THE MR. TDS PAGE

Final grades will be posted when I get home tonight.  They are pretty similar to what I showed you in class.  I’ve been sick for the past two days.  I spent my first day of summer vacation at the doctor’s office… hurrah.

Here are the 20 answers projects:

2008: 2008_20-answers.doc

2009: 2009_20-answers.doc

FINAL GRADES:

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Worried about provincials? Here’s something to help you worry more!!

Below are links to past provincial exams, samples, etc. Enjoy the following resources:

GENERAL RESOURCES ON ESSAYS

• SCORING CRITERIA FOR ESSAY SECTION link!
• KEY VERBS FOR ESSAY QUESTIONS link!

SAMPLE EXAMS

• 2007 Sample link! answers!
• 2005/06 Released Exam link! answers!
• E Exam (take the exam online)
• E Exam is very easy to use. In the box that says PEN Number, enter your pen number OR (if you can’t remember it, enter any number between 1 and 10,000).
• Then, enter the password SS11 in the password box. An exam will show up for you to write.

PROVINCIAL EXAM FORMAT:

• Multiple Choice
• Politics and Government 15% 5 Knowledge Questions, 7 Understanding and Application Questions
• B. Autonomy and International Involvement 15% 5 Knowledge Questions, 7 Understanding and Application Questions
• C. Society and Identity 25% 8 Knowledge Questions, 11 Understanding and Application Questions
• D. Human Geography 15% 5 Knowledge Questions, 7 Understanding and Application Questions
• Essay Question 1 (15%)
• Essay Question 2 (15%)

ONLINE SUPPORT 

• Studybuzz.com
• STEP ONE. REGISTER HERE (you need your PEN # from your report card. It’s a nine-digit number starting with one or nine, in most cases)
• STEP TWO. After registering, you are sent to a screen that looks like this:
  • Select “Social Studies 11″ from the drop-down menu with the red arrow.
  • Click on the green arrow underneath the picture of the bee…
    
  • Your Social Studies tests will appear. Click on the subject you want to bee tested on. (pun intended!)

Tomorrow:
- REFLECTION SHEET

- LAST BIT OF ENVIRONMENT POWERPOINT

- SAMPLE EXAMS (they will be online later tonight)

ALBUMS I LISTEN TO WHILE I MARK
2:37pm - Currently grading today’s quiz.
ARTIST: FEIST  ALBUM: THE REMINDER

4:09 - Currently grading “THE FINAL PACKAGE”
ARTIST: RAY CHARLES   ALBUM: RAY SINGS, BASIE SWINGS

6:46 - Currently responding to last minute comments, graded homework sheets, bonus assignments, attendance quizzes, entered marks in computer
ARTIST: Q-TIP   ALBUM: THE RENAISSANCE

7:09 - Currently marking 20 Answers Projects.  They are quite good so far.  Except for JJs, of course.  And Abraham’s.

TUESDAY BONUS ASSIGNMENT:

Take the ecological footprint quiz found here.  Print out your results or take a screenshot of them and email it to me.  5 bonus marks

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WEDNESDAY BONUS ASSIGNMENT:

Watch any film found on the RECOMMENDED FILM LIST.  Write a review that answers the following questions.  If you like, you can answer the questions separately.  You MUST write in full sentences.
1. What is the film about?

2.  What period of history does this film cover, specifically? (ie. if the film is about WWI, is it about the whole war, the beginning or the end, etc).

3. How does this film relate to Canada’s place in the world, or to a key concept we studied in this class? (key concepts are all of the “isms”, for example: nationalism, globalization, Americanism, Ideologies like Capitalism or communism, civil rights, etc).

4. Did you enjoy this film? Why or why not?

5. What was your favourite scene in the film and why?

You must include: a receipt to show you rented the film, or a screen shot of your history if you watched it online.  Please bring in a copy of the movie if you own it.  This is just to prove that you’ve seen it.
10 bonus marks

HOUR 1:
Quiz
Chapter 14 living standards 2009_chapter14_living-standards.ppt
HOUR 2:
The Environment [ppt] [link]

HOUR 3/4:
I don’t know yet.

