Monthly Archives: April 2020
Key Issue 2 – Why do religions have distinctive distributions?
1. The government of Saudi Arabia prefers to spell some place names differently than is common in English (such as Makkah instead of Mecca). Given your knowledge of the principal language used in predominantly Muslim countries including Saudi Arabia, what might account for this preference?
2. Rank the origins of these three large universalizing religions from earliest to most recent (pg. 199 in textbook).
3. Does the diffusion of Islam prove a good example of hierarchical diffusion, relocation diffusion, or both?
4. Based on religious preferences, which two provinces of Canada appear to have the largest migrants from Quebec?
5. What country had the largest Jewish population in 1910?
Chapter 11 – Conflict in the middle east
1. In the context of the Cold War, why was it so important to the Untied States to broker a peace settlement between Israel and Egypt?
2. Why did religion confuse Cold War decision maker?
3. What factors prevented President Carter from accurately assessing the political situation in Iran?
4. Why did the United States use the CIA to participate in Afghanistan? Why open relations with a dictator in Pakistan? What are the long-term consequences of these decision?
Exit ticket – April 28
- How did the role of women change from 1950-70?
- What was the name of the “paper” that proposed to make changes to the lives of Aboriginals? What was their response called?
- In what ways did Canada’s Immigration policy change?
- What year was the new Canadian flag introduced?
- Summarize the October Crisis.
Current Events – April 27
Chapter 7 – Politics and Government
1. Explain the importance of the 1969 White Paper and Red Paper.
2. Give examples of the federal government’s attempts to assimilate Aboriginal people into Canadian society.
3. List three social changes made by Diefenbaker and three social changes made by Pearson.
4. What did Pearson and Trudeau do to address rising Quebec Nationalism?
5. Who was the FLQ, what was their motivation and what did they do in Quebec?
Chapter 10 – The cold war cools: 1965-79
1. What were the short-term economic and social effects of the black market in the USSR? Can you envision what the long-term consequences might be?
2. What is the legacy of the NPT? Was the NPT a useful tool during the Cold War? Should the NPT a useful tool during the Cold War? Should the NPT be maintained or abolished now that the Cold War is over?
3. Why use the CIA to intervene in Latin American affairs instead of the U.S. military or political diplomacy?
4. How much of the “Space Race” do you think was political or ideological, and how much was strategic?
Chapter 6 Religions – Key Issue 1 – Where are the World’s religions distributed?
1. How should a child’s religion be classified if the two parents adhere to different religions?
2. In what ways is the distribution of religion and language families similar?
3. Based on what you see in Table 6-1, what are some of the largest Christian denominations in in the United States that do not have highly clustered distributions shown in Figure 6-7?
4. What countries in figure 6-10 appear to have large concentrations of both Sunni and Shiite Muslims?
5. Most of the religions with at least 1 million adherents are clustered in which continent?
1- The Goals of Indian Residential Schools and The Indian Act
Chapter 7 – Times of Turmoil: Canada in the 1960s and 70s
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2565499342
1. a) Name two protest movements that emerged in Canada during the 1960s.
b) What kind of impact do you think each of these groups has since had on Canadian society?
2. Many young people of the 1960s and 1970s believed they could change the world. List some of their aims. Do you think they succeeded? Explain.
3. Which group benefited most from the Omnibus Bill? Support your answer.
Key Issue 4 – Why Do local Languages Survive?
1. Asia has 60 percent of the world’s population but only 20 percent of the world’s dying languages. Why might Asia’s large population centres have relatively few dying languages.
2. Google Translate includes Irish and Welsh. Type something in English and see whether similar words are used in Irish and in Welsh and whether the words are similar to English.
3. Why do you think the sign in Figure 5-47 is written in both Icelandic and English?
Current Events – April 17
Chapter 9 – Problems of Decolonization
1. What effect did decolonization have on the structures and processes of the United Nations?
2. What effect did decolonization have on decision making and power within the United Nations?
3. How did the wording of the Geneva Agreements affect Soviet and American actions in the late 1950s and early 1960s?
4. Why wasn’t the United States able to defeat North Vietnam? How did the media and expanding communications affect the decision making of the parties involved in Vietnam?
5. Why did the United Nations take the lead role in decolonization? What was its goal for new countries?
6. What do you think might be the long-term effects of “Divide and rule” policies?
7. Is Pan-Africanism a reasonable goal, why or why not?
8. How did U.S. Soviet and Chinese intervention in Vietnam affect the images of these countries around the world? Why the difference?
9. What do you think was the greatest challenge to creating stable states in Africa in the 1950s though the 1970s?
10. What might be the long-term consequences for the United States in the Cold War if it consistently bases foreign policy decisions on the “Domino Theory”?
Key Issue 3 – Why Do individual Languages vary Among Places?
1. In what ways do you learn about differences between American and British English?
2. Does your English fall into one of these dialects? Why or why not?
3.Does your Internet search engine show tildes, cedillas, and circumflexes?
4. What is the most widely used language in the same family as Hausa? What religion’s holiest book is written in that language?
Current Events – April 8
Luck and early preparation flattening B.C.’s COVID-19 curve, but officials urge residents to ‘not let up
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-19-bc-update-april-6-1.5523554
肺炎疫情：新冠病毒到底哪来的？科学界的几种说法
Key Issue 2 – Where did English and related languages originate and Diffuse?
