FINAL EXAM DAY

Good luck to everyone on their final exam today, I know you will all do awesome :) Good luck on the rest of your exams and have a great summer!

Smith Out

Canada - Regions and Identity

Canada - Regions and Identity

Critical Challenge – Build and present Visual in the shape of the region of Canada supplied to you a ‘regional voisualr’ to promote a regional identity. (For the purpose of this assignment, each province or territory is a region).

Visual Group Assignment

Home Stretch People

Good Morning!

Today we will be reviewing the Images / Ideas of Canada! Follow the link below to view some posters of Canada and complete the Assignment form given to you at the start of of the class with a partner.

Posters Of Canada

Welcome to Friday!!!!

Stone of Destiny Assignment

today you will be viewing the movie "Stone of Destiny"

 Click here to open and than make a copy of the assignment! We will be continuing on with this on Monday.

Stone of Destiny - Assignment

CNN Student News Discussion Questions

What is your opinion of President Obama's foreign policy? Do you agree or disagree with his approach to events in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan? Explain. Are there any foreign policy issues that you think deserve more or less attention than they are getting? Explain.

In spite of numerous laws, classes, and PSAs, car accidents are still a leading cause of death for teenagers. What, if anything, do you think can be done to promote safer driving among teens?

Currents Events Day!

Students will be watching the CNN News Clip form the link below! After you will be given time to work on some questions related to the news clip you just viewed. 

CNN News Video

CNN News Questions

CNN Student News Transcript May 28th 2014

Source Analysis Review

Today we will be reviewing the source analysis handed in last week as a class. You will also be given a review outline for Unit #3. The class will be writing the Unit Exam This Wednesday May 28th as agreed upon last week with the class.

Unit 3

To what extent should internationalism be pursued?

Some Critical Key Terms

Internationalism

Bilateralism

Unilateralism

Isolationsim

Multilateralism

Supranationalism

Foreign Policy

Humanitarianism

UN Security Council

Some Organizations to Review

United Nations

European Union

NATO

Arctic Council

World Health Organization

Right to Play

Essential Questions

1. What motivates nations to become involved in international affairs?
2. How and why is internationalism promoted by foreign policy?
3. What impacts does the pursuit of internationalism have on contemporary global issues?

Unit Three

To what extent should internationalism be pursued?

Complete Terms List

NAFTA NATO G8 NORAD Commonwealth Humanitarianism Economic Stability Self-determination Security Poverty Bilateralism Isolationism Foreign Policy Globalization Collective Security Tied Aid

Internationalism Supranationalism Peacekeeping Multilateralism Internationalism Foreign Aid European Union United Nations Foreign Aid Debt WHO NGO IMF World Bank WTO Trade

Friday is here!!!!

Today you will be completing 10 questions related to Internationalism. When it is completed your results will be emailed to you and you will have access to a document explaining the questions and answers for your review. This will be used as a personnel formative assessment for each student.

Internationalism Questions

Answers / Explanation 

After completing and reviewing the material form the exercise above, follow the link below to your next task!
be sure to open the link and than make a copy of it to your Google Drive. After you have done this close the original and use your copy to complete the assignment.

Our World Today

Welcome Back From The Long Weekend!!!

Today you students will be writing their quiz on Internationalism and Nationalism please follow the link above to today's quiz!

After that we will be continuing on looking at Internationalism & Global Issues.

Students will develop responses to the following questions as you explore the extent to which internationalism can effectively address contemporary global issues:

• What are some contemporary global issues?
• How has internationalism been used to address contemporary global issues?
• Is internationalism always the most effective way of addressing contemporary global issues?

Monday QUIZ DAY!

Today students will be completing their quiz on Foreign Policy & Internationalism

After we will be continuing on our studies looking at Internationalism and Nationalism
Some questions to think about as we proceed over this next week are:

•How have changing world conditions promoted the need for internationalism?
•How have the United Nations’ changing international responses affected nationalism?
• How do the responses of various international organizations affect nationalism?


Click here to review this weeks Lesson

Vocabulary over this next week includes the following terms:

Good Morning !

Okay since today you are not able to join us at the Holocaust Symposium you will be watching a Google Hang Out from April 2nd. This is live coverage of Bob Behr's experience and survival of the being a prisoner and Holocaust survivor during WWII. We will be comparing your presentation and the one in Calgary upon our return.

Please click on the link below to start the presentation

Days of Remembrance: Bob Behr's Survivor Testimony

Wed May 6th

Click on the link below for today's assignments

International law and Agreements

Cartoon Analysis 

Today's Lesson International Law and Agreements

Click here for today's presentation on International Law and Agreements

MONDAY May 5th Almost June !!!!!!!