HOUR ONE/TWO
- What are the limits of population growth? p. 335 of textbook.
- China’s One Child Policy. p. 329 of text and article on handout
- ABORIGINALS IN CANADA [aboriginals-in-canada.ppt] [notes2]

HOUR THREE/FOUR
Powerpoint on Chapter 14

DUE TUESDAY

• In Class work (see day 20 for assignment)
• PEMS sheet 1950s-1990s must be complete
• BONUS MARKS: population pyramid

DUE WEDNESDAY

• STUDYGUIDE chapters 14 and 17

QUIZ ON TUESDAY on 1980s and 1990s - 20 marks

HOUR ONE/TWO
FINISH 1990s/CHRETIEN ERA [1960s-1980s-powerpoint.ppt]

NAFTA nafta-good-or-bad.doc

ABORIGINALS 2008_aboriginals.doc

HOUR THREE/FOUR

Debate: the world’s greatest problems

THE POPULATION PROBLEM
The Demographic Transition Model [notes] [notes2] [notes3] [powerpoint]
FILLED IN: notes  :  notes 2  :  notes3

HOUR 1/2 Mulroney/Chretien era [notes]
[notes from in-class, click image below]

• 1950s-1990s Chart StudyGuide (due Tuesday next week)

The grades will be posted tomorrow. I honestly just forgot them at Central.

HOUR ONE:
The 1950s and 1960s in Canada [ppt]
Film Clips:

• Malcolm X: My Last Name
• Martin Luther King Jr: “Why I oppose Vietnam”
• Diefenbaker “The Vote to Indians”
• Leave it to Beaver
• Cuban Missile Crisis Newscast

HOUR TWO:
Work period — Project

HOUR THREE:
Work period — Project
HOUR FOUR:
Trudeaumania [ppt]

HOUR 1
Finish Schindler’s List (the last 15 minutes)

HOUR 2
Lecture: WWII [notes]
Movies:
- Canada: A People’s History The Razor’s Edge (the Battle of Britain)
- Dunkirk (WWII in Colour)
- Canada: A People’s History Dieppe
- Canada: A People’s History The Price of Victory

HOUR 3:
Work Period: WWII — Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction P. 121
Work Period: WWII — Compensation for Japanese Canadians P. 127
Hour 4:
Lecture: Changes following War [notes]
the beginning of the 1950s [notes]

4:48 pm.  Here are your marks.  I will mark the rest of the essays (I’ve marked 3 so far) later this weekend… watch this space for your mark.

<-- click there!!
4:44 pm.  One test to mark.  Marks are coming…
4:42 pm.  Two tests to mark.  All of them have been entered.  Marks should be up in a few minutes.
4:35 pm. Continuing.  Almost halfway through.
4:29 pm. Dropped all the tests on the floor. Grr.
4:19 pm. Currently updating the marks.  Please be patient as I enter them in the computer

CURRENT/RECENT EVENTS:
- Hotel Rwanda: The story of Rwanda genocide (in 1994) and citizens who stayed in a hotel to live through it, protected by a United Nations fighting force. Rating: 3.5 stars, Bloody. Relation to course: Rwanda massacre.
Star Power: Don Cheadle, Nick Nolte.

- Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire: Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in 100 days. Most of the dead were Tutsis by the hands of the Hutus. The genocide began when Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was shot down above Kigali airport on April 6, 1994. Canadian Armed Forces General Romeo Dallaire was put in charge of a United Nations peacekeeping force during this 1994 genocide. His proposal called for 5,000 soldiers to permit orderly elections and the return of the refugees. The soldiers were never supplied and the killing began. Rating: I haven’t seen this one. Relation to course: Rwanda massacre

- Blood Diamond: The story of a diamond-smuggler. Star Power: Leonardo DiCaprio. Rating: 5 stars, Bloody, lots of bad language. Relation to course: The West’s effects on developing economies, foreign aid, internment camps, refugees, civil wars.

WWI:
- All Quiet on the Western Front (book): The story of enlisting and fighting in WWI, told from the point of view of an Austrian teenager. Rating: 5 stars, a little bloody, no bad language. Relation to course: WWI told from the other side.

- Blackadder on WWI: British comedy on WWI. Star Power: Rowan Atkinson. Rating: 4 stars, some “interesting” British humour, but pretty decent. Relation to course: WWI with a comic twist.

- Gallipoli: Australia’s participation in the war. It shows the training process, fighting, enthusiasm for war, and the British treatment of colony soldiers. Star Power: Mel Gibson. Rating: 4 stars, fighting.

- Passchaendale: Canadian troops fight in the battle of the Somme. Rating: 3.5 stars, fighting.

- Flyboys: American fighter pilots arrive on scene in Europe to join the RAF pilots. Rating: 3 stars. Relation to course: WWI from the air. Role of the air force pilot.

WWII:
- Saving Private Ryan
Rating: 5 stars, Bloody, very realistic fighting, swears

- Flags of our fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima
Rating: 5 stars, Bloody, very realistic fighting, swears

- The Pianist
Rating: 5 stars, some nudity

- The Thin Red Line
Rating: 5 stars, Bloody, very realistic fighting, swears

- Atonement
Rating: 5 stars, some nudity-extended sexual scenes, realistic battle scenes, role of women in the society + moral expectations.

