Dictatorships and Illiberal Democracies

As of this week, we have 12 class days of school left, one of which will be your written portion of your Diploma Exam.  In these last 2 weeks, we will be looking at the two major dictatorships of the 20th century and why democracies sometimes feel the need to limit your rights and freedoms. If those rights and freedoms are limited in an unjust way, a democracy can become an illiberal democracy.  After that, we will look at what you can do to make sure that your rights and freedoms are always upheld.

The Plan for the Week

Monday:

• Hand in Projects
• Vocabulary: Communism and Fascism
• Basics of dictatorships and how they manifested in USSR and Nazi Germany

Life under Stalin

Life under Hitler

• Similarities and Differences between the systems

Tuesday:

• Finish up with dictatorships
• Vocabulary: Individual Rights and Collective Rights
• Different Types of Rights and how they are protected

Wednesday:

• Protecting Democracies: Safety and Security vs. Rights and Freedoms
• Which is more is more important?
• Vocabulary: Dissent, Civil Disobedience
• Notes on Dissent and its role in a democracy
• Acceptable vs unacceptable
• The use of dissent in democracy and it's importance
• YOU WILL NEED A DATA SEEKING DEVICE, PREFERABLY A LAPTOP

Thursday:

• Rants by Danielle and Tyler
• The use of dissent in democracy and it's importance
• YOU WILL NEED A DATA SEEKING DEVICE, PREFERABLY A LAPTOP
• Categorizing the events

Friday: 

• Why governments limit rights:
• To uphold the democracy
• Imposition of Liberalism - Was it always a choice?

Imposing Liberalism in Afghanistan

Imposing Liberalism in Canada

• Red Paper and White Paper 
• Residential Schools

• What's more important: Safety and Security or Rights and Freedoms?