Thursday, December 27, 2007

December 16 to January 7


Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!


For those of you new to my blogsite, it is intended to work alongside my website at:http://kbenoy.googlepages.com/



e-mail me at http://kbenoy@nvsd44.bc.ca/



Things that are static -- not requiring regular change -- will be posted on the website. This blogsite will have the changing material -- lesson plans and links to particular assignments. I will try to ensure that all assignments are made available on the Internet in this way. If something is underlined on the blog, it means that you can click on it to see a copy of the particular item -- this could be a pdf document, powerpoint, music or a video.Use this blog to see what is coming up each week. I will usually post it on Saturdays for the following week. If you are away, you can check up on what you are missing. There really is no reason for you not to know what is happening. If you do not have an Internet connection, you certainly know someone who does.


If you can't read the PowerPoint material on your computer, download PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft. It is free.


Sutherland has a license to access Discovery Channel's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by going to http://www.unitedstreaming.com/ . Use the passcode posted in the classroom to register. If you have lost it, see me, or e-mail me, for this information. Students are licensed to include this content within their own creations.


Social Studies 11

Read my Tips for Writing the Social Studies 11 Provincial Exam.

Over Christmas it is important to begin preparation for your Provincial Final Exam. Go to the Ministry website and look at the exam table of specifications, familiarize yourself with key exam terms, access past exams and answer keys, and look at the essay scoring criteria to see how your essays will be marked.


Your Geography textbook is also available online at http://www.design4effect.com/soc11/ . Though we will use some material from the other text, most will be from this e-text. Be aware that this text is now a few years old and many hyperlinks are broken. Rewriting is a massive job that I have not had time to take on yet.


There is a major research assignment currently underway, the Family History - Immigration Assignment (With additional options for International and First Nations students.) The due date for this work is not until right after the Christmas holidays, to allow plenty of time for research and discussion with family members.)


Comparative Civilizations 12


With only three weeks remaining, we will not have another unit test. The remaining material will be tested on the final exam.


The final examination in this course will be held on the last two days of class, instead of during exam week. This test is worth 15% of your course mark. Only the first part of the test is closed book. You may refer to your notebooks in answering all other material.


Final Exam, Day 1: Slide Identification (closed book). Expect 50 items. You are to identify the work, the artist and the period (100 marks - since not all items have all three parts, we will give bonus marks for any third part identified). The remaining part of day 1 is an essay question - choose 1 from among 4 options (24 marks - 6 for composition and 18 for content -- marked according to the provincial examinations English & History rubrics).


Final Exam, Day 2: 15 matching items (1 mark each), 10 identifying styles from written descriptions (10 marks), 80 multiple choice (80 marks), and two from 5 long answer questions (20 marks - 10 each).


The final examination is, therefore, out of 249 marks -- but this is scaled to 15% of your final course mark.


History 12


This unit is global in scope -- far more than previous units. I will tend to focus on one region or issue at a time, which will mean that we will jump around more in time order. We did a bit of this in the last unit, but expect far more from now on. It is, therefore, essential that you find a way to make sure that you get the chronology right. I strongly suggest that you create a time line, with years on one axis and a series of columns, labelled Europe, Asia, North America, and South America on the other axis. Put major events on this timeline in the appropriate location and time. This will help you see events graphically -- recognizing how they might influence other events, elsewhere in the world, in the Cold War era.



The good news is that there will be no more unit tests. I do not wish to lose further blocks to testing -- though there will be an in-class essay in early January. Topic 5 & 6 material will, however, be strongly present on the Provincial Final Exam. Link here to Topic 5 & 6 questions. Link here to the plan for Topics 5 & 6.


You must begin to prepare for the final examination, which is worth 40% of your over-all mark. Go to the Ministry of Education's History 12 website and access the following material: The exam table of specifications, the description of key verbs used on the exam, a description of the scoring criteria used in marking the exam, and, of course, familiarize yourself with the look of the exam itself -- the response booklet, sample and released examinations and answer keys. The best way to prepare for this exam is to actually write a previous exam.



Expect to hand in questions to the end of #62 -- even if we do not quite reach this in our lectures -- at the end of the first week back after the holidays.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

December 17-21












For those of you new to my blogsite, it is intended to work alongside my website at:
http://kbenoy.googlepages.com/

e-mail me at http://kbenoy@nvsd44.bc.ca/

Things that are static -- not requiring regular change -- will be posted on the website. This blogsite will have the changing material -- lesson plans and links to particular assignments. I will try to ensure that all assignments are made available on the Internet in this way. If something is underlined on the blog, it means that you can click on it to see a copy of the particular item -- this could be a pdf document, powerpoint, music or a video.

