November 23 - 27

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If you can't read the PowerPoint material on your computer, downloadPowerPoint 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 goingto http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm. Use the passcode posted in the classroom. Please note that since renewing our licence, our starting access code for new users has changed and is no longer what was given on your course outline. 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 had a 50% hold-back imposed on their supplies budget. As a result, I shall be handing out far fewer paper handouts in class. 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.

Social Studies 8

The next unit is a long one. Do not expect another unit test for around 1-2 weeks -- however, be sure to keep doing your flash cards as surprise quizzes are a distinct possibility every now and then. I will post the test mark breakdown when we are closer to it.

The Medieval Research Assignment(Part 1, part 2 -- please note: part 1 instructions should include having to include at least 3 print resources and World Book online - I need to make this change to a file on my home computer), your biggest assignment of the year, is now underway. I'm afraid I will have to load it here when I get back to school on Monday as the file is on my school computer and I cannot access it from home.

• Monday, November 23 - Take up Medieval Guild Regulations. Introduction to Medieval Church architecture - Romanesque to Gothic. PowerPoint - Romanesque to Gothic Architecture. Super-deluxe Benoy field trip and demonstration of Medieval engineering. Handouts: Romanesque to Gothic Architecture - online only - unless you request a copy. If time: Mr. Benoy's slides of Medieval European churches. Read pp. 63-69. Do #1-6, p. 69.
• Tuesday, November 24 - Take up homework. Video: David Macauley's Cathedral and questions - on screen - no longer a handout. Work on Research assignment for homework.
• Wednesday, November 25 - Video: Illuminations; Treasures of the Middle Ages. Questions (will be posted on the 2nd screen in class): 1. Who wrote medieval books? 2. What were books written on before the Middle Ages? What were medieval books written on? 3. How were medieval books like modern comic books? 4. What kinds of illustrations were found in medieval books? 5. What was a “Book of Hours?” How was it a display of wealth? 6. What kinds of non-religious books were produced in the late Middle Ages? From Old English to Modern English - including the following video examples: Lord’s Prayer in Old English, "The General Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales in Middle English, and this version in modern English. If we have time we will watch a few short samples from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in modern English: "The Host's Speech" from "the General Prologue," the start of the "Pardoner's Tale," "the Sermon" from "the Pardoner's Tale," and "Chanticleer Escapes" from the Nun's Priest's Tale." Work on your research project.
• Thursday, November 26 - Library research block -- if the library is available. If not, we move on to the next material below.
• Friday, November 27 - Introduction to the Crusades. Watch Terry Jones' The Crusades; Pilgrims in Arms. Questions: 1) What started the First Crusade? 2) What did crusader knights hope to gain? 3) Why did peasants join the crusade? 4) Why were Jews persecuted in Medieval Europe? 5) How did the "Peoples' Crusade" end? 6) What was the relationship between the crusaders and the Byzantines? Read pp. 69-74. Do #1-6, p. 74. We will not get a chance to watch his following two documentaries, but if you can, be sure to watch them yourself: Jerusalem, Jihad, and Destruction. I'd love to screen all of these in class, but they take too long. A great documentary on the Crusades is The Crescent and the Cross (1 hour 30 minutes).

Social Studies 11


Expect your next unit test to be early next week. We will combine the material on Canada between the wars and Canada in World War II. The mark breakdown is 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.


