April 3

Social 30-1

A lot of yesterday's class was spent re-teaching how to write a three source analysis assignment (WRA I). I will be sending you a handout on how to write a WRA I as well today, so check your e-mail.

We did a quick review of the economic-political grid today. We continued looking at non-democratic systems today. We look at characteristics of non-democratic systems (handout) and types of dictatorships (handout). We also watched the A & E Biography called "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler". Please remember that you have your Economic Systems Exam tomorrow. You can find the study guide for this exam here. Your Economic Planning in the USSR booklet is due tomorrow.

Social 20-1

I distributed a handout to you yesterday called "The Way of Subjects". The analysis questions are due tomorrow. We looked at the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor yesterday, and the motivations for the attack. We watched a short excerpt from the film "Pearl Harbor" as well yesterday.

Today, we looked at the results of the attack on Pearl Harbor, namely the internment of Japanese-Canadians. I sent you a PowerPoint on this topic yesterday. Today, we completed a film study of the documentary "Tides of War" which looked at the internment. Your Chapter 5-6 Test is on Monday, April 8th, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

IB 30/35

Yesterday we started our examination of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. I started a PowerPoint lecture on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, which is already posted on the wiki. I also gave you a Social 30-1 U.S. Civil Rights Movement assignment. This assignment is due on Tuesday, April 9th.

We watched Episode 1 of "Eyes on the Prize" today. You were given a question sheet to go along with this episode, the questions from this worksheet are due tomorrow (April 4th). Episode 1 of "Eyes on the Prize" focused in on the murder of Emmett Till and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. On the timeline that is on the video study guide for this episode it also mentions the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, however, the makers of Eyes on the Prize focus in on Emmett Till's murder, and the short public trial of his murderers. You can see Till's murder as a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement, and the open casket funeral of Emmett Till and the publication of the photos as a catalyst for change in America's attitudes. Mississippi, where Till's murder took place gained national notoriety as a hotbed for white supremacy as well. If you are interested in the Till case you might want to do a little investigation of your own into the impact that the murder had on popular culture. Numerous songs, plays, poems, novels, TV shows and movies have drawn inspiration from the murder of Emmett Till and the court case. You may see parallels between the Till case and Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird (one of my personal favorites) to the TV show In the Heat of the Night (it was previously a movie too), to the Bob Dylan song "The Death of Emmett Till". With the Montgomery Bus Boycott segment of the episode you saw the emergence of Martin Luther King on the national stage. We'll be exploring his role and leadership in the movement in the days to come.

I also finished off the U.S. Civil Rights Movement PowerPoint lecture today. This presentation is on the IB 30/35 wiki already. It is strongly recommended that you print this presentation off and study from it as well.

March 15

IB 30/35

We finished off the CNN Cold War series today. The episode was called "Conclusions" and it covered the fall of communism and implications for the future. As you saw in the video, communism ended with a whimper, not a bang in most Eastern European countries and the USSR. In Romania there was a popular uprising with about 1,000 people being killed, but in other Eastern bloc countries in the transition away from communism was mostly peaceful. Towards the end of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was experiencing economic hardship due in part to military spending, which led Gorbachev to enter into arms reduction talks more readily. Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost had the effect of helping change occur more rapidly in the USSR. Unfortunately for Gorbachev and the CPSU, there was no way to control the changes to Soviet society and its citizens that occurred as a result of the introduction of these reform measures. On Monday, many of you will be attending a play in the school's theatre as part of your English IB class. Certificate students from Mr. Johnson's class and ours will meet in Room 111 for some fun and games. Please remember that you have your Cold War Unit Exam on Wednesday, March 20th. Please see the study guide for this exam below.  

Social 30-1 Cold War Unit Final Study Guide:

• make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts
• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention
Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study the Cold War timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

Social 30-1

We reviewed private enterprise and supply side economics today, as well as the basic economic values associated with the economic systems. We will be starting to look at the command economy on Monday, so it will be helpful to review the Russian history notes that I am sending to you. We'll be using the USSR as our case study of a communist state that employed a centrally planned economy. Please remember that you have your Market and Mixed Economy Test on Wednesday, March 20th. 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 (handout)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (handout)

Make sure that you review the following PowerPoint presentations:

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

Social 20-1

We focused on the post-WWI desire of the Allied Powers to make Germany pay. We watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Make Germany Pay". As you watched this video you were to take notes on it on the worksheet that was provided. Next week we'll look at the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis again and look at the appeasement of Hitler by Western powers. On Wednesday, March 20th you will be writing a Unit 2 WRA I assignment. You will not be allowed to have any reference materials or notes on how to write these assignments out in front of you, so you should memorize how to write these types of assignments prior to Wednesday.