Use this blog to see what is coming up each week. I will usually post it on Saturdays for the following week. If you are away, you can check up on what you are missing. There really is no reason for you not to know what is happening. If you do not have an Internet connection, you certainly know someone who does.

If you can't read the PowerPoint material on your computer, download PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft. It is free.

Sutherland has a license to access Discovery Channel's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by going to http://www.unitedstreaming.com/ . Use the passcode posted in the classroom to register. If you have lost it, see me, or e-mail me, for this information. Students are licensed to include this content within their own creations.

Social Studies 11

All students who missed writing the unit test on Friday are expected to write it after school Monday.

Your Geography textbook is also available online at http://www.design4effect.com/soc11/ . Though we will use some material from the other text, most will be from this e-text. Be aware that this text is now a few years old and many hyperlinks are broken. Rewriting is a massive job that I have not had time to take on yet.

We will quiz Chapter 1 material on Friday. Expect the mark breakdown to be as follows: 15 multiple choice items (1 mark each) and three from 5 long answer questions (6 marks each). The total is therefore out of 33 marks. 15 flash cards are required to earn 3 bonus marks.

There is a major research assignment currently underway, the Family History - Immigration Assignment (With additional options for International and First Nations students.) The due date for this work is not until right after the Christmas holidays, to allow plenty of time for research and discussion with family members.)

  • Monday, December 17 - Introduction to Geography - key problems facing the world - Think/Pair/Share. Take up homework, #1-5, p. 11 (new text). Climate ChangeBegin Introduction PowerPoint. Read pp. 12-16. Do #1-9, p. 16 & 1-4, pp. 16-17.
  • Tuesday, December 18 - Take up homework. Complete any unfinished PowerPoint. Video Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and questions. Read pp. 17-20. Do #1-2, p. 17 & #1-4, p. 21. Please also watch The Great Global Warming Swindle. You might also watch a follow-up debate, starting with this episode (link to the following segments from the sidebar).
  • Wednesday, December 19 - Take up homework. Complete An Inconvenient Truth and questions. Read pp. 430-433 in blue text. Do sidebar, figure 17-2 and #1-5, p. 433.
  • Thursday, December 20 - Take up homework. Complete "A Global Village Material" PowerPoint. Begin "Population" PowerPoint, if time. Quiz next class on the first chapter.
  • Friday, December 21 - Chapter 1 Quiz. Read pp. 29-31. Do #1-3 & the second #1-3, p. 31.

Comparative Civilizations 12

On Friday I indicated that I would consider putting off the test until after Christmas. I have thought long and hard about whether or not to postpone the Renaissance test until after the Christmas break. We will write the test on Wednesday of this week. My long experience indicates that on average scores will be higher if we test early as less will be forgotten. You will know your marks before we break for Christmas -- I commit to this to make it absolutely clear that I am not doing this for my own convenience. I will make one concession to you, however. The Hero as Artist package may come in any time up until 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, without late deduction.

The test breakdown is as follows: The mark breakdown is likely to be as follows: 20 slide identification (2 marks each -- name the work and name the artist), 35 multiple choice questions (1 mark each), and four from six long answer questions (6 marks each). The total is, therefore, out of 99 marks. Remember, only the first section of the test is closed-notebook.

History 12

This unit is global in scope -- far more than previous units. I will tend to focus on one region or issue at a time, which will mean that we will jump around more in time order. We did a bit of this in the last unit, but expect far more from now on. It is, therefore, essential that you find a way to make sure that you get the chronology right. I strongly suggest that you create a time line, with years on one axis and a series of columns, labelled Europe, Asia, North America, and South America on the other axis. Put major events on this timeline in the appropriate location and time. This will help you see events graphically -- recognizing how they might influence other events, elsewhere in the world, in the Cold War era.


The good news is that there will be no more unit tests. I do not wish to lose further blocks to testing -- though there will be an in-class essay in early January. Topic 5 & 6 material will, however, be strongly present on the Provincial Final Exam. Link here to Topic 5 & 6 questions. Link here to the plan for Topics 5 & 6.

Expect to hand in questions to the end of


Essay #3 is well underway and will be handed in any time in the last week of classes before Christmas.If you are considering completing the bonus Glossary Assignment, you need to get on with it now. Remember, it is worth up to an addtional 5% on your final class mark -- most bonus marks come in at 1-3% -- only really extraordinary work earns 5% (2 in the last decade). However, even 1% corresponds to many marks.

