Week 17: Mar 7-Mar 11

Week 17: Mar 7-Mar 11 Easton and Caden

Main topics we covered in class:

• Overthrowing a government

            -What is the motivation for someone to overthrow a government?

            -What is the method they use to overthrow? (violence, peaceful                         

              Protest, media)

            - What obstacles may they face?

            - What system do you replace the government with?

• The War Measures Act

            - The War Measures Act was a federal statute adopted by  Parliament in 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War. It gave broad powers to the Canadian government to maintain security and order during war or insurrection.

            - What is more important Security or Freedom?

• The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom

            -The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a bill of rights

              entrenched in the Constitution of Canada.

            - It exclaims all Canadian citizens rights and freedoms.

            - It supports different cultures as well as language rights and helps

               support a domestic society.

            -It has many criticisms though, (Causes disputes, Does not help

             with  health and social rights, Does not give power to elected

             officials.)

Other work done in class:

• Introduction to the complexities of Modern Liberalism

Assignment:

• Planning your overthrow- Mind Map
• Creating and finishing our overthrow presentations

         - Create a real or fictitious government to be overthrown.

          Explain:

          - What type of government is in place

          - Who will overthrow the government

          - What is their motivation to overthrow the government

          - What method will they use to overthrow

          - What obstacles will get in their way

          - What system do they put in place

• Watching Hunger Games and understanding how it relates to Social 30. Ex: Sparks fear to the people, too much gov’t power, citizens against the gov’t, leading to possible overthrow.

• Virus outbreak worksheet (The government needs your suggestions in solving the following problems with this outbreak)

Additional Resources:

• The War Measures Act - YouTube

  

Chloe Hoppes- Monday March 21

Monday, 21 March 2016

The main topics that were covered this week were Freedom vs. Security, How to overthrow a Government (project) and a brief review on SBQ's.

On Monday, we had a lesson on the topic of Freedom vs. Security. We talked about how sometimes the balance of both can go wacky. We went over some quotes from individuals such as Hermann Goering, John Adams, and Ben Franklin. Here are some of the quotes that we went over...

 

Hermann Goering was Hitlers right-hand man and had a strategy that was to create a sense of fear so people will do what you want.

- "Liberty, once lose, is lost forever." -- John Adams

-  "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin


Another person that we discussed was Maher Arar. Arar was taken in during a layover at John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 on his way home to Canada after a family vacation in Tunis. He was kept in Syria for almost a year and during that time was tortured. Arar's lawyers declared that the US government's actions were illegal and violated his constitutional, civil and international human rights. Here is a video that further explains Maher Arar's situation and what he had to go through.

-Maher Arar

Here is another video that gives another perspective on the Topic of Freedom VS. Security..

- FREEDOM VS. SECURITY


On Tuesday, We presented our "How to Overthrow a Government" projects to teachers in our school as well as some from out of Lindsay Thurber. All of the projects were due theThursday the 10th. We then did a walk through of them on Monday the 14th and got our final marks on Tuesday the 15th. Those who came to see our projects really enjoyed them and everyone did a great job!

On Wednesday, we wrote a reflective essay about our projects. These were due by the end of the week. Some of the questions that we had to answer were:
1. Introduction:
Explain the project and say what you had to do.

2. How proud you were of your work:
Give examples that help out your answer and provide details.

3. What I want people to notice:
Give examples from your project with details

4. What would you do next or What needs to be done:
 Again, give examples and details and then final tie it all together.

You can find the outline and what is expected of the Reflective Essay on our Google Classroom.

On Thursday, we did a brief review on how to write a source-based question. Here are some tips that Plastow gave us:

There are 3 sources given. When you are looking at each source you should answer the following three questions...

1.) What is the message of the source?
2.) How do you know? (Is it written, drawn, referred, etc)
3.) What is the context? Why? (If you can expand on the why part it will help you get above satisfactory)

In an SBQ, a good idea is to create an overarching question. To do this you can explain what the common theme or issue is.
For example, To what extent should liberalism be embraced?
Then - provide answer...how each source would answer the question.

