July 11

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I in class today. I went through a lecture on "The Allied Victory in World War I and the Paris Peace Conference". You can find this presentation on the wiki under Unit 2 Presentations and in your Unit 2 study booklet. Please make sure that read the material on the Interwar Years from the green booklet. Tomorrow, you'll be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). On Monday, you'll be writing the Unit 2 WRA I. You should get the results from your Unit 1 WRA I on Monday as well. You'll be writing your Chapter 5-6 Test on Tuesday, see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

July 10

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today. These tests have been marked already (hence the later posting tonight) and you will get the results back tomorrow. We also watched a video from the BBC series Days That Shook the World, namely "The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand". You also had considerable time to work on your Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions today. These are due on Friday. You'll be writing your Unit 1 WRA I in class tomorrow. On Friday, you'll be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). You'll be writing your Chapter 5-6 Test on Tuesday, see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

July 9

Social 20-1

Sorry for not posting yesterday on the blog. Yesterday, you did the following:

• Wrote your Chapter 1-2 Test
• Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions were taken in for homework check marks
• Reviewed how to write WRA I assignments, and you wrote a practice WRA I

We started Unit 2 material today. I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "The Causes of World War I". This presentation is already on the wiki under Unit 2 Presentations. We watched some videos from the CBS First World War series, namely "Doomed Dynasties", "The Clash of the Generals", and "Trench Warfare". You were to read The Causes of World War I in your Unit 2 study booklets. Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 3-4 Test is tomorrow, please see the study guide below. You also have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Friday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). You will be writing the Unit 1 WRA I on Thursday. Your Chapter 5-6 Test is one week from today. Although we have not covered all of this material, I thought it would be good to give you a heads up about this upcoming test. Please see the study guide for this test below.

Chapter 3-4 Test Study Guide:

This quiz will be on Wednesday, July 10th. 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 quiz)

Chapter 5-6 Test Study Guide:

1. Study the following key concepts/key people/key events:

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• the Black Hand
• Gavrillo Princip
• Tsar Nicholas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Battle of Tannenberg
• the Schlieffen Plan
• Plan 17
• General von Moltke
• Battle of the Marne
• Alsace and Lorraine
• total war
• Battle of Verdun
• Battle of the Somme
• the Brusilov Offensive
• sinking of the Lusitania
• the Zimmermann Telegram
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• General Ludendorff
• Friedrich Ebert
• Paris Peace Conference
• David Lloyd George
• Woodrow Wilson
• Fourteen Points
• Georges Clemenceau
• Vittorio Orlando
• League of Nations
• plebiscites
• reparations
• collective security
• war debts
• Treaty of Versailles
• "war guilt clause"
• "Manchurian Incident"
• Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
• expansionism
• Hirohito
• Hideki Tojo
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Kristallnacht
• the Nuremberg Laws
• any of the key concepts or key events in the Interwar Years booklet is also testable material

2. Look at what I have emphasized in class (Causes of WWI, nature of WWI, armistice, Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles, the Interwar Years, rise of ultranationalism in Germany, Italy and Japan): this will be the emphasis of the test, there are several topics in your textbook Chapters 5-6 that WILL NOT be on this test, especially if it is event that occurs AFTER the events listed above (so things like Canada's role in Afghanistan, and Arctic sovereignty won't be on the test)

3. Focus your review on the following big concepts:

• MAIN Causes of World War I
• the nature of World War I (trench warfare, stalemate, total war)
• the Paris Peace Conference (national interests in negotiating the treaties)
• Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (links on the blog, under Social 20-1 Links, CHECK IT OUT!!)
• the Treaty of Versailles (terms of the Treaty of Versailles: GARGLe)
• Hitler's violation of the Treaty of Versailles (chronology; order of events that violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles)
• the Interwar Years (key events, study your Interwar Years notes from the Unit 2 study booklet)
• the League of Nations (FAILURe of the League of Nations)
• ultranationalism in Germany, Japan and Italy
• failure of collective security (League of Nations) in Manchuria, Abyssinia, and the Spanish Civil War
• appeasement of Adolf Hitler (Munich Conference, Neville Chamberlain, a foreign policy response to ultranationalism) 

July 5

Social 20-1

We covered the Napoleonic Age for most of today's class. I delivered part of the PowerPoint lecture called "The Napoleonic Age", and I stopped at the Congress of Vienna. I then showed the A & E Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Turning Points of History video on Napoleon's invasion of Russia. I then returned to the PowerPoint presentation and completed the lecture on the Congress of Vienna. We also looked at the "Contending Loyalties" PowerPoint presentation. All of these lectures can be found on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations and in your green study booklets. I did a homework check on the Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions. Your Chapter 3 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. Your Chapter 1-2 Test is on Monday, please see the study guide here. Your Chapter 3-4 Test is on Wednesday and you can find the study guide here. Next Friday, July 12th, you will be writing the Unit 1 Final Exam. Please see the study guide below.

Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

One week from today, you will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam. 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. They are also on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations. 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 the 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

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".

March 5

IB 30/35

We watched "Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam" today. I think you could see techniques of the war clearly illustrated in this video and yesterday's excerpts from "Born on the Fourth of July". As unsettling as these two movies were you can see recruitment techniques, the fears of the times ("communism is all around us, they're moving in everywhere"), the techniques of warfare in Vietnam (how the war was fought: use of helicopters, dropping troops near villages, engaging the enemy/luring them out and then calling in air strikes) and the aftermath/impact that the war had on young men like Ron Kovic (issues of drug use, post-traumatic stress disorder). There was an event that was briefly mentioned in the film "Dear America" that I think deserves a little bit more attention since it helped sway American popular opinion against the war. I'm not talking about the Tet Offensive (although it failed militarily to achieve the goals that the Viet Cong wished, it did turn American public opinion), I'm referring to the My Lai Massacre. You can read more about this event here. Please visit the IB 30/35 wiki tonight, and edit the Vietnam War page (causes, courses, practices, events and results chart). You can find this page on the Collaborative Notes page. I have also shared this page with you, so there's no excuses! Changes due by Friday. GOOD!

As we will see, public support for the Vietnam War changes over time as more and more American soldiers are killed. We see a growth in the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, and the media also played a role in the turn of popular opinion against the war. I REALLY recommend that you have a look at the this series of photographs from the Vietnam War era, pretty powerful imagery (make sure that you read the captions too). Here is a link to the NPR that explains the story behind the photograph below, definitely worth the time to read or listen to the podcast, and make sure that you look at the photo gallery of Eddie Adams' photographs of the Vietnam War.



There are certain iconic images associated with the Vietnam War. Here is another:

The above photograph is of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, O.Ont (born in 1963), she is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the child subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The iconic photo taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut shows her at about age nine running naked on the street after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack. Contrary to popular myth, the US Air Force were not involved in the attack, and only two US troops were within 60 miles (97 km) of the scene, neither of whom had any say in the bombings. Still, it is a powerful image associated with the war.

Social 20-1

I gave you back your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class. We watched a couple of videos from the CBS World War I series. Today's videos were "Clash of the Generals" and "The Trenches". I also gave you a reading booklet called "The Causes of World War I". Some parts of the booklet are dated since it was written in 1989, and it makes reference to the USSR, the Cold War and the division of Germany post-WWII. That having been said, it is well-written and very helpful. It is highly recommended that you have read this booklet PRIOR to Friday's class. You have a Chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow (please see the study guide here), and on Thursday you have your Unit 1 Final Exam (please see the study guide here).

Social 30-1

We finished off the "FDR and the New Deal" video at the beginning of class. I also did a homework check on the Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions today. I gave you a booklet on Analyzing Political Cartoons today. You're allowed to have this booklet out on Thursday when you write a cartoon analysis assignment. In Thursday's class there will be several political cartoons up on the board and you'll have to pick one to analyze.

March 4

IB 30/35

I returned your Paper 2 on Topic 5: The Cold War, which focused on the origins of the Cold War. Many of you wrote quite well, and included historiography on the origins from the Orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist schools. We got back to looking at the Vietnam War by watching and excerpt from "Born on the Fourth of July".

Social 30-1

I returned your Unit 1 WRA II Essays today. Please see me in tutorial if you'd like to discuss your essays. We then watched a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Boom and Bust" and "FDR and the New Deal". You were to complete the film study sheet that went along with "Boom and Bust", and you were to take your notes on "FDR and the New Deal". Please check your e-mail tonight for a very important booklet on monetary and fiscal policy. I will go over the contents of this booklet with you on Wednesday.

Social 20-1

We continued to examine "The Causes of World War I" today. I will send this PowerPoint presentation to you this afternoon. We also watched a video from the CBS video series on World War I called "Doomed Dynasties". Please see the study guide for your Chapter 3-4 Test here, and the study guide for the Unit 1 Final Exam here. The Chapter 3-4 Test is on Wednesday, and the Unit 1 Final Exam is on Thursday. Please check your e-mail accounts for the WWI as a Bar Fight document and the PowerPoint presentation.