  • Monday, December 17 - Complete the Cuban Missile Crisis (base notes). If time, begin Deterrence & Nuclear War (base notes).
  • Tuesday, December 18 - Deterrence & Nuclear War (base notes).
  • Wednesday, December 19 -AV - Gwynne Dyer Notes on Nuclear War. British & French Decolonization in Africa & Asia (base notes).
  • Thursday, December 20 - continue British & French Decolonization (base notes). Begin Indochina & Vietnam (base notes).
  • Friday, December 21 - Indochina & Vietnam (base notes). You must watch the CNN Cold War episode, Vietnam 1954-1968 (Episode 11).

Saturday, December 08, 2007

December 10-14










For those of you new to my blogsite, it is intended to work alongside my website at:
http://kbenoy.googlepages.com/



e-mail me at http://kbenoy@nvsd44.bc.ca/



Things that are static -- not requiring regular change -- will be posted on the website. This blogsite will have the changing material -- lesson plans and links to particular assignments. I will try to ensure that all assignments are made available on the Internet in this way. If something is underlined on the blog, it means that you can click on it to see a copy of the particular item -- this could be a pdf document, powerpoint, music or a video.



Use this blog to see what is coming up each week. I will usually post it on Saturdays for the following week. If you are away, you can check up on what you are missing. There really is no reason for you not to know what is happening. If you do not have an Internet connection, you certainly know someone who does.



If you can't read the PowerPoint material on your computer, download PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft. It is free.



Sutherland has a license to access Discovery Channel's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by going to http://www.unitedstreaming.com/ . Use the passcode posted in the classroom to register. If you have lost it, see me, or e-mail me, for this information. Students are licensed to include this content within their own creations.


Social Studies 11

There is a major research assignment currently underway, the Family History - Immigration Assignment (With additional options for International and First Nations students.) The due date for this work is not until right after the Christmas holidays, to allow plenty of time for research and discussion with family members.)

Expect a unit test on Friday. The mark breakdown will be as follows: 42 multiple choice questions (1 mark each), 5 definitions (2 marks each) and 3 out of 4 long answer question (6 marks each). The test is therefore out of a total of 70 marks.


  • Monday, December 10 - Take up #1-6, -216. Social Change video episodes from Canada; A Peoples' History - the following episodes: "A Question of Equality," "The World Was Mine," "A Changing Face," and "Winners and Losers." Do questions. If time, begin PowerPoint: Aboriginal Canadians; Land Claims and the Indian Act. Homework: Create a time line (click here to download blank) with two columns, with the following titles - Landmark Events in Canadian Autonomy and Landmark Events in Canadian Social Change. Go through the History portion of your book to identify events to include in your Time Line. 10 marks - due Wednesday.

  • Tuesday, December 11 - Take up any problems with timeline creation. PowerPoint on Land Claims & the Indian Act. Do the sidebar on p. 211. Read and do #1-2 in the sidebar on pp. 212-213. Also, describe what you think Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is trying to show in his painting Despotism in Canada on the last slide of the PowerPoint (minus all of the print, obviously).

  • Wednesday, December 12 - Take up homework. Hand in the timeline assignment. Video segments from Canada; A Peoples' History - the following episodes: "Taking Back the Past" and "Land and Nation." Questions. PowerPoint on Land Claims & the Indian Act. Continue the PowerPoint. Complete the timeline. Review for test. Do #4, 6, & 7, on p. 217.
  • Thursday, December 13 - Take up homework. Complete any PowerPoint material. If time, introduce Geography portion of the course. Prepare for unit test on Post-War Canada next class.

  • Friday, December 14 - Unit Test on the Post-World War II years. Sign out Geography text. Read pp. 6-11. Do #1-5, p. 11.

Comparative Civilizations 12


Expect the next unit test (The Renaissance) to be next Tuesday. The mark breakdown is likely to be as follows: 20 slide identification (2 marks each -- name the work and name the artist), 35 multiple choice questions (1 mark each), and four from six long answer questions (6 marks each). The total is, therefore, out of 99 marks.

  • Monday, December 10 - Introduction to High Renaissance Painting (notes). Michelangelo - painting,sculpture and architecture. Work on the Hero as Artist package. For a little levity, watch Monty Python's Pope & Michelangelo. See a Unitedstreaming video on Michelangelo (you will need to login). If you are interested in Michelangelo's sketches, watch this video from the British Museum (40 minutes). You might also look at a video about his sculptures (5 minutes).

