Friday, November 30, 2012

December 3 to 7
























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Comparative Civilizations 12 


The next test is a fair distance off as we have just begun work on the Renaissance.


History 12 

Our test postponed from last week will be given on Wednesday, when extra time is available.    Expect this test to have, roughly, the following breakdown: 75 multiple choice items (1 mark each -- note, this is slightly longer than indicated last week!); 5 map items (1 mark each); 2 out of 3 long answer options (12 marks each). The total is, therefore, out of 104 marks).

Topic #4 Questions.

Topic #5 and 6 Plan. -- note, to ensure we have enough classes to complete course content, we will run units 5 and 6 into one -- "The Cold War" and we will not waste a block for a unit test as this material will form a significant part of the final exam that we write at the end of the course in any case.  These questions will also be submitted in two parts.  Questions #1-62 will come in at the end of the first week in January (marked out of 35) and the remainder are due on the last day of classes (marked out of 15).

Topic #5 and 6 questions

Be sure to watch as many of the CNN/BBC Cold War series as possible.  This is absolutely the best account of the Cold War on film. We saw the first episode and will see some in class, but cannot take the time to look at all of them.  Here are the links:

Episode 1 - Comrades; 1917-1945.
Episode 4 - Berlin; 1948-1949.
Episode 5 - Korea; 1950-1953.
Episode 6 - Reds; 1947-1953.
Episode 8 - Sputnik; 1949-1961.
Episode 9 - The Wall; 1958-1963.
Episode 10 Cuba; 1959-1962.
Episode 11 Vietnam; 1954-1968.
Episode 14 Red Spring; 1960s
Episode 15 China; 1949-1972.
Episode 16 Detente; 1969-1975.
Episode 18 Backyard; 1954-1990.
Episode 19 Freeze; 1977-1981.
Episode 21 Spies; 1944-1994.

  • Monday, December 3 - Complete the Soviet Union & Eastern Europe to 1956 (base notes). We will fill in the last part of the course with a video -- probably John Green's if there is only a short time.  If we have long enough, I will show The Cold War; After Stalin; 1953-1956.  An interesting overview of the whole of the Cold War, showing the Soviet perspective well, is Britain's Channel 4 programme:The Cold War Game; The US.  Look at John Green's Crash Course video: USA and USSR Fight; The Cold War
  • Tuesday, December 4 - Video - India; The Brightest Jewel - from the 20th Century History series (Part 1part 2). Decolonization India (base notes).  If you have an hour and a half, be sure to watch Partition; The Day India Burned.  Another very good docu-documentary series on the partition of India 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).
  • Wednesday, December 5 - Unit Test; Topic #4.
  • Thursday, December 6 - The Middle East to 1956 (base notes). Video clip from the 20th Century History series - if available. Watch the BBC documentary The Birth of IsraelFor 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 1part 2part 3).
  • Friday, November 7 - 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. Thirteen Days is a decent Hollywood treatment of the crisis, though it is a little loose in dealing with people and events -- not enough to worry about messing up your knowledge for the final exam though.

Social Studies 11 

Your unit test on the period 1919-1945 -- the interwar years and World War II is on Monday.  The mark breakdown for the unit test is most likely to be 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.

  • Monday, December 3 - Unit Test on the Interwar Years and World War II.
  • Tuesday, December 4 - Test post-mortem.  Take up sidebar questions pp. 140, 141 #1-2, 143 #3, 145 & #1-6, p. 146.  Block 3 - Watch Canada; A People's History; The Shadow of Nuclear War and go over the questions.  Block 4 - Just go over the questions.   PowerPoint Post 1945 Canada. Material from Canada; A Peoples’ History; Comfort & Fear. ("First Tremors" "A Prairie Storm" & "The Fight for Medicare" - questions), Read pp. 146-156. Do sidebars p. 146 ; #1-4, p. 150, #1-3, p. 155 & #1-5, p, p. 156. Watch the stunning British Documentary Nuclear War: A Guide to Armageddon (Part 1Part 2Part 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. 
  • Wednesday, December 5 -  Take up sidebar, #1-3, p. 155, #1-5, p. 156. Material from Canada; A Peoples’ History; Comfort & Fear. ("Material from Canada; A People’s History (“A Question of Equality,” “A Changing Face,”and “The Computer Moves In” and questions). If time, PowerPointPost 1945 Canada. Read pp. 157-172. Do #2-4, p. 158, #2-6, p. 167, & #1-5, p. 172.
  • Thursday, December 6 - Take up homework. Material from Canada; A People’s History("Time for Change" & "Maitres Chez Nous" -questions). PowerPoint material not completed. Read pp. 172-187. Do #1-4, p. 176, #2-4, p. 182, and 2-5, p. 187.
  • Friday, December 7 - Take up homework. Complete any PowerPointmaterial not completed from Post 1945 Canada. Watch "Vive le Quebec Libre," "October Crisis", the "Choice" - questionsRead pp. 191- 194. Do #1,2, 4 & 5, p. 194.