March 14

Social 20-1

I gave you a booklet today that is extremely important, it covers major events of the Interwar Years. Please make sure that you put a star on this booklet. Material from this booklet will be tested on your Unit 2 Final Exam, and Part B of the Final Exam in June. We also watched "The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler" which covered the rise of Hitler to power in Germany. We will go over concepts and events covered in this documentary in the days to come. On Wednesday of next week (March 20th), you will be writing another WRA I three source analysis assignment. It will be on material that I have covered already in Unit 2.

Social 30-1

Most of today's class was spent writing your "Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test". On Wednesday, March 20th you will be writing your Market Economy and Mixed Economy Test. 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 (handout)
• how supply-side economics deals with a recession (handout)

Make sure that you review the following PowerPoint presentations:

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

IB 30/35

Most of today's class was spent watching the CNN Cold War series video called "The Wall Comes Down". Most of the focus on this episode was on the breakdown of Eastern European governments in 1989, with the greatest emphasis on East Germany and Erich Honecker's government. On October 17, 1989 Honecker was voted out of the Politburo. The original crisis in East Germany had been caused in part over restrictions on travel. Egon Krenz's government started to make reforms for free travel for East Germans. Street demonstrations demanded more and more from Krenz's government. Many of the East German opposition members wanted Gorbachev-era inspired reforms such as glasnost and perestroika. In the end, a bureaucratic mistake led to East Berliners to mass outside of the gates to West Berlin because the East German government had said that travel restrictions had been lifted. East German border guards then allowed people to pass over to the West. The episode also touched on Poland's Solidarity movement under Lech Walesa, too.
On Wednesday, March 20th you will have a Cold War Unit Exam. Please see the study guide below. This test will be a Social 30-1 test and it will be all multiple choice test format.

Social 30-1 Cold War Unit Final Study Guide:

• make sure that you know all the Cold War concepts
• deterrence
• disarmament
• isolationism
• appeasement
• collective security
• direct confrontation
• brinkmanship
• containment
• detente
• collective intervention
Be able to define the following key concepts:

• superpower
• sphere of influence
• arms race
• Suez Canal War 1956
• brinkmanship
• Korean War
• Cold War
• decolonization
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• detente
• NATO
• collective security
• know the chronology of events of the Cold War (study timelines. Please check under Social 30-1 Links on the blog for links to the Cold War timelines)
• know key events that we've emphasized in class (for example: Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Afghanistan) plus other key events from the timeline
• know major arms reduction agreements (bilateral agreements and multilateral agreements), please study the notes that I gave you on this (detailed notes and the chart)
• know about the formation of alliances (NATO, Warsaw Pact, SEATO, etc.) and the formation of "spheres of influence"
• know examples of American intervention in their "backyard" (Western Hemisphere, notes package plus notes from the CNN video useful here)
• anything that I gave you as a handout is testable material and should be reviewed!!
• know how the Cold War ends and its results/consequences

December 11

IB 30/35

I went through some basic characteristics of a market economy, and gave you some notes on private enterprise and supply-side economics. If you missed today's class, you need to get the notes from a classmate that I wrote on the board. We also started watching the first episode of "Commanding Heights". We'll continue watching "The Battle of Ideas" tomorrow. We're going to have our class debate on Tuesday (December 18th) against Mr. Johnson's class. On Thursday you will have a test on the market economy and the mixed economy. Please see the study guide below. Many of the handouts and PowerPoint presentations that the study guide refers to are actually already on the wiki already under Social 30-1 Unit 2 material.

Market Economy and Mixed Economy Exam Study Guide:

• 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

IB 20

We powered through the remainder of the "Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany" PowerPoint presentation. As you know, this PowerPoint is already up on the IB 20 wiki under the Dictatorships unit. Please also study the Hitler and Historiography article that is up the wiki as well. You need to know Hitler and Stalin extremely well for the Paper 2 that you will be writing on Tuesday, December 18th. Start studying the PowerPoint presentations on Stalin and Hitler now, and study the historiography! Tomorrow we'll watch a short documentary on the Holocaust. We will be starting the last unit in IB 20 this week: Democracies.

Please make sure that you have printed off the "Hitler and Nazi Germany" PowerPoint (pictured above) with 4-6 slides per page. Also, you should have printed off the "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" PowerPoint presentation already (pictured below). Again, don't print them off one slide per page, I recommend 4-6 slides per page, and double-side print if you can.

Social 10-1

I gave you some notes today on human rights, civil rights, inalienable rights, entrenching rights, the War Measures Act (used in Canada during WWI, WWII, the FLQ Crisis), the Canadian Bill of Rights (1961, not entrenched in the Canadian constitution), and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I also gave you a booklet on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( a worldwide goal for human rights, serves as a model for other documents, such as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but it's not legally binding. Many UN member states ignore this Declaration). You were to complete the chart activity on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the application of the notwithstanding clause during class time. If you did not complete this chart, here is a hyperlink to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.