  • Tuesday, December 11 - Da Vinci. Work on the package. If you are interested in Dan Brown's books -- and the da Vinci Code in particular, you might enjoy Professor Ward Gasque's University of California lecture The da Vinci Code - Fact or Fiction.

  • Wednesday, December 12 - No Class. Post-Secondary Liaison Day.

  • Thursday, December 13 - Bramante and Raphael. Sister Wendy video segment. Work on the package.

  • Friday, December 14 - Giorgione and Titian. Sister Wendy video segments. Work on the package.

History 12

This unit is global in scope -- far more than previous units. I will tend to focus on one region or issue at a time, which will mean that we will jump around more in time order. We did a bit of this in the last unit, but expect far more from now on. It is, therefore, essential that you find a way to make sure that you get the chronology right. I strongly suggest that you create a time line, with years on one axis and a series of columns, labelled Europe, Asia, North America, and South America on the other axis. Put major events on this timeline in the appropriate location and time. This will help you see events graphically -- recognizing how they might influence other events, elsewhere in the world, in the Cold War era.


The good news is that there will be no more unit tests. I do not wish to lose further blocks to testing -- though there will be an in-class essay in early January. Topic 5 & 6 material will, however, be strongly present on the Provincial Final Exam. Link here to Topic 5 & 6 questions. Link here to the plan for Topics 5 & 6 - but note, there is an error: Post-Secondary Liaison Day is on Wednesday, December 12, in the afternoon -- so we will miss that day. I am rejigging the order of lectures a bit and will go from the Chinese Revolution material right into the Korean War, following it with the United Nations material.


Essay #3 is well underway and will be handed in any time in the last week of classes before Christmas.

If you are considering completing the bonus Glossary Assignment, you need to get on with it now. Remember, it is worth up to an addtional 5% on your final class mark -- most bonus marks come in at 1-3% -- only really extraordinary work earns 5% (2 in the last decade). However, even 1% corresponds to many marks.

  • Monday, December 10 - Decolonization India (base notes).
  • Tuesday, December 11 - The Middle East to 1956 (base notes). Video clip from the 20th Century History series. (base notes - I still need to scan and load this).

  • Wednesday, December 14 - No Class - Post-Secondary Liaison Day.

  • Thursday, December 13 - Complete the Middle East to 1956 - with video clip from the 20th Century History series. Begin the Cuban Missile Crisis (base notes). Be sure to watch CNN's Cold War; Episode 10; Cuba 1959-1962.

  • Friday, December 14 - We've fallen a bit further behind. Today we will see the 20th Century History material on the Cuban Missile crisis and carry on with the lecture (base notes). If you have almost two hours available on the weekend, get in the mood for Monday's lecture on nuclear war by viewing Threads, a British docudrama from the 1980s about a nuclear war -- banned from British TV at the time, it is a highly praised production that gives a frightening, but important view of what such a war might be like. A straight-forward documentary 0n what would happen to a city hit by a nuclear bomb, watch Nuclear War; A Guide to Armageddon - this links to the first episode, go to the sidebar to link to the other segments.

Saturday, December 01, 2007

December 3 to 7








For those of you new to my blogsite, it is intended to work alongside my website at:


http://kbenoy.googlepages.com/


e-mail me at http://kbenoy@nvsd44.bc.ca/


Things that are static -- not requiring regular change -- will be posted on the website. This blogsite will have the changing material -- lesson plans and links to particular assignments. I will try to ensure that all assignments are made available on the Internet in this way. If something is underlined on the blog, it means that you can click on it to see a copy of the particular item -- this could be a pdf document, powerpoint, music or a video.


Use this blog to see what is coming up each week. I will usually post it on Saturdays for the following week. If you are away, you can check up on what you are missing. There really is no reason for you not to know what is happening. If you do not have an Internet connection, you certainly know someone who does.


If you can't read the PowerPoint material on your computer, download PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft. It is free.


Sutherland has a license to access Discovery Channel's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by going to http://www.unitedstreaming.com/ . Use the passcode posted in the classroom to register. If you have lost it, see me, or e-mail me, for this information. Students are licensed to include this content within their own creations.


Social Studies 11


There is a major research assignment currently underway, the Family History - Immigration Assignment (With additional options for International and First Nations students.) The due date for this work is not until right after the Christmas holidays, to allow plenty of time for research and discussion with family members.)

For those interested in seeing and hearing more about the French-English dispute, the CBC archives has fascinating radio and television clips: Maurice Duplessis, The Road to Bilingualism, Rene Levesque's Separatist Fight, The October Crisis (1970), The 1980 Referendum, The 1995 Referendum, and there is also a NFB documentary on the 1995 referendum.