Key things to remember while writing an SBQ are,

- The MORE detail you provide the BETTER it will be!
-Look for little clues that could be within the source.

On Friday, we wrote an SBQ in class which is due on Monday March 21, 2016. The SBQ that we did is posted in the Google Classroom. 

Blog Page Info. from January 4-8 2016

At this Point we were learning about the Cold War

Stalin- Premier of Soviet Socialist Republics “ big three”

Hitler- Leader of Germany and soldier group called the Nazis

Roosevelt- President of United States “big three”

Churchill- Leader of Britain “ big three”

Soviet Union- Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

In February 1945, the “big three” met in yalta to plan the second world war, take precautionary/ emergency actions for their countries and redraw the map of europe

United states and the Soviet Union were considered “ superpowers”  Superpowers are states that have great influence and power as well as, great economic and military strength

Hitler invaded both Russia and Poland and by 1945 had more power than the Soviet Union and United States

Key Words :

Spheres of Influence : You have your circle, I have mine, You stay out of my circle and we won’t have any issues

Brinkmanship : Like a big game of chicken Keep pushing and pushing until someone breaks

Detente : MAjor power tried to release tension among countries and other powers - like mom trying to get siblings to get along on a bad day

Deterrence : Mutually assured destruction  

Containment : Stopping the spread of communism

Expansionism: Political and Military Policy of taking over additional territory

 

 

Blogging Schedule updated

Blogging Schedule

Here is our blogging schedule.  Because of some short weeks and holidays I had to double some people up.  Please plan accordingly.

Week 1 Oct 5 -9  Tyra C
Week 2 Oct 12-16  Jayda A
Week 3 Oct 19-23  Kaylin B
Week 4 Oct 26-30 Morgan D and Nicole T
Week 5 Nov 2-6 Nick D
Week 6 Nov 16-20 Chris G
Week 7 Nov 23-27 Shauna Hand Alex W
Week 8 Nov 30- Dec 4  Alysha H
Week 9 Dec 7-Dec 11 Chloe H
Week 10 Dec 14-Dec 18 Orzalo J
Week 11 Jan 4- Jan 8  Kearra L
Week 12 Jan 11- Jan 15  Aisha Z
Week 13 Jan 18- Jan 22 Kallie L
Week 14 Feb 1-Feb 5 Brittany L and Marokh Z
Week 15 Feb 22-25 Shivam P
Week 16 Feb 29-Mar4 Alexes R Alysha
Week 17 Mar 7- Mar11 Caden S and Easton L
Week 18 Mar 14- Mar 18 Kristina S Chloe
Week 19 Mar 21-Mar 23 Kalena S
Week 20 Apr 4- Apr 8 Aly S

Let me know ASAP if something needs to be resceduled.

Week 14: Feb 1-Feb 5

Is Liberalism a viable ideology?

Lecture/Discussion

Viable:  Practical/ Reasonable/ Realistic/ Attainable.

(Principles of liberalism: Individual rights & freedoms; democracy; free market)

• Recall what happens when liberalism is imposed onto others.

How does Government know what people want? 

→ Voting, economy, suggestions, protests.

• Are societal issues such as : Freedom VS Security, police abuse of power, environmental issues; being properly attended to  by a Liberal society?  

• Is the government serving or leading the people? ← (Important to consider when determining the viability of a liberal ideology.)

Parts of the essay. ASSIGNMENT

• When analyzing the source for an essay you should include in your paragraph:
• Identification of the source's main message
• Context of the source (Who? What? Why? When?)
• Discuss who would agree or disagree with the source Why? or why not?

LECTURE/ DISCUSSION

       Elements of a Democracy ⬅ Important to understand

• A political system used for choosing or replacing the current  government through Free and Fair elections.
• The active participation of the people as citizens in political and civic life

• Important to recall democracies stand for the protection of all human rights and  rule of law (to which the laws apply equally to all citizens).

