
decolonization
successor state
self-determination
3. Make sure that you review the following broad topics in your review of Unit 2 (and make sure that you can answer ALL of the questions on the Unit 2 Worksheet):
World War I (don't concern yourself with memorizing battles though)
Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
The Interwar Years
Rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Japan, and Italy
Causes of World War II and key events (turning points in the war)
The Holocaust
Contemporary examples of genocide (review case studies that were emphasized in class and in the textbook, review your notes for "Scream Bloody Murder", "Shake Hands with the Devil")
Decolonization and self-determination (quick review of "Gandhi" film study booklet, what are successor states? What is self-determination? Kosovo case study)
I reviewed monetary and fiscal policy with you today. We also reviewed the Keynesian economic response at various stages of the business cycle. I then walked you through a handout on the stabilization of the business cycle using monetary and fiscal policy. I also gave you a handout on the Great Depression in the USA. Please make sure that you check out all of the resources at your disposal for the unit The Great Depression in the Americas. Questions related to this topic are often covered by students on their Paper 3 in May.
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You finished off writing your Unit 2 WRA II Essay today in the Blenheim Room. Please make sure that you send me your essay by e-mail, send it to my CBE account. We'll be getting into some Unit 3 material this week. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on Tuesday, December 10th, please see the study guide below. The format for your Unit 2 Final Exam is multiple choice.
Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
1. Study the following PowerPoint presentations from Unit 2:
The Causes of World War I
Total War-Allied Victory in WWI-Paris Peace Conference
Ultranationalism in WWII: Italy, Japan, Germany
The Internment of Japanese-Canadians in WWII
The Holocaust
Eight Stages of Genocide (from the Genocide Watch website)
Contemporary Examples of Genocide
2. Know the following key concepts:
national interest
domestic policy
foreign policy
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
Treaty of Versailles
Big Four (Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando)
appeasement
ultranationalism
propaganda
conscription crisis
Adolf Hitler
Nazis
Hirohito
Tojo
Kristallnacht
The Way of Subjects
League of Nations
total war
internment
War Measures Act
Great Depression
the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
irredentism
genocide
crimes against humanity
war crimes
Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
Weimar Republic
Final Solution
decolonization
successor state
self-determination
3. Make sure that you review the following broad topics in your review of Unit 2 (and make sure that you can answer ALL of the questions on the Unit 2 Worksheet):
World War I (don't concern yourself with memorizing battles though)
Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles
The Interwar Years
Rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Japan, and Italy
Causes of World War II and key events (turning points in the war)
The Holocaust
Contemporary examples of genocide (review case studies that were emphasized in class and in the textbook, review your notes for "Scream Bloody Murder", "Shake Hands with the Devil")
Decolonization and self-determination (quick review of "Gandhi" film study booklet, what are successor states? What is self-determination? Kosovo case study)
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You wrote your Unit 2 WRA II Essay in Room 241 today. Please make sure that you send me your essay by e-mail, send it to my CBE account.
You wrote your Prescribed Subject 1 Quiz today, and then you had time to work on your Great Depression and New Deal study guide. This is due on Monday. You can find this handout on the IB 30/35 wiki under The Great Depression and the Americas.
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We went to the Blenheim Room today to type up the first paragraph of your Unit 2 WRA II Essay. You were to save this essay to your H drive and print off a hard copy of it to have it peer edited by a classmate. You will write the remainder of your Unit 2 WRA II Essay on Monday in the Blenheim Room.
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I gave you your USA-Canada Comparative Government Assignment today. It is strongly recommended that you work with a partner for this assignment. This assignment is due on Tuesday, December 10th. I also had you write a response to two of the following questions:
Should the voting age be lowered?
Should voting be mandatory?
Should everyone over the age of 18 be allowed to vote?
I then had you split into groups to deal with the questions and discuss them. Please don't forget that you have your Unit 2 WRA II Essay on Monday. Please go to the Social 30-1 wiki under the section called WRA II Essay Writing.
We continued examining the process of writing a WRA II Essay today. I gave you the essay question sheet, and you had some time for some small group brainstorming of arguments and evidence. I then walked you through the structure of the first paragraph by showing you an example of an outline for the Unit 2 WRA II essay source. I will post this on the wiki today, so please check the section on the Social 20-1 wiki called WRA II Essay Writing. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions. Please remember that your Chapter 7-8 Test is tomorrow,please check out the study guide here (scroll down to find it).