1. Which branch predominates to the north in Europe, which to the south, and which to the east?
2. Which hypothesis appeals more to you: the “war” hypothesis or the “peace” hypothesis? Why?
3. Which word entered the English language through the German invasions and which through the Norman invasion?
4. What is the title of the book in Figure 5-20? Type the letters intro Google Translate?
Chapter 5 Languages Key Issue 1 – Where are the World’s Language Distributed?
Please watch the following videos and reading pg. 146-153 of Cultural Landscape for the questions below, thanks!
1. What forms of power would have moved boats 2,000 years ago?
2. Based on Figure 5-3, which four other languages with at least 5 million speakers belong to the same language family, branch, and group as English?
3. Sino-Tibetan is the second-most widely used language family, but it appears on Figure 5-6 to encompass a smaller land area than several other language families. Why is this the case?
4. Most languages are named for regions or countries. For example, based on their names, how would you expect the distribution of Austronesian and Austro-Asiatic to differ?
Chapter 4 Folk and Popular culture 4.4 Questions
1. In what ways might Amish people need to interact with popular culture?
2. What steps might fast-food restaurants take to reduce adverse impacts on the environment?
Chapter 8 – Khrushchev’s Cold War
1. What was Khrushchev trying to prove in the “Kitchen Debate”?
2. How did the U-2 spy plane incident affect intelligence gathering?
3. Why were Soviet Nuclear missiles a bigger threat to the United States when placed in Cuba?
4. What did Khrushchev hope to gain with “de-Stalinization”? Did he succeed?
5. What effect did it have on nationalism in satellite states?
6. Why were the Cuban people willing to follow Castro even into communism?
7. What were the short- and long-term consequences of the Berlin Wall?
8. Why did the United States believe that WWIII would begin in Berlin?
9. Why did Khrushchev support “peaceful coexistence”? Did it change the Cold War as he hoped?
10. How might the U.S. embargo and quarantine of Cuba affect its image across Latin America?
Human geography 12- Chapter 4 – Key Issue 3
Chapter 7 – The Cold War Begins
Please watching the videos and do the readings for the following questions:
1. In your opinion, based off of the readings, should the United States and the USSR have invested so much money in expanding nuclear technology that they could not use without world-wide devastation?
2. What were the differences between Stalin’s version of communism and Mao’s?
3. How did the Sino-Soviet split affect US decision making?
4. Why wasn’t Korea granted full independence immediately following WWII?
5. Should UN troops have stopped at the 38th parallel or tried to reunite Korea?
6. Was the battle by proxy a reasonable way to prevent WWII?
7. How did the arms race affect national security concerns in Europe and Asia?
Socials 10- Unit 6 – The Cold war study Guide A and B
Socials 10- Current Events
Example Articles:
CURRENT EVENTS WORKSHEET
DATE DUE: Usually every Friday
Directions: Find an article either in the newspaper or online from a newspaper source, CBC, BBC, The Guardian, Time.com, USA Today, The New York Times, etc., or any other reputable national or local source. Read the article and fill out the statements or answer the questions below. You may not use articles on Entertainment/Gossip or Sports. Please find and read about important issues in our world today. Because this is a current events assignment you are to choose an article that is no more than a week old from when the assignment is given. Read the Rubric at the end of the worksheet to complete all the requirements for this assignment.
Structure of the Presentation:
Topic of Article: _____________________________________________________________________
Title of Article: ______________________________________________________________________
Source: _____________________________________________________________________________
WHO is this article about? ____________________________________________________________
WHAT is this story about? List four important facts from your article.
1. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
WHEN did this story take place?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
WHERE is this event or issue occurring? (Specify city, country, region, etc.)
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
WHY is this story important?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CONNECT the article. What does it have to do with you? Can it be connected to anything we learned or are learning about in class?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Grading will be based on the following rubric:
4 – Entire Current Event assignment displays the following requirements for each question/statement above:
a. Demonstrates thoughtfulness, preparation, and accuracy.
b. Reflects real understanding of the story and the issues.
c. Follows directions.
d. Is complete, neat, and includes entire article.
e. Asks and answers a provocative (for discussion purposes) question.
3 – Current Event assignment is complete but lacks 2 of the above requirements.
2 – Current Event assignment lacks 3 of the requirements.
1 – Current Event assignment lacks 4 of the requirements.
0 – Current Event assignment is late (excepting all day absence) or lacks 5 or more of the above requirements.
Example article: https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/business/moderna-coronavirus-vaccine/index.html
Chapter 6 – International and Regional Convergence
Questions for homework:
1. Why was the United Nations created after the failure of the League of Nations.
2. How did the Great Depression of the 1930s lead to the Bretton Woods system.
3. Explain in your own words what the IFM and World Bank is about. In your opinion, what are the positives and negative perceptions of the two organizations.
Social Studies 10 – D- Day
Hi everyone, here is the video for D-Day near the end of world war 2
Please also do your readings for Chapter 5 and the study guide A (Due this Friday) and B (Next Friday), a reminder that we will have a test next week on Wednesday or Thursday! Thanks!
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