March 12

Parent Student Teacher Interviews will be held on Wednesday, March 13th from 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The Social Studies department will be in the Main Gym. No appointments necessary.

IB 30/35

We got together with Mr. Johnson's class today to watch a video on the construction of the Berlin Wall. If you are a Diploma student, your TOK Essay is due today.

TOK Essay information:
You now have your personal user code and PIN to upload the TOK essay - you must upload the essay to the https://candidates.ibo.org website.

Social 20-1

We continued with the "Allied Victory in WWI and the Paris Peace Conference" PowerPoint lecture today. I have sent this PowerPoint presentation to you already. You also completed a GCSE "Making Peace" activity and we had time to go over the answers in class.

Social 30-1

You had the entire period to study for your Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test, which is on Thursday, Please see the study guide below.

Ideological Reaction to Industrialization Test Study Guide:

This test is multiple choice format. This test is on Thursday, March 14th.

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