June 11

IB 30/35 and Social 30-1

This part of today's post applies to both my Social 30-1 class and my IB 30/35 group since you're all writing the Social 30-1 Diploma Exam on Thursday. Part A of the Diploma Exam is on Thursday, June 13th from 9 am to 12 pm in various computer labs throughout the school. Part B is on Tuesday, June 18th from 9 am to 11:30 am in the Main Gym. Please remember to bring your student ID cards. Do not bring electronics with you into the examination room. IB students you will sequestered in the theatre for Part A, make sure that you're in the school by 8:45 am. Please check out the following links:

• Examples of the Standards of Students' Writing (this will give you an idea of what the standards are for the marking of Part A of the Diploma Exam. Remember, these are "low basket Es" that they put up)
• Quest A Plus website with Social 30-1 multiple choice exam questions (click on Practice Tests, and you can find multiple choice questions for all of your Diploma Exam courses)

Social 20-1

We played a Jeopardy review game today, which we didn't get to finish. I have sent this game to you already, so please check your e-mail. If you want to check out some past exams prior to tomorrow's exam, please come to my classroom. Part B of your Final Exam is tomorrow, Wednesday, June 12th from 1 pm to 3 pm in the Main Gym. Please bring your student ID cards. I will be supervising this exam, so I'll see most of you there. It is assigned seating, my class is in Rows K and L. STUDY!!

June 10

Please remember that tomorrow is a modified schedule, with 40 minute classes and the class order being, Period 1, 2, 3, 4.

IB 30/35

You wrote your Trial Final Exam today. You'll get the results back tomorrow. We just have a couple of loose ends to tie up tomorrow. If you want to bring some snacks tomorrow, I'm okay with that.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Trial Final Exam today. You'll get the results back tomorrow. We just have a couple of loose ends to tie up tomorrow. If you want to bring some snacks tomorrow, I'm okay with that.

Social 20-1

We did some "housekeeping" today. I gave you back some homework checked work, gave you your assigned seat for the Final Exam (Wednesday, 1-3 pm in the Main Gym). I gave back your Chapter 14 and 15 Key Terms and Questions, and did a homework check on your Chapter 16 work. You were to create some Jeopardy style questions and answers for tomorrow's game. If you want to bring some snacks tomorrow, I'm okay with that.

June 6

Social 20-1

You did a pair practice test today on Unit 4 material. We'll be doing something similar tomorrow, but only with Unit 3 material. Your Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday.

Social 30-1

We worked on another essay outline today. Please check your e-mail, I have sent you the political essay outline sample that we worked on today, plus an individualism vs. collectivism essay, and the active citizenship essay. Tomorrow, you'll be working on a WRA I assignment collaboratively. You'll be allowed to do some small group brainstorming, but you will have to individually write a response to the three sources. Please remember that you have your Trial Final Exam on Monday.

IB 30/35

You wrote your Political Systems Exam today. Please remember that you have your Trial Final Exam on Monday.

June 5

Social 30-1

We did some essay preparation today by looking at a source that had an economics theme to it. We brainstormed the first paragraph of an essay using the source. I will send you the essay outline that we started, and I will send you some past essay outlines that my previous classes put together. Make sure that you check your e-mail tonight. Study these outlines, some of the arguments and evidence would be applicable to various economics-themed essays. You have your Trial Final Exam on Monday. Tomorrow you'll have to make a decision about which test result you want to throw out with the Trial Final Exam. Remember, the study guide is the Diploma Exam Review Study Guide that I sent to you yesterday.

Social 20-1

I finished off the last PowerPoint lecture today on "Regional Disparity". I will send it this presentation to you today. Your Chapter 14-15 Key Terms and Questions are due tomorrow. Your Chapter 16 Key Terms and Questions are due on Monday.

IB 30/35

We did some essay preparation today, by finishing off the political-themed essay outline that we started yesterday and the starting an economics-themed one today. There are some sample essay outlines up on the wiki under Diploma Exam Review. You have your Political Systems Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide below. You have the Trial Final Exam on Monday. The study guide for the Trial Final Exam is on the wiki under Diploma Exam Review, it is the Word document called Social 30-1 Diploma Exam Review v2.

