Saturday, December 13, 2008

December15-19













Merry Christmas!

(Left: Santa Benoy delivering Ho Ho Homework to procrastinating students. Do you believe in Santa?)

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 too ill to work while away, be sure to attach a note from home to any overdue work when you hand it in and I will most likely waive any late deduction.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 Education's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by going to http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm . 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.

My tutorial times are officially 2:55-3:15 every Monday and Friday. However, I am available most days before school, at noon and after school. Drop by or make an appointment if you need guaranteed time.

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.) Pedigree sheet. Map blank -- click to a resource on my Social Studies 11 History web page to locate an appropriate blank map to work with. 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.)

We have just started the Geography portion of this course. We are using our in-house textbook, The 21st Century World. This book is available online at http://www.design4effect.com/soc11 . Click here to read chapter 1. It is a number of years since this was created, so I offer apologies in advance for dead links. Until a 36 hour day is available, I am unable to update it all unless I am offered significant help doing so.

To save precious class time, we will not test every chapter, but will test chapter 1 This Friday, chapters 2 & 3, and 4 & 5 into a single tests after Christmas. The chapter 1 quiz will include 15 multiple choice questions (1 mark each) and 3 from a selection of 5 long answer questions (6 marks each). The quiz total is, therefore, 33 marks. 15 properly completed flasch cards will earn 3 bonus marks on this test.

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.
  • Monday, December 15 - Take up #1-5, p. 11. Complete to end of "Gloabal Warming" frames in One World PowerPoint. Begin watching Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Your job while watching this film is to: 1) Identify Gore's thesis in this film. 2) List the evidence he cites to prove his thesis. 3) Explain why Gore convinced you or did not convince you that we must take immediate action to deal with climate change. You will hand in your notes on Thursday -- they will be evaluated out of 10 marks for content (parts 1 & 2) and thoughtfulness (part 3). Read pp. 12-16. Do #1-9, p. 16 & #1-4, pp. 16-17.
  • Tuesday, December 16 - Take up #1-9, p. 16 and #1-4, pp. 16-17. Continue An Inconvenient Truth and the assignment that goes with it. For a contrary view of this situation, watch The Great Global Warming Swindle. However, be aware, that two key figures cited in this documentary say that they were misrepresented by the film-makers, and have distanced themselves from it. For a discussion of the controversy, see the wikipedia article on this. If time, and this is unlikely, we will discuss reactions. If you have the chance, you might listen to what Gwynne Dyer has to say on the matter. Read pp. 17-20. Do #1-2, p. 17 & #1-4, p. 21.
  • Wednesday, December 17 - Take up #1-2, p. 17 & #1-4, p. 21. Complete any of the video that we did not see last class. Complete the One World PowerPoint. If we have time, and this is unlikely, we will begin the Population PowerPoint, for chapter 2. For an excellent treatment of how technology is changing our world, see Tom Friedman's address at MIT, following up on his book, The World is Flat. Read pp. 430-433 in blue text. Do sidebar, figure 17-2 and #1-5, p. 433.
  • Thursday, December 18 - Take up sidebar, figure 17-2 and #1-5, p. 433 from the Counterpoints (blue) text. "Population" PowerPoint.
  • Friday, December 19 - Chapter 1 quiz. Read pp. 29-31. Do #1-3 & the second #1-3, p. 31. We will begin our first class after Christmas by taking this up.

Comparative Civilizations 12

As we decided in class last week, we will write the Renaissance test in class this Thursday -- but you may have until Friday's class to complete the Hero as Artist unit

The Renaissance Test will contain the following: 20 image identification items (2 marks each - identifying the name of the work and the artist/sculptor/architect primarilly responsible for creating it). I have reconsidered the bonus option on this and have decided against it because of how much it could iflate marks on this particular test. 35 multiple choice items (1 mark each) and 3 from 6 long answer questions (6 marks each). The total value of the test is, therefore, 91 marks.

