May 28

Social 30-1

We started looking at the issue of freedom of speech today. We specifically are looking at freedom of speech in the United States by watching "Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech" and HBO documentary. We'll finish this video off on Monday and then draw comparisons to free speech in Canada. Please study for your Unit 3 Final Exam this weekend. This exam is on Wednesday, June 2nd. Please see the study guide below.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

This exam will be entirely multiple choice format. It will be on Wednesday, June 2nd. Please study the following material:

• make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
• study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
• study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
• "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)

Review the following handouts/notes/packages:

• Characteristics of Democracies
• Characteristics of Dictatorships
• Democratic Systems
• Non-Democratic Systems
• types of dictatorships
• techniques of dictatorships
• Civil Rights Movement
• authoritarian systems (China notes/booklet)
• review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
• re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (civil rights, human rights, Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act, etc.)
• FLQ Crisis 1970 film study and document analysis booklet

Know the following key concepts/key events/key terms/key people:

• assimilation
• self-interest
• humanitarianism
• Indian Act
• residential school system
• enfranchisement
• the White Paper
• the Red Paper
• “war on terror"
• authoritarianism
• consensus decision-making
• direct democracy
• military dictatorship
• oligarchy
• one-party state
• party solidarity
• representation by population
• proportional representation
• representative democracy
• responsible government
• democracy
• single-member constituency (first past the post)
• the Senate
• the House of Commons
• the House of Representatives
• the Senate
• mixed-member proportional system
• lobby groups
• American Bill of Rights
• Anti-Terrorism Act
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• emergency and security legislation
• illiberal
• language legislation
• Bill 101
• Bill 178
• Bill 86
• Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
• respect for law and order
• terrorism
• rendition
• the War Measures Act
• enemy aliens
• internment
• the Emergencies Act
• USA PATRIOT Act
• consumerism
• environmental change
• extremism
• pandemics
• postmodernism
• global warming
• Kyoto Protocol
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• drought
  

Social 20-1

I did a homework check on your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions today. I also gave you your Unit 4 Worksheet today, your Chapter 13 Key Terms and Questions are due on Tuesday. On Monday, you will be writing your Unit 3 Essay in Room 241. I gave you the essay question sheet today, so you have some time to prepare your arguments and evidence over the weekend. I broke you into small groups to brainstorm potential arguments and evidence and then collectively we shared ideas that were generated in your groups. Please also remember that your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Wednesday, June 2nd, please see the study guide here.