Saturday, November 07, 2009

November 9-13

















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Sutherland has a license to access Discovery Education's United Streaming video collection. Students may download or stream videos from the collection by goingtohttp://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.

Social Studies 8

The next unit is a long one. Do not expect another unit test for around 4 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.

There will be a big research project in this unit. I will post it soon.
  • Monday, November 9 - Take up #1-6, p. 48. Watch Ancient Warriors: The Vikings, part 1, part 2, part 3 (totals just over 20 minutes). Answer the following questions: 1) Why were the Vikings feared by all of Christian Europe? 2) What made the Viking Longship a particularly effective weapon for its time? 3) Where does our knowledge of the Vikings come from? Handout Viking Women. How does this account of Viking life differ from the video? Can you explain the difference? Origins of feudalism: Hosford Atlas pp. 13-16. Handout reading for homework: Feudalism and Medieval Life. Do the questions on the handout.
  • Tuesday, November 10 - Remembrance Day material - Benoys at War. Take up homework. Video clip: Feudalism. Video: Medieval Lives: The Knight (part 1, part 2, part 3). How did medieval knights really live and act? Handout: A Feudal Contract. Read pp. 49-52. Do #1-5, p. 52.
  • Wednesday, November 11 - Remembrance Day Holiday. Be sure to attend a ceremony at the North Vancouver Cenotaph or another location.
  • Thursday, November 12 - Take up #1-5, p. 52. Hosford Atlas, pp. 17-18. Sidebar, p. 50 of Patterns of Civilization 1. video: Medieval Lives; The Peasant. What was life like for Medieval peasants? How much control did they have on their lives? What was work like? What did they eat? How might a peasant improve his life? Read pp. 52-56. Do #1-7, p. 56.
  • Friday, November 13 - Handout: Analyzing a Primary Source - a serf's contract. Take up #1-7, p. 56. PowerPoint: Monasticism. Introduction to Medieval Research Assignment. (I will post here soon). We will likely devote 2 classes next week to this assignment.
Social Studies 11


We have just started a new unit, so I do not anticipate a test for another two weeks or more. We will combine the material on Canada between the wars and Canada in World War II. I will post the test breakdown as we get closer to the test date.

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 9 - Take up #1-3, p. 56. Take up homework. Filmstrip &questions: The Ecstatic 20’s. If time, begin PowerPoint -Canada Between the Wars; 1919-1939. Read pp. 57-65. Do sidebar questions, p. 57 & 59, #1-3, p. 61, #1-3, p. 65.
  • Tuesday, November 10 - Remembrance Day material - Benoys at War. Take up homework. Background to the Great Depression (including statistics) - Continue 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.
  • Wednesday, November 11 - Remembrance Day Holiday. I'll meet you at the North Vancouver Cenotaph.
  • Thursday, November 12 - 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.
  • Friday, November 13 - 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.
Social Studies 11 Honours

We have just started a new unit, so I do not anticipate a test for another two weeks or more. We will combine the material on Canada between the wars and Canada in World War II. I will post the test breakdown as we get closer to the test date.

There is a major research assignment starting, 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 9 - Take up Do sidebar questions, p. 57 & 59, #1-3, p. 61, #1-3, p. 65, & sidebar #1-2, p. 67. Introduction to the Family History Assignment (see above). Background to the Great Depression (including statistics) - Continue 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. Watch the hour-long documentary The Crash of 1929. For a "supply-side" analysis of the Great Depression from its greatest proponent, Milton Friedman, see the PBS documentary Free to Choose; Anatomy of a Crisis. Want to find out more about economics? Consider looking at Discovery Education's Macroeconomic Concepts (You will need to login to the site -- see the header to this blog about this.) This is information everyone should be familiar with.
  • Tuesday, November 10 - Remembrance Day material - Benoys at War. Take up sidebar questions p. 71 & 72 & #1-4, p. 72, sidebar questions p. 76, 78 & 79 & #1-2, p. 79. Watch Canada; 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. Be sure to watch the NFB film, Twilight of an Era; 1934-1939. 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.
  • Wednesday, November 11 - Remembrance Day Holiday. I expect everyone to attend a ceremony -- either with me at the North Vancouver Cenotaph, or elsewhere.
  • Thursday, November 12 - Intro video - Woody Guthrie's Talking Dustbowl Blues and Bing Crosby's Brother Can You Spare a Dime. Take up sidebar #1-4, p. 81, sidebar questions p. 82 & #3-4, p. 85 & #1-3, p. 86. Short video clip on Depression. PowerPoint on the interwar years. Read pp. 86-90. Do sidebars figure 4-9 on p. 87 and #1-2, p. 89, #1-3, p. 90.
  • Friday, November 13 - Introductory music - Woody Guthrie's Dustbowl Refugees and All You Fascists Bound to Lose. Take up sidebars figure 4-9 on p. 87 and #1-2, p. 89, #1-3, p. 90. If necessary, complete the PowerPoint on the interwar years - Political responses to the Depression. Note: I have deleted a video that I would otherwise have used here because we are a little behind schedule. Continue Canada; A People’s History; Hard Times and PowerPoint- Canada Between the Wars; 1919-1939. 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.
History 12

We are quite a way away from the next unit test -- still likely to be Wednesday, Nov. 25. I will post test details as we get closer to it.

Topic #4 questions are now available.
Essay #3 gets underway this week and is due in the last school week of December.


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.

  • Monday, November 9 - Complete the Appeasement lecture (base notes) if need be. We will fill in the remainder of the time with a video - Possibly from the Road to War series. Do watch the following two excerpts from the 20th Century History Series; Appeasement part 1 & part 2.
  • Tuesday, November 10 - Remembrance Day Material - Benoys at War. The Spanish Civil War (base notes). Be sure to listen to some of the music of the Spanish Civil War - written at the time and inspired later. If you are interested in the Spanish Civil War and have the time, there is a good British documentary from Granada Television, The Spanish Civil War; Prelude to Tragedy Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6) - note, each part is about 52 minutes long.
  • Wednesday, November 11 - Remembrance Day Holiday. Be sure to attend a ceremony, perhaps with me at the North Vancouver Cenotaph.
  • Thursday, November 12 - Complete the Spanish Civil War (base notes). Begin the World War II chronology (base notes). To understand why France collapsed in 1940,be sure to watchBattlefield; Fall of France (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12) Shorter, and less specialized in dealing with military tactics, is The World at War; France Falls (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6).


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