Friday, November 23, 2012

November 26 - 30




































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Comparative Civilizations 12


We wrote the Middle Ages test last week, so it is going to be quite a while before we test the next unit -- The Renaissance.  I will post advance notice as we get closer to test day.

  • Monday, November 26 - Ghiberti and Donatello.  Work on the package.  Kenney Mencher's lecture on Ghiberti and the Gates of Paradise is an excellent resource.  For a treatment of the famous Ghiberti/Brunelleschi competition for the commission of the doors, click here.  SmartHistory's video on Donatello's David is an excellent treatment.  You might also watch Donatello's St. Mark from the same series.
  • Tuesday, November 27 - Massachio PowerPoint;  Boticelli PowerPoint  presentations. Work on the package. Watch Masaccio and the Early Renaissance (part 1, part 2) for a nice treatment of early renaissance painting.  Another good treatment of  Masaccio's Tribute Money comes to us from SmartHistory.  Better still, see Sister Wendy's The Age of Genius, from her Story of Painting series -- covering the paintings of Masaccio to Michelangelo.
  • Wednesday, November 28 - PowerPoint on Fra Angelico. Sister Wendy on Fra Angelico. Work on the Man the Measure of All Things package.
  • Thursday, November 29 - Video: Art of the Western World; The Early Renaissance. Work on the package.
  • Friday, November 30 - School Based Professional Day.  Use the time to catch up!
History 12 

Wednesday was scheduled as test day this week (it being the only day of the week that we can allow extra time for people to write into lunch break).  Since this Wednesday is a shortened day, this will not work.  I am therefore postponing the test until the following Wednesday -- December 6.  Do not procrastinate.  The next unit work will pile up, so keep up with it.  Expect this test to have, roughly, the following breakdown: 75 multiple choice items (1 mark each -- note, this is slightly longer than indicated last week!); 5 map items (1 mark each); 2 out of 3 long answer options (12 marks each). The total is, therefore, out of 104 marks).

Topic #4 Plan. Note that the plan is slightly off already -- having been prepared a week before we started the new unit. Tentatively the end date for the unit remains the same. This will be re-evaluated in a couple of weeks.

Topic #4 Questions.


Topic #5 and 6 Plan. -- note, to ensure we have enough classes to complete course content, we will run units 5 and 6 into one -- "The Cold War" and we will not waste a block for a unit test as this material will form a significant part of the final exam that we write at the end of the course in any case.  These questions will also be submitted in two parts.  Questions #1-62 will come in at the end of the first week in January (marked out of 35) and the remainder are due on the last day of classes (marked out of 15).

Topic #5 and 6 questions

Note:  Essay #2 will be due any time up until the end of the first week in December.  Essay #3 will be assigned at that time.
  
  • Monday, November 26 - Finish video The Cold War; Comrades; 1917-1945.   Begin Chinese Revolution & the Korean War (base notes). If we finish early (unlikely!), we will watch as much as possible of CNN`s amazing Cold War series --Episode 5 Korea; 1950-1953. On your own, be sure to watch Episode 15 of China 1949-1972 from the same series. If you have time, watch China; Chairman Mao DeclassifiedInterested in Chinese 20th century history? Watch China in Revolution; 1911-1949 (part 1part 2part 3part 4part 5part 6, part 7part 8,part 9part 10).
  • Tuesday, November 27 - Complete the lecture material from Monday.  Additional Cold War AV -- probably Confrontation (sorry, not available online) about the Berlin Blockade and Korea, from the BBC 20th Century History series.
  • Wednesday, November 28 - A look at the United Nations Organization (base notes).  If time, begin the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to 1956 (base notes).  See what people thought of the United Nations when it was first founded -- watch the National Film Board film Now the Peace.
  • Thursday, November 29 - The Soviet Union & Eastern Europe to 1956 (base notes). An interesting overview of the whole of the Cold War, showing the Soviet perspective well, is Britain's Channel 4 programme: The Cold War Game; The US.
  • Friday, November 30 - This is a school based professional day.  Be sure to spend time studying for the upcoming unit test and completing regular work.
Social Studies 11