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

• Monday, November 23 - Take up sidebar 5-21, p. 123 & #1-3, p. 125. Continue Endings & Beginnings & do questions. Japanese internment. Show CBC Archives video clip on compensation. Read the sidebar, pp. 126-127 & do #1-3, p. 127.
• Tuesday, November 24 - Take up homework. Video: The Valour & the Horror; Savage Christmas; Hong Kong 1941 and questions (posted on the 2nd screen). Read p. 128 & do #1-4, p. 128.
• Wednesday, November 25 - Take up homework. Complete The Valour & the Horror; Savage Christmas; Hong Kong 1941 and questions (posted on the 2nd screen). Do "Looking Back" #2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 14, p.129. We also began the PowerPoint on Shoah/The Holocaust -- scheduled for Thursday.
• Thursday, November 26 - Please note the change in this and Friday's class -- we are ahead of where I planned to be on Saturday. Complete the assignment on the film for next class. Shoah/Holocaust - PowerPoint. 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 Monday.
• Friday, November 27 - Hand in Savage Christmas assignment. Note: the rest of today's class is different to what was posted earlier in the week. Filmstrip & questions A Middle Power (1. What international organization was formed in the Spring of 1945 to promote world peace? 2) What was the "Cold War?" 3) Who was Igor Gouzenko and why was he an important figure in Canadian History? 4) Why did Canada join NATO? 5) What 1950-53 conflict did Canada take part in? 6) How was Canada's post-war foreign policy different to the one it pursued in the 1920's and 1930's?) Introduction to the Cold War. Prepare for test Monday.

Social Studies 11 (Honours)

Expect your next unit test to be this Friday. We will combine the material on Canada between the wars and Canada in World War II. The mark breakdown is 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.

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

• Monday, November 23 - Take up #1-3, p. 127.. Video: The Valour & the Horror; Savage Christmas; Hong Kong 1941 and questions (posted on the 2nd screen). Read p. 128 & do #1-4, p. 128.
• Tuesday, November 24 - Take up homework. Complete The Valour & the Horror; Savage Christmas; Hong Kong 1941 and questions (posted on the 2nd screen). Do "Looking Back" #2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 14, p.129.
• Wednesday, November 25 - Take up homework. Introduction to the Holocaust - PowerPoint. Complete the assignment on the film for next class. 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 Monday.Complete the POW assignment for next class.
• Thursday, November 26 - Hand in Savage Christmas assignment. Filmstrip & questions A Middle Power (1. What international organization was formed in the Spring of 1945 to promote world peace? 2) What was the "Cold War?" 3) Who was Igor Gouzenko and why was he an important figure in Canadian History? 4) Why did Canada join NATO? 5) What 1950-53 conflict did Canada take part in? 6) How was Canada's post-war foreign policy different to the one it pursued in the 1920's and 1930's?) Introduction to the Cold War. Prepare for Unit Test Friday.
• Friday, November 27 - Unit Test on Chapters 3-5. Read pp. 130-135. Do sidebar questions p. 133 & 134 & #1-4, p. 135.

History 12

The unit test will be put forward to next Monday because of the shortened classes on Thursday and Friday. We will begin the Cold War on Thursday.

Topic #4 questions are available here.

The Topic #4 plan.

Essay #3 is underway and is due in the last school week of December.

Topic #5 & 6 Plan is available here, as are the Topic #5 & 6 questions.

Good online video material to supplement our studies can be found atBenoy'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 (I realize many links are now dead because those uploading them violated copywrite regulations) andFrontline's Memories of the Camps video.- Outstanding footage of liberated SS concentration camps. Don't forget to look at the resources available on myTopic #4 webpage.

Note: I've just found an Internet source for The Road to War; Britain. Find time to watch it! Also The Road to War; Italy, The Road to War; Japan, The Road to War: USA.

If you have time, watch some of the Cold War videos linked to in my Googlevideo and Youtube directory. You absolutely have to watchThreads, a 1984 British film on the likely effect of nuclear war - brilliant and terrifying.

• Monday, November 23 - Complete World War II; the British Experience (base notes). If time, begin Shoah/the Holocaust (base notes).
• Tuesday, November 24 - Complete the lecture from last class. Shoah/the Holocaust (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.
• Wednesday, November 25 - Watch: The World At War; Genocide, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5.
• Thursday, November 26 - Watch: The Cold War; Comrades 1917-1945. This is an outstanding introduction to the Cold War.
• Friday, November 27 - Introduction to the Cold War (base notes). 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 Churchill's "Iron Curtain Speech on Google video.