What You'll Be Working on While I'm Gone....Hopefully not the best week of social classes for you

Like I told you guys last week, while I am in Kananaskis, you will essentially be teaching yourself.  I will not be going over this material again in class, but if there are things you don't understand, please feel free to send me an email or ask me after Spring Break.

On your vocabulary pages, with everything that we did last week, you should be able to complete all terms up to Voter Apathy and Reform.  That should be one of the first things that you complete this week.

Also, I have booked out the Chrome book portable labs for our class the entire week.  There is not a full class set of 20 (I believe there is only 15) so if you can bring your own laptop, please do.  Since there will be a few different videos you are watching over the course of the week, please bring headphones daily to class.

Ukraine Explained in Simple Terms - Why is there a conflict?

Here are couple different websites that you can use as reference and review of what we covered last week.

Read p. 343 in your textbook on Proportional Representation

First Past the Post

America's Government System vs. Canada's Government System

Canada's Political System, Explained

Monday and Tuesday

• Hand in your double bubble map from Presidential and Parliamentary democracies.  If you and your partner put the EXACT same thing, please just hand in one copy, with both names on it.
• Vocabulary should be completed for the following words: Minority Government, Majority Government, First Past the Post, Electoral College, and  Constituency 
• Positives and Negatives of Democracy
• Watch the video and read the article 
• Make note of at least 5 reasons why democracy works and is a good thing and at least 5 reasons why it fails and is not very efficient

• For the first 2 days this week, you will be working on the Power Point slides in Dropbox titled "Does Democracy Really Work?" There is a PDF copy of the notes handouts, as well as the actual Power Point.  You will need a laptop/Chrome book for internet access as there are several videos to watch, so please have ear buds with you.  You will also need your textbook to go through certain parts of readings.
• Once you have completed that, go back to your vocabulary and write and draw out the description for voter apathy.
• The work on these two days must be completed before going on to Wednesday and Thursday activities.

Wednesday and Thursday

• For Wednesday and Thursday, you will be using the Power Point called Reform in a Democracy.  You can work on your own, or you can work with a partner.  Go through the 5 slides of notes and add information from the handouts that are in Dropbox.
• Then, on your own, go through slides 7-9.  Make jot notes and answer the questions on the slides. Here are the links to the articles/videos you need:

Slide 7

Slide 8

Slide 9

http://goo.gl/HE4aDk

http://goo.gl/GDReAI

• Once all the people at your table have completed going through the slides (should be done on Thursday), discuss and compare your answers for each of the different .
• At the end of class on Thursday, you will write at least a one page write up for whether you think the Senate should be reformed or abolished.  I will be marking this paragraph and using your rant rubric to mark it - so it will be a mark out of 10.   This needs to be handed in by Friday at the end of class.

Friday

• Finish writing your one page (or more) answer to the Senate situation
• Read the article in Dropbox called "How Democracy Created a Monster"
• Once you have done that, work on the questions on Dictatorships Chapter 5 which are in Dropbox as well.  These should be done for Monday.