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.

December 4

IB 30/35

I went through a PowerPoint presentation on "The New Deal" today. As I went through this lecture, you were to fill in accompanying charts. You also had time to look at what critics of the New Deal had to say and complete the chart for this activity as well. The challenges to the New Deal questions and chart are due tomorrow. I also highly recommend that you read Chapter 6 and 7 in the Modern America textbook as well.

IB 20

You watched an A & E Biography today called "Joseph Stalin: Red Terror", and while this video was playing you should have been taking notes on it. I continued with the PowerPoint presentation "Joseph Stalin and the USSR" today. Tomorrow we'll look at the Five Year Plans in greater detail. By Thursday, we will be starting our examination of Adolf Hitler.

Social 10-1

You had the entire class today to work on your Chapter 15 Key Terms and Questions, which are due tomorrow. We also held a vote on whether or not we should have an in-class debate on Thursday, and by a narrow margin of 15 No votes to 13 Yes votes, we will not have a debate. Please see your Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide below. This test is on Monday, December 10th.

Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:

Please make sure that you have read Chapters 10-14. Please make sure that you have the following PowerPoint presentations, and that you study from them:

• "Foundations of Economic Globalization"
• "The Expansion of Economic Globalization"
• "Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Globalization"
• "The Impact of Economic Globalization on Environments"
• "Globalization and Sustainability"

Make sure that you have reviewed the Key Terms from Unit 3 (all the terms listed on the Unit 3 Worksheet, plus the extra key terms that appeared in the PowerPoint presentations). The Unit 3 Final Exam will consist of 50 multiple choice questions.

November 30

IB 30/35

I went through a handout on the Great Depression and FDR's New Deal with you today. I also gave you some time to complete the Great Depression Study Guide as well. Your answers to these questions are due on Monday. The questions can be found on the IB 30/35 wiki under The Great Depression and the Americas. I'm also going to post the fiscal and monetary policy handout on the wiki. Please print it off and bring it to class on Monday.

Social 10-1

We played a Unit 3 Review Game for the entire period. Please remember that you are writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay on Monday in the Blenheim Room. Go to the Blenheim Room directly on Monday.

IB 20

You wrote your Paper 3 on Unit 6 for most of the period today. You also have homework this weekend. Please go to the Dictatorships unit on the IB 20 wiki, and complete the work sections on page 7 and page 9 in the Stalin and the USSR PDF file.