  • Monday, December 15 - Titian. Sister Wendy on old Titian. Work on the package.
  • Tuesday, December 16 - Video: Art of the Western World; the High Renaissance. (Accessing this requires a login to PBS/Annenberg - free to register for this.) Work on the package.
  • Wednesday, December 17 - Mannerism and Reformation small packages assigned. . Work on packages (Hero as Artist -- Mannerism). Filmstrip: Civilisation; Protest & Communication. See the full length video on Youku if you like. Work on packages.
  • Thursday, December 18 - Renaissance Unit Test -- see above. Work on packages.
  • Friday, December 19 - Bologna, Celini, & El Greco. Work on packages (Hero as Artist -- Mannerism). Hand in Hero as Artist at the end of class -- or e-mail it to me on the weekend.

History 12

We are a bit behind schedule here, but will cut video material to catch up. Use the links on this blog to watch online material over the break.

Remember, it is essential that you start preparing for the final exam -- whether you write the school or provincial exam, preparation is identical. The only real differnce is that the provincial has twice as much weight. Design and composition of the tests are virtually identical.

Link to any grade 12 minstry exam mataerial from here or directly to the History page. Look at all of the material here. The more comfortable you are witht the exam and its composition, the better you will do. Be sure to write the sample exams over the Christmas Break.

Be sure to look at some of the documentaries listed in my googlevideo and youtube Cold War directory.

  • Monday, December 15 - Watch Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Kruschchev (sorry, unavailable online). Complete the Cuban Missile Crisis 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. For 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.
  • Tuesday, December 16 - Deterrence & Nuclear War (base notes).
  • Wednesday, December 17 - AV - Gwynne Dyer Notes on Nuclear War. British & French Decolonization in Africa & Asia (base notes). Watch CNN's Cold War; M.A.D. to see terrifict coverage of the nuclear convlict between 1960-1972.
  • Thursday, December 18 - continue British & French Decolonization (base notes). Begin Indochina & Vietnam (base notes). Watch the first part of a video on Kwame Nkrumah -- wich gives a 4 minute background to African decolonization.
  • Friday, December 19 - Indochina & Vietnam (base notes). You must watch the CNN Cold War episode, Vietnam 1954-1968 (Episode 11). On your own, watch Dien Bien Phu - a film of a little under 1 hour, on the decisive battle leading to France's withdrawal from Vietnam and the rest of Indo-China. Hearts and Minds is a documentary dealing with the importance of the importance of winning support for the war in order to successfully fight it. The Tet Offensive deals wtih the dramatic Viet-Cong & North Vietnamese offensive that broke American public belief in the likelyhood of American victory in the war. Vietnam; The Last Battle looks at the collapse of the South and the end of the conflict. Take 7 minutes to watch Last Word; Dith Pran - the subject of the stunning 1984 film The Killing Fields, which told the story of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

December 8-12

















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 too ill to work while away, be sure to attach a note from home to any overdue work when you hand it in and I will most likely waive any late deduction.
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 Education's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by going to http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm . 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.

My tutorial times are officially 2:55-3:15 every Monday and Friday. However, I am available most days before school, at noon and after school. Drop by or make an appointment if you need guaranteed time.

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.) Pedigree sheet. Map blank -- click to a resource on my Social Studies 11 History web page to locate an appropriate blank map to work with. 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.)

There was a mistake in the posting for this week, which said the History unit test is next week. It is, in fact, this Friday, though we will begin the Geography part of the course on Thursday. The unit test will include 34 multiple choice questions (1 mark each), 5 definition or name items (2 marks each), and 4 long answer questions (6 marks each). The total is, therefore, out of 68 marks. 30 flash cards or more can earn the 5 bonus marks available for this test. The test will evaluate the Post 1945 material (chapers 5-8) and the material in the Quebec and Aboriginal PowerPoint presentations.

Your Geography text is available online at: http://www.design4effect.com/soc11/

Monday, December 8 - Take up Do #1-6, p. 216. Continue PowerPoint: "Land Claims and the Indian Act" and questions. 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 9 - 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 10 - 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 11 - Take up homework. Sign out Geography texts. Introduce Geography portion of the course. PowerPoint for Ch. 1 - Geography. Prepare for unit test on Post-War Canada next class.
  • Friday, December 12 - 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

We have just commence our Hero as Artist package on the High Renaissance.