Because of the shortened blocks on Wednesday and Thursday, I have decided to postpone our test until Monday, December 3  -- this will allow those who need extra time to complete the test to do so.  It does mean that we will be carrying on with the next unit meanwhile.

 The mark breakdown for the unit test is most likely to be 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.

  • Monday, November 26 - Collect POW assignments.  Take up Looking Back" #2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, and; 14, p.129.  Begin:Shoah/Holocaust -PowerPoint. Video: on the Holocaust (Frontline; Memory of the Camps – Chapter 4. Available online athttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/view/.) This material is particularly horrifying. It is important to watch it if you can, but if you are unable to do so, please go to the "fishbowl" lounge area beside Mr. Nichols' room and study there until the video is over. 
  • Tuesday, November 27 -  Complete the Holocaust video material. If time -- Introduction to post-war Canada. PowerPointPost 1945 Canada.   Study for the upcoming unit test.  Read pp. 130-135. Do sidebar questions p. 133 & 134 & #1-4, p. 135.
  • Wednesday, November 28 - 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. 135-139. Do #1-5, p. 139.
  • Thursday, November 29 - 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. 140-146. Do sidebar questions pp. 140, 141 #1-2, 143 #3, 145 & #1-6, p. 146. Watch some anti-communist American propaganda from the 1950's He May Be a Communist,The Red Menace, and the ever popular film used in schools --Communism.
  • Friday, November 30 - This is a school based professional day.  Be sure to use this time to study for the test on Monday!

Saturday, November 17, 2012

November 19-23















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Comparative Civilizations 12


The Middle Ages unit test will be this Tuesday -- allowing extra time for test writers during lunch break -- if it is needed.  Your Romance and Reality (Gothic Age) package is due by 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday or before school on Thursday -- I will need Tuesday night to mark your tests, so likely could not get to package marking until the following day.  We also will not get much or any class time to work on the package on Monday as we make up for losing last Friday's class.

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.


History 12 

Since we are testing on Wednesdays -- to allow for extra writing time, if needed -- our next exam will be Wednesday, November 27.  This does mean that we will begin the next unit long before we test this one, however.  Expect to begin looking at the Cold War, starting, probably,  this Thursday.

Expect this test to have, roughly, the following breakdown: 75 multiple choice items (1 mark each -- note, this is slightly longer than indicated last week!); 5 map items (1 mark each); 2 out of 3 long answer options (12 marks each). The total is, therefore, out of 104 marks).

Topic #4 Plan. Note that the plan is slightly off already -- having been prepared a week before we started the new unit. Tentatively the end date for the unit remains the same. This will be re-evaluated in a couple of weeks.

Topic #4 Questions.


Topic #5 and 6 Plan. -- note, to ensure we have enough classes to complete course content, we will run units 5 and 6 into one -- "The Cold War" and we will not waste a block for a unit test as this material will form a significant part of the final exam that we write at the end of the course in any case.  These questions will also be submitted in two parts.  Questions #1-62 will come in at the end of the first week in January (marked out of 35) and the remainder are due on the last day of classes (marked out of 15).

Topic #5 and 6 questions

Note:  Essay #2 will be due any time up until the end of the first week in December.  Essay #3 will be assigned at that time.