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I did a homework check on your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions. I went through a lot of political concepts today, so you'll need to get these notes from a classmate if you were away. We covered direct democracy, representative democracy, parliamentary democracy and presidential democracy. Our example of a parliamentary democracy that we'll examine in greater detail is Canada. We talked about the organization/structure of the Canadian political system, responsible government and the Senate and House of Commons. Other concepts that you should understand moving forward are representation by population, minority government, majority government and non-confidence votes. Tomorrow, we'll finish off our examination of the Canadian political system. I will also give you your Unit 2 WRA II Essay question sheet tomorrow.
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I went through a lot of economic concepts today, so if you missed class you will need to get these notes from a classmate. I went through the basic economic problem facing all societies (scarcity), economic systems, economic values, basic economic questions and how the economic systems would answer the questions differently. I also reviewed the economic-political grid, the law of supply and demand and the boom and bust cycle (the business cycle). I will start tomorrow with the boom and bust cycle and discuss what the Keynesian economic response will be to the various stages of the cycle. Please remember that you have your Prescribed Subject 1 Quiz on Friday.
You wrote your Paper 1 today, and I started to give back some IAs. Please remember that you have a Prescribed Subject 1 Quiz on Friday, which consists of a matching section and some other "surprises". Your 1920s Study Guide is due tomorrow.
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You got the results back for your Unit 2 Final Exam today. You also had class time to work on your Chapter 10 Key Terms and Questions, which are due tomorrow.
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We started looking at positional thinking today, and the differences between argumentation and evidence as well. Tomorrow, you'll get the "recipe for success" for writing WRA II essays. I will also give you the Unit 2 WRA II Essay Question Sheet, and we'll start building the essay together tomorrow. You will be writing the first paragraph of the Unit 2 WRA II essayon Friday, and then you'll finish it off on Monday. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7-8 Test on Thursday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).
We started class today by watching a video called "The Roaring Twenties" from the U.S. History series. You then had the remainder of class time to work on the 1920s Study Guide. You were to bring your United States and Its People textbook to class today, and use it answer the questions from the 1920s Study Guide. The most useful chapter in the textbook to answer the questions would be Chapter 20: The Twenties: Blowing the Lid Off 1919-1928. This study guide is due on Wednesday. Please remember that you're writing your Paper 1 tomorrow.
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Your Unit 2 Research Project was due in class today. If this project is handed in late, you lose 10% off in marks for every day that it is late. I also did a homework check on your "Gandhi" film study. We tied up some loose ends in the Unit 2 material today by covering the case study of Kosovo declaring its independence in 2008. We watched a CBC News in Review video on this topic. Your Kosovo CBC News in Review Questions are due tomorrow (November 26th) and your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions are due on Wednesday (November 27th). Please remember that you are writing your Chapter 7-8 Test this Thursday (November 28th). Please check out the study guide below.
Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:
This test is on Thursday, November 28th. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3-4 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:
We started Unit 3 by looking at your results for the Political Compass survey. We also watched a video from BBC World called "10 Questions About Democracy" (here is a link to the companion website if you'd like to hear what people had to say again). You are responsible for finishing the entire film study that went along with this video for Monday's class (I'll be doing a homework check on it, and in all likelihood, we'll be able to discuss some of the questions in the video). One of the people that was interviewed in the video, Stanley Fish, is a writer for the New York Times; here's an article he wrote after he was interviewed for the documentary.
Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
It will be a 75 multiple choice question test which will be held on Monday, November 25th. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:
study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
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
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)
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 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 (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 (sent by e-mail)
Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
establishment of the Soviet Union
Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
"Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
"Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
modern liberalism
features of the Nazi state
Hitler's rise to power
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 and the quadrant model
Social 20-1
We finished watching "Gandhi" today. The film study guide for "Gandhi" is due on Monday. One week from today, you have your Chapter 7-8 Test. Please remember that your Unit 2 Research Project is due on Monday, November 25th.
Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:
This test is on Thursday, November 24th. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3-4 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:
"Contemporary Examples of Genocide" (you have a hard copy in your Social 20-1 blue study booklets)
Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:
36 Questions About The Holocaust
Turning Points in History: The Atomic Bomb (film notes)
White Light/Black Rain (film notes)
Shake Hands with the Devil (film notes + package)
Unit 2 Worksheet (chapter questions for Chapter 7 and 8)
make sure that you have read Chapters 7 and 8!