- Schindler’s List
Rating: 5 stars, nudity-sexual scenes, realistic battle scenes, morally questionable behaviour.

- Pearl Harbour (not very good)
Rating: 2 stars, nudity-sexual scenes, realistic battle scenes

- Hiroshima (book)

50s/60s:
- Grease: Teen culture in the 1950s. Star Power: John Travolta. Rating: 3 stars, singing. Lots of singing.

- Dr. Strangelove: Cold War fervour heats up America. Rating: 4 stars, dry humour.

- Malcolm X: Malcolm’s transition from a gang-banging thug to a moral and spiritual leader of Blacks in America. Star Power: Denzel Washington. Rating: 5 stars, nudity-sexual scenes, morally questionable behaviour, violence.

ENVIRONMENT:

The World According to Monsanto

Patent for a Pig

An Inconvenient Truth (by Al Gore)
The 11th Hour (by Leonardo DiCaprio)

HOUR 1/2
WATCH the end of SCHINDLER’S LIST

HOUR 3/4
Lecture: WWII [notes]
Movies:
- Canada: A People’s History The Razor’s Edge (the Battle of Britain)
- Dunkirk (WWII in Colour)
- Canada: A People’s History Dieppe
- Canada: A People’s History The Price of Victory

HOUR ONE:
TEST on 1920s and 1930s

HOUR 3: The rise of the dictators
THE BEGINNING OF SCHINDLER’S LIST

HOUR ONE:

• QUIZ on Chapter 3
• (the quiz will cover all of the Chapter 3 things we did yesterday, including all of the presentations).
• Check previous day’s work and review it (page 84, question 2)
• Review notes from yesterday’s “Canada: A People’s History”
• Powerpoint: The Great Depression [link] + Charlie Chaplin Movies!

HOUR TWO:

• Questions on Powerpoint presentation [notes]

HOUR THREE:

• Studyguide 1930s [notes]

HOUR FOUR:

• The rise of dictators [notes]

1) Could the Great Depression have been avoided?

2) Many riots occurred during the Great Depressions, such as the Winnipeg General Strike and the On-To-Ottawa trek.  Could these riots be justified.

3) How was Bennett perceived by Canadians during the Great Depression?  Do you think the image of him was justified?

4) How did women’s lives change over the 1920s and 1930s?

5) In what ways did the Treaty of Versailles lead to the start of WWII?  (You cannot write on this question if you wrote an essay on it last test).

DUE TOMORROW: LOOKING FOR LOVE (yes, that’s all!)
Your essays will be marked later tonight and your marks will be updated at that time.

I will update this space with the latest info.
Pineapple, I didn’t bring your written section home today so I will have to add that tomorrow.
Here are your grades (UPDATED AT 8:50pm)

Latest update:
9:33 pm. Report cards are almost done… 1 left. Microwaved leftovers, here I come.  Well, right after I write the last report card.  That is all the updates for tonight.  Marks are completed.  I will not be checking this site anymore tonight, so if you have any questions about your grades, they’ll have to wait until tomorrow.
9:25 pm. Five report cards left to write.  Then I can eat dinner. Yay.
8:52 pm. Started writing report cards.
8:50 pm. New marks uploaded.  These are the grades that will appear on your reports tomorrow.
8:48 pm. Creating graphic to upload a new version of the marks.
8:42 pm. All essays marked!!
8:36 pm. Only 1 essay left to mark!! (Shabrina… yours is LAST)
8:29 pm. Only 2 essays left to mark!!
8:28 pm. Only 3 essays left to mark!!
8:22 pm. Only 4 essays left to mark!
7:59 pm. 11 essays marked (Alex, Altimesh, Brian, Carlo, Kevin K.)
7:44 pm. 6 essays marked. (just did Mark’s).
7:35 pm. 5 essays marked.  Gora, your paper was a good read. Azrah, your paper was fantastic.
7:29 pm.  3 essays marked (Nihn, Abraham’s and Brian’s Multicultural paper).  Ate some banana cake.  It was delicious.
7:13 pm.  2 essays marked.
7:11 pm. Marks uploaded
7:02 pm. Just finished up entering the marks.  I am now creating a graphic (picture) of the marks to upload.  They’ll be up in a few minutes.
6:49 pm.  Currently entering WWI Battles sheet.  Will be done in a few minutes.
6:00 pm. Marking the written section of the tests.  3/4 done.
5:30 pm. Marking the written section of the tests. 1/2 done.
5:15 pm. Entering the written section of the tests that I marked over the weekend into the computer + updating the grades.

HOUR 1/2:
- StudyGuide 3
- Lecture on 1919, Winnipeg General Strike, etc.  [link to notes]

HOUR 3/4
- Major Topics of the 1920s presentations