Friday, April 30, 2010

May 3-7



















Those of you new to my blogsite, it is intended to work alongside my website at:http://sites.google.com/site/kbenoy/

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 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.

Cool tech tip for Google searches. Did you know that Google allows you to search in a mind-map format -- with the standard search still showing in a sidebar on the right. Here is a quick introduction to Google's "Wonder Wheel" search.

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. I cannot post this online, but you can confirm the new number by looking at what is posted in the classroom.

Please note: North Vancouver schools have a hold-back imposed on our supplies budget. As a result, I shall be handing out far fewer paper handouts in class than in the past. Fortunately it is all available here, online. Paper copies will be made available for many items only to those students who specifically request them because they have difficulty accessing online material. Help me save money for the school and also preserve forests by using online material as much as possible. With less than $900 left in our paper budget for the remainder of the year, you know we need to conserve.

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History 12

Here are the Topic #4 Plan and questions.

Essay 3 is here at last -- due at the end of the first week in June.

Here is the Topic 5 & 6 Plan.

Here are the Topic 5 & 6 Questions.

Save trees and school money by using the online versions. I will print copies for you, if you ask, but stick to the digital if at all possible.

Do not expect a unit test on the Cold War, though I will collect up to question #62 near the end of the term. I want you all to have a very clear idea of your class mark before you go into the final examination as this is needed to decide logically on whether you should write the in-class exam (20% value) or the provincial exam (40% value). Ordinarily I suggest your default setting should be the provincial exam. If you are college or university bound, they tend to take the better of your class mark (including the in-class final) or your composite (after povincial exam)mark. A 40% exam obviously allows greater movement -- up or down -- and they will not worry about a reduction in their calculation (unless, of course, you fail the course!). If there is danger of failing on a bad day -- if your class mark is under 55% -- you should write the in-class test, rather than the provincial. If you are under 50%, write the provincial as it has the greatest potential for raising your mark. In the end it is your decision. Make up your mind and live with it. I will need to know your decision at least a week before the final to ensure that I run off sufficient numbers of in-class test papers. Both final exams have exactly the same level of difficulty as I model the in-class final on the provincial exam, using questions from the same test bank.

  • Monday, May 3 - Watch video Cold War Confrontation - from the 20th Century History series -- sorry, unavailable online. Complete the lecture on the Chinese revolution (base notes). United Nations lecture (base notes).

  • Tuesday, May 4 - Complete any United Nations material not finished last class. Begin The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to 1956 material (base notes). If you get a chance, watch the NFB film Now the Peace.
  • Wednesday, May 5 - Complete the Soviet lecture to 1956 . Video The Cold War; Episode 6; Reds (You can see CNN companion material online).
  • Thursday, May 6 - Video - India; The Brightest Jewel - from the 20th Century History series (Part 1, part 2). Decolonization India (base notes). Decolonization India (base notes). A nice short (under 10 minute) history of partition and the endless conflict that followed it can be found here. If you are prepared to install Veoh on your computer, you can see the entire BBC documentary The Day India Burned (I had to uninstall as it conflicted with another programme. You might not have this difficulty). The first 23 minutes of the documentary can be be found elsewhere. Another excellent, longish, documentary is The Last Days of the Raj (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9)Time for a movie? Watch Partition -- available in its entirity on Googlevideo.
  • Friday, May 7 - The Middle East to 1956 (base notes). Video clip from the 20th Century History series - if avalable. Click here to see what Arab leaders at the time said about Palestine. Watch the BBC documentary The Birth of Israel. For those really interested in the Middle East - try The 50 Years War; Israel and the Arabs (chunked into 29 parts, I just link to the Youtube directory for its parts). There is a nice BBC documentary on the 1956 war - The Other Side Of Suez 1956 (part 1, part 2, part 3).

Comparative Civilizations 12

We just had the Middle Ages unit test and we will complete a few more packages before testing the period from the Renaissance through to Mannerism and the Reformation. This will likely happen about a week after Grad Weekend. The Man the Measure of All Things package will be due early next week. The exact date will be decided later this week.

Social Studies 11

Expect a unit test at the end of the week on all of the material between the end of WWI and the end of WWII. It will combine the material on Canada between the wars and Canada in World War II. The mark breakdown is probably as follows: 45 multiple choice questions (1 mark each), 5 definitions (2 marks each) and 3 from a choice of 5 long answer questions (6 marks each). The total is, therefore, out of 73 marks. 5 bonus marks are available if you submit more than 25 flash cards done as required.