1. Please study the following key concepts/key people/key events: genocide:
crimes against humanity
war crimes
the Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
Weimar Republic
Final Solution
decolonization
successor state
self-determination
Wansee Conference
Nuremberg Trials
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
home rule
Hutu
Tutsi
Romeo Dallaire
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Robert Oppenheimer
FDR
Harry Truman
Potsdam Conference
Slobodan Milosevic
2. You should be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 2 worksheet from Chapter 7 and 8.
IB 30/35
Despite the delays with the fire alarm, we were able to finish off the "1920s Conservatism in the USA" PowerPoint presentation. Please bring your United States and Its People textbooks to class on Monday. You are writing your Paper 1 on Prescribed Subject 1 on Tuesday, November 26th. This is your last weekend to prepare for it, so I suggest that you work very methodically through the Paper 1 duotang, and do some research into historiography for the various topics that the sources potentially could be on with the Paper 1. Use this long weekend to your advantage!
We continued our film study of "Gandhi", we should be able to finish it off tomorrow. I did a homework check on the Chapter 7 Key Terms and Questions and the colonial background information on India. You have your Chapter 7-8 Test on Thursday, November 28th, please see the study guide below.
Chapter 7-8 Test Study Guide:
This test is on Friday, November 26th. It will consist of 20-24 key terms in a matching section, and 3-4 short answer questions. Please study the following PowerPoint presentations:
Please study the following notes packages/film study packages:
36 Questions About The Holocaust
Turning Points in History: The Atomic Bomb (film notes)
White Light/Black Rain (film notes)
Shake Hands with the Devil (film notes + package)
Unit 2 Worksheet (chapter questions for Chapter 7 and 8)
make sure that you have read Chapters 7 and 8!
1. Please study the following key concepts/key people/key events: genocide:
crimes against humanity
war crimes
the Holocaust
ethnic cleansing
lebensraum
Weimar Republic
Final Solution
decolonization
successor state
self-determination
Wansee Conference
Nuremberg Trials
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
home rule
Hutu
Tutsi
Romeo Dallaire
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Robert Oppenheimer
FDR
Harry Truman
Potsdam Conference
Slobodan Milosevic
2. You should be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 2 worksheet from Chapter 7 and 8.
Social 30-1
We did some housekeeping today, with me returning some homework checked assignments and sharing results on the Cold War Exam. We watched the National Geographic documentary called "Inside North Korea" as well today. Please complete the Political Compass survey and bring in your quadrant print out to class tomorrow. Please check out the Unit 2 Final Exam study guide below.
Unit 2 Final Exam Study Guide:
This Unit Final is on Monday, November 25th, it will be a 75 multiple choice question test. In your textbook, this is material from Chapters 3-8. Please look at the studying hints below:
study "The Development of Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "Responding to Classical Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Evolution of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Techniques of Dictatorship" (ppt)
study "20th Century Rejections of Modern Liberalism" (ppt)
study "The Origins of the Cold War" (ppt)
study the key concepts from the Chapters 3-8 worksheets
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)
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 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 (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 (sent by e-mail)
Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
establishment of the Soviet Union
Soviet economic system (top-down decision-making process)
Lenin's War Communism and the New Economic Policy
"Stalin and the Modernization of Russia" (see film notes)
Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
"Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin" notes (this bridges the gap between Stalin and Gorbachev)
Gorbachev to Collapse Notes
Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
techniques of dictatorships (USSR and Nazi Germany case studies)
modern liberalism
features of the Nazi state
Hitler's rise to power
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 and the quadrant model
IB 30/35
You watched the A & E Biography of Benito Mussolini. I also shared some upcoming key dates with you on the IB calendar.
Paper 1 on Prescribed Subject 1: Tuesday, November 26th
Diploma students: TOK Essay meeting during tutorial on Thursday, November 28th. Attendance is mandatory.
Prescribed Subject 1 Quiz on Friday, November 29th .
