Day 68: Government review

Kahoot government multiple choice review questions.


Have a fantastic Winter break!


See you in two weeks.


Only 15 days remain in 1st semester.

Day 67: Beginning of the Cold War

CTV clip on top Canadian Google searches in 2015


Reviewed the UN's function, and then worked through p. 274-279 with students taking notes on Canadian involvement in peacekeeping missions.


Syrian civil war (showed them this short clip outlining the complex situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKb9GVU8bHE).


Handout: "Rise of the Suburbs," "Age of the automobile," and "Teen Culture"/half of the front page for HW

Day 66: United Nations and Post WW2

United Nations notes: CLICK TO PRINT
United Nations handout: CLICK TO PRINT
Terms from the Cold War: CLICK TO PRINT


We didn't start the fire (billy Joel)


Current events: 16x9 - Cold War restarting?


Funny clip of impersonation of Putin (Fallon and Dana Carvey)


United Nations notes


Notes: Cold War begins (Iron Curtain)


CPH: Gouzenko and the spy ring in Canada


Page 190 - 195.  Do questions #1-5 on page 196.

Day 65: Formal apology on Residential schools

Handout: First Nations and Beyond (chapter 8)


Click to watch Stephen Harper's formal apology


Video: We Were Children


In groups, determine how you would best organize a provincial exam question on First Nations issues:
Page 471 - Explain challenges faced by Aboriginal people in Canada during the 20th century and their responses, with reference to reserves, self-government, residential schools, and treaty negotiations.

Day 64: First Nations issues

Went over MC questions from WW2 review.


Current events: Canada's latest on the Paris Climate Summit
Click to watch
During the Geography unit we looked at the Kyoto Protocol.  This is the latest with regards to the fight against global warming.


Current events: Syrian refugees arrive on Canadian soil.
Click to watch


Handout: First Nations issues (a look at various events/incidents since 1914)


If there is a provincial exam questions related to First Nations issues how would you organize your answer?
Please copy the thoughts on the whiteboard
Negative points in history: discrimination?  relocation?  voting rights?  Residential schools?
Positive points in recent history: treaties and land claims?  self-government? key figures in government (Trudeau's cabinet members)


Video: We Were Children


WW2 projects handed back.


If you have not completed your inclass topic write on WW2 please come see me before Friday.

Day 63: Wrapping up WW2

Collected journal (WW2 presentation exit slips)


Inclass write (12 marks)


Multiple choice Q's - open book (27 marks)


Mind map due next Tuesday.


Have a great weekend

Click to print FIRST NATIONS NOTES for Monday/Tuesday
Click to print notes on RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS

Day 62: WW2 presentations & wrapping up the war

• Holocaust
• Airforce

Wrapping up the war: Page 142 - 152
Handout: Dieppe.  Italian Campaign.  After D-day (Battle of the Scheldt.  Battle of the Rhineland.  Liberating the Netherlands).  VE Day (Victory Day in Europe).  Japan surrenders. Crimes against humanity.  Holocaust.  Nuremberg trials.  Tokyo trials


Mindmap: due next week.  Topic: Discuss the political/economic/social changes to Canada during WW2.

Day 61: WW2 presentations

• D-Day
• Atomic Bomb

Day 60: WW2 presentations

• Propaganda
• Dieppe
• Conscription

Day 59: WW2 presentations

• Navy
• Pearl Harbour
• Hong Kong

Day 58: Presentations

Presentation: Hitler
Presentation: Battle of Britain


Handouts and mapping
Covering Pges 127 to 137.


CPH: King goes to Berlin.  Canada enters the war


Click to print notes

Day 57: Beginning of WW2

A look at dancing the Charleston:Click to watch

Handout: Intro to WW2
Answers to 1930s mc sheet

Read Pg 110 - Change in Federal government.  Federal/Provincial Tensions.  Rowell-Sirois report

Pg 114/115  Depression and Global politics.
What is happening in Germany after the war.  Depression in Asia.  Russians embracing communism.

Chapter 5: Canada and World War 2
Pg 120-126.  Click to print notes on causes of WW2

Student presentation #1: Rape of Nanking

Day 56: Government response

Read 101 - 104
Government's response.  On-to-Ottawa trek.  Trouble in Vancouver.  Roosevelt's New Deal.  Bennett's New Deal

Page 104.  #1, 3, 4

CPH: Dear Mr. Bennett & The End of the Line

Jazz age - an era being born in the 20s/30s

Day 55: Solutions to the Great Depression

Images of people living during the Great Depression.
CPH: Hard times & Decent into Chaos


Read pages 94-100.  Questions #1, 2a, 3, 6 on page 100.
(Prairie Drought.  Unemployment.  Pogey.  Riding the rails.  Disadvantaged (immigrants/Aboriginals), women in the 1930s.


Note: Solutions to the Great Depression

Day 54: Economic cycles and the Great Depression

Went over answers to the 1920s MC questions


1920s slang


Timeline: Changes to Canada in the 1920s.  How Canada changed politically/economically/socially.


Handout: Economic cycle
Notes: Causes of the Great Depression
Handout - worksheet.  Causes of the Great Depression

Day 53: WWI quiz and Canada's growing independence in the 1920s

WWI Quiz.


Canada's growing independence


Pg. 80-83.
Pg. 80 Questions #1,2,5


Complete the multiple choice questions from yesterday handout.

Day 52: Growing US influence in the 1920s

WW2 presentation rubrics handed out.


Inflation.
US growing influence in Canada: Branch plants.  Primary industry.  Secondary industry
Read pages 67-71
Influence of the following on society: improved mobility.  improved communications. Canadian inventions and inventors.  Arts and leisure.  Sports.


Pg 77-78.  A new challenge to Federalism: Regionalism


WW1 Quiz tomorrow

Day 51: WW2 project

Time to work on your presentations.


How will you creatively present your topic?


Presentations begin next Thursday with the Rape of Nanking.


Friday presentations will include: Hitler.  Canadian Airforce.  Battle of Britain

Day 50: Winnipeg General Strike

WWI pop quiz handed back.


WW1 Test on Thursday.


Review activity for WW1


Starting Chapter 3: Canada and the 1920s
CPH: Winnipeg General Strike
Handout: Post-war blues (pg 62-66)

• Inflation
• Rise of communism
• Worker's demands and response
• Winnipeg General strike
• Union - collective bargaining.
• Red Scare
• Bloody Saturday

Day 49: Conscription crisis and wrapping up the war

WW1 Quiz


CPH: Conscription crisis


End of the war: Russian government toppled by Bolsheviks. 
100 Days Campaign
Central Powers Collapse
Canada's emerging autonomy
Participating in peace (Paris Peace Conference)
Treaty of Versailles
War Built Clause


Read and answer: What were some problems with the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations?


Handout: WW1 review sheet


Due on Monday: Annotated bibliography and Student study guide

Day 48: Canada on the home front. Vimy Ridge and Conscription

Current events: latest in the Paris bombings Click to Watch


Group work: Discuss the changes to Canada on the home front (Political/Economic/Social)


Click to print notes: Canada - a domestic look


Click to print notes: Canada - how it all went down


Canada's involvement in the air and the sea (Atlantic) pg. 42 & 44


CPH: A City of Sorrow (looking at the Halifax explosion)


CPH: Vimy Ridge (a turning point in the development of Canadian Identity)


Conscription Crisis: Pg 49-51.  Complete questions from last day's handout

Day 47: Bridge of Spies

Day 46: All Quiet on the Western Front

Current events related to the Paris bombings: CLICK TO WATCH CTV COVERAGE


Schlieffen Plan.
War of attrition
No man's land
Life in the trenches
New technology and the war (page 36, 40/41)


Handout: excerpts from All Quiet on the Western Front.
DVD: All Quiet on the Western Front. 
Focusing on battle scenes/no man's land/weaponry/training techniques during WW1.


Field trip tomorrow at 11:25am.

Day 45: WW2 project

Find and use at least 2 online sources and 1 print source.


Annotated bibliography due next Monday, November 23rd


Group handout (1 page) due next Monday, November 23rd.