Good Morning Everyone,

Today you will be writing your quiz on 

NATIONS, NATION-STATES, AND INTERNATIONALISM

After this we will be continuing on with our studies with: Foreign Policy and 

Internationalism. Remember  the following are some questions you should be developing answers for during this section:

1. How do countries set  foreign policy?
2. How can states promote internationalism through foreign policy?
3. How does Canadian foreign policy try to balance national interest and internationalism?

TGIT!

Good afternoon!

Today we will be introducing the ch 10  issue:To what extent can foreign policy promote internationalism?

So we will be investigating how countries set foreign policy. To do this we will be looking at the following lesson below, and then having an online debate with regards to peacekeeping.

First task of the day! Answer the follwoing quesiton.
Do you believe that Canada's role as peacekeepers has a significant impact on the countries national identity?

Text your answer to 37607
True  = 75972
False = 75979

Click here for today's lesson!

Do not click on this link until Mr Smith has given you the directions for this activity!
Click here for today's online debate!

Wednesday April 30th

Good Morning!

Today you will be writing a source written assignment  / source analysis! Please click on the link below to complete the assignment, you have the double block. If you finish please update your quizlet vocab list with the following terms from Unit #3 that are below the link

Source Written Annalysis Assignment

Tuesday April 29th

Good Morning Everyone,

We will be having a guest teacher in again today. You will be continuing on with exploring Nations, Nation-States, and Internationalism. You will be having a quiz on this material this Friday May 2nd so please review daily for home work as usual.

Please click on the following link for today's lesson and class discussion, you can follow along on your chrome books.

Motives for Nation & Nation States response

Smith

Welcome Back Everyone!

Today we will be continuing on with starting Unit#3: To what extent should internationalism be pursued?

Under the Unit #3 tab at the top of the site you will find the first presentation that the class will be reviewing. You will go over this material with our guest teacher on the main screen, you may also have your chrome books open and follow along as well.

click on the following link for the presentation:

Nations, Nation-States, and Internationalism

 you will develop responses to the following questions as you explore the extent to which international affairs benefit nations and states:

• What are some common motives of nations and states?
• How do the motives of nations and states shape their responses to the world?
• What are some understandings of internationalism?
• How does internationalism benefit nations and states?

Your essays are marked and I will be handing them back to you this Tuesday. 

Smith

Short week than our Spring Break!!!

Here is a break down of this week for the students!

Monday April 14th - DO to a technological error on Friday the Unit #2 Exam is being completed today
                              - Essay Assignment #1 handed back

Tuesday April 15th  - Essay Review

Wednesday April 16th - Essay Assignment #2 ( Double Block Start and Finish)

TGIF!!!

Students completed and handed in their written essays yesterday - great job
Today students will be writing their Unit 2 Final Exam.


GOOD LUCK and Have an Awesome weekend everyone has been working hard and you deserve it !!!

Smith

Unit #2 is coming to and end! Is Spring gonna Start?

Today we finished up looking at some recent consequences of ultranationalism. Tomorrow students have a collaborative group assignment that will complete our time on Unit #2. The following is a schedule of things to come for next week:

Monday - Quiz on Crimes Against Humanity ( Ch7 )

Tuesday - Review Essay writing 

Wednesday - Essay writing  / Topic from Unit #2 chapters 5 - 8 ( Double block)

Thursday - Unit #2 FINAL EXAM 

Friday  - Start Unit #3

There is a unit review posted under the Unit #2 tab, it is located at the bottom of the page. I will post a terms list also. 

Smith

New Terms!!!

Here are some new terms that we have gone over in class and are important for you to know and understand:

Remember you can enter these in to your Quizlets list of terms!

Good morning Tuesday April 1st!

Today first thing you will be writing your quizzes!!!

You know the procedures for this, so please grab a computer first thing and log on to write the quiz.

When the quiz is over keep the lap tops on your desk as you will need them again to post on the blog for Schindler's List.

to get to the movie click on this link - http://goo.gl/BLzuui  password = shsvideo
click on titles to the left - than click on the S folder
we are watching Schindler's List part 2

Make sure you read the directions for today's class under the Schindler's List tab for posting on today's blog

Smith

Monday March 31st

Quiz day today! 

We will also be carrying on and looking at crimes against humanity, some questions to consider are:

• What are crimes against humanity?
• How has ultranationalism caused crimes against humanity?
• What are some contemporary consequences of ultranationalism

Tomorrow I will be away and we will have a guest teacher in. The class will be continuing on with Schindler's List and updating the blog after during the last 15 minutes of class.

Smith

Thursday March 27th

Today we will be looking at the use of appeasement as a responses to ultranationalism!
Also the failures of the League of Nations - and the creation of the United Nations and Canada's role in creating Peace Keeping.

Quiz that was scheduled for tomorrow will be moved to Monday March 30th. Review this weekend ch 6 and class notes/presentations. We will continue with Schindler's List in tomorrows class.

