Social 20...that wonderful course that you have anticipating for the summer is finally here! In all actuality, I love Social Studies, and this year you will really be looking at Canada and pride for this wonderful country, among other monumental events in history. Yes, I know. Canada is your favourite topic. It is a great course to get into, if you want to, and can really help you understand the positives and negatives of having pride in your country.
I link to run somewhat of a Flipped Classroom, where there will be opportunities for you to deepen your understanding of the course content on your own time. 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 DropBox and so on that, over the course of the week, you can look at to enhance your learning of the content. 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, 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.
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.
Recap of Last week
Last week, we started by looking at what nationalism is and what a nation is. Really important concepts to remember is that a nation does necessarily mean country. So, keep in mind that when we speak of nation or having nationalism for a nation, it does not necessarily mean that we are speaking of an independent country, such as Canada, the United States, France, etc.
There were nine different understandings of nation that we looked at. The idea behind a nation is that people have something in common that they identify with that brings them together, and they attempt to achieve goals or interests together. The different nations are:
- Linguistic - people are brought together based on a shared language
- Cultural - people are brought together based on shared culture, tradition and ways of life
- Ethnic - people are brought together based on a shared ancestry and ethnicity
- Spiritual - people are brought together based on shared spirituality, whether it is belief systems or a particular place or object that has meaning
- Religious - people are brought together based on a specific belief and faith system
- Relationship to the Land - people are brought together based on locations that have meaning to them religiously or for their specific way of life
- Geographic - people are brought together because natural divisions, such as oceans, mountains or vast landscapes, have caused them to develop their own identity
- Political - people are brought together because they have a politically independent nation AKA: A COUNTRY
- Civic - people are brought together because they choose to live in a specific way
This Week in Social 20...
Tuesday
- Compare your pie graphs from Friday - what do you focus on as your sense of pride?
- Discussion - should Edward Snowden be considered a hero or a traitor?
- Start notes on factors of nationalism
- Loyalties - who gets your loyalty?
- Your nation or your country?
- Notes, debate and discussion
- Rants by Trayden and Kelsey
- Practice Writing Paragraph #1
- 20-1: Assignment I interpreting a source paragraph
- 20-2: Assignment I picking out characteristics
- Notes on factors of Nationalism
- Which factors were prevalent at the beginning of the American Revolution?
- Case Study: The Patriot
- First Project: Research article on the development of nