End of Semester Exam Week

History 12 and Social Studies 11 exams are now rescheduled.

I do not have all of the details yet, but the times have been set:

• History 12 will be on Monday, February 4, starting at 1:00 p.m. (Room and supervision still to be determined).


• Social Studies 11 will be on Tuesday, February 5, starting at 1:00 p.m. (Room and supervision still to be determined).

We still do not know what will happen regarding your new classes at these times, but look at the school website:

http://www.nvsd44.bc.ca/SchoolSites/Sutherland.aspx

and check with this blog. I will post as soon as I know.

Thanks for your patience and study hard over the weekend.

If you still have a text-book, get it to me right away. We especially need the Social Studies 11 books to start the new semester!

I have bills prepared for you if you do not get them back promptly.

January 21-25

This is the last week of classes.

All work must be submitted to ensure that it appears in student marks.

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.

Social Studies 11

We had our last in-class test on Friday. Chapter & 5 material will be included on the Provincial final exam, so be sure to complete all work thoroughly.

It is important to prepare 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. See how subjective questions are marked by looking at the Provincial Exam marker training papers. This is a big file and will take a little time to download. Example answers are given and then the marks that they received.

Your exam is on Tuesday, January 29 in rooms B202 and B203 -- the double Math room, between 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm.

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.

I will collect Blue text-books and Geography textbooks on Friday. With three classes writing exams at the same time, it is impossible to collect books at the exams as historically a very large number of people forget to bring their books to the exam. We do not have a bookroom yet, so it will not be possible to check for misplaced books there. We cannot afford to be missing books heading into the new semester. Bills for lost texts will be handed out at the exam. If you do not have home access to the Internet, I will make an exception for you to hang on to the Geography text to complete homework. If you need this arrangement, you must see me individually.

This close to exam time, you should not be relying in text-book study in any case. Use flash cards, timelines, and point-form notes on concepts. Text-book reading is highly inefficient.

• Monday, January 21 - Take up pp. 83-86. Do #1-3, p. 84, #1-4, p. 85 & 1-2, p. 86. Begin Chapter 4 PowerPoint. Read pp. 86- 93. Do #1-3, p. 87, #1-4, p. 89, #1-5, p. 91 and #1-5, p. 93.


• Tuesday, January 22 - Take up homework. Video: History’s Harvest and do the viewing guide questions. If time we will look at more of the Chapter 4 PowerPoint. Read pp. 93-102. Do #1-6, p. 97 (but note "1997" in #3 should read "1973" and the typographical error in #5, where "grater" should read "greater"), #1-7, p. 102.


• Wednesday, January 23 - Take up homework. Video: Resources & Conservation and questions. If time we will look at more of the Chapter 4 PowerPoint. You must watch any unfinished Chapter 4 PowerPoint on your own time, for homework. Read pp. 102-106. Do #1-6, p. 105 and Further Thought #1-4, p. 108.


• Thursday, January 24 - Take up homework. Chapter 5 PowerPoint. If time, watch Doctor Hans Rosling's presentation Gapcast #5; Bangladesh Miracle. Read pp. 116-129. Do #1, p. 118, #1-3, p. 120, #1-5, p. 123, #1-3, p. 129.


• Friday, January 25 - Watch the amazing Dr. Hans Rosling's presentation at the 2006 TED Conference - The Seemingly Impossible is Possible. Be sure to watch as many of his video Gapcasts as you have time for. We will look at those that block time allows for. Read pp. 129-132. Do #1-3, p. 130, #1-2, p. 131, and #1-4, p. 132.
  

Comparative Civilizations 12

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.

Your Grandeur & Obedience Package is due by 4:30 p.m. Monday. Your Light of Experience package is due by 4:30 p.m. on Friday.

I hope to be able to post final marks for you by Monday, January 28 - probably on the bulletin board outside my room.

• Monday, January 21 - Frans Hals and the minor Dutch masters. Watch some episodes from Sister Wendy. Work on package. Hand in Grandeur & Obedience package by 4:30 p.m.


• Tuesday, January 22 - Vermeer and Rembrandt. Work on Package. If you get the opportunity, the feature film The Girl With a Pearl Earing, is a nice evening's viewing. Watch Simon Schama's excellent documentary on Rembrandt.


• Wednesday, January 23 - Christopher Wren. Work on Package. Watch the hour-long documentary Wren; the Man Who Built Britain.


• Thursday, January 24 - Day 1 of the Final Exam.


• Friday, January 25 - Day 2 of the Final Exam. Hand in the Light of Experience package by 4:30 p.m.
  

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.

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

Even though you are not handing in the final group of questions for marking, it is essential that you complete them thoroughly. They are the best preparation I can give you for getting ready for this content on the final exam.

If you are not using your textbooks to study from, and I strongly suggest that you are beyond this by the end of this week (you should be using flashcards, timelines and point-form notes on concepts by this time), please hand them back to me on Friday. I will allow students to hang on to books until the test if absolutely necessary, and will collect books at the test room.

• Monday, January 21 - Maoist and post-Maoist China (base notes). At home, watch the History Channel video Mao Declassified, which deals with the Cultural Revolution. A nice summary of Chinese 20th Century History can be seen in PBS' China; A Century of Revolution - available in pieces on Youtube - I link to segment 1. Music videos give an interesting insight into Maoist culture. Watch The East is Red (I link to the first part), and Song of Dragon River (again linking to the first part).


• Tuesday, January 22 - The Middle East Since 1956 (base notes). If you have the time, watch the History Channel's Battlefield Detectives; Israel's Six Day War and also Modern Warfare: Yom Kippur War (1973). If you are interested in Israel's Weapons of Mass Destruction, watch the BBC's Correspondence: Israel's Secret Weapon. See the situation from the Palestinian perspective in the BBC's Clash of the Worlds; Palestine . Look at modern attitudes in the region through music videos with the following: Yallah ya Nasrallah (an anti-Arab Jewish song with English subtitles, , Moon Erhabo (Anti-Israeli Rap), and watch this short documentary on Palestinian Hip Hop -- oddly popular with Israeli youth, Hadag Nahash -- the Sticker Song (with English subtitles).
  
• Wednesday, January 23 - The Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism (base notes). A fascinating BBC documentary that compares the rise of radical islamists and American neo-conservatives is The Power of Nightmares. The Irish documentary Whose Afraid of Islam is an interesting look at cultural struggles. Watch and listen to the songs of the Iranian Revolution: Example 1 - Tribute to Imam Khomeini (with English subtitles), Example 2, Example 3 - Khamenei is Our Leader (With a speech by the Iranian cleric at the start), Example 4 - Iranian song supporting Palestinians against Israel.
  
• Thursday, January 24 - Southern Africa and the Fall of Apartheid (base notes). Watch Charlie Rose's interview with F.W. De Klerk, the Afrikaaner who brought an end to apartheid. How can white and black reconcile in South Africa? Watch Spear Cleansing (23 minutes, about Letlapa Mphalele, who ordered the killing of whites, and Ginn Fourie, who's daughter was killed on the order of Mphalele. Both are now friends and colleagues. A good historical treatment of the lives of human rights leaders Gandhi and Mandela is Together We Lit Up the Sky. Music was a powerful weapon in the anti-apartheid movement. Johnny Clegg, a white student of Zulu music and dance, wrote hugely popular music, often with a strongly propolitical bent. Watch and listen to: Scatterlings of Africa, African Rain, Siyayilanda, Asibonanga, One Man, One Vote, Great Heart, I Call Your Name, and Dela. Clegg continues to sing in support of human rights and I also link to The Revolution Will Eat Its Children, a song against Black dictator Robert Mugabe, of Zimbabwe. For something a little different, try Nwampfundla.
  
• Friday, January 25 - Complete any unfinished material and final exam preparation.

January 14-18

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



Your unit test on chapters 2 & 3 -- population and standards of living -- will be this Friday. This will be your last full-blown unit test as we cannot afford to use more class time for testing. I may quiz you as we work through the final two chapters, but there will be on unit test. Expect the following breakdown on the chapter 2-3 test: 65 multiple choice questions (1 mark each) and a choice of 3 long answer questions from 10 options (6 marks each), for a total of 83 marks. 5 Bonus marks are available for flash cards (minimum of 30 cards).



It is important to prepare 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.

• Monday, January 14 - Take up #1-3, p. 48. Begin chapter 3 PowerPoint. Read pp. 57-61. Do #1-8, p. 61.


• Tuesday, January 15 - Take up homework. Video - Gwynne Dyer's Escaping From History. (Sorry, this one is not available on the Internet). 1) What are living conditions like in Mexico City? 2) Why are people abandoning the countryside? 3) What does Dyer believe must happen for the developing world to get their fair share of consumer goods? Read pp. 62-64. Do #1-5, p. 64.


• Wednesday, January 16 - Take up homework, continue PowerPoint on chapter 3. If we do not finish this in class, be sure to download and work through the remainder. Read pp. 64-73. Do #1-3, p. 70, #1-8, p. 73.


• Thursday, January 17 - Take up homework. Video: Gwynne Dyer's The Bomb Under the World." (Sorry, it is not available on the Internet). While watching this video, answer the questions: How is consumerism changing India? What are the positive and negative consequences for this developing country and for the world? Prepare for chapter 2 & 3 unit test next class.


• Friday, January 18 - Unit Test on Chapter 2 (Population) and Chapter 3 (Standards of Living). Read pp. 83-86. Do #1-3, p. 84, #1-4, p. 85 & 1-2, p. 86. Be sure to spend time preparing for the final exam on the weekend.

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.

The Mannerism and Reformation packages are due on Monday, January 14 -- by 4:30 p.m.

The Grandeur and Obedience package is due on Monday, January 21 -- by 4:30 p.m.

• Monday, January 14 - Bernini - Scupture. Short video clip of Bernini's works. Work on packages.
• Tuesday, January 15 - Video: Art of the Western World; Realms of Light, on Baroque art. work on Grandeur and Obedience Package.
• Wednesday, January 16- Painters - Rubens and Velasquez. Sister Wendy segments. Work on Grandeur and Obedience package. Watch Great Artists; Rubens. England's National Gallery has a nice podcast on their Velasquez exhibit, with great information on the artist and his work.
• Thursday, January 17 - Painters -- Carravaggio and Gentilleschi. Work on Grandeur and Obedience package. Watch Simon Schama's video on Carravaggio (59 minutes). A nice short video showing examples of Carravaggio's work with music can be seen here, or try this short clip on how Carravaggio painted. There is a good feature film on Gentilleschi, Artemisia. This is worth watching if you can acquire a copy. An Open University courseware section on Helen Langdon's Biography on Carravaggio has excellent and detailed information -- having a copy of the biography on the side makes it even better.
• Friday, January 18 - The Light of Experience package assigned (this package will be due on Friday, January 25, at the end of the 2nd day of the final exam). We will see either the filmstrip, or the Kenneth Clark video.

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.

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.


Because we have lost so much class time and we need every remaining class minute, I have cancelled the scheduled in-class essay. I do this reluctantly as it is good practice heading into the final exam. I will soon post a list of typical final exam essay topics here. You should create rough plans for answering each. This will not be submitted for marks. If we are unable to complete any lecture material, it will be your responsibility to read the lecture notes. I will post these on the blog.

The only remaining option for improving your mark is to get in overdue work or to submit the bonus Glossary Assignment, given at the start of the year. In order to process this work and get your mark added, it must be handed in by Monday, January 21 at the very latest. (Please note that although up to 5% bonus is possible on your overall mark, this is a huge bonus and most bonus marks earned are in the 1-2.5 percent range. Only two marks of 5% have been earned in the last 15 years.).