Read your criteria carefully.


Projects begin on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4th.

1. Rape of Nanking
2. Hitler
3. Canadian Airforce
4. Battle of Britain

Day 44: Battles of WWI

Collect field trip $.
Review of notes on Ypres, Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge


CPH: Our investment in Blood (women's roles in WW1)
CPH: Go out and meet death bravely (the reality of trench warfare)


World War II group project: selecting groups.

Day 43: Quiz and Canada's involvement in the war

Maps due.
Geography test


Review of causes and trigger of WW1.


CPH: episode beginning.
Canadians signing up for the war.  Reaction of French-Canadians.  Discrimination in signing up for the war.  Fight for prohibition and suffrage.  Propaganda elicits anger against enemy aliens.


Handout - read page 32-35

• Mobilizing forces
• National Identity emerges
• Canada's minister of militia
• War Measures Act
• War on Land

FIELD TRIP FORMS AND $ BY TOMORROW

Day 42: Causes of World War 1

Review of notes from yesterday.


4 causes of WW1 and the trigger to start WW1.


Read pages 26-30 and include the Role of the Balkans for causes of WW1.


John Green's take on the causes of World War 1: Click to watch CRASH COURSE

Day 41: Provincial exam write

In class essay.

Causes of World War I notes (please print): CLICK TO VIEW

Trench Warfare: battles of World War I (please print): CLICK TO VIEW

Day 40: History unit begins

Current events: Trudeau sworn in as PM.  Selects his cabinet members.  15 men and 15 women "because its 2015!"

Handout: Chapter 1.  A different Canada.
Still a British Nation: The Alaska Boundary Dispute and The Boer War.
French-English relations. 
Pg 10/11 - Chinese Head Tax and the Komagata Maru (Should today's government be responsible for injustices of the past?

Simulation on Alliances.

Day 38 & 39: Human Geography wrapup

Movie analysis: Blood Diamond

Relating concepts from Geography to this movie.

Topics to study: B. D.  J. 

I may re-word the question slightly.  However, the main ideas should be relatively similar.
Please view the examples of the ones done in class and build on these or make your own.  CLICK TO VIEW

Day 37: Environmental issues

Global issues essay discussion.

China ends its One Child Policy Click to watch
The implications of the One Child Policy on China.  With regards to dependency ratio, China will have difficulty supporting its aging population.

Blood diamond worksheet for tomorrow.

Chapter 13 review worksheet.

Monday, November 9th - in class essay

Friday, November 13th - Geo quiz (Ch. 12 - pg 396 and on, Chapter 13, Mapping)
Maps due on that day.

Day 36: Provincial exam essay prep

How to write a thesis.

Structure for the provincial exam:

• Introduction
• Body paragraph #1
• Body paragraph #2
• Body paragraph #3
• Conclusion

Group work in brainstorming and structuring the essay.
Refer to the topics sheet (purple handout): B, D, G, I, J, K

Day 35: Environmental issues

Click to watch a clip about Malala Yousefzai

Review of Chapter 12 - poverty.  HIPC.  World bank/IMF.  Bilateral aid.  Tied aid.

Environmental issues

Click to watch the CNN trailer to Planet in Peril

Click to watch Planet in Peril: shark finning

• supply and demand as population grows
• affecting one part of the ecosystem will have an effect on a different part of the ecosystem (ex. cutting down trees - global warming.  Killing sharks - affecting the numbers of other species)
• Government regulation regulation/deregulation.  (ex. setting standards of factory pollution into the air or water - if no regulations then what are the affects on the surrounding environment/wildlife/plant species/people/etc)

Handout: on Chapter 13 environment (What is global warming.  What governments can do around the world to decrease global warming.  Kyoto protocol)

Read page 418/419 - Do you think that Canadians should link foreign aid to human rights?

Do questions on page 420/421.  #5,7.9.10

Day 34: Globalization

Playing a simulation game: Oligopoly.

How does this relate to Globalization and global wealth.
Distribution of wealth
Owning a monopoly in a sector
Regulations/Deregulations
Stocks/investments

Day 33: Poverty cycle

Returned Geography quizzes - need to be more specific with your answers.  Provide examples to demonstrate further understanding of the topics

Debriefed article from last day on court ruling that homeless people can camp on public property.

TED Talk: Africa is poor and 5 other myths (by Simon Moss)
Click to watch
Summarize a key thought regarding each myth (1/2 sentences)

Handout: Poverty cycle (5 marks - in class write)

For Friday - Read "Kenya: trapped in poverty" on page 398/99
Answer questions #1,3,4

Have a fantastic field trip tomorrow!

Day 32: Global Issues conference presentations

5. Child Labour
6. Refugees
7. Human Trafficking
8. Child Soldiers

HANDOUT: Examples of possible provincial exam essay questions

Well done today.

Please send me links to your presentations please.
And include login information.

Day 31: Global Issus Conference presentations

Group presentation topics:

1. Primary education and literacy
2. Climate change
3. Human Rights
4. Poverty

Day 30: Quiz and poverty in BC

Quiz on Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 (up to p. 395)

A look at Insite (safe injection site): Click to watch

CNN International also produced a segment on this safe injection site: Click to watch

What are your thoughts about the safe injection site?
Do you agree/disagree with this?
What is this helping to prevent?
What else can be done to combat the various struggles of the homeless?

Article: Court rules homeless have the right to camp on public land Click to read

Please read and comment on the following questions:

• Do you agree with the court's decision?
• What/how are different municipalities handling the homeless population?  (What are some different agencies involved?)

Day 29: Measuring poverty and the poverty trap

Projects due on Monday: Discussion on group and individual responsibilities. 

Did you delegate responsibilities?  Did your group members meet time lines?
Be respectful of group members' time.  If your group member is not doing his or her share of work then please speak to me.  Don't reward a group member by doing extra work and completing work for him/her. 

Debrief Mexico City video yesterday. 
Main ideas include:

• Push and pull factors
• problems associated with increasing population in cities
• connection between work-children-school
• living conditions of the poor
• urban problems (city development, roads, air quality, garbage disposal, water quality)

Click to watch a clip of water pollution in Rio leading up to the 2016 olympics

Handout: Measuring poverty (394/395) (World Bank.  Human poverty index)

Poverty Trap (pg. 396/97): IMF.  World Bank.  PECD.  Cycle of debt.  Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC).  Bilateral aid

Helping to improve living standards (413-417):
UNESCO.  NGOs.  ODA.  CIDA.
 A look at the problems in Vancouver's downtown Eastside: Click to watch

The Province's look at the Downtown Eastside

Harsh reality of the Downtown Eastside (Watch from 2-4 minute mark): Click to watch

Day 28: Population pressure and living standards

A look at the original Trudeaumania:Click to watch

A look at the election results: Click to watch CTV coverage

Handout: Review multiple choice sheet
Went over the worksheet from yesterday.

Does Canada have a responsibility to the nations at the bottom of the HDI?
Do you think companies have a social responsibility to increase wages of factory workers in developing countries?
Click to watch a clip on Factory and Minimum Wages in Developing Countries

Mexico City: Population pressure

Quiz on Thursday, October 22nd (Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 - up to pg. 395)

Day 27: Population pressure and standards of living

Oral interview marks handed back.  If you want to improve your mark please see me to re do.

Population density: Why do people gather in specific areas (why do they move away/to a location)?  Why did cities emerge where they did in history?
Looking at Figure 11-27 on page 382.  Human and physical factors.

Click to watch: John Green - Crash Course on Population (Malthusian theory)

Read page 378/79.  Analyze the political cartoon.  What is it saying?
Answer Q#1 and #3 (which point of view do you agree with and why?)

If you were to go into a developing country to increase the standard of living, prioritize the following:
Health.  Education.  Clothing.  Housing.  Food.  Jobs.
How did you rank these and why?

Handout: Chapter 12 Standards of living

Watch the election results tonight.

Day 26: Population control.