We will discuss when our next test will take place on Monday, December 8 and I will go with what the majority in the class prefers. Choice 1 is to write a Renaissance only test on Thursday, December 18 -- or wait until after Christmas and after we complete the Reformation and Mannerism mini-units and write a test on the Renaissance to Mannerism material. Students taking History 12 along with C. Civ. 12 can expect a little flexibility in the due date for their History 12 questions to avoid crazy curricular overload.

  • Monday, December 8 - Begin the video: The Agony and the Ecstacy. Work on the package.
  • Tuesday, December 9 - Continue The Agony and the Ecstacy. Work on the package.
  • Wednesday, December 10 - Introduction to High Renaissance Painting (notes). Michelangelo (notes) - painting,sculpture and architecture. Work on the Hero as Artist package. For a little levity, watch Monty Python's Pope & Michelangelo (moved to Thursday). 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).
  • Thursday, December 11 - Da Vinci (notes). 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.
  • Friday, December 12 - Bramante and Raphael (notes - see also the diagram showing who the models were in The School of Athens). Sister Wendy video segment. Work on the package.

History 12

Topics 5 & 6 are underway (Pick up Plan for Topic #4 and questions). We will not have a unit test on this unit, to save a block for instruction. This material will be well represented on the final examination -- whether you opt for the provincial examination or the schoo 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.

You must begin to prepare for the final examination, which is worth 40% of your over-all mark if you take the Provincial and 20% if you take the school exam. The school exam will mirror the Provincial in layout and content. 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.

Essay #3 is underway and is due the last week before Christmas.

If you have time, watch some of the Cold War videos linked to in my Googlevideo and Youtube directory.

  • Monday, December 8 - Video - India; The Brightest Jewel - from the 20th Century History series (sorry, not available online). Decolonization India (base notes).
  • Tuesday, December 9 - No Class. Post-Secondary Liaison afternoon.
  • Wednesday, December 10 - 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). Click here to see what Arab leaders at the time said about Palestine.
  • Thursday, December 11 - Complete the Middle East to 1956. If time, begin video Mr. Kennedy & Mr. Khrushchev (sorry, not available online). If time, Begin the Cuban Missile Crisis (base notes). Be sure to watch CNN's Cold War; Episode 10; Cuba 1959-1962.
  • Friday, December 12 - The Cuban Missile Crisis (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. For 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, November 29, 2008

December 1-5


















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 too ill to work while away, be sure to attach a note from home to any overdue work when you hand it in and I will most likely waive any late deduction.

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 Education's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by going to http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm . 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.

My tutorial times are officially 2:55-3:15 every Monday and Friday. However, I am available most days before school, at noon and after school. Drop by or make an appointment if you need guaranteed time.

Apologies for the wonky font sizes below. Blogger has been malfunctioning for me this weekend and edits are not sticking. This is the third browser I've used in trying to post -- earlier attempts would not save or publish to the web.

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.)

The next unit test is more than two weeks away. Information on it will be posted as we get closer to test day.

  • Monday, December 1 - sidebar, p. 167, #2-6, p. 167, & #1-5, p. 172. Material from Canada; A People’s History (“A Question of Equality,” “A Changing Face,”and “The Computer Moves In” and questions. Read pp. 172-181. Do #1-4, p. 176 and #2-4, p. 182.
  • Tuesday, December 2 – Take up #1-4, p. 176 and #2-4, p. 182. Material from Canada; A Peoples’ History ("The Computer Moves In" in Block 4 only and "Winners & Losers," "Time for Change" & "Maitres Chez Nous" - questions). If time, begin PowerPoint -- The Quiet and Not-So-Quiet Revolution and questions. Read pp. Read pp. Read. Pp. 184-189. Do 1 sidebar, p. 1865; #1-4, p. 187; #1-3, p. 189.
  • Wednesday, December 3 – Take up 1 sidebar, p. 1865; #1-4, p. 187; #1-3, p. 189. Material from Canada; A Peoples’ History ("Vive le Quebec Libre," "Language Wars", the "Choice" - questions). Continue PowerPoint and questions. Read ppl 190-200. Do #1-5, p. 194, sidebars p. 192 & 194, #1-7, p. 200 and sidebars 8-4 and 8-5, p. 196.
  • Thursday, December 4 – Take up #1-5, p. 194, sidebars p. 192 & 194, #1-7, p. 200 and sidebars 8-4 and 8-5, p. 196. Complete the PowerPoint and questions and, if time, see remaining material from Canada; A Peoples’ History, the final segment: "Night of the Long Knives." Read pp. 201-206. Do #1-5, p. 206 & sidebars p. 205.
  • Friday, December 5 – Take up #1-5, p. 206 & sidebars p. 205. (If we did not complete this yesterday, finish the PowerPoint and questions and see any remaining material from Canada; A Peoples’ History, including the final segment: "Night of the Long Knives." Begin PowerPoint: "Land Claims and the Indian Act." Read pp. 206-216. Do #1-6, p. 216.
Comparative Civilizations 12

We are several weeks away from our next unit test - probably after the Christmas break - I will likely link Renaissance and Baroque material together.

The Man the Measure of All Things unit is due this Friday. Note: this is a day later than advertised last week.


  • Tuesday, December 2 – Van Eyck and Van der Weyden. Sister Wendy material on the Northern Renaissance. Work on the package.
  • Wednesday, December 3 - Grunewald (notes) & Bosch (notes). I highly recommend seeing Carol Gerten's pages on Grunewaldand Bosch - read the biographies and look at the images. Work on the package.
  • Thursday, December 4 – Durer (notes). Work on the package.
  • Friday, December 5Hero as Artist Package assigned. Filmstrip or video (if available). Work on the new package. Hand in the Man the Measure of All Things package by 4:30 p.m. today.
History 12

Topics 5 & 6 are run together as a single unit - the Cold War. We will not have a unit test on this unit; this material is covered extensively on the final exam, whether you choose the in-class exam or the provincial final.

The Topic 5 & 6 plan is available online, as are the questions.

If you have time, watch some of the Cold War videos linked to in my Googlevideo and Youtube directory.

Essay #3 is underway and is due the last week before Christmas.


  • Monday, December 1 - Complete lecture material - Chinese Revolution to the Korean War (base notes).
  • Tuesday, December 2 – The United Nations (base notes).
  • Wednesday, December 3 - Begin the Soviet Union & Eastern Europe to 1956 (base notes).
  • Friday, December 5 - Decolonization India (base notes).

Friday, November 21, 2008

November 24-28








Above: Chairman Miao (aka Mittens, and Osama bin Mittens, the Benoy cat).

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 too ill to work while away, be sure to attach a note from home to any overdue work when you hand it in and I will most likely waive any late deduction.

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 Education's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by going to http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm . 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.

My tutorial times are officially 2:55-3:15 every Monday and Friday. However, I am available most days before school, at noon and after school. Drop by or make an appointment if you need guaranteed time.

Note: This is an unusual week, with shortened days on Wednesday and Thursday - for Parent/Teacher interviews. Friday is a Curriculum Implementation Day, so there are no classes on that day.


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.)

The next unit test is more than two weeks away. Information on it will be posted as we get closer to test day.

Expect that this week's material may not go exactly as planned. It is difficult to estimate the time needed for this material, particularly with two shortened days.

  • Monday, November 24 - Take up sidebar questions pp. 140, 141 #1-2, 143 #3, 145 & #1-6, p. 146. Propaganda film from 1952, Communism. PowerPoint Post 1945 Canada. Material from Canada; A Peoples’ History; Comfort & Fear. (Seeing Red, On Guard for Thee and The Shadow of Nuclear War - questions). Read pp. 146-150. Do #1-4, p. 150.
  • Tuesday, November 25 - Take up #1-4, p. 150. PowerPoint Post 1945 Canada. Material from Canada; A Peoples’ History; Comfort & Fear. ("First Tremors," "A Prairie Storm" & "The Fight for Medicare" - questions). Read pp. 150-156. Do #1-5, p. 156 & sidebar #1-4, p. 155. If you have the time, Watch the stunning British Documentary Nuclear War: A Guide to Armageddon (Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3) to understand the stakes of nuclar confrontation. Another rivetting show on nuclear war is Threads, a BBC production about what would happen to a community if nuclear war occurred. I link to these and other Cold War videos in my Googlevideo and Youtube directory.
  • Wednesday, November 26 - Take up #1-5, p. 156 & #1-4 in the sidebar, p.155. PowerPoint Post 1945 Canada. segments from Canada; A Peoples’ History. (Material not completed in the previous two classes). Read pp. 157-158. Do #1-4, p. 158.
  • Thursday, November 27 - 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.
  • Friday, November 28 - Curriculum Implementation Day. No classes.

Comparative Civilizations 12

We are several weeks away from our next unit test. The Renaissance units are a couple of weeks in length each.

  • Monday, November 24 - Massachio PowerPoint & Boticelli PowerPoint presentations. Work on the package. Work on package.
  • Tuesday, November 25 - PowerPoint on Fra Angelico. Sister Wendy on Fra Angelico. Work on the Man the Measure of All Things package.
  • Wednesday, November 26 - Video: Art of the Western World; The Early Renaissance. Work on the package.
  • Thursday, November 27 - Mantegna and Piero della Francesca. Work on package.
  • Friday, November 28 - Curriculum Implementation Day. No Classes.

History 12

The next unit test will be Monday, November 24. Expect roughly the following material on the Topic #4 Test: 70 multiple choice questions (1 mark each), 5 map items - Europe in this time period (1 mark each), and 2 from 4 Long Answer questions (12 marks each - based on 2 x 6). The total value will therefore be around 99 marks.

If you have time, watch some of the Cold War videos linked to in my Googlevideo and Youtube directory.

Essay #3 begins this week and is due the last week before Christmas.

  • Monday, November 24 - Topic #3 Unit Test. Pick up Plan for Topic #4 and questions.
  • Tuesday, November 25 - Introduction to the Cold War (base notes). Be sure to read Lecture 14 "The Origins of the Cold War" from The History Guide. See Churchill's "Iron Curtain Speech on Google video. An excellent introduction to the Cold War, that explains how it came about, is Episode 1 of The Cold War; Comrades 1917-1945. Episode 2 covers 1945 to 1947. Episode 3 covers the Marshall Plan, 1947 to 1952.
  • Wednesday, November 26 - Video Twentieth Century History; One Man's Revolution; Mao Tse Tung - sorry, this is not available online. Mao and the Revolution in China (base notes). If you have time, watch China; A Century of Revolution. 6 hours in total, Segments are available on Youtube - search for the above title and then the individual episodes, called "China in Revolution" - Part 1; "The Mao Years," part 2; "Under the Red Flag," Part 3. Sorry I've not linked to individual episodes, but you can get to them by clicking here.
  • Thursday, November 27 - AV on the Chinese Revolution or early Cold War.
  • Friday, November 28 - Curriculum Implementation Day. No Classes.

Friday, November 14, 2008

November 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 too ill to work while away, be sure to attach a note from home to any overdue work when you hand it in and I will most likely waive any late deduction.

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

utherland has a license to access Discovery Education's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by going to http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm . 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.

My tutorial times are officially 2:55-3:15 every Monday and Friday. However, I am available most days before school, at noon and after school. Drop by or make an appointment if you need guaranteed time.

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.)

The next unit test is on Wednesday and will include all of the material on Canada between the world wars and World War II. The minimum number of flash cards for 5 bonus marks is 30. Start making and using your flash cards now! Expect roughly the following breakdown for marks on the unit test: 45 multiple choice questions (1 mark each), 5 definitions (2 marks each), 3 from a selection of 5 long answer questions (5 marks each). The total value of the test is, therefore, about 71 marks -- subject to last minute changes.

If you have an interest in World War II, check out the contents of my directory of World War II documentaries uploaded to Google video and Youtube - all 19 pages. Canada's National Film Board has made a number of their World War II videos available online -- including the ones we are watching in class. See their World War II and the NFB site.

  • Monday, November 17 - Take up #1-2, p. 127. Complete Savage Christmas. Discuss Japanese Internment – compare to Japanese treatment of Allied prisoners. Complete Savage Christmas and to the assignment - to submit next class. Test on chapters 3-5 Wednesday.
  • Tuesday, November 18 - Hand in Savage Christmas assignment. Lesson on The Holocaust/Shoah. Video on the Holocaust (Frontline; Memory of the Camps – Chapter 4. Available online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/view/ .) Assignment: Holocaust deniers claim that this genocide never happened. In a short composition, after doing additional research, explain what evidence exists to prove that the Holocaust is a historical fact. 10 marks. Due Friday.
  • Wednesday, November 19 - Unit Test on Chapters 3-5. Read pp. 130-135. Do sidebar questions p. 133 & 134 & #1-4, p. 135.
  • Thursday, November 20 - Test post-mortem. Take up p. 133 & 134 & #1-4, p. 135. Filmstrip & questions Middle Power Introduction to the Cold War. Read pp. 135-139. Do sidebar questions pp. 136 & 137 & #1-5, p. 139.
  • Friday, November 21 - Hand in Holocaust Assignment. Take up homework. PowerPoint Post 1945 Canada. Material from Canada; A Peoples’ History; Comfort & Fear. (Comfort & Fear, From Sea to Sea and Boom- questions). Read pp. 140-146. Do sidebar questions pp. 140, 141 #1-2, 143 #3, 145 & #1-6, p. 146.

Comparative Civilizations 12

The next unit test is on Monday, November 17; we will test Islamic Civilization and the Western Middle Ages together. The mark breakdown on the test is as follows: 10 slide identification items (2 marks each), requiring you to name the work and say what city it can be found in - give the country for 1/2 a mark; Church Floorplan and nave elevation parts identification (1 mark each), 40 multiple choice questions (1 mark each); 2 from a choice of 3 illustration interpretation questions (6 marks each) and one essay question from a selection of 7 questions (18 marks - 1 x 6 for composition and 2 x 6 for content). The total value of the test is, therefore, 100 marks.


Man the Measure of All Things will not be due for about two weeks. We have a great deal to cover.

  • Monday, November 17 - Middle Ages Unit Test. Man the Measure of All Things package assigned.
  • Tuesday, November 18 - Sorry, Man, the Measure of all Things filmstrip is unavailable We will see the original video, that the filmstrip is a summary of - available online at Guba.com. Work on package.
  • Wednesday, November 19 - Ghiberti & Donatello. Work on the package
  • Thursday, November 20 - Watch Bill Moyers' video: Florence. Sorry, this is not available online. Work on the package.
  • Friday, November 21 - Complete the Bill Moyers' video. Work on the package.

History 12

The next unit test will be Monday, November 24. Expect roughly the following material on the Topic #4 Test: 70 multiple choice questions (1 mark each), 5 map items (1 mark each), and 2 from 4 Long Answer questions (12 marks each - based on 2 x 6). The total value will therefore be around 99 marks.

Essay #3 begins this week and is due the last week before Christmas.

Good online video material to supplement our studies can be found at Benoy's Directory of Googlevideo & Youtube videos of or about Nazi Germany, Benoy's Directory of Googlevideo & Youtube Songs of and about the Spanish Civil War. Benoy's Directory of Googlevideo & Youtube World War II Documentaries and Frontline's Memories of the Camps video.- Outstanding footage of liberated SS concentration camps. Don't forget to look at the resources available on my Topic #4 webpage. For a very brief summary of World War II, read The History Guide; Lecture 11; Hitler and World War II. Use the interactive timeline on the BBC's WW2 People's War site. For that matter, investigate the whole site and then look at the BBC's World War II site. These are fabulous, though admittely, UK-centric sources of fascinating material. Look at the World War II animated maps and flash movies that relate to the war.

  • Monday, November 17 - Video: 20th Century History; The Road to Berlin. Complete the World War II Chronology (base notes).
  • Tuesday, November 18 - Complete war chronology (base notes), if necessary. Total War; the British Experience (base notes).
  • Wednesday, November 19 - Complete Total War; The British Experience (base notes), if necessary. Shoah/the Holocaust (base notes).
  • Thursday, November 20 - AV - The World at War; Episode 20; the Holocaust. Sorry, this appears to be unavailable online -- unless you can access it using Bittorrent. You might like to watch Hitler's Henchmen; Heinrich Himmler to get some insight into the head of the SS.
  • Friday, November 21 - The Wartime Conferences (base notes). The Unit test for this section will be on Monday, November 24.

Saturday, November 08, 2008

December 1-5



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 too ill to work while away, be sure to attach a note from home to any overdue work when you hand it in and I will most likely waive any late deduction.


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 Education's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by going to http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm . 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.


My tutorial times are officially 2:55-3:15 every Monday and Friday. However, I am available most days before school, at noon and after school. Drop by or make an appointment if you need guaranteed time.

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.


The next unit test is a little over a week away. Information on it will be posted as we get closer to test day.

  • Monday, December 1 - sidebar, p. 167, #2-6, p. 167, & #1-5, p. 172. Material from Canada; A People’s History (“A Question of Equality,” “A Changing Face,” “The Computer Moves In,” and “Winners and Losers” and questions. Begin PowerPoint The Quiet and Not So Quiet Revolution and questions. Read pp. 172-181. Do #1-4, p. 176 and #2-4, p. 182.
  • Tuesday, December 2 – Take up #1-4, p. 176 and #2-4, p. 182. Material from Canada; A Peoples’ History ("Time for Change" & "Maitres Chez Nous"). Continue PowerPoint and questions. Read pp. Read pp. Read. Pp. 184-189. Do 1 sidebar, p. 1865; #1-4, p. 187; #1-3, p. 189.
  • Wednesday, December 3 – Take up 1 sidebar, p. 1865; #1-4, p. 187; #1-3, p. 189. Material from Canada; A Peoples’ History ("Vive le Quebec Libre," "Language Wars", the "Choice"). Continue PowerPoint and questions. Read ppl 190-200. Do #1-5, p. 194, sidebars p. 192 & 194, #1-7, p. 200 and sidebars 8-4 and 8-5, p. 196.
  • Thursday, December 4 – Take up #1-5, p. 194, sidebars p. 192 & 194, #1-7, p. 200 and sidebars 8-4 and 8-5, p. 196. Complete the PowerPoint and questions and see any remaining material from Canada; A Peoples’ History, including the final segment: "Night of the Long Knives." Read pp. 201-206. Do #1-5, p. 206 & sidebars p. 205.
  • Friday, December 5 – Take up #1-5, p. 206 & sidebars p. 205. Complete the PowerPoint and questions 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 several weeks away from our next unit test. The Renaissance units are a couple of weeks in length each. The Man the Measure of All Things package is due this Friday - a day later than advertised last week.

  • Monday, December 1 – Brunelleschi PowerPoint. Work on the package.
  • Tuesday, December 2 – Van Eyck and Van der Weyden. Sister Wendy material on the Northern Renaissance. Work on the package.
  • Wednesday, December 3 - Grunewald & Bosch. I highly recommend seeing Carol Gerten's pages on Grunewald, and Bosch - read the biographies and look at the images. Work on the package.
  • Thursday, December 4 – Durer. Work on the package.
  • Friday, December 5 – Hero as Artist Package assigned. Filmstrip or video (if available). Work on the new package. Hand in the Man the Measure of All Things package by 4:30 p.m. today.

History 12

Topics 5 & 6 are run together as a single unit: the Cold War. There will not be a unit test on this material - but it will be covered extensively on the final examination - whether you choose to write the in-class or provincial exam.

If you have time, watch some of the Cold War videos linked to in my Googlevideo and Youtube directory.

  • Monday, December 1 - Complete lecture material - Chinese Revolution to the Korean War (base notes).
  • Tuesday, December 2 – The United Nations (base notes).
  • Wednesday, December 3 - Begin the Soviet Union & Eastern Europe to 1956 (base notes).
  • Thursday, December 4 - Video & Questions - The Cold War; Episode 6; Reds (You can see CNN companion material online).
  • Friday, December 5 - Decolonization India (base notes).
    Essay #3 is underway and is due the last week before Christmas.

November 10 to 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 too ill to work while away, be sure to attach a note from home to any overdue work when you hand it in and I will most likely waive any late deduction.
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 Education's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by going to http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm . 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.

My tutorial times are officially 2:55-3:15 every Monday and Friday. However, I am available most days before school, at noon and after school. Drop by or make an appointment if you need guaranteed time.

The first term ended on Friday of last week. Mid semester marks are now being finalized. I will take in late assignments and conduct make up testes until Wednesday, November 12. I cannot guarantee being able to mark, record and get onto this report any work that comes in after this time. I will be entering report marks on Thursday and submitting them Friday morning.

