January 7

Social 30-1

I finished talking about the Social 30-1 Diploma Exam Study Guide today in class. I have sent this to your e-mail accounts along with some sample WRA I and the PowerPoint presentation detailing how to write a three source analysis assignment. I also gave you some time to do a mock essay outline on a text-based source that I put up on the board. Please take this weekend to review for your Trial Final Exam and prepare for Part A of your Diploma Exam. There are 75 multiple choice questions on the 30-1 Trial Final and 60 questions on the 30-2 Trial Final. Take it seriously, it could improve your mark by wiping out your lowest test score. Please check your e-mail to find all of the documents that I sent you this afternoon.

Social 20-1

I did a homework check on your chapter 14-15 Key Terms and Questions today. Your chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday. You had most of today's class to work on practice multiple choice questions from Unit 4. We'll continue with this on Monday, and probably be able to move on to Unit 3 questions.

January 6

Social 20-1

I went through a PowerPoint presentation on regionalism in Canada that I will send to you this afternoon. Your Chapter 14-15 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow.

Social 30-1

I have sent you some of the essay outlines that we've prepared in the last couple of days to your e-mail accounts. Please read them over! Especially the active citizenship one, since I made that one and we didn't really have a chance to look at in great detail. The key to success on Part A of the Diploma is preparation. Please make sure that you prepare for both the essay and the three source analysis assignments. Review how to write these two different assignments, and prep for potential essays. You'll be glad that you did!

I started looking at the Diploma Exam Study Guide that I've made for you. We'll continue with it tomorrow.

Would you like me to review how to do the three source analysis assignments? Please VOTE on the blog in the comments section! Is this an actual democracy or merely the illusion of democratic choice? We'll see in Friday's class!

Something that I think will be really useful is looking at the old Social 30 essay prompts and what they might look like as 30-1 text-based source prompts for the essay. I made a document that has the old Social 30 essay prompts side-by-side if it were re-worked to be a text-based source for the 30-1 Diploma. Alberta Education has already cannibalized old essay prompts to create the January 2010 and June 2010 WRA II, so they might do it again. This also gives you a chance to look at past tendencies of what Alberta Education asks on Diploma Exams. I hope it's a useful document!

Start doing essay outline prep at home between now and next Thursday! Pick out some text-based source prompts that I gave you in the essay question chart and write essay outlines for them! It's great practice and it will pay dividends.

Don't forget your Trial Final is on Monday, January 10th. This test could potentially wipe your worst test score of the semester. REVIEW!!

Here's a link to student writing samples from the January 2010 Social 30-1 and 30-2 Diploma Exams:

• Social 30-1 Student Writing Samples
• Social 30-2 Student Writing Samples
  

January 4

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam today. You'll get the results of this test back tomorrow, and then you'll have to make a decision as to which test score you wish to replace with your Trial Final. You'll be writing your Trial Final on Monday, January 10th, and it will be a comprehensive exam with questions related to content from all four units of study in 30-1. I did a homework check on your Unit 4 Review Booklet today as well.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam today, so results will be available tomorrow. Please remember that you are writing the Part A of your Final Exam (Essay) tomorrow in the Blenheim Room.

January 3

Social 30-1

You got back your Unit 3 Essays today. We also work as a class to build an essay outline for a economics-themed essay. We'll be looking at a politics-themed essay on Wednesday. I will be sending out the work that we did today tonight by e-mail. You will be writing your Unit 3 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide here. You will be getting more marked assignments back tomorrow.

Social 20-1

I gave you back your Unit 3 Essays and your Unit 2 Research Projects today. I went through a PowerPoint presentation on French-English relations, which I will be sending to you this afternoon. I did a homework check on your Chapter 13 Key Terms and Questions. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is tomorrow, please see the study guide here.

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