Watch current events: Blue Jays win and unite a nation

What are the top 10 most developed countries (UN development index) in 2014/15? Click to watch

A look at a Ted-Ed lesson on population pyramids: Click to watch

Relating the demographic transition model to population pyramids.  How do we analyze these?  What are the connections? 
Looking at an example from the Provincial Exam: Click to see

Pg 368/369: Population control in India and China.
Click to watch a segment on the "Unexpected consequences of the One Child Policy"
Looking at current day policy.

Handout: Chapter 11 Guiding questions. 

Quiz: Thursday, October 22nd.  Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 (up to page 395)

Global Issues conference presentations: Monday, October 26th and Tuesday 27th

Day 25: Oral interviews and Canada's population

Pg 374.  Dependency: Too Young or too Old?  Do questions #1-3, 5, 6.

Pg 375.  Canada's population: past and future

Oral interviews on government.

Time to work on your projects.

Presentations next Tuesday/Wednesday.

Day 24: Dependency ratio and population pyramids

Completed the following Canadian election survey (Canada.isidewith.com): Click to view
Print out your answer results and bring with you to class tomorrow for your oral interviews.

Voted in the student election

Handout on Population Pyramids
Figure 11-18 on page 372.  Do questions #1,2,3,5.

Oral interviews and project time tomorrow.
Bring in your work and be ready to go.

Day 23: Developed vs. Developing nations

Using QUIZLET.com as a study tool.  Search existing quizzes for topics in this textbook.  Or chapters in Counterpoints.

Click to watch: Current events: Toronto Blue Jays win again.

 Chapter 11: Population Trends and Issues (pg. 35-364)

Do Questions #1,2,4,5 on page 364

• Define demography, natural increase, emigration, immigration, net migration, and exponential growth
• What types of information are collected in census?  Give examples of three uses of this information.
• What are the main components of population change?  What is meant by the rule of 70?
• Why is immigration more important to Canada's population growth than to some

Brainstorm:  What are characteristics of Developed vs. Developing nations? (list 3-5 characterstics/differences.

Handout: Life expectancy and demographic transition model (Figure 11-13)

Click for look at power point on Demographic Transition Model

Day 22: Government unit test

Government mind maps collected.

Government unit test.

If you have difficulty with your presentation tool please email me this weekend to let me know which one you will be using.

Have a fantastic Thanksgiving Day weekend!

Field trip money and forms by October 16th.

Day 21: Presentation tools

Groups will be presenting with an assigned presentation tool to use.

• Padlet
• Glogster
• Canva
• Haiku Deck

Before leaving for the Thanksgiving weekend make sure that you communicate with your group members regarding responsibilities/meeting times, etc...


Consider using ONE login name and password so each person can access the presentation to do his/her work.

Government Unit test tomorrow.
Mind map due.


Have a look at some example questions for the government unit.
Click here to review the Socials 11 Provincial Exam

Day 20: Research for Global Issues Project

Projects will include images/charts or graphs/video clip.

Manage your group and how you divide up responsibilities.

Make sure to communicate with group members - how will you share information?  Google docs?

Project presentations due on Monday, October 19th.

Day 19: World mapping and global issues

Topics selected for the Global Issues conference project:
Human Rights
Human Trafficking
Primary education and literacy
Child Labour
Poverty
Refugees
Climate Change
Child Soldiers

Cool Tools for Schools (presentation ideas)

World Map (Due on the day of our geography test).
Refer to the atlas for countries (use a legend) that:

• have highest number of children
• are most/least urban
• have the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS
• have the highest number of refugees leaving
• have the highest percentage of people living on $1 a day

Day 18: Review and population growth

Government review activity.

Begin Unit 4 on Human Geography.

Click to watch this quick clip on population growth

Group projects.
Home work tonight is to brainstorm other ideas for our Global Issues project.

Day 17: Youth offenders act

Review of differences between criminal and civil law.
How does the court system work.

Look at Figure 11-14 (old text) regarding Legislation relating to young offenders.
Look at Figure 11-15.  Copy these points on Sentences a Youth Court Judge can order

4 sets of articles on youth offences in the news.

Do you think the YOA is too lenient?  Why or why not?  What should be done?  Use examples from the articles.

Mind Map due next Friday, October 9th.
Government/Human Rights/Law test on Friday, October 9th

Day 16: Human Rights. Criminal vs. Civil law

Handout: protecting human rights
Old Counterpoints text.
Handout: Civil vs. Criminal law

Handout: How should we deal with lawbreakers (read about Paul Bernardo/Karla Homolka and David Milgaard)

Watched a clip on Karla Homolka.
Watched a clip on Vince Li (Greyhound Bus killer released)

Overhead: Driver of truck that killed two found not criminally responsible

Handout: Improving the criminal justice system.

• How do we improve the criminal justice system?
• If we have a criminal justice system that is sometimes too lenient, sometimes too strict, and sometimes plain wrong, how do we improve it?  Is it possible to improve it?  Do we focus more on Retribution or Rehabilitation.

Day 15: HR abuses. Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Overview of the Human Rights abuses from yesterday.
Clips of Tiananmen Square massacre, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela.

CNN special on sex trafficking in the US: Click to watch
Trafficking in Canada (Global National): Click to watch
CNN Freedom project: Click to view articles and videos

Read page 330-336.
Write: Which set of rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is most important to you as a Canadian?  Why?
Read about the Amending Formula.

Group work and discuss: Pg 348/49.  #8a to i.  A violation or not?

Time to work on your Mind Map.  Page 320 #1.  Due next Friday on the day of the test.  Complete on the blue paper.

Next week we will be selecting topics for our Global Issues Conference project.
Have a look at the following topics.  Brainstorm other topics that you may want to do

Day 14: Human Rights research topics

Library computer lab:

• Tiananmen Square Massacre
• Dalai Lama
• Aung San Suu Kyii
• Cambodian Genocide
• Rwanda or Darfur Genocide
• Nelson Mandela
• Human Trafficking

Day 13: Human rights abuses. HR in Canada.

Went over answers to Ch. 9 worksheet from last day.

Pg 324-327.  What are Human Rights?  The Global Movement for Human Rights.  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  International Courts and Tribunals.

Answer questions #2,4 on page 326

Group discussion (pg 327).  Are universal standards for human rights possible in a world of diverse cultural and religious beliefs?

Click to watch a debate on the Niqab ban in France

Cultural/Religious practices in Africa and the Middle East. FGM

Human Rights booklet.  a) Choosing a tenant.  b) Choosing an employee.  c) Other case studies.

Home work.
a) What are the Bill of Rights?
b) Purpose of the Notwithstanding clause
Read Figure 10-7 "What does this mean to me"

Day 12: Political cartoons. Senate. Human Rights

Projects due today.
Discussed how to analyze a political cartoon.
Example.  Pg 321.  What does the cartoon say about proroguing parliament?

News clip on the senate scandal: Click to watch

Handout on Senate reform.  Make own notes.  What is "Triple-E?"
Handout: Chapter 9 review sheet (matching section 1 and 2)

Human Rights: How do you define this?  What are examples of human rights violations?

History of Human Rights: Click to watch

Day 11: Election process. Voting process

Steps to an election handout.  And read 313-317

The Electoral Process: Click to watch

Should voting be mandatory: Watch clip from global news

Should voting be mandatory: Watch "Word on the Street" from New Zealand

Should voting be mandatory: Watch clip from Learn Liberty

Journal topic #1 (in class): What do you think should be to increase voter turnout?  Why would this work?  How effective would this be for ages 18-24, and your parent/guardian's age?

Day 10: Private members bill

Well done on the Private Members Bill assignment.

Read pg 317 on electronic voting.
Read pg 318/19 on Compulsory voting in Australia

Political platforms assignment due on Thursday, Sept 24th.

Day 9: Review of parliament. Majority vs. Minority governments

Guest speakers during last block today (NDP - Travato.  Liberal - Woo.  Green - Chiu)

Video clip on the refugee crisis CLICK TO WATCH

Handed back the political spectrum quiz.

Pg 308 - 311.  Do Q#1-3 (pg. 311)
Topics covered; party loyalty and party discipline.  Free votes and private members bills.  Minority and majority governments.  Coalitions and mergers.  Proroguing parliament.  Dissolution.

Handout: How Parliament Works.

Private Members Bill presentation tomorrow.

Day 8: Branches of government. How a bill becomes a law.

Quiz on Political spectrum.
Watched the debate last night?  Here is a link if you missed it Economy debate September 17, 2015

Answers for handout to Branches of government.  And crossword.

Pg #307.  Answer questions 1-5.
Branches of government answer #1 Click to view
Executive: Governor general.  Prime minister.  Cabinet ministers
Legislative: Governor general.  Senators.  Members of parliament.
Judiciary: Supreme court judges.  Federal Court judges.  Provincial court judges
Majority vs. Minority government.  Majority must have OVER 50% of seats in the HOC.

Pg 308.  Figure 9-20 Passing legislation.
Know what happens in each stage.

Assignment: Private members bill.  Due Tuesday, September 22nd..
Have fun with this assignment.

Political parties platform assignment due Thursday, September 24th.

Day 7: Responsibilities of government

Current events: Gr. 9 boy in Texas school arrested for bringing clock to school

Finished DVD: Our Government

Overhead: Responsibilities of government (Federal, Shared, Provincial)

Pg 299-301: Canadian Politics and Ideology.  Party Platforms.  Party Membership (NGO's).  Party Politics and Accountability.  Patronage.

Structure of BC Politics.  Premier Christy Clark.  Official Opposition.  MLA's represent each riding in Victoria.

More time to work on political platform assignment. 
Due next Thursday, September 24th.

Day 6: research project

Government assignment: Who would you vote for in the upcoming Federal election?

Researching the candidates in your riding and analyzing two issues of importance in the upcoming election.  Looking through the party websites and analyzing their political platform.

Watch 5-10 minutes of the economic debate tonight on TV or on the internet.

Project due next Thursday.

Day 5: Democracy case study

Quiz on Friday

Group work: Democracy Case Study

Handout: Government assignment - who would you vote for in the upcoming Federal election?

Day 4: Influencing government. Our parliament

Brainstorm different ways that you can influence governemnt (ex. vote, contacting your MP/MLA, petition, etc)
Chater 9 intro page.
Pg 290-296.  Democracy to civil disobedience (know the bold terms)

• Democracy
• What are some examples of issues that are important to Canadians? (ex. aboriginal rights, Quebec and bilingualism, environment, taxation. etc)
• pressure groups/lobbyists
• courts and democracy
• role of media
• civil disobedience (looked at clips of Ghandi, Selma Trailer, Invictus Trailer)

DVD: Our parliament (structure of parliament in Ottawa)

Day 3: Ideologies

Current events: 9/11 anniversary.
Review of ideologies.  Pg 297/98.  Own notes to add to your overhead notes from yesterday.
Political spectrum.  Pg 299

See Left to Right continuum (print out from yesterday blog) and Figure 9-11.

Political beliefs handout (in groups).

Homework: Review ideologies

Day 2: Political ideologies

Current events: Refugee crisis in Europe. Queen Elizabeth II's longest reign.
A look at the Prescribed Learning Outcomes
How is government involved - a look at different current events articles.
World's smallest pollitical quiz.
Powerpoint: classifying political ideologies

Print for Political Spectrum

Textbooks handed out

Day 1: Intro and government

Introduction and class handout

Current events from the summer: Kahoot

Please print: Prescribed Learning Outcomes

Groups of 3/4:  Brainstorm and discuss

• What does government do?
• How do leaders come to power?
• What roles does government play in every day lives? (ex. planning.  basic necessities, economy, etc)

"Shipwreck" brainstorm:

• Survival - goals?  Is there a need?
• Leader?  How to decide?
• Potential problems the leader(s) might face?

Great 1st day.  Have a fantastic semester in SS 11.

Day 75: Geography review

Geography review.

Provincial exam next Wednesday at 1:00pm.
Remember to bring your textbook, several pens and pencils.

Last day of classes tomorrow.

Day 74: Government review

Review of government via kahoot.

Powerpoint review on government

Review package on history....complete for tomorrow.

Only two more days!

Day 73: Oral interviews

Provincial review package

Oral interviews.

Chance to re-do the oral interview next week.

Day 72: Oral interview

Oral interviews.

Review package handed out.

Day 71: Exam review

Exam review.

Click to access provincial exam review

Oral interviews tomorrow.

Day 70: Social changes/improvements in Canadian history

OPEC crisis in 1973.  What is an embargo? 
Click to watch this old NBC news clip.

Figure 8-4.  Looking at different Generations (X, Y).  What are Millenials?  Which group are you part of (Gen Z)?

Group brainstorm:  How has Canada evolved socially?  What has government done to improve society?

Look at the sheet I gave to you at the start of the Cold War unit.  Look at social and cultural changes in Canada from 1940-2000.
Cite specific things that gov has done. 

• Examples include: womens movement.  Bill 101.  CRTC.  Bill of Rights.  Multiculturalism Act.  Cradle to Grave social security.  CPP. 

Day 69: Economic issues

Pop quiz: Quebec Nationalism

CPH: The planners of happiness

G7 summit current events

Economic stages (recovery, prosperity, recession, depression).
Looking at different stages in Canadian History.

• Post-war prosperity (184-187)
• Economic challenges worksheet from today (Canada Pension Plan.  Medical Care Act.  OPEC.  Inflation.  Regionalism)
• New Economic Ideas (FTA.  NAFTA.  Tackling debt)

Handed back updated marks

Oral Interview on Thursday/Friday

Day 68: Quebec Nationalism

Handed back WW2 essays and We Were Children journals.
If you have not completed the journal please see me - completion will be in class.

CPH: October 1970 (FLQ crisis)

Prescribed Learning Outcomes (a look at topics you should know)

Essay outlines: Click to print
Here are the start to outlines written by the different groups.
Take these ideas to form your own outlines.

• Evaluate the development of French Canadian and English Canadian relations from 1914 to 2000
• How have French/English relations shaped Canada since 1960

Due for Monday:

• Worksheet: Quebec Nationalism (multiple choice questions)
• Worksheet: Constitution debate (green sheet)

Quiz on Monday on Quebec Nationalism

CPH: Honour and Enthusiasm (Meech Lake Accord)

Prep for Thursday/Friday oral interview

1. Cold War 1945 (United Nations) to 1991 (Fall of the USSR)
2. Quebec Nationalism 1960s (Quiet Revolution) to 1995 (Referendum)
3. First Nations (see PLOs: Residential schools, reserves, self-government, treaty negotiations)

Day 67: Debate

Debates today. 

Quebec Nationalism multiple choice review

Create an essay outline for the following questions:

• How have French-English relations shaped Canadian Identity since 1960?

• Evaluate the development of French Canadian and English Canadian relations from 1914 to 2000.

Day 66: Quebec nationalism

Current events.  Report released by the Truth and Reconciliation commission on Residential Schools.  Called it "Cultural Genocide."  Click to watch

Tests handed back

CPH: Under a new Flag

Last page of notes.  1980 and on

Handout: The Constitution Debate

Looking at Meech Lake, Charlottetown Accord, and the 1995 referendum.

Debate tomorrow.

Day 65: Quebec Nationalism

Practice debate: Should tobacco companies be responsible for the long term health effects of smokers?  Looking at the $15 Billion court decision in Quebec against three tobacco companies.  Click to watch CTV news clip.  Another news clip to watch

Groups assigned for Thursdays' debate.

Essay topic brainstorm:  To what extent did Canada play a significant role in Cold War events between 1945-1990.
Create a chart.  Develop points FOR (Canada played a significant role in these events) and AGAINST (Canada did not play a key role in these events during the Cold War).

Handout on Quebec Nationalism

CPH: Opening Vignette

Notes: Trouble at home - a Nation Divided

Homework: Debate prep for Thursday

Day 64: End of the Cold War

Connections between sports and politics.  A look at events in history:

• Jesse Owens
• 1972 Summit Series (Henderson scores the goal)
• 1987 Canada Cup (Lemieux with the goal)
• 1980/1984 boycott of the Olympic games.  Connection to events in world history
• IOC awarding of Olympic games
• South Africa world cup of rugby

Handout: Cold War Summary
CPH: In the shadow of Nuclear War
Handout: A New Era of International Cooperation
End of the Cold War with the fall of the Soviet Union.  Perstroika, Glasnost and Gorbachev
Finished We Didn't Start the Fire presentations

Debate on Thursday.

Day 63: Canada's foreign policy

Due: We Were Children Journal due

Cold war quiz

Canada's foreign policy during the Cold War (print notes from yesterday)

Post World War 2 notes: Click to print

CPH: "Seeing Red" and "On Guard for Thee"

Debate rubric.  Prepare debate topic for Thursday: "Are weapons of mass destruction ever justified?"

Fun look at wrestling through childhood.

Day 62: Cold War timeline

Purpose of the United Nations (see handouts on previous blog pages)
Canada and UN involvement over the years.
Looking at military conflict (pg 274-279).

• Persian Gulf War
• Genocide in Rwanda
• Disgrace in Somalia
• Civil war in Yugoslavia
• War in Afghanistan
• War in Iraq

Discussion about:

• Rebuilding of the European economy after WW2
• Creation of the UN
• Superpowers agenda
• Creation of military blocs (NATO vs. WARSAW PACT)

Timeline of international events from 1945-2001:
WW2 ends.  UN created.  NATO.  Korean War.  Warsaw Pact.  Suez Crisis.  NORAD.  Vietnam war begins.  Cuban Missile Crisis.  Vietnam War ends.  Berlin Wall falls.  Tiananmen Sq. massacre.  Soviet Union collapses.  Rwanda genocide.  9/11.  Iraq war begins.

Handout: Korean War.  Suez Crisis.  Cuban Missile Crisis.  Vietnam War.
Quiz tomorrow.

Iron Curtain notes: Click here to print

Canada's Foreign Policy notes: Click to print

Day 61: WW2 test

WW2 test today.

Handout: Canada in the Post War Years - A Changing Society

• Rise of the suburbs (170/71)
• Age of the automobile (170)
• Teen culture (172)
• Television and the consumer society (173)
• Protecting Canadian culture (176)
• New face of Canada (177)

Fieldtrip CANCELLED on Friday.

We Were Children Journal: Due Friday

Day 60: Cold war

Oral presentation on events of the Cold War era.

Cold War begins

• Superpowers (USA + USSR)
• Canada's role as a middle power
• Communism vs. Capitalism
• NATO v. WARSAW PACT

CPH: Opening.  Igor Gouzenko reveals a spy ring operating in Canada.  A begin to the Cold War

WW2 test tomorrow.

Day 59: First Nations issues

Aboriginal Affairs after 1960: Click to print

The fight for aboriginal rights.
Specific land claims and Comprehensive land claims.
Self government
Environmental concerns

Movie: We Were Children

Journal topics: Click to print

Cold War terms: Click to print
United Nations notes: Click to print
United Nations handout: Click to print

Day 58: Cold War history through song

We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel. Click to watch this montage of images produced by this fan of the song Click here

4 Topics each typed with picture: Oral presentation on Tuesday

Handout: events in Chapters 6-8

Research time on the iPads

First Nations handouts.  Complete for Monday.

Field Trip $ and forms

Day 57: End of WW2

Field trip $

Review of WW2 with Kahoot.

CPH: Sacrifice and secrets (mining of uranium in Northern Canada)

War continues in Japan until the atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Mind map for changes to Canada politically, economically, socially during WW2.  Also look at Canada's impact in the world.

Pg 160 #6.  Canada's impact during various battles.

iPad cart: identify images/impact of concentration camps during WW2, and of impact of the bombing of Hiroshima. 

WW2 test on Wednesday, May 27.

Day 56: Victory in Europe

Overhead map: Defeat of Hitler's army.  Attacked from the south through Italy.  Attacked from the East by Soviet forces.  D-Day invasion through Northern France.

D-day attack.  Saving Private Ryan.

Canada responsible for attacking Juno Beach on June 6, 1944.

Read 146-149:

• Juno Beach
• Battle of the Scheldt
• Battle of the Rhineland
• Liberating the Netherlands
• VE Day (May 8, 1945)
• Japan Surrenders
• The Atomic Bomb
• War Ends (August 14, 1945)

Read page 150-151

Future DEBATE TOPICS.  Create a chart for both questions FOR and AGAINST

a. Are weapons of mass destruction ever justified?
b. Is war necessary to maintain/establish peace?

World War 2 test next Wednesday, May 27th

Day 55: Italian Campaign and D-Day

Review of : Dunkirk, North-Africa Campaign, Dieppe, Italian Campaign, D-Day

CPH: Dieppe
       : On the attack (bombing campaigns.  Italian campaign). 
          Should civilian targets be  bombed during a war? (ex. Dresden, Cologne)

Crossword review

Mind map on "Changes to Canada during WW2" (Make notes.  Look at pages 130-32, 153-56, 158-59)

• politics and government
• economy
• society and identity change
• autonomy and world presence

Bring in FIELD TRIP FORMS AND $ by Thursday.

Day 54: Canadians and WW2 continued

A look at overheads: Blitzkrieg.  Battle of Britain.  Operation Barbarossa. 

CPH: opening vignette + Battle of Britain

Purpose of the non-aggression pact.
A look at Canada's contribution to the war effort: Battle of the Atlantic and war in the air.
Dresden: Is the bombing of civilian targets ever justified? (pg. 139)

Read pg 157: Japanese Canadians.  Answer Q#1.
CPH: "The Dispossessed"  - a look at Japanese Canadian internment

Analyzing primary source documents:  In your groups come up with 3 points FOR/AGAINST the internment

Homework: Complete the handout/reading from yesterday for the DIEPPE RAID (142/143), ITALIAN CAMPAIGN (144), CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (152)

Day 53: Canada in World War 2

Review of reasons for the start of World War 2

Rise of Fascism (totalitarianism).  Great depressions.  Treaty of Versailles.  Appeasement.  Failure of the League of Nations.

Reading pages 127-139.  Follow the reading guide along with notes on "Total War" in Canada.

• Policy of isolationism
• Canada's Response to Jewish Refugees (how else has Canadian government discriminated against ethnic groups?  Chinese Head Tax.  Komagata Maru
• Anti-Semitism in Canada
• SS St. Louis
• Canada Declares for War
• Mobilizing Resources
• BCATP: British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
• Axis and Allies (map)
• Evacuation at Dunkirk
• Battle of Britain
• North-African campaign
• Operation Barbarossa
• War in the Pacific/Pearl Harbour
• Battle of Hong Kong
• Battle of the Atlantic
• Canada's war at Sea

Day 51 & 52: presentations

1920s/30s presentations

Day 50: Causes of WW2

Kahoot.it - review of the 1930s

On-to-Ottawa trek.
Roosevelt's "New Deal"
A Change in Federal government: Bennett ---King
Federal-Provincial tensions: Rowell-Sirois Report or equalization payments

Exercise into WWII (activity sheet)

The Depression and Global Politics: Germany after the war.  The Depression in Asia.  Russians Embrace Communism

Japanese aggression: Rape of Nanking Click to watch

CPH: Mr. King goes to Berlin

Please PRINT the following notes: Causes of World War II

Presentations on Monday and Tuesday.

Day 49: Response and solutions to the Great Depression

A look at pictures from the Great Depression

Review of Prescribed Learning Outcomes: topics to cover

CPH: Descent into chaos (look at how Canadians were affected)

Read Pg 94-100.  Do questions #1,2,3a,6 (pg 100)

Prairie drought.  Unemployment.  Pogey.  Riding the rails.  Disadvantaged (immigrants and Aboriginals).  Women in the 1930s.

CPH: Blown away
        : Dear Mr. Prime Minister

Notes: Solutions to the Great Depression (Federal government response.  Rise of political parties: CCF, Social Credit.  Quebec - Union Nationale.  BC's New Deal (provincial response)

Read 101-104.  #1 - pg 104

Presentations on Monday and Tuesday.

Day 48: Causes of the Great Depression

Current events: 70 year anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands
                       : South African president tattooing HIV/AIDS patients
                       : NDP Majority in Alberta 

Changes to the 1920s: Political/Economic/Social changes

Notes: Causes of the 1930s Great Depression.

Crash course: Great Depression (John Greene)

Worksheet: Causes of the Great Depression

Fun look at 1920s slang words

Day 47: Roaring 20s and Regionalism

Current events journal: Do you think that Canada should implement policy to limit/prevent foreign ownership of homes?  Why/why not?  Relate to the following articles:

Looked at a housing payments using an online mortgage calculator

Australia to tackle high housing prices with fines, jail for illegal foreign home purchases: Click to read

Vancouver lacks effective control over rising house prices, prof says.  Other places use taxes and penalties to control foreign investment: Click to read

Handout: Multiple choice review questions/reading comprehension

Handout: The Roaring 20s

• Increased mobility.  Innovations.  Group of 7.  Emily Carr.  Canadian literature.  Sports
• Women's roles in Canada: Agnes Macphail.  Mary Ellen Smith.  Helen MacGill.  Emily murphy.  Persons case of 1929.  Famous Five.

A new challenge to federalism: Regionalism (77/78)
Concerns of the following regions: Maritimes.  Prairies and Rural Ontario
Quebec.  Western interests

 

Day 46: 1920s

Current events: Princess of Cambridge Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.

Provincial exam essay question:  Discuss the development of Canadian identity from 1914-2000.  Discuss political, economic, social examples.

Chanak Crisis

Halibut Treaty

King-Byng Crisis

Imperial Conference and the Balfour Report

Statute of Westminster

Review of US influence on Canada.

Computer lab: final day to work on the 1920s/30s project.

How can you creatively present your topic.  How can you involve the class.
How can you build an "experience" of what life was like back in the 20s/30s.

Presentations beginning on Thursday, May 7th.

Day 45: Winnipeg General Strike and growing US influence

Current events: Baltimore riots

Winnipeg General Strike (5 key points/timeline)
CPH: Winnipeg General Strike

Handout: Business cycle.

Overhead: a fun look at who we are influenced by.
Canadian?  American?  International?

Handout: Canada's changing economy.  Shifting from Britain to the US (63)

Canada's growing independence (80-83)

• Chanak Crisis
• Halibut Treaty
• King-Byng Crisis
• Imperial Conference and the Balfour Report
• Statute of Westminster

Complete handout for homework.

Day 44: WWI test

World War 1 test.

Complete the worksheet from yesterday.
And print out the Chapter 3/4 definitions from yesterday's blog post.

Brainstorm and plan how you will present your topic in a creative and interactive way.

Presentations next Thursday, May 7th

Day 43: Post WW1 and the Winnipeg General Strike

Review of WW1

Handout: Post-war blues

Changes during WW1: Click to print

Chapter 3 and 4 definitions: Click to print

WW1 test tomorrow

A fun look at Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
(Canada's WWI flying ace was Billy Bishop) Click to watch

Day 42: Research

1920s/30s project.  Research on the computers.

Follow the criteria.

How can you involve the class in your presentation?
How can you demonstrate your skill/creativity?

Project presentations on Thursday, May 7th

World War 1 test on Thursday, April 30th

Day 41: Treaty of Versailles and the end of the war

Current events: Nepal earthquake Click to watch

Picked topics.  If you have not chosen the please let me know tomorrow.

1920/30s project: individual/partners

CPH: A Broken Promise (Conscription crisis)
        : A painful peace (end to the war)

Handout: review sheet (fill in the blanks and chart of changes to Canada)

Read Pages 53-56.
Pg 55 - #1
Pg 56 - #2

WWI quiz on Thursday, April 30th

Day 40: Impact at home (political, economic, social) and wrapping up the war

Review of readings from yesterday on the impact of the war at home:
Click to print

CPH: Vimy Ridge
CPH: A City of Sorrow (Halifax explosion)

Finish the remainder of the sheet from yesterday:
Impact of the conscription crisis (pg 47-51)

Notes on the end of WWI: Stalemate broken.  Russian revolution.  USA joins the war.  Hundred Day Campaign, Armistice.

Quiz on Thursday, April 30th

Day 39: Life on the battlefront

Current events:  Today marks the 10-year anniversary of YouTube.  How has YouTube changed the internet/society?  Click to watch

Review of questions from last day.

War technology Pg 40/41.
A look at war games today (Call of Duty) and how it compares to the warfare/technology during World War I.

All Quiet on the Western Front - based on the book by Erich Maria Remarque.
This is a "devastating story of war and a generation destroyed.  In 1914 a group of German schoolboys, idealistic and inflamed with youthful patriotism, set off to fight in the "glorious" war.  During their brutal basic training disenchantment begins; then, boarding a train for the front, they see the wounded being rushed back to hospitals.  They begin to grasp the grim reality of war.....Their youth is stripped away by the violence, and the boys become as sullen as veterans."

Handout:
Pg 35-47.
Describing battles on the Western front.
Contributions that Canadians made ont he home front (45/46)
Halifax Explosion (47).

Do Questions 2 and 3 on page 47.

Day 38: Ypres, Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge

Geography test.

Today is Earth Day.  Taking an "Earth Day Quiz"

Review:
Schlieffen Plan.
War of attrition.
Stalemate.

Went over the notes on Ypres, Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge.

CPH: "Go out and meet death bravely"

Day 37: Canada's entry into WWI

CPH: episode beginning
What was Canada's contribution to the war effort?
What did Canadians expect war to be like?
Reaction of French Canadians to the war?
What is propaganda and how was it used?

Read causes of WWI - role of the Balkans (pg 26-30)

Mobilizing the Forces (32)
A National Identity Emerges (33)
Canada's Minister of Militia (34)
The War Measures Act (35)
The War on Land (35)
Mapping Section

CPH: Our investment in Blood
Role of women during the war
Suffrage movement
Prohibition

Geography Quiz tomorrow

Day 36: Causes of and immediate trigger to WWI

Current event: Migrant ship capsizes in the Mediterranean.  People smuggling.  Connection to poverty and issues studied in Geography unit.
Click to watch

Marking the provincial exam essay.  Peer and self evaluation.

Review of the causes of WWI and the trigger to the start of the war.

Crash Course with John Green.  A look at World War I
Click to watch

Day 35: In class essay

Topic: Compare the reasons for Canada's standard of living with those of a developing nation.  Your answer must refer to both Canada and the developing world.

Print out notes off of yesterdays blog post if you have not done so already.

Day 34: Start of WWI

Paired verbal fluency activity: Talking about Blood Diamond

Chapter 1: A Different Canada

• Victorian Era
• Prohibition.  Nellie McClung.  Suffragist.  Women's rights during this time
• Arts and Leisure: Group of 7
• Canada's developing autonomy.
• Alaska Boundary Dispute
• Participation in Boer War
• French-English relations (strained at the time).
• Is today's government responsible for injustices of the past?  (Chinese Head Tax and Komagata Maru)

War or Peace simulation.  Start of the WWI Unit.
Why do we study history?  Why is it important to know what happened?  How can this help us today?  Example: US and Cuba relations.  Cuban missile crisis then.  Obama and Castro shaking hands at a summit the other day.

Causes of World War I notes: Click to print
Battles of WWI: Click to print

Day 33: Analysis of movie

Complete the worksheet for Blood Diamond.

In class essay on Thursday.

One of the following topics will be selected.  Please prepare an outline for each question.
Introduction (has a clear thesis)
Topic sentence for each body paragraph + points

d. Explain the political, social, and economic factors that prevent some countries from improving their standard of living


f.  Analyze the global threats to humans being caused by population growth

j.  Compare the reasons for Canada's standard of living with those of a developing nation.  Refer to both Canada and a developing nation.

Day 32: Connecting major ideas in the human geography unit

Making connections to the movie Blood Diamond.