  • Monday, November 19 - Complete lecture on World War II; The British Experience (base notes).  If we complete this today we may begin Shoah/the Holocaust (PowerPointbase notes).  If you were not in my grade 11 classes last year -- or even if you were, it is well worth watching Frontline's Memories of the Camps video.
  • Tuesday, November 20 - Complete Shoah/the Holocaust (PowerPointbase notes). If time, we will begin watching The World At War; Genocide (part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5.) 
  • Wednesday, November 21 -  Complete any material from last class.  Wartime Conferences (base notes).
  • Thursday, November 22 - Complete material on theWartime Conferences (base notes). We are likely to begin the lecture on The Origins of the Cold War (base notes) and PowerPoint.
  • Friday, November 23 - Watch Video: Cold War Confrontation from the 20th Century History Series.  Watch the first video from CNN's outstanding Cold War series - Comrades; 1917-1945
Social Studies 11 

The next unit test is coming soon -- expect it next Thursday, to allow both blocks extra writing time if needed.   The mark breakdown is most likely to be 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.





Saturday, November 10, 2012

November 12 - 16


















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Comparative Civilizations 12 

We are working on the last package before the next unit test, which I anticipate will be next Wednesday, November 21 -- though we may introduce the next unit on Tuesday.

Romance & Reality Package. 

 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.

History 12 

We are some way off from our next unit test.  Information about it will be posted when we are closer.

Topic #4 PlanNote that the plan is slightly off already -- having been prepared a week before we started the new unit. Tentatively the end date for the unit remains the same. This will be re-evaluated in a couple of weeks.

Topic #4 Questions.


If you get the chance, watch Apocalypse; The Second World War, an excellent set of 45 minute documentaries on WWII (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6).  The series contains quite a lot of colour and colourised footage.

  • Monday, November 12 - Remembrance Day Holiday.
  • Tuesday, November 13 - World War II chronology (PowerPointbase notes).
  • Wednesday, November 14 - World War II chronology (PowerPointbase notes). We will also look at one of the Twentieth Century History episodes -- probably The Road to Berlin, which looks at the Eastern Front.  If you have two hours, watch this interesting documentary, Teacher Resource: World War II; The Eastern Front, which brings together bits and pieces of many documentaries and films about the eastern front.
  • Thursday, November 15 - Video: Twentieth Century History; Pearl Harbour to Hiroshima if available. World War II chronology (PowerPointbase notes).  Interested in the Pacific war -- from an American perspective?  Watch War in the Pacific, an 8 episode (45 minutes each) documentary series (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8).
  • Friday, November 16 - Probably complete World War II chronology (PowerPointbase notes). Hopefully, begin World War II; the British Experience (base notes).
Social Studies 11 

Your next unit test is still a little way off -- likely more than two weeks.  It will cover the interwar years and World War II.  I'll likely begin posting test information next week.

  • Monday, November 12 - Remembrance Day Holiday.
  • Tuesday, November 13 - Watch Fight of the Century; Keynes vs Hayek; Round 2 -- on Keynsian and Supply Side Economics and today's economic crisis.  Take up sidebars 4-16, p. 93, 4-17 & 4-18, p. 95 & 4-19, p. 96.  Complete PowerPoint - Canada Between the Wars; 1919-1939 If time, watch  more segments of Canada; A People's History; Hard Times. Read pp. 92-98.  Do #1-5, p. 98.
  • Wednesday, November 14 - Take up homework.  Video King & Country (sorry, unavailable on the Internet) & questions. Read pp. 100-110. Do 1-4, p. 105, sidebar questions p. 106, 107, 110 & #1-3, p. 110. If you are interested and have the time, watch this Britishanti-war advertisement from the 1930s to understand the roots of appeasement. Watch the 20 minute 30's documentary: The European Arms Race 1935 - 1939 part 1 andpart 2. To see Nazi Germany, watch this largely unnarrated documentary, Nazi Germany Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5,Part 6Part 7Part 8 & Part 9.   Look at Hitler's art: Part 1Part 2.
  • Thursday, November 15 - Take up homework. Complete King & Country video and questions. Introduction to World War II. Begin video series and questions; Episode I; Canada Remembers; Turning the Tide). WWII series. pp. 111-115. Do #1-4, p. 115.
  • Friday, November 16 - We did not get as far as I'd hoped yesterday, so will progress where we left off with the new video series today.  Take up homework.  Introduction to World War II. Begin video series and questions; Episode I; Canada Remembers; Turning the Tide). questions. 115-122. Do #1, 2 & 4, p. 122.