Thursday, April 22, 2010

April 26 - 30


Those of you new to my blogsite, it is intended to work alongside my website at:http://sites.google.com/site/kbenoy/

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 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.

Cool tech tip for Google searches. Did you know that Google allows you to search in a mind-map format -- with the standard search still showing in a sidebar on the right. Here is a quick introduction toGoogle's "Wonder Wheel" search.

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. I cannot post this online, but you can confirm the new number by looking at what is posted in the classroom.

Please note: North Vancouver schools have a hold-back imposed on our supplies budget. As a result, I shall be handing out far fewer paper handouts in class than in the past. Fortunately it is all available here, online. Paper copies will be made available for many items only to those students who specifically request them because they have difficulty accessing online material. Help me save money for the school and also preserve forests by using online material as much as possible.


History 12

Here are the Topic #3 Plan and questions. Essay #2 is also available here.

Here are the Topic #4 Plan and questions.

Essay 3 is here at last -- due at the end of the first week in June.

Here is the Topic 5 & 6 Plan.
Here are the Topic 5 & 6 Questions.

Save trees and school money by using the online versions. I will print copies for you, if you ask, but stick to the digital if at all possible.

The next unit test approaches soon - next Wednesday, April 28, in fact. The mark breakdown is as follows: 70 multiple choice questions (1 mark each) and answer 2 out of a choice of 4 long answer questions (12 marks each - based on 2 x 6 in each case -- the provincial exam marking system). The total is, therefore, out of 94 marks.

  • Monday, April 26 - Shoah/the Holocaust (base notes).
  • Tuesday, April 27 - Complete the lecture from last class. Shoah/the Holocaust (base notes). Watch: The World At War; Genocide, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5
  • Wednesday, April 28 - Unit Test, Topic 4. Topic #5-6, The Cold War, is now assigned. Here are the questions. Here is the plan.
  • Thursday, April 29 - Introduction to the Cold War (base notes). If we complete this material, we will move on to the start of Tuesday's lecture material. Be sure to read Lecture 14 "The Origins of the Cold War" from The History Guide. If at all humanly possible, be sure to watch the recommended Cold War videos. The History 12 Provincial exam is heavily weighted toward the Cold War material and these videos are outstanding. See the CNN series on the Cold War, Episode 2 covers 1945 to 1947. Episode 3 covers the Marshall Plan, 1947 to 1952. You should watch both.
  • Friday, April 30 - 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 the time, be sure to watch episode 15 of The Cold War; China (1949-1972).

Comparative Civilizations 12

The Unit test is this Monday. The mark breakdown 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). The total value of the test is, therefore, 82 marks. This unit test covers everything from Islamic Civilization to the end of the Gothic Age.

  • Monday, April 26 - Middle Ages Unit Test. Pick up the next unit assignment, Man the Measure of All Things.
  • Tuesday, April 26 - Kenneth Clark video - Man the Measure of All Things. (See in one piece on Veoh - but beware; installation of Veoh will interfere with RealPlayer -- or watch it in bits on Youtube - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, part 4). Work on the package.
  • Wednesday, April 27 - Watch Bill Moyers' video: Florence. Sorry, this is not available online. Work on the package.
  • Thursday, April 28 - Complete the Bill Moyers' video. Work on the package.
  • Friday, April 29 - Ghiberti & Donatello. Work on the package.

Social Studies 11

When studying history I have found that students get the biggest payoff for time by doing two things: 1. Prepare flash cards for names and terms (name or term on one side and definition or why the person is important on the other) -- this helps you master all of the language specific to the course. If you don't know the vocabulary, you cannot understand the more important concepts. 2. Make time lines to get when things happened right. History is about cause and effect. If you put the cart before the horse, you do not get very far; if you do not understand when things happened relative to other things, you will not learn the lessons that history has for us. As an incentive to studying, I will give 5 bonus marks for you handing in a specified minimum number of flash cards on any test valued at more than 50 marks, and 3 bonus marks if it is worth under 50 marks. I will give one additional bonus mark for a properly constructed time line. (with at least 5 events shown on a time line where time is shown proportionally -- i.e. You give the same amount of space on the line to any time span; for instance, ten years takes up the same amount of space no matter where you are on the line).

Expect a unit test at the end of next week on all of the material between the end of WWI and the end of WWII. It will combine the material on Canada between the wars and Canada in World War II. The mark breakdown is probably as follows: 45 multiple choice questions (1 mark each), 5 definitions (2 marks each) and 3 from a choice of 5 long answer questions (6 marks each). The total is, therefore, out of 73 marks. 5 bonus marks are available if you submit more than 25 flash cards done as required.