Worksheet questions: /20 marks

Day 31: The Environment

Current events: Oil spill in Vancouver Click to watch

Went over the group brainstorm activity for the potential provincial exam geography question.
In class write on Thursday, April 16th.
Click to view group outlines

Handout on Chapter 13: The Environment - Our Challenges and Responsibilities
Main ideas covered include:

• stewardship.  carrying capacity.  biosphere.  deforestation.  how does an increase world population affect resources>
• effect on freshwater supplies.  What are the threats to surface water in Canada?
• Greenhouse gases - main contributors
• Kyoto protocol
• Bali Road map
• Alternative energy sources
• What could YOU do to decrease your impact on the environment

Day 30: Finishing presentations

1. HIV/AIDS
2. HUMAN RIGHTS
3. MATERNAL HEALTH
4. CHILD SOLDIERS

Day 29: Group presentations on Global Issues

Good job today, groups!

a) Child Labour

b) Poverty

c) Challenges girls face

d) Primary Education and Literacy

Day 28: Provincial Exam essay review

Group work today on provincial exam essay review.

Discussed how to write a thesis statement and organize an essay.

Aim for 4-5 paragraphs.

Introductory paragraph: (include a thesis)
Body paragraph 1: Topic sentence and points
Body paragraph 2: Topic sentence and points
Body paragraph 3: Topic sentence and points
Conclusion

Provincial exam marking rubric.  6 mark scale.

Groups responsible for doing: a, b, d, f, j, I, k

Day 27: Poverty Cycle

Go over the worksheet from last day.

Read Kenya case study (Pg. 398).  Answer Questions #1,3

Current event: Kenya university shootings Click to watch

Poverty at home: a look at the downtown Eastside Click to watch

TED Talk: Africa is poor and 5 other myths Click to watch

Handout: Poverty cycle - where would you intervene and why?  Due on Tuesday.

Presentations next Wednesday/Thursday

Day 26: Exam Qs and project work

Provincial exam essay topics.
Potential questions for the provincial exam.

We will discuss the 6 point marking scale and write an in class exam on the of April 13-16th.

Project presentations next Wednesday/Thursday.

Each group is required to hand in a typed presentation plan:
Make sure that it is typed and that it indicates the order or topic, the person presenting, and the time allocated for that portion.  This requires you to rehearse your part.

NO USE OF HAND-HELD NOTES/CUE CARDS during the presentation.

Make sure hand in all parts to the project.

I was very impressed with the group who wrote a script about the topic, and is now creating the powerpoint presentation based on script.

Day 25: Population pressure and measuring poverty

Review MC sheet

Video: Mexico City (Populaton pressure)
Main ideas include:

• Push and pull factors
• problems associated with increasing population in cities
• connection between work-children-school
• living conditions of the poor
• urban problems (city development, roads, air quality, garbage disposal, water quality)

Handout: Measuring poverty (394/395) (World Bank.  Human poverty index)

Poverty Trap (pg. 396/97): IMF.  World Bank.  PECD.  Cycle of debt.  Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC).  Bilateral aid

Helping to improve living standards (413-417):
UNESCO.  NGOs.  ODA.  CIDA.

Government re-test on MC section next Wednesday, April 8th at lunch.

Day 24: Standards of living

If you were in charge of going into a developing country and improving the standard of living, what would you address first?  Rank in order of importance and back up with reasons why you have chosen this order

• health
• education
• clothing
• housing
• food
• jobs

Be Pandemic-ready warns Bill Gates

Why should developed countries aid developing countries?

Do companies have a responsibility to pay workers more in a developing country?

If a person is making $2 a day in a factory, should the company pay the person more?  

Should this person be happy making $2 a day?  Grateful to have this job?

Handout: Chapter 12.  Human development index

Why is there still a huge gap between developed/developing nations?

What is the impact of population growth on a country's standard of living?

Day 23: Limits to population growth

A look at Provincial exam Q's on population pyramids and demographic transition model

Population density vs. Population distribution (pg 380/381)

Human vs. physical factors of population density.

Census:  What is the purpose?  Difficulties with taking a census in a developing country?

China and India: Population control (Pg 368/69)

Youtube clip: unexpected consequences of China's One Child Policy

Limits to population growth (Pg 378/379).  Q #1

Fig 11-23.  Do you agree with the political cartoon?

What are some view points on population trends?

Day 22: Computer lab research and group work

continue to do research
Meet as a group to do the outline for your presentation
How are you dividing up the information/sections among group members
UNDERSTAND the difference between a DEVELOPING vs. DEVELOPED country
Case studies #1 and #2 should be about an issue in a DEVELOPING COUNTRY (ex. Chad, Niger, Mali....Look at bottom countries on the UN Development Index)
Case study #3 can be aboue a developing or developed country
Go over deadlines for slides/etc.....when will slides be completed? Set due dates for these slides to be sent/added do your document

Reminder: MAXIMUM 20 WORDS PER SLIDE (not 20 words per line).

Day 21: Demographic Transtion Model and Population Pyramids

Current events: Conservative MP apologizes for inappropriate comments regarding Canada's temporary foreign workers program.
Quebec man is fined for not providing his cell phone code at the border.  Do you think that he should have to provide access to his phone without a warrant?  Will be interesting to see if this is challenged in courts.  Is this a violation of human rights?

Top 10 most developed countries Click to watch

Top 10 least developed countries Click to watch

Powerpoint on the Demographic Transition Model (complete worksheet)

Ted ed lesson: Click to watch

Complete handout on Population Pyramids

Look at Figure 11-14: The population of Canada and India, 1900-2010 (pg. 367)
Do questions 1-3.

For tomorrow each person must complete three slides for the project.  Email me your slides or as a google doc.

Day 20: Research

Use the CIA factbook to find statistics.
Incorporate visuals in your presentation: graphs, tables, charts, etc.

The challenge for this project will be to take all of the available information and condense this into a 8-15 minute presentation.

Find a balance between not overwhelming the class with information and making it too simplistic.

You have all seen fantastic presentations by your peers over the course of your high school career (I assume).  Brainstorm ways to come up with an engaging, interesting presentation.  Imagine that you are sitting in the audience watching - what would you find interesting?

Three slides each (with name on the slides) must be sent to me tomorrow.  You can combine this on a google doc and send one link to me for viewing.

Back to the library on Thursday.

Day 19: Developed vs. Developing nations

Global Education Conference: picking topics

Brainstorm:  What are characteristics of Developed vs. Developing nations?

Begin Unit 4.  Human Geography: The Future in Balance (354/355)
Chapter 11: Population Trends and Issues (pg. 356-364)

Do Questions #1,2,4,5 on page 364

• Define demography, natural increase, emigration, immigration, net migration, and exponential growth
• What types of information are collected in census?  Give examples of three uses of this information.
• What are the main components of population change?  What is meant by the rule of 70?
• Why is immigration more important to Canada's population growth than to some other countries?

Finish atlas assignment (make sure you create a legend.  Colour code according to information criteria sheet).
Know your map and how to interpret information.  The map is due at the end of the Geography unit.

Meet directly in the library tomorrow.

Day 18: Mapping and oral interviews

Geography: World Map.  Using the text book and atlas.  Analyzing figures and graphs.

Oral interviews on government.

Day 17: Government Test

Mind maps collected.
Self evaluation on your mind map.

Test.

Oral interviews tomorrow.

Day 16: Review and the start of Geography

Discussion from yesterday on how to improve the criminal justice system.
For serious crimes do we focus on rehabilitation or retribution?  Is it possible to improve the justice system?

Review Jeopardy

Handout: Government review

Introduction to Chapter 11 on Population Trends and Issues (Pg 356/357)

7 billion people so fast.  How did we get here?  An interesting look through this clip: Click to watch

Handout: Group project on Global Issues Conference (I have selected the groups)

Geography/Human Rights/Law test tomorrow

Day 15: Criminal vs. Civil law

Went over the handout from yesterday on law

Criminal vs. Civil law
What are the three basic elements of criminal law:

1. Presumption of Innocence
2. The Criminal Act
3. Mens Rea

Read the article on Karla Homolka and David Milgaard.  Do you believe that the criminal justice system should be changed?  Do you believe in Retribution or Rehabilitation of criminals (serious crimes).

Youtube: A look at Karla Homolka
News: Vince Li - responsible for beheading a man on a Greyhound bus.   Being released
Maple Ridge: Man found not guilty of killing two people when he drove into the store front and killed two people.

