May 24

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam today, which took almost the entire period. Your TNC Dossier Assignment is due tomorrow. At the end of the Unit 3 Exam you were to have picked up a copy of the Unit 4 Worksheet. Your Chapter 15 Key Terms and Questions are due on Thursday.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 3 WRA II Essay today in the Blenheim Room. This took the entire period. You have your Unit 3 Final Exam on Thursday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). I recommend that you copy and paste this study guide into Word and then print it off so you have a hard copy. Your Chapter 12 Key Terms and Questions are due on Friday.

May 19

Social 30-1

We watched a video in class today called "Unconstitutional" which examined the erosion of civil rights in the United States post-9/11 with the passage of the Patriot Act. If you missed class today, you might want to watch the video embedded below.



I also gave you a booklet that covered the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Patriot Act. Make sure that you read this booklet!

Upcoming Important Dates:

• Unit 3 WRA II Essay is on Tuesday, May 24th
• Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 26th (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:

• 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 10-1

Most of today's class was spent writing your Unit 3 WRA I in-class writing assignment. Please remember that you have your Unit 3 Final Exam on Tuesday, please see the study guide here. Your TNC Dossier Assignment is due on Wednesday, May 25th.

May 18

Social 30-1

You wrote your Chapter 10 Test today, which took most of the period. You will get the results of this test back tomorrow. We'll continue looking at the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Patriot Act tomorrow.

Social 10-1

We played a Unit 3 Review Game today. Please remember that your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Tuesday, May 24th, please see the study guide here. Your TNC Dossier Assignment is due on Wednesday, May 25th. Don't procrastinate!! You are writing your Unit 3 WRA I (3 source analysis) tomorrow. Review how to write a WRA I tonight!

May 17

Social 10-1

You wrote your Unit 3 WRA II Essay today in the Blenheim Room. I will try my best to have these essays marked within a week. I will be highly motivated to do this because my two Social 30-1 classes are writing their Unit 3 WRA II next Tuesday. Please remember that you are writing your Unit 3 WRA I on Thursday, so it would be a good idea to review how to write a WRA I again. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Tuesday, May 24th, please see the study guide below.

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 55 multiple choice questions.

Social 30-1

You spent most of today's class writing your Unit 3 WRA I. Please remember that you are writing your Unit 3 WRA II Essay on Tuesday. You will not be getting the essay question sheet in advance for the Unit 3 WRA II. Please make sure that you review how to write a WRA II (review the "Recipe for Success"). Your Chapter 10 Test is tomorrow, please see the study guide here. Your Unit 3 Final Exam is on Thursday, May 26th. I will be posting the study guide for this final this Thursday.

May 16

Social 10-1

Most of today's class was spent dealing with the short 20 minute video called "The Story of Stuff". I really appreciate the degree to which you watched this video critically, and the conversation that we generated afterwards. Annie Leonard from the Story of Stuff Project has uploaded other videos to YouTube, so if you're interested in watching some more videos, have a look at the ones below. Also, have a look at the upcoming important dates below.

• Unit 3 WRA II Essay is on Tuesday, May 17th in the Blenheim Room (go directly there tomorrow morning)
• Unit 3 WRA I is on Thursday, May 19th
• Unit 3 Final Exam is on Tuesday, May 24th (the study guide will be posted tomorrow)
• TNC Dossier Assignment is due on Wednesday, May 25th

And here's another...

Social 30-1

We finished off the FLQ Crisis video from Friday at the beginning of class today. Here is the video that I forgot to post on Friday. It connects nicely to some of the themes that we addressed today in class with regard to anti-terrorism legislation that was passed in Canada and the United States after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In Friday's video we looked at the FLQ crisis, this is the interview on the steps of Parliament that features Trudeau's "just watch me" speech. It's an interesting little debate that is waged between Trudeau and the reporters over the issue on giving up/losing civil liberties in order to ensure security.


We watched a video from the CBC News in Review on the September 11th attacks today prior to talking about anti-terrorism legislation in Canada and the United State, because in order to fully understand why this legislation was passed, you need to see the context in which it was passed. The value conflict between ensuring security, peace and order in society versus individual freedom and civil liberties could be a potential topic on Part A of your Diploma Exam (it was on the January 2010 Diploma). Liberal democracies around the world, post-9/11 have had to deal with the issue of the extent to which they must ensure security and the balance between security and civil liberties. It would not be difficult to use a quotation that relates to this issue ("They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin) and then have the essay question: "To what extent should we embrace the perspective(s) in this source?" Would you be able to write an essay on that topic? Think of the source material that I've given you on the FLQ crisis, the Emergencies Act, the Anti-Terrorism Act, the Patriot Act and the no fly list, and think about other ways you could prepare for this as a potential essay topic. Speaking of writing assignments, please remember that you have your Unit 3 WRA I (source analysis) tomorrow. Your Chapter 10 Test is on Wednesday, here's the study guide (there's more democracy-related questions on the test than authoritarianism/dictatorship questions). Please finish off the activities in the FLQ Crisis booklet (the document analysis fill in the blank exercise). At the back of the booklet there is information on the Emergencies Act which you MUST read over!  I also gave you some handouts on the Patriot Act. We'll be dealing with this on Thursday again. Tomorrow, you have your Unit 3 WRA I (3 source analysis). If you have switched to Social 30-2 you will be writing a WRA III (3 speakers question).