• Monday, January 14 - The USA from Reagan to Bush Jr. (base notes) and begin Economic Resurgence in Europe (base notes). Watch the viciously satiric British show Spitting Image's Da Do Ron Ron (On Reagan's election campaign), Thatcher & Hitler, The Cold War Years; 1984-85, and Down and Out in the Whitehouse (link to the other segments from here).
• Tuesday, January 15 - Complete Economic Resurgence in Europe & Japan (base notes).
• Wednesday, January 16 - Eastern Europe Since Khruschev (base notes). Listen to Soviet era music - example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4.
• Thursday, January 17 - Eastern Europe Since Khruschev (base notes). Soviet Anthem (rock version.)
• Friday, January 18 - The Collapse of Communism and beyond (base notes). Watch an NBC news summary of the 1991 Soviet coup attempt (under 8 minutes). If you have time, watch the CNN Cold War; Soldiers of God episode -- on the Soviet experience in Afghanistan -- topical given Canada's involvement there today. Also watch Marcel Theroux's 2006 documentary on Putin's Russia Death of a Nation. Charlie Rose's 1996 interview with Gorbachev is fascinating, dealing with his experiences and thoughts about Russia. Post Soviet Music videos: example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4, example 5, Lube music video set to scenes from Apocalyptica (Russian film of Afghan war).

January 7 - 11

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

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 (since October), the

Family History - Immigration Assignment (With additional options for International and First Nations students.) The due date for this work is right after the Christmas holidays, to allow plenty of time for research and discussion with family members.) Please submit on Monday or Tuesday, January 7 or 8.

Note: We will test chapters 2 & 3 together -- probably at the end of next week. I will post the mark breakdown once I have the test written.

• Monday, January 7 - Immigration/Family History Assignment due today or tomorrow. Preparing for the Provincial Final Exam. See my Tips for Writing the Social Studies 11 Final Exam and the ministry material indicated above. Continue PowerPoint on Population. Read pp. 31-37. Do #2, p. 36 - but use 2006 data from US Census Bureau's International Data Base - Canada Population pyramid, #1-2, p. 37 (Click on the following for a Nigeria population pyramid and a Japan population pyramid).


• Tuesday, January 8 - Immigration/Family History Assignment due. Take up homework. PowerPoint – Theories of Population and the Demographic Transition Model. Read pp. 37-42. Do #1-6, p. 39 & 1-6, pp. 41-42).


• Wednesday, January 9 - Video – Population Transition in Italy and questions (or alternative, if unavailable). Read pp. 42-45. Do #1-5, p. 45.


• Thursday, January 10 - Urbanization material from the chapter 2 PowerPoint. Video segment and questions on Shanghai, Changing China - Urbanization ). Do the Further Thought assignment #1-5, p. 46.


• Friday, January 11 - Tuesday, January 9 - Final call for Family History Assignments. Take up homework. Streaming video of Stewart Brand at Google --"City Planet" -- with questions. Do the scattergram assignment on Fertility and Education, #$1-3 on p. 48.

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.

The Mannerism package is due by Monday, January 14 - this is an extension from the original due date of Wednesday, Jan. 9. The Reformation package is due on Monday, January 14 -- though we will begin the new package before then.

• Monday, January 7 - Video - A Man For All Seasons on Sir Thomas More.


• Tuesday, January 8 - Video (continued). Work on packages.


• Wednesday, January 9 - Mannerism package due date postponed to Monday by 4:30 p.m. -- at the same time as the Reformation package. Protest & Communication filmstrip - or full Kenneth Clark video. Work on Reformation package.


• Thursday, January 10 - Grandeur & Obedience package assigned. Filmstrip or full Kenneth Clark video.


• Friday, January 11 - Palladian and Baroque Architecture. Work on Reformation or Baroque packages.

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 this week.

• Monday, January 7 - The Vietnam War - the French Experience (base notes). Watch an excellent 48 minute documentary on this topic, Dien Bien Phu, part of the fabulous series "The 10,000 Day War." All episodes are excellent.


• Tuesday, January 8 - The Vietnam War - the American Experience (base notes). Watch episode 11 of CNN's outstanding documentary "The Cold War", Vietnam 1954-1968 (46 minutes).


• Wednesday, January 9 - The USA (domestic) Since 1945 (base notes). Watch this short video (7 minutes) with images and protest songs (mostly Bob Dylan) about the civil rights movement. Watch the 11 minute video of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech.


• Thursday, January 10 - The USA (domestic) Since 1945 (base notes).


• Friday, January 11 - Economic Resurgence in Western Europe (base notes).