• Rule of law: Precautions set to ensure there is not abuse of power by limiting everyone in society to well-defined and established laws.

How do democracies work in Canada?

EXECUTIVE (PRIME MINISTER)                  

                         ⬇

LEGISLATIVE(House of Commons)

                         ⬇    

JUDICIAL (Supreme court of Canada)

Canada's election process follows a strict code involving: All following under the Canadian Constitution and obeying Canadian rule of law.

-Independent election departments

-Secrets ballots

-Campaign spending laws

-Regular election policies (every 5 years)

-Representative government and the right for any citizen to vote.

Part of the essay. ASSIGNMENT

Part of the essay- Argumentation

When creating an argument in an essay you should include:

-Establishment of personal position (opinion)

-Development of 1+ arguments based on logic and reason  (main content)

-Creation of relationships between Positions, argumentative context and the ideological perspective identified in the source.  (connections to every idea in your essay, make sure not to include random, unimportant outliers!)

Introduction to Quiz Assignment:

‘’Men learn while they teach’’ -Lucius Seneca

Following the wisdom of Seneca, we created a quiz based on the information in Chapter 10. The quiz we created dealt with the following concepts:

Principles of Liberalism in Direct Democracy

• Canada’s Parliamentary Democracy
• United States Republican Democracy
• Proportional Representation
• Challenges to the will of the will of the people(voting apathy)

• Voter Turnout
• Elitism
• Lobbying/Special Interest Groups

• Referendum- A general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision.

• Most common in Canada
• Always ruled by 50%+ 1 (Majority)

Additional Resources

January 19-22 end of cold war and imposing liberalism

How did the Cold War end?

Ronald Reagan                  vs.                       Mikhail Gorbachev

                          (conservative)                                     (last communist leader in Russia)

                                

Ronald spent a lot of money of arms for the United States which eventually led them into debt.

Russia had a stagnant economy. Mikhail implemented reforms that split up into two categories: Glasnost and Perestroika.

Overall, the US outspent the USSR.

Imposing Liberalism = Forcing Freedom

Reasons for Imposing Liberalism:

• Self- interest eg. 9/11
• Humanitarianism eg. Countries sometimes feel morally obligated to intervene in another country in cases such as, Genocide, Oppression, Human Rights Abuses, Crisis, Extreme Human Suffering.etc

Imposing Liberalism on Iraq:

• Invading Afghanistan, removing Taliban government who trained 9/11 attackers.
• In 2003, Iraq is targeted for ‘regime change’. Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to the US so a preemptive strike was ordered. A liberal democracy would be established.
• A democratic system was put into place in Iraq.
• US faced setbacks eg. Prisoner abuse and torture
• Resistance in Iraq led to instability (ethnic violence)

Exporting a Liberal Democracy has economic benefits. There has never been a war between a liberal democracy and a liberal democracy.

January 11-15

Main topics we covered this week in class:

-Reviewed The Cuban Missile Crisis

-Review on Brinkmanship

-The Korean War:

The Korean war started in 1950 between North Korea and South Korea as a civil war which         soon became international. June 1950 is when North Korea (who was supplied and advised by the Soviet union), invaded South Korea. Later on the United Nations and the US joined the war as supporters of South Korea. The People's Republic of China also joined the war but they came in as North Korea's aid. The war ended in 1953 with following negotiations in 1954 stating that they would return to the “status quo ante bellum” (the way things were before the war), that left  Korea still divided into two states and brought the cold war into Asia.

Other work done in class

-watched Defcon 2 documentary

-watched Cold War on ice documentary

Assignment

-Cold War Conundrums:

 For this assignment you had to choose one of seven Cold war problems and perspectives and  

define the root causes of the problem. Once that was done you had to create as many solutions  to that problem as you could then select one solution to the problem. Then you had to research and find out what solution was actually used.

Additional Resources

(watch till 4:20)