After your current events quiz today we began our examination of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. We'll finish off this topic on Monday. Please make sure that you keep up with the topics that we're covering in Prescribed Subject 1. Make sure that you know that the areas on which the source-based questions in Paper 1 will focus on are:
aims of the participants and peacemakers: Wilson and the Fourteen Points
terms of the Paris Peace Treaties 1919-1920: Versailles, St. Germain, Trianon, Neuilly, S'evres/Lausanne 1923
the geopolitical and economic impact of the treaties on Europe; the establishment of the mandate system
enforcement of the provisions of the treaties: U.S. isolationism-the retreat from the Anglo-American Guarantee; disarmament-Washington, London, Geneva conferences
the League of Nations: effects of the absence of major powers; the principles of collective security and early attempts at peacekeeping (1920-1925)
the Ruhr Crisis (1923); Locarno and "the Locarno Spring" (1925)
Depression and threats to international peace and collective security: Manchuria (1931-1933) and Abyssinia (1935-1936).
You'll be writing a Paper 1 during the week of November 25th. We'll have a definite date for you next week.
Social 20-1
We finished off our film study of "Shake Hands with the Devil" today. Your film study answers will be due on Monday. This would be a great weekend to get some work completed on your Unit 2 Research Project, which is due on November 25th. Your Chapter 7-8 Test is on November 28th, I will be posting the study guide on the blog next week.
Social 30-1
We finished watching "Good Night, and Good Luck" today. Your film study questions are due tomorrow. The film study for this is due on Monday, November 18th. "Good Night, and Good Luck" contains a few powerful scenes that I will post here on the blog. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam on Tuesday, November 19th. You can find the study guide here (scroll down to find it).
This film explores a lot of issues that are relevant to today. You also have to understand the political climate at the time in the United States to fully understand the movie. Many Americans were drawn to communism in the 1930s due to the effects of the Great Depression, especially academics and those in the labour fields. In the movie they made reference to friends and spouses that had attended meetings long ago. The "Red Scare" caused a huge backlash against those sympathetic to communism or the USSR. Remember, during WWII the Soviet Union was an ally, and many people may have attended meetings out of curiosity. The junior Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy in 1950 charged there were communist sympathizers in the U.S. State Department. Hearings were held, charges were discovered to be unfounded. McCarthy continued accusing communist infiltration in the Democratic Party. McCarthy became the chairman of the House Subcommittee on the investigation of un-American activity (HUAC). On December 2, 1954, McCarthy’s actions were called into question and his accusations were deemed unfounded. On Murrow's show "See it Now", he begins to publicly go after McCarthy. A very public feud develops when McCarthy responds by accusing Murrow of being a communist. Murrow is accused of having been a member of the leftist union Industrial Workers of the World, which Murrow claimed was false.
In this climate of fear and reprisal (which we now refer to as McCarthyism), the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity ultimately strikes a historic blow against McCarthy. Historical footage in the movie also shows the questioning of Annie Lee Moss, a Pentagon communication worker accused of being a communist based on her name appearing on a list seen by an FBI infiltrator of the American Communist Party. In the first half of the film Murrow talks about how McCarthy didn't create the political climate and anti-Communist hysteria sweeping the country, but that he capitalized on it for political gain very effectively. As David Strathairn, playing Murrow in the film says, "We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate responsibility." The film is framed by the performance of the speech given by Murrow to the Radio and Television News Directors Association in 1958, in which Murrow harshly admonishes his audience not to squander the potential of television to inform and educate the public. I found this short video on YouTube that spliced together Edward R. Murrow's speech that appears at the beginning of the film and continues at the end of the film. I find that this speech has relevance even today when you talk about the level of discourse in the media.
We started our film study of "Good Night, and Good Luck." today. We'll finish it off tomorrow. The film study guide questions will be due on Monday. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Cold War Exam on Tuesday, November 19th, please see the study guide for this test here.
Social 20-1
We began our examination of the Rwandan genocide today. I gave you some class time to read the synopsis for the film "Shake Hands with the Devil" and complete the pre-viewing questions in the study guide prior to starting the film. We'll finish off "Shake Hands with the Devil" tomorrow.
IB 30/35
We went through a PowerPoint called "Disarmament and Enforcement of the Treaties" today. You can find this presentation on the IB 30/35 wiki under Prescribed Subject 1.
You have homework tonight out of the Prescribed Subject 1 duotang:
Read pages 50-55 in the Paper 1 study duotang
Complete the Student Study Sections on page 52 (both questions) and p. 55 (just the top study section question)
Please make sure that there are enough good current events on the wiki to make a current events quiz, or else I'll have to go back a couple of weeks for questions.
