March 6

Social 30-1

I went through the fiscal and monetary policy booklet with you today. I also gave you booklets of readings on mixed economies, democratic socialism, and Sweden: The Welfare State today. You must read all of these booklets, and complete the activities in the Sweden booklet for tomorrow. Tomorrow you will be writing an in-class cartoon analysis assignment, so get to class on time! Please see the study guide below for the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, March 11th.

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 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today. Your Unit 1 Final Exam is tomorrow, please see the study guide here. You should have picked up a copy of the Unit 2 Worksheet. The Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Monday.

IB 30/35

We watched another video from the CNN Cold War series today called "MAD" (mutually assured destruction). I also showed the 1951 Civil Defense film "Duck and Cover".

February 28

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today. I also did a homework check on your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions. Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Please see the study guides for the Chapter 3-4 Test and the Unit 1 Final Exam below.

Chapters 3-4 Test Study Guide:

This test will be on Wednesday, March 6th. It will consist of a matching section (10 key concepts) and a short answer section.

• make sure that you study the PowerPoint presentation "Contending Loyalties"
• make sure that you have read Chapters 3 and 4 (it is all testable material)
• know the key concepts/key terms from Chapters 3 and 4 (please see the Unit 1 Worksheet for these)
• study your answers to the Chapter 3 and 4 questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (all could potentially be on the test)

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

Your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday, March 7th. It is 75 multiple choice questions. Make sure that you have read Chapters 1-4 in Exploring Nationalism. Please make sure that you know the key concepts from Unit 1 (see below). Also review the PowerPoint presentations that you should have in your notes. These are the presentations that you should review:

1. Nation and Identity
2. The French Revolution
3. The Napoleonic Era
4. Contending Loyalties

Know the key concepts from the Unit 1 Worksheet (a lot of them have been defined on the wiki by your classmates, check under Unit 1 Key Terms). If you know the key concepts you'll be able apply them to test.

• nation
• nation-state
• nationalism
• patriotism
• self-determination
• sovereignty
• sovereign
• civic nation
• civic nationalism
• ethnic nationalism
• collective consciousness
• French Revolution
• Estates-General
• Louis XVI
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• cahiers de doléances
• Ancien Régime
• bourgeoisie
• feudal system
• philosophes
• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• National Assembly
• Tennis Court Oath
• constitutional monarchy
• Jacobins
• Girondins
• National Convention
• levée en masse
• Robespierre
• Danton
• Marat
• Reign of Terror
• Napoleon
• Napoleonic Code
• Continental System
• contending loyalties
• cultural pluralism
• reasonable accommodation
• sovereignists
• federalists
• royal commission
• expressions of nationalism
• non-nationalist loyalty
• alienation
• segregation

Social 30-1

I did a homework check on your Philosophies of Industrialism work booklets today. I covered a few different concepts today, including: welfare capitalism, welfare state and the emergence of modern liberalism. We reviewed the business cycle and introduced what the Keynesian response would be at various stages of business cycle. You have a couple of readings on Keynesian economics to go over tonight. Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday.

IB 30/35

We continued with TOK Group Presentations today. We should be able to finish off the TOK presentations tomorrow. Please be on time and ready to present (and be a good audience again tomorrow).

September 30

Social 20-1

We watched a short video on "Trench Warfare" from the CBS News series on World War I. I then went through required elements for a Written Response Assignment I (3 source analysis assignments). You'll be doing a Unit 1 WRA I tomorrow. I also gave you back the results for your Chapter 1-2 Test, and your current mark in Social 20-1. Please remember that you have your Chapter 3-4 Test on Tuesday and your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday of next week. Please see the study guide for both tests here (scroll down to find the study guides).

Social 30-1

I went through Keynesian economics again, specifically giving you a detailed booklet on both fiscal and monetary policy. We also started a video called "FDR and the New Deal" from the BBC 20th Century History series. We'll finish this video tomorrow. As you watched this video, you should have been taking notes. If you didn't get a chance to look and listen to the podcast from the NPR yesterday, please look at the link in yesterday's post. It's worth it!

September 29

Social 20-1

We looked at a couple of videos from the CBS News series on World War I. We watched "Doomed Dynasties" and "Clash of the Generals" in today's class. If you missed class today, you will need to get notes from a classmate on these two videos. Tomorrow, we'll watch the third in the series called "Trench Warfare" and we'll go over how to write a Written Response Assignment I (3 source analysis). Please see the study guides for the Chapter 3-4 Test and the Unit 1 Final Exam (scroll down to find it).

Social 30-1

We went over Keynesian economics, monetary and fiscal policy and its effect on the boom and bust cycle. If you missed today's class, make sure that you get the handouts that you missed. We also watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History Series called "Boom and Bust". While you were watching this video, you were to complete the video study questions. Please take some time and read over this article from NPR on John Maynard Keynes, and the podcast that goes along with it.