Thursday, April 15, 2010

April 19-23


















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


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 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.

Cool tech tip for Google searches. Did you know that Google allows you to search in a mind-map format -- with the standard search still showing in a sidebar on the right. Here is a quick introduction toGoogle's "Wonder Wheel" search.

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. I cannot post this online, but you can confirm the new number by looking at what is posted in the classroom.

Please note: North Vancouver schools have a hold-back imposed on our supplies budget. As a result, I shall be handing out far fewer paper handouts in class than in the past. Fortunately it is all available here, online. Paper copies will be made available for many items only to those students who specifically request them because they have difficulty accessing online material. Help me save money for the school and also preserve forests by using online material as much as possible.

History 12

Here are the Topic #3 Plan and questions. Essay #2 is also available here.

Here are the Topic #4 Plan and questions.

Essay 3 is here at last -- due at the end of the first week in June.

Save trees and school money by using the online versions. I will print copies for you, if you ask, but stick to the digital if at all possible.

The next unit test approaches soon - next Wednesday, April 28, in fact. The mark breakdown is as follows: 70 multiple choice questions (1 mark each) and answer 2 out of a choice of 4 long answer questions (12 marks each - based on 2 x 6 in each case -- the provincial exam marking system). The total is, therefore, out of 94 marks.

  • Monday, April 19 - Video From Pearl Harbour to Hiroshima (sorry, not available online). Complete the WWII chronology (base notes). Hopefully, begin World War II; the British Experience (base notes). Most of the film we see of World War II is in black and white if it isn't from Hollywood. World War II; The Lost Colour Archives (part 1, part 2 - note: this one is missing from this series, but can be had at Veoh, requiring registration and download, part 3) is interesting footage. Interested in technological change in war? Watch a 23 minute documentary on tanks: Weapons of World War II; Tanks on Veoh (requires downloading software to see their videos), also watch Aircraft Carriers.
  • Tuesday, April 20 - Complete World War II; the British Experience (base notes). Be sure to watch History Helper's 10 minute podcast: Beveridge & the Five Giants Revision Guide. Do look at other History Helper items. If you get a chance to watch a movie about the Holocaust, there are many to choose from and all help to come to grips with the topic: I suggest The Grey Zone, Sophie's Choice, The Pianist, The Counterfieters, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and Schindler's List as good starting points. However, be aware of the limitations of Hollywood dealing with this topic. There is a good 4 minute documentary about this very topic that contains scenes from many of the films on the topic -- Imaginary Witness.
  • Wednesday, April 21 - Begin Shoah/the Holocaust (base notes).
  • Thursday, April 22 - Complete the lecture from last class. Shoah/the Holocaust (base notes). Watch: The World At War; Genocide, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.
  • Friday, April 23 - Professional Day! Use the time to get completely caught up.

Comparative Civilizations 12

We are working through the final package on the Middle Ages - so you can expect a unit test next Monday. The mark breakdown 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. This unit test covers everything from Islamic Civilization to the end of the Gothic Age.

Social Studies 11

At last I have the opportunity to do more than observe. I extend a huge thank you to Mr. St. Laurent for his prodigious efforts.

Understand that the class will run a little differently with me teaching. We have much curriculum to cover and a limited time to do so. I have to prepare you to write the provincial exam in June -- which is really not far off. I will not quiz weekly as Mr. St. Laurent did. Instead, expect larger unit tests as we complete units. I will post dates and exam specifications as soon as possible on this blog. These larger tests require that you review a little all the time and that you spend even more additional time studying as the exam gets closer.

When studying history I have found that students get the biggest payoff for time by doing two things: 1. Prepare flash cards for names and terms (name or term on one side and definition or why the person is important on the other) -- this helps you master all of the language specific to the course. If you don't know the vocabulary, you cannot understand the more important concepts. 2. Make time lines to get when things happened right. History is about cause and effect. If you put the cart before the horse, you do not get very far; if you do not understand when things happened relative to other things, you will not learn the lessons that history has for us. As an incentive to studying, I will give 5 bonus marks for you handing in a specified minimum number of flash cards on any test valued at more than 50 marks, and 3 bonus marks if it is worth under 50 marks. I will give one additional bonus mark for a properly constructed time line. (with at least 5 events shown on a time line where time is shown proportionally -- i.e. You give the same amount of space on the line to any time span; for instance, ten years takes up the same amount of space no matter where you are on the line).