  • Monday, December 3 - Take up #1-4, p. 158. PowerPoint Post-War Canada - Slides 45-62. Read pp. 160-172. Do sidebar, p. 167, #2-6, p. 167, & #1-5, p. 172.
  • Tuesday, December 4 - Take up homework. Begin PowerPoint The Quiet and Not So Quiet Revolution. Read pp. 172-181. Do #1-4, p. 176 and #2-4, p. 182.
  • Wednedsday, December 5 - Material from Canada; A Peoples’ History ("Time for Change" & "Maitres Chez Nous"). Continue PowerPoint. Read pp. Read pp. Read. Pp. 184-189. Do 1 sidebar, p. 1865; #1-4, p. 187; #1-3, p. 189.
  • Thursday, December 6 - Material from Canada; A Peoples’ History ("Vive le Quebec Libre," "Language Wars", the "Choice"). Continue PowerPoint. Read pp. 202-206. Do #1-5, p. 206.
  • Friday, December 7 - Take up homework. Complete the PowerPoint and see any remaining material from Canada; A Peoples’ History, including the final segment: "Night of the Long Knives." Read pp. 206-216. Do #1-6, p. 216.

Comparative Civilizations 12

We are a considerable time away from testing the Renaissance - at least 2 1/2 weeks.


Expect to hand in the Man the Measure of All Things package on Wednesday, December 5.

  • Monday, December 3 - Complete Bill Moyer's Florence video. Grunewald & Bosch. Work on the package. I highly recommend seeing Carol Gerten's pages on Grunewald, and Bosch - read the biographies and look at the images.
  • Tuesday, December 4 - Sister Wendy on the Northern Renaissance Painters. Durer - look at Carol Gerten's page on him.. Work on the package. Man the Measure of All Things Package due by 4:30 p.m. Wednesday..
  • Wednesday, December 5 - Hero as Artist Package assigned. Filmstrip or video summary of this chapter in Clark. Work on the new package. Hand in the Man the Measure of All Things package by 4:30 p.m. today.
  • Thursday, December 6 - Begin the video: The Agony and the Ecstacy. Work on the package.
  • Friday, December 7 - Continue The Agony and the Ecstacy. Work on the package.

History 12

This unit is global in scope -- far more than previous units. I will tend to focus on one region or issue at a time, which will mean that we will jump around more in time order. We did a bit of this in the last unit, but expect far more from now on. It is, therefore, essential that you find a way to make sure that you get the chronology right. I strongly suggest that you create a time line, with years on one axis and a series of columns, labelled Europe, Asia, North America, and South America on the other axis. Put major events on this timeline in the appropriate location and time. This will help you see events graphically -- recognizing how they might influence other events, elsewhere in the world, in the Cold War era.


The good news is that there will be no more unit tests. I do not wish to lose further blocks to testing -- though there will be an in-class essay in early January. Topic 5 & 6 material will, however, be strongly present on the Provincial Final Exam. Link here to Topic 5 & 6 questions. Link here to the plan for Topics 5 & 6 - but note, there is an error: Post-Secondary Liaison Day is on Wednesday, December 12, in the afternoon -- so we will miss that day. I am rejigging the order of lectures a bit and will go from the Chinese Revolution material right into the Korean War, following it with the United Nations material.

Essay #3 is well underway and will be handed in any time in the last week of classes before Christmas.

If you are considering completing the bonus Glossary Assignment, you need to get on with it now. Remember, it is worth up to an addtional 5% on your final class mark -- most bonus marks come in at 1-3% -- only really extraordinary work earns 5% (2 in the last decade). However, even 1% corresponds to many marks.

Note: Some of the base notes are not up as of Saturday, December 1. I will load them on Monday.

  • Monday, December 3 - Video from the 20th Century History series, "One Man's Revolution", Complete lecture material - Chinese Revolution to the Korean War (base notes).
  • Tuesday, December 4 - TheUnited Nations (base notes).
  • Wednesday, December 5 - Begin the Soviet Union & Eastern Europe to 1956 (base notes).
  • Thursday, December 6 - Video & Questions - The Cold War; Episode 6; Reds (You can see CNN companion material online). Time permitting, you might also see the video The Fragile Balance. Outside of class, watch this video -- a US school educational video entitled Communism (Caution - much of LiveLeak's video content is of dubious quality and content. Sources are rarely properly attributed).
  • Friday, December 7 - Complete The USSR & Eastern Europe to 1956 (base notes). If time, begin Decolonization India (base notes).