If you didn't go to the WWII Behind Closed Doors website last night, please go to yesterday's post or the wiki to see what needs to be done. We watched a video from the BBC 20th Century History series called "Cold War Confrontations" which looked briefly at some early conflicts in the Cold War such as the Berlin Blockade and the Korean War. I also went through a PowerPoint presentation on the United Nations. This PowerPoint is already on the wiki. You have homework due on Tuesday, February 19th, so make sure that you answer the questions from the PDF file that I showed you on the wiki under Topic 5: The ColdWar.
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We finished watching the History Channel's "The French Revolution" video today. Next Tuesday, you have the World Geography Test, please see the study guide below. Below is a timeline that I made a few years ago, use this and your notes to complete the French Revolution timeline. If you go to the Timetoast website directly you can view the timeline in a chart format. Your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow (February 13th).
World Geography Test Study Guide:
This test will take place on Tuesday, February 19th. It is simply a country identification test. You will be given a world map with certain countries identified and you need to be able to write out what country it is. Here are the countries that may appear on the test:
any of the EU countries (there are 27 countries in the EU, a map of the EU is in your textbook on page 265)
any of the NATO countries (there's some overlap here with the EU, but not all EU countries are members of NATO)
any of the G8 countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom
full members of MERCOSUR: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and other associate members or countries that are achieving membership in MERCOSUR, such as: Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador
to ask you to know ALL of the countries in the African Union would be cruel, so we'll focus on countries that came up last year or will likely be in the news this year: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
other very important countries that will be in the news this year, or that we'll be talking about, or get mentioned in your textbook: Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica, Serbia, Georgia, China, India, Myanmar, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel
**BIG HINT: if a country is a member of a few of these international organizations then there's a STRONG possibility that they will be on the test!!**
You wrote your Chapter 1-2 Test today. Please remember that you are writing your Unit 1 Final Exam tomorrow (please see the study guide below). Don't take this unit final exam lightly since it tests higher order thinking skills, and not simply knowledge and recall. Approximately 60% of the test will include sources, which reflects the blueprint for Part B of the Diploma Exam. You will be writing your Unit 1 WRA II Essay next Tuesday, February19th. You will get the essay question sheet tomorrow.
We started looking at the "Origins of the Cold War" today. The PowerPoint lecture that I went through today is on the IB 30/35 wiki under The Cold War section. I also gave you a booklet on WWII Conferences and Agreements that you need to study. We'll be looking at some historiography on the start of the Cold War in the coming days. I would like you to go to the World War II Behind Closed Doors website tonight, and read the sections on the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference. This is an excellent site, with tons of information, maps, video clips, timelines and archival footage and re-enactments as well. You do need to really make sure that you understand the Yalta Agreements and the Potsdam Declaration (among other things) and this is a great site to do this. Episode 3 is the one that contains most of the information that you would need to read and watch. There's a great little video clip on this website called "Stalin's Distrust of the West" that might help you see WWII from the Soviet perspective and why the Soviets might wish to extend control over Eastern Europe and be so distrustful of their wartime allies. You can find this video clip in Episode 3 (Dividing the World), scroll down and click on the video clip on the right called "Stalin's Distrust of the West". It's a short little clip, but you'll get the idea. We'll continue our look at the Cold War tomorrow.
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I did a quick homework check on the Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions today. We finished watching "Sicko" today. I gave you a booklet today that is to be used with the PBS Frontline documentary "Sick Around the World" (you may have to go the PBS website to watch the entire video). Please see the link to the video below. The questions on the front page of the booklet as well as the retrieval chart on page 2 are due on Tuesday, February 19th.
The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Tuesday, February 12th. It is a mixed format test, it will have a matching section and a short answer section. Here is what you should review/study for this test:
Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms/Concepts and the Supplementary Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (hopefully you have quality answers to study from!)
you must know the 19th century political spectrum and the 20th century political spectrum
know similarities and differences between communism and fascism
be able to label political and economic spectrums and the values associated with these ideologies
be able to label the political-economic grid and know examples of the ideologies in the quadrants (study the Ideology Notes and the notes I gave you in class)
know the differences between individualism and collectivism, be able to apply your understanding of these concepts
know the key ideas associated with Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (for example, view of the nature of human beings, etc.)
Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:
The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Wednesday, February 13th. Make sure that you study the following:
Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file)
Study the 19th Century Political Spectrum
Study the 20th Century Political spectrum
Study the political-economic grid
Know the values and ideas associated with the various ideologies (on the 19th century and 20th century spectrums)
Study the Individualism and Collectivism booklet
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We finished the PowerPoint presentation on "The French Revolution" and I will be sending this presentation to you today. We started watching the History Channel video on the French Revolution, which we will continue tomorrow. I returned your Chapter 1 Key Terms and Questions. Your Chapter 2 Key Terms and Questions will be due on Wednesday. Please check your e-mail for the more information on the French Revolution.
All of today's class was spent preparing for the TOK Group Presentations. This is the last class period that you will have for TOK in class.
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We started watching "Sicko" on Friday. We'll finish this movie on Monday.
Chapter 1-2 Test Study Guide:
The Chapter 1-2 Test is on Tuesday, February 12th. It is a mixed format test, it will have a matching section and a short answer section. Here is what you should review/study for this test:
Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms/Concepts and the Supplementary Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
be able to answer any of the questions from the Unit 1 Worksheet (hopefully you have quality answers to study from!)
you must know the 19th century political spectrum and the 20th century political spectrum
know similarities and differences between communism and fascism
be able to label political and economic spectrums and the values associated with these ideologies
be able to label the political-economic grid and know examples of the ideologies in the quadrants (study the Ideology Notes and the notes I gave you in class)
know the differences between individualism and collectivism, be able to apply your understanding of these concepts
know the key ideas associated with Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (for example, view of the nature of human beings, etc.)
Unit 1 Final Exam Study Guide:
The Unit 1 Final is a 55 question multiple choice test. It will be written on Wednesday, February 13th. Make sure that you study the following:
Chapter 1 and 2 Key Terms from the Unit 1 Worksheet
Study the Ideology Notes (Black Gold School District PDF file)
Study the 19th Century Political Spectrum
Study the 20th Century Political spectrum
Study the political-economic grid
Know the values and ideas associated with the various ideologies (on the 19th century and 20th century spectrums)
Study the Individualism and Collectivism booklet
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We continued with the PowerPoint lecture on "The French Revolution". We'll continue with this topic on Monday.
I lectured today on the First World War, this PowerPoint presentation is already on the wiki. You can find it on the wiki in both the Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs and in the Causes, Practices and Effects of War sections.
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I collected your Chapter 8 Key Terms and Questions today. I went through a PowerPoint presentation called "Legacies of Historical Globalization in Canada". I will send this lecture to your e-mail accounts. You have your Chapter 7 Testtomorrow, please see the study guide here(scroll down to find it). On Monday October 29th your Imperialism Research Project is due, and you will also be writing your Unit 2 WRA I next Monday. Your Unit 2 Final Exam is on October 30th, see thestudy guide here (scroll down to find it).
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I finally collected your U.S. Constitution graphic novels at the beginning of class. We continued watching the History Channel's "The French Revolution" today, and we finished it. I continued with my PowerPoint lecture on the French Revolution as well today.