  • Monday, April 19 - Background to the Great Depression (including statistics) - PowerPoint - Canada Between the Wars; 1919-1939. AV on the Depression - (From: Canada; A People’s History). Read pp. 68-79. Do sidebar questions p. 71 & 72 & #1-4, p. 72, sidebar questions p. 76, 78 & 79 & #1-2, p. 79. If you have time, read the Vancouver Sun article by Roger Bootle on the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes.
  • Tuesday, April 20 - Introductory video clip on the Great Depression. Take up sidebar questions p. 71 & 72 & #1-4, p. 72, sidebar questions p. 76, 78 & 79 & #1-2, p. 79. WatchCanada; A People’s History; Hard Times and do the viewing guide questions. If time we will continue with the PowerPoint on the interwar years. Read pp. 79-86. Do sidebar #1-4, p. 81, sidebar questions p. 82 & #3-4, p. 85 & #1-3, p. 86. If you have time, watch Discovery Education's The Great Depression (login required). While this is really about the US, it is not possible to understand the Canadian situation without referring to what happened in our neighbour to the South. On the Internet, watch The Crash of 1929.
  • Wednesday, April 21 - Take up homework. Continue Canada; A People’s History; Hard Times and PowerPoint - Canada Between the Wars; 1919-1939. Read pp. 86-90. Do #1-2 sidebar p. 89, #1-3, p. 90.
  • Thursday, April 22 - Take up #1-2 sidebar, p. 89, #1-3, p. 90. Continue Canada; A Peoples' Histrory; Hard Times. PowerPoint - Canada Between the Wars; 1919-1939 (Sorry -not available online). Read pp. 90-97. Do sidebar 4-16, p. 93, 4-17 and 4-18, p. 95, 4-19, p. 96 and #1-5, p. 98.
  • Friday, April 23 - Professional Day. Use the time to get caught up if you have fallen behind. Otherwise take a little time to study






Saturday, April 10, 2010

April 12-16
























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


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 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.

Cool tech tip for Google searches. Did you know that Google allows you to search in a mind-map format -- with the standard search still showing in a sidebar on the right. Here is a quick introduction to
Google's "Wonder Wheel" search.

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. I cannot post this online, but you can confirm the new number by looking at what is posted in the classroom.

Please note: North Vancouver schools have a hold-back imposed on our supplies budget. As a result, I shall be handing out far fewer paper handouts in class than in the past. Fortunately it is all available here, online. Paper copies will be made available for many items only to those students who specifically request them because they have difficulty accessing online material. Help me save money for the school and also preserve forests by using online material as much as possible.

History 12

Here are the Topic #3 Plan and questions. Essay #2 is also available here.

Here are the Topic #4 Plan and questions.

Save trees and school money by using the online versions. I will print copies for you, if you ask, but stick to the digital if at all possible.

We are a long way off from the next test. I will publish the breakdown when we get a little closer to it

Comparative Civilizations 12

The next unit test is still around two weeks away - as we have one more package to complete on the Middle Ages.
For all of you folk struggling to identify floorplan and interior elevation features of a cathedral -- use these diagrams, borrowed from David Macaulay's excellent work, Cathedral.

  • Monday, April 12 - Video- Faith in Numbers (Available in parts on Youtube: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5). This is a quirky but fascinating film that covers far more than what we are looking at in this unit -- but, like all of the other films in James Burke's Connections series some of the best documentary viewing around. Burke sees History as moving forward because of strange and quirky connections being made between ideas, generating revolutionary changes. New Package, Romance & Reality assigned. Great Thaw package, is to be handed in by 4:30 p.m on Wednesday..
  • Tuesday, April 13 - Watch Romance & Reality - the 50 minute video accompanying Clark's Civilisation ( In one piece on Youku, but with subtitles in both English and Chinese, or in smaller chunks on Youtube - part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5). Work on package(s). The Great Thaw is due Wednesday, by 4:30 p.m. Work on Romance & Reality.
  • Wednesday, April 14 - Gothic Painting PowerPoint. Sister Wendy video segment - sorry, unavailable online. 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 and a cult heroine in Sutherland's Comp. Civ. 12 class. Your Great Thaw package is due today by 4:30 p.m.
  • Thursday, April 15 - Begin with video introduction. Sister Wendy on Giotto and other Gothic painters. Work on package. Click here for the Webmuseum description of Giotto.
  • Friday, April 16 - Gothic Sculpture PowerPoint.Work onpackage.
Social Studies 11

Mr. St. Laurent remains with us for a couple more weeks, so enjoy him while you can.

Find Mr. St. Laurent's lesson plans at: http://mrstlaurent.blogspot.com/ .