Handout: Ways of improving the criminal justice system
Looking at current problems and solutions.
Group discussion.

Day 14: Human Rights and intro to Law

Current event: Murder of a prominent opponent of Russian government (Boris Nemtsov) READ HERE
A look at the history timeline of Russian government since 1917 to the end of the Cold War and fall of Communism.

Review sheet: Federal government
A review of Provincial and Municipal government structure

Pg 335-347.  Read and handout

Chapter 11: Intro to Law (old text book).

Government and Human Rights test on Thursday.
Oral interviews on Friday.

Day 13: Charter of Rights and Freedoms & notwithstanding clause

Assignments handed back

Collect political parties assignment
Collect Journal write #2 about compulsory voting

Article presentation by three group members

Read page 330-334.  Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
a) Which set of rights is most important to you and why?  (paragraph handed in)
b) What is the Notwithstanding Clause
     What is the Amending formula?  (336)

Government and Human Rights test on THURSDAY, MARCH 5th

MIND MAP ASSIGNMENT: Pg 320 #1.  Due on day of the test.  Follow points outlined.  Cover the Guiding questions and Key Terms and demonstrate understanding

Day 12: Human Rights

Youtube clip: Brief history of Human Rights (Jesi Grin.  9:51 min)

Child Labour: show clips.  Sweat shops.  Behind the swoosh
Aung San Suu Kyi

Articles in groups (Charter of rights and freedom violations)

Read page 322 - 326.  Do Questions 4 and 5 on page 328.
Answer what are the Bill of Rights

Day 11: Library research

Research on the various topics:

Tiananmen Square Massacre
Dalai Lama
Aung San Suu Kyi
Cambodian genocide
Rwanda or Darfur genocide
Nelson Mandela
Human Traficking

Day 10: Voter apathy and Senate reform

Voter apathy pg 316-319.
Youtube clips on compulsory voting in Australia and Ontario.

Journal write #2: Do you believe that voting in an election should be compulsory?  Looking at the statistics in Figure 9-27: What do you think could be done to increase voter turnout among the different age groups (Under 30.  Between 30-50.  Older than 50).

Political assignment project due Friday.

How to analyze a political cartoon.

News clips of Canada's senate scandal.

Handout on Senate reform (Triple E)

How do you define Human Rights? What do we mean by human rights violations?

Day 9: Steps to a Federal election

Course planning at the start of class.

Current events: Al-Qaeda threat against Western targets Click to watch

Review: Passing legislation
Terms Prorogue parliament (311).  Have a look at the political cartoon on pg. 321.  What does this mean?  We will be analyzing political cartoons in more detail.

Steps to calling an election.   Pg 313-319.
Handout: put the steps in order
Youtube: The electoral process (by Student Vote) Click to watch

FPTP vs STV

Read: Pg 316 and 318/319 - Compulsory voting and Case study on Australia.

Party Platform project due on Wednesday.

Government test on Monday, March 2nd

Day 8: Private members bills

Presenations and write ups for private members bills

Fantastic job today!
Great detail and explanation.

No homework - just work on your projects!

Day 7: Research

Researching Federal political party platforms (NDP, Liberal, Conservative, Green).

Projects due next Wednesday, Feb 25th.

Bill presentations tomorrow.

Day 6: House of commons

Government quiz

Democracy case study

Majority vs. minority government

Pg 307.  Questions #1 (roles of the Executive and Legislative branch members), 2,3,5

Pg 309.  Questions #1-4.

Handout: Government voting project (Due next Wednesday, Feb 25th).  Meet in the Library computer lab tomorrow

Day 5: Branches of Gov and Passing a Bill

Responsibilities of government overhead notes: Federal/Provincial/Shared

Pg 302, Questions #2,3,4
Terms: Party platform.  NGO
BC Politics: Populism.  Partisan
Pg 303.  Question #1.

Branches of government: Legislative, Executive, Judicial.
Handout: Branches of government + government crossword.

DVD: House of Commons - passing a bill

Assignment for Thursday.  Private Members Bill presentations and typed write ups.

QUIZ tomorrow on material covered so far (will not include three branches of government)

Day 4: Canadian parliament

Review from yesterday: pressure group vs. lobbyist
Civil disobedience - 3 points.

A look at Dr. Martin Luther King (Selma trailer), Nelson Mandela (Invictus trailer), Gandhi (cloud biography).

Group: Democracy case study (7 marks)
Great discussion - way to work together!

DVD: Our Parliament worksheet.  A look at the house of commons.

Quiz on Tuesday: Political spectrum and any material covered so far.

Day 3: How to influence government

Textbooks handed out.  Take care of them please.
Class outlines collected.
Review of ideologies
Handout: Political beliefs (Left Center Right)

Ways of influencing government:
PETITION
EMAIL/LETTER
PEACEFUL PROTEST/CIVILIZED GATHERING/CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
NEWS/MEDIA/NEWSPAPER/RADIO
BLOGS/INTERNET/SOCIAL MEDIA (FACEBOOK, TWITTER, YOUTUBE, ETC)
TALK TO THE PERSON/TEXT/PHONE
GO ON STRIKE
VOTE
RUN FOR OFFICE/JOIN A POLITICAL PARTY
FIND SOMEONE OF IMPORTANCE TO INFLUENCE GOV’T (SPOKESPERSON)
RECALL MOVEMENTS
PRESSURE GROUP
LOBBYIST
JOIN A SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP or NGO (Non-governmental organization)

Read pg 290-295.

• What is democracy
• Issues important to Canadians
• Civil servants
• Difference between MP and MLA
• Pressure group and example
• Lobbyist and example
• Courts and democracy
• Role of media
• What is civil disobedience?  3 principles

Day 2: Political Spectrum

Current events: ISIS executes American aid worker Click to watch

Handout: Prescribed Learning Outcomes (PLOs) for SS 11.  Use this as review for unit tests and at the end of the year.

What is your political ideology?
Handout: Worlds Smallest Political quiz

Power Point notes: classifying political ideologies

Journal write: Death with Dignity

• Do you agree with the Supreme Court ruling?
• Why or why not?
• How do you think this affects your rights according to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

Print handout: CLICK to open

Day 1: Welcome to SS 11

Class handout and expectations

Pollseverywhere.com  (an interactive session)

Group brainstorm and discussion:

• What does government do?
• How do leaders come to power?
• What roles does government play in everyday lives? (ex. planning, basic necessities, economy, etc)

Notes: What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  Notwithstanding Clause.

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

·       Bill identifying human rights that are guaranteed in Canada

·       Enacted in 1982

·       Embedded in Canadian Constitution

·       Examples of rights

o  Democratic

o  Equality

o  Legal

o  Thought and belief

NOTWITHSTANDING CLAUSE

·       Allows the government to pass a law even if it violates a specific freedom or right in the charter

·       Federal government has never used this

Handout: Landmark Supreme Court ruling

Click to watch Global News clip

Day 80: Final class

Teacher evaluation form.

Handout: Canada - a welfare nation

Review package.  Multiple choice, Matching and order of events.

Congrats on a great semester.

Good luck on the provincial exam.

Be on time!  Bring a pen, pencil and your textbook.

Day 79: Essay topic review

Various essay topics from previous provincial exams were discussed and explored:

• Explain the challenges facing Canadians as they attempt to reduce the impacts of global warming
• Describe the steps that led to Canada achieving autonomy from Britain.  Use examples from the period 1914 to 2000
• Explain the difficulties that developing nations experience as they try to break the poverty cycle
• Describe realistic strategies that Canadians could take to reduce their negative impact on land, water and the atmosphere
• Explain how intolerance has been an issue in Canada since 1914
• To what extent was the Canadian government successful in its attempts to deal with the Depression?  Your answer should consider both sides of the statement

Day 78: Multiple choice review

Provincial exam review

Day 77: Oral interviews

Oral interviews continued

Day 76: Interviews and practice exams

Met in the library.
Oral interviews to test for understanding of events in world history.
Mindmap/notes collected (self evaluation mark).

Provincial exam review.  Looking at the released online sample tests Click to access exams