Political Systems Test Study Guide:

The Political Systems Test will be on Thursday, June 4th. It is a 70 multiple choice question test. Please review the following:

• "20th Century Rejections of Liberalism" (ppt)
• Marx notes (sent by e-mail)
• Lenin notes (sent by e-mail)
• Stalin notes (sent by e-mail)
• Soviet Economy notes
• Soviet Economic System notes
• Changes to Soviet Society After Stalin notes
• Gorbachev to Collapse notes
• Economic Planning in the USSR booklet
• Characteristics of Democracy
• Characteristics of Dictatorship
• Democratic Systems notes
• Non-Democratic Systems notes
• Types of Dictatorships notes (includes Techniques of Dictatorships as well)
• A Comparison of Communism and Fascism notes
• Totalitarianism notes
• review fascism and Nazism (test has questions on the techniques of dictatorship in Nazi Germany and USSR)
• do a brief review of the political and economic spectrums

The following key concepts/key events/key people are mentioned in this test, if you (re-)familiarize yourself with them it will help you out immensely!

• centrally planned economies
• initiative
• FDR and the New Deal
• Reaganomics
• consumer sovereignty
• invisible hand
• Keynesian economics
• laissez faire economics
• War Communism
• Five Year Plans
• mixed economies
• indicative planning
• proportional representation
• democracy
• dictatorship
• political spectrum (characteristics associated with the various ideologies)
• status quo
• egalitarianism
• conservative
• reactionary
• liberal
• radical
• SA
• Hitler
• Bolshevik
• fascism
• communism
• indoctrination
• controlled participation
• terror and force
• direction of popular discontent
• democratic socialists
• supply-side economics
• authoritarian
• tyrant
• totalitarian
• totalitarianism
• ultranationalism
• nationalization
• privatization
• propaganda
• progressive taxation
• Marx
• Lenin
• utopian socialism
• Gorbachev
• martial law
• Reichstag (Reichstag Fire, Reichstag election results)
• referendum
• collectivization
• modernization
• classical liberal
• laissez faire free market economy
• mixed economy
• planned economy
• (review your economic political quadrant model)
• Das Kapital
• Mein Kampf
• The Wealth of Nations

June 4

IB 30/35

You wrote a short quiz at the beginning of the class. You must be ready for these quizzes at any time during these last few days of school. We also worked on a WRA II essay outline today as a group. We didn't finish filling out the evidence to support the argumentation, so that's what you need to do tonight for homework. You can find the essay outline sheet on the wiki, on the Diploma Exam Review page under the heading Essay Writing Activity. Please download the Word document and add your evidence that supports the arguments that we brainstormed in class. You can't change the arguments! Please print off a hard copy of your essay outline and bring it to class tomorrow. Don't forget that you have a Political Systems Exam on Thursday, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

Social 20-1

You wrote Part A of your Final Exam today in the Blenheim Room, which took all of the class period. You will find out the results of the Unit 3 Final Exam tomorrow in class.

Social 30-1

You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam today, which took the entire class period. You should start preparing for your Trial Final Exam now. This exam is on Monday. I sent you a study guide for the Diploma Exam yesterday, please use that as your study guide for the Trial Final Exam too.

June 3

IB 30/35

We did a brief review of the American and Canadian political systems. On the Diploma Exam multiple choice test they tend to ask questions about both systems and similarities and differences between them. Make sure that you review all of the notes and PowerPoint presentations in Unit 3 on the wiki. The only really new concept that we'll be exploring this week is illiberalism, please remember to apply this to restrictions of the political principles of liberalism, namely restrictions on individual rights and freedoms, and rule of law. Don't apply the term illiberalism to economic concepts. You have a test this Thursday on Political Systems, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Also, you will be given some quizzes (multiple choice quizzes) to help prep you for the Diploma Exam this week, so be ready at any time.

Social 30-1

We looked briefly at the issue of privacy in an age of CCTV cameras. I also gave you the study guide for Unit 4, please complete the key terms and questions, and make sure that you read the final two chapters in your textbook. You have your Unit 3 Final Exam tomorrow, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). Please check your e-mail, I have sent you a study guide for the Trial Final Exam and the Diploma Exam.

Social 20-1

You wrote your Unit 3 Final Exam today. Tomorrow, you will be writing your Final Exam Part A, and as I said in class it is a WRA II Essay. Please go directly to the Blenheim Room tomorrow.