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.)

The next unit test is a bit over a week away and will include all of the material on Canada between the world wars and World War II. The minimum number of flash cards for 5 bonus marks is 30. Start making and using your flash cards now! Expect roughly the following breakdown for marks on the unit test: 45 multiple choice questions (1 mark each), 5 definitions (2 marks each), 3 from a selection of 5 long answer questions (5 marks each). The total value of the test is, therefore, about 71 marks -- subject to last minute changes.

If you have an interest in World War II, check out the contents of my directory of World War II documentaries uploaded to Google video and Youtube - all 19 pages. Canada's National Film Board has made a number of their World War II videos available online -- including the ones we are watching in class. See their World War II and the NFB site.



Comparative Civilizations 12


The next unit test will be on Monday, November 17; we will test Islamic Civilization and the Western Middle Ages together. The mark breakdown on the test is as follows: 10 slide identification items (2 marks each), requiring you to name the work and say what city it can be found in - give the country for 1/2 a mark; Church Floorplan and nave elevation parts identification (1 mark each), 40 multiple choice questions (1 mark each); 2 from a choice of 3 illustration interpretation questions (6 marks each) and one essay question from a selection of 7 questions (18 marks - 1 x 6 for composition and 2 x 6 for content). The total value of the test is, therefore, 100 marks.



  • Monday, November 10 - Gothic Painting PowerPoint. Sister Wendy video segment (**Note: We barely started this, so it will roll over to Wednesday's class). Work on Romance & Reality package. If you have the time and inclination, do watch Bill Moyer's interview of Sister Wendy -a humble genius of art analysis.

  • Tuesday, November 11 - Remembrance Day. Visit the cenotaph for the ceremony if you can manage it.

  • Wednesday, November 12 - Begin with video introduction. Sister Wendy on Giotto and other Gothic painters. Work on package. Click here for the Webmuseum description of Giotto.

  • Thursday, November 13 - Gothic Sculpture PowerPoint.Work on package.

  • Friday, November 14 - Video: The Western Tradition; The Late Middle Ages Romance & Reality package due Monday – along with Exam. Work on package.

History 12


Essay #2 is underway and is due any time this week. Your next unit test is still about a week off. Expect roughly the following material on the Topic #4 Test: 70 multiple choice questions (1 mark each), 5 map items (1 mark each), and 2 from 4 Long Answer questions (12 marks each - based on 2 x 6). The total value will therefore be around 99 marks.


Be sure that you have the plan for Topic #4 and Topic #4 Questions. Do not procrastinate and leave the work until the end. This is a big unit and it needs to be tackled a little bit at a time.


Good online video material to supplement our studies can be found at Benoy's Directory of Googlevideo & Youtube videos of or about Nazi Germany, Benoy's Directory of Googlevideo & Youtube Songs of and about the Spanish Civil War. Benoy's Directory of Googlevideo & Youtube World War II Documentaries and Frontline's Memories of the Camps video.- Outstanding footage of liberated SS concentration camps. Don't forget to look at the resources available on my Topic #4 webpage. For a very brief summary of World War II, read The History Guide; Lecture 11; Hitler and World War II. Use the interactive timeline on the BBC's WW2 People's War site. For that matter, investigate the whole site and then look at the BBC's World War II site. These are fabulous, though admittely, UK-centric sources of fascinating material. Look at the World War II animated maps and flash movies that relate to the war.



  • Monday, November 10 - Slides & Music: Benoys at War. World War II chronology (base notes).

  • Tuesday, November 11 - Remembrance Day - North Vancouver's main ceremony is at the cenotaph in Victoria Park, but there are others -- in West Vancouver, at Vancouver's main cenotaph off Hastings St., at Cates Park, and elsewhere. Be sure to attend one.

  • Wednesday, November 12 - Video: Twentieth Century History: Britain Alone. World War II chronology (base notes).

  • Thursday, November 13 - Video: Twentieth Century History; Pearl Harbour to Hiroshima. World War II chronology (base notes).

  • Friday, November 14 - Video: Twentieth Century History; The Road to Berlin. Complete the World War II chronology (base notes). Hopefully, begin World War II; the British Experience (base notes).