I mentioned this in class, so I thought that I would share a link to a website that discusses J.R.R. Tolkien's experiences in the Great War, and how that influenced his writing of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, specifically the Journey through the Dead Marshes. The Great War was also a time when some of our most famous Canadian landscape artists came to the forefront, I'm referring to the Group of Seven, of course. Can you see some similarities in the pictures that I'm posting below?














I guess my point is that art is based on personal experience, and these artists were heavily influenced by their experiences in the Great War.

March 1

IB 30/35

We finished off the TOK Presentations today. Please remember that your Vietnam War Assignment is due on Monday.

Social 30-1

We reviewed the business cycle and the Keynesian economic response at the various stages of the boom and bust cycle. We'll continue to build upon the concepts of monetary and fiscal policy next week. Your Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday.  

Social 20-1

I did a homework check on the Chapter 4 Key Terms and Questions at the beginning of class. We started Unit 2 material today by starting "The Causes of World War I". I will continue with this lecture on Monday. Please remember that you have your Chapter 3-4 Test Wednesday, March 6th (see the study guide here), and your Unit 1 Final Exam on Thursday, March 7th (see the study guide here).

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).

July 10

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I for the first hour of today's class. We then went into a simulation of a fictional peace conference prior to the outbreak of World War I. After the break we watched a video from the BBC series "Days That Shook the World" on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. After the video, I read to you a humorous article called "If World War I Were a Barfight". I will post a reading on the wiki on Canada's role in WWI. I gave you the Unit 2 Worksheet, the Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide below.

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

You will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday, July 11th. 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. They are also on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations. 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

July 9

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today, you'll get the results tomorrow in class. I went through how to write a WRA I three source analysis assignment today. Please check out the resources on the wiki for more information about how to write a WRA I. We started Unit 2 material today by looking at the "Causes of WWI". I will finish this PowerPoint lecture off tomorrow. We also watched segments of two videos from the CBS World War I series, one called "Doomed Dynasties" and the other "The Clash of the Generals". We'll continue our examination of World War I tomorrow, after you write your Unit 1 WRA I. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday, please see the study guide below.

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

You will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday, July 11th. 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. They are also on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations. 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

July 6

Social 20-1

Today was a busy class. We watched a video from the History's Turning Points series on Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and then I proceeded into a PowerPoint lecture on material from Chapter 3-4 in your textbook. The "Contending Loyalties" PowerPoint has already been posted on the wiki. After the break you wrote your Chapter 1-2 Test. You'll get the results of this test back on Monday. Your Chapter 3 and 4 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. You will also be writing your Chapter 3-4 Test on Monday as well, please see the study guide below. Next week will be a busy week with lots of tests and writing assignments.

Upcoming Important Dates:

• Chapter 3-4 Test is on Monday, July 9th (see study guide below)
• Unit 1 WRA I (3 Source Analysis) is on Tuesday, July 10th
• Unit 1 Final Exam is on Wednesday, July 11th (see study guide below)
• Unit 2 WRA I is on Friday, July 13th

Chapters 3-4 Test Study Guide:

This quiz will be on Monday, July 9th. 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 quiz)

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

You will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam on Wednesday, July 11th. 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. They are also on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations. 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

October 4

Social 30-1

Today was a work period for most of you, which should have allowed you to read some of Chapter 6 and complete the key terms from the Chapter 6 Worksheet. Your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday, October 11th. You have test coming up on October 13th, 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 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today. You have your Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide here.

September 30

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today in class. Your Chapter 3-4 Test is on Tuesday, please see the study guide here. Your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Wednesday, please see the study guide here. make sure that you have read the Causes of World War I booklet for Monday as well.

Social 30-1

You wrote a political cartoon analysis today in class, which took most of the period.

September 29

Social 30-1

We listened to the NPR article on the application of Keynesian economics by the Obama administration. If you missed today's class you can listen to the NPR story and read the article under Social 30-1 Links (it's the third link). We then looked at monetary and fiscal policy in detail. Again, if you missed class today, check your e-mail, I sent out the article last night. Be on time tomorrow, you will be writing an political cartoon analysis.

Social 20-1

You watched a couple of videos today, one called "Doomed Dynasties" and the other "Clash of Generals". I gave you a handout on the Causes of World War I that I want you to read for Monday's class. I went quickly through how to write a WRA I three source analysis assignment as well. You will be writing a Unit 1 WRA I tomorrow in class. Your Chapter 3-4 Test is on Tuesday (please see the study guide here) and the Unit 1 Final Exam is on Wednesday (please see the study guide here).