Smith

Monday March 24th

Good Morning!

This week we will be continuing to look at Ultranationalism and examples of it. We will also start viewing the movie "Schindler's List". We will be viewing the movie over the course of approximately six days. The students will have a daily reflection to do electronically here on the class web site, details will be discussed in class.

There will also be a quiz on Friday March 28th in relation to the material covered on Ultranationalism.

***Students are reminded and urged to review class / course material on a daily basis***

Mr. Smith

Thursday the 13th

Okay every one I am not here today, so you will have a sub in! Please follow along and help them out. You will be watching a video on the causes of WWI and making notes as you watch. After which you can compare and have a class discussion on the what you saw and heard as the causes for WWI.  You may also finish your Mind Maps .

Cheers
Smith

Wednesday March 5th

Today will be your last day to work on and hand in your source analysis!
We will be continuing on with the next unit: To What Extent Should National Interests be Pursued?
We will start with looking at:

How are nationalism and national interests related?
How has a national interest shaped foreign policy?
How has foreign policy shaped nationalism?
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Students should also consider creating a new Quizlet terms list under the heading social studies 20 unit #2
They can begin by adding the following terms:

National interest
Peacekeepers
Peacemaking
Policy
Domestic Policy
Foreign Policy
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

And reminder to review for the Unit 1 final on Monday March 10th 2014!!!

Monday!

good Morning Today you will be having your quiz and we will continue on with the show. Some of the questions we will be looking at over the next 3 days are:

• What are non-nationalist loyalties?
• How can nationalist and non-nationalist loyalties compete?
• How have people reconciled contending nationalist and
 non-nationalist loyalties?

You can update your vocab list with the following terms:

Friday

Okay today we have a guest teacher in again, and the show must go on! So remember you will have a quiz on ch3 this Monday so please review over the weekend for it. You should have an understanding of how to answer the following questions:

• How do nationalist loyalties shape people’s choices?
• What choices have people made to affirm nationalist loyalties?
• How can nationalist loyalties create conflict?
• How have people reconciled contending nationalist loyalties?

Also you can update your quizlet vocabulary lists with the following terms:

See Monday have a good weekend, and don't forget to study

Smith

Tuesday 25th

Good Morning,

Today you will be looking at two case studies with regards to contending loyalties form Canada. Read the intro information below.

Reconciling can mean coming to terms with the past or mending a broken relationship. When two friends have a serious disagreement, an act of reconciliation can help resolve their differences and bring them together again. Similarly, when peoples or nations disagree, or when their nationalist loyalties lead them to pursue contending goals, an attitude of reconciliation can bring them together and enable them to coexist in peace.But when two contending nations cannot achieve reconciliation, the outcome can be serious. The inability to resolve differences may lead to damaging political struggles and even outright war.

Self-determination is a right which 

belongs to peoples. It does not belong 

to states. It is a right of all peoples. It 

is universal and non-divisible; that is, 

either you have it or you do not. It is 

not a right that is given to peoples by 

someone else. Please understand, you 

may have to fight to exercise this right, 

but you do not negotiate for the right of 

self-determination because it is yours 

already.

— Matthew Coon Come, Cree 

leader and former national chief 

of the Assembly of First Nations, 

in documents filed with the UN 

Commission on Human Rights, 1992

Click on the Unit One Tab up top and scroll down to the OKA CRISIS INTRODUCTION NOTES & VIDEO ASSIGNMENT and complete them.

See You on Wed!

Monday Feb 24th

Good Morning!!!

Today you will have a guest teacher in again, and will be continuing on with the presentation and notes that you started on Friday. Just  a short reminder that it is useful to participate in class discussions when the opportunity presents itself.

Smith

Monday! QUIZ DAY!

Today after our Quiz on Shaping Nationalism and the French Revolution we will be looking at Nationalist Loyalties.

Students will develop responses to the following questions as we explore the extent to which people should reconcile their nationalist loyalties:

• How do nationalist loyalties shape people’s choices?
• What choices have people made to affirm nationalist loyalties?
• How can nationalist loyalties create conflict?
• How have people reconciled contending nationalist loyalties?

Terms students will be responsible for understanding are:

Good Morning!!!! QUIZ ON FRIDAY

Today we will continue to explore the concept of Nationalism in the terms of the Civic concept, and Ethnic Concept.

You will also write your first quiz this Friday covering the material to that day on Understandings of Nationalism

you will also be introduced to the Quizlet  Web Site to enter your vocabulary terms which are:

Good Morning !!!

Today we will be looking at how Nation can effect our identity, and to what extent it should be the basis for identity. The following questions will be of key interest to you today:

• How does my identity express my connections to nation?
• What is the relationship between nation and nation-state?
• How do people express their connections to nation?