The Beginning of Social Studies 30 aka: All you ever wanted to know about life :)

Social 30...that wonderful course that you have anticipating for for the last 12 yeara is finally here, AND it's first thing in the morning! In all actuality, I love Social 30 and it really does have a lot to do with what you will encounter for the rest of your life. It is a great course to get into, if you want to, and can really help you understand how our society functions and to question whether or not how we run things is the best way possible.

I will be doing a "Modified Flipped Classroom", where there will be opportunities for you to deepen your understanding of the course content. What that means is that each week, I will try to put a new blog posting up by Sunday night to outline what we will be doing in the coming week. I will put links to powerpoints, slides, videos, websites, updates into Google Classroom and so on that, over the course of the week, you can look at to enhance your learning of the content. Once my projector is up and running, it is up to you to print off your notes if you want paper copies or to download digital copies to follow on your device. Ideally, the large portion of the intricate content would be what you look up on your own. Now, I know that looking up history is not everybody's cup of tea. However, by doing the background knowledge at home, it allows us to use the time in class to work on your skills to understand the knowledge = you will practice skills that will help you to be successful on your diploma in class, rather than focusing on knowledge. This is not to say that there won't be specific knowledge presented in class; it simply means to gain a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of the course, I will provide you with information to help better prepare you.

Videos, such as the one below, are great background knowledge to what life was like before individualism came around that we are definitely not going to be able to cover in class. So, it is up to you whether or not you watch it.  But I really think you should :)

This blog will also let you know what we will be doing for the week, so it will be an agenda for what we are to get through.

So what's in store for the rest of this week?

Wednesday

• Philosophers of the Enlightenment - the European men who greatly influenced the development of Classical Liberalism
• Adam Smith
• John Locke




•  Jean Jacques Rousseau


• John Stuart Mill






• Thomas Hobbes
 


•  Voltaire






• Monstesquieu 

• Karl Marx




• Class notes on Philosophers
• Activity - placing philosophers on the spectrum
• Matching time! Fun! As always! Don't deny it!

Thursday

• Vocabulary: Radical, Reactionary, Liberal and Conservative
• Spectrum notes
• How do we interpret sources? BK, ? and I
• What is a political system and why do we need one?

Friday

• Individualism vs. Collectivism

• Parts of each of them
• How do they affect a political system/government structure
• Second Half of Class - Second Writing paragraph so you NEED your computers/iPads/something you can write on and access google drive from