September 28

Social 20-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation today on "The Causes of World War I". I have already sent this presentation to your e-mail accounts. Your French Revolution DBA is due tomorrow. You will be doing your Unit 1 WRA I on Friday, so I will re-teach you how to write them tomorrow. Your Chapter 3-4 Test is on Tuesday of next week, please see the study guide here. Your Unit 1 Final Exam is the next day, please see the study guide below.

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

One week from today, you will be writing your Unit 1 Final Exam. 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. They are also on the wiki under Unit 1 Presentations. 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

We covered a lot of territory today in class. We reviewed monetary and fiscal policy and what a government's response would be to various stages on the business cycle if they were applying Keynesian economic theory. We watched a couple of videos from the BBC 20th Century History series today, and you took notes on them. We watched "Boom and Bust" and "FDR and the New Deal". I also quickly went through how to analyze political cartoons. You will be doing an in-class assignment on this on Friday 9don't be late for class, because if you are, your choices will be limited).

October 5

Social 30-1

You wrote your Political Cartoon Analysis Assignments today in class, which took most of the period. I also took in your "Sweden: The Welfare State" activity booklets today. Please remember that you have your Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions due on Tuesday, October 12th. That is the same day as your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test, please see the study guide here (please scroll down to find it).

Social 20-1

You wrote your Chapter 3-4 Test today. If you finished early you could have started working on the Chapter 5 Key Terms and Questions. These will be due on Friday, October 8th. Your World War I Map Assignment is due on Tuesday, October 12th. I will post some maps later this week to help you with that assignment. Please remember that you have your Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide here (please scroll down to find it).

October 4

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I gave you a reading on "Mixed Economy and Democratic Socialism" today as well as an activity booklet called "Sweden: The Welfare State". The activity booklet on Sweden is due tomorrow, and as a result you had ample class time to complete it. When you finished this activity booklet you were to pick a copy of the Chapter 6 Worksheet. The Chapter 6 Key Terms and Questions will be due next Tuesday (October 12th). Please remember to be on time tomorrow because you will be doing an in-class written analysis of a political cartoon. If you are on time, you have more cartoons to choose from. I'm also posting the study guide for the Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test below.This test is on Tuesday, October 12th.

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 20-1

I gave you back the results of the French Revolution DBA Assignment today. I also gave you a World War I map assignment today, which is due on Tuesday, October 12th. I will be posting maps on the blog to help you complete this assignment. We watched a video on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand from the BBC series called "Days That Shook the World". As you watched this video you were to take notes. Please remember the upcoming important tests: you have your Chapter 3-4 Test tomorrow (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it study guide) and your Unit 1 Final Exam is on Wednesday (please see the study guide here, scroll down to find it).

October 1

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We finished watching the video that we started yesterday, so if you missed class today you will need to get a classmate's notes on "FDR and the New Deal". I also gave you a couple of handouts that looked at the advantages and disadvantages of the private enterprise system, and really clarified who were people of the economic left and the economic right. You have to be able to identify strengths and weaknesses of all of the economic systems that you are introduced to in this course. I also gave you a case study sheet on the United States during the Great Depression, notes on the rationale behind Keynesian economics, and the "alphabet agencies" associated with the New Deal policy initiatives. You should be able to start drawing some parallels with how Roosevelt's administration dealt with the Great Depression and how the Obama administration is dealing with the "great recession". Both administrations are interventionist in the economy, with FDR's New Deal policies and the Obama administration's policies of injecting money into the economy through government bailouts and economic stimulus packages. For more information on the timeline of the global recession, please click on this link from BBC News. Please also see this link from the New York Times on how past American administrations have dealt with recessions. This is an interactive feature and may require you to download the latest version of Flash player (it'll only take a minute or so for most Internet connection speeds).

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 1 WRA I today in class, which, of course, took most of the period. When we do these in-class writing assignments, it is really critical that you watch the time. Time management will be critical not only this year, but next year when you're doing these writing assignments on your Diploma Exam. Please have a look at the following list of upcoming important dates:

• Chapter 3-4 Test is on Tuesday, October 5th (please see the study guide below)
• Unit 1 Final Exam is on Wednesday, October 6th (please see the study guide below)

Chapter 3-4 Test Study Guide:

This test will be on Tuesday, October 5th. It will consist of a matching section (10 key concepts) and a short answer section.

• 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 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 quiz)
  

Social 20-1 Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:

Your Unit 1 Final Exam will be on Wednesday, October 6th. 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. If you know the key concepts you'll be able apply them in a multiple choice test (hopefully).

• 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

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!