December 12

Social 10-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms charts at the beginning of the class. I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "Impacts of Globalization on Groups in Society", which I will be sending to you today. When you get this PowerPoint presentation, please print it off 4-6 slides per page and add it to your notes. We started our film study of "Blood Diamond" today, and we will continue this film tomorrow.

IB 20

For the first 30 minutes of class today you completed the Tell Them From Me computer survey. For the remainder of the class we watched the documentary "Genocide". We will be leaving the Dictatorships unit and start looking at democratic systems tomorrow.

IB 30/35

 

I went through how demand-side and supply-side economics would deal with a recession at the start of class. We then proceeded to continue watching "Commanding Heights" Episode 1 "The Battle of Ideas". We did not finish this video in class. We finished a little over an hour of the video, and you can watch the rest of the video below. Tomorrow, 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

 

I also showed you a a short YouTube video which was a "rap battle" between "Keynes" and "Hayek". You can watch this video again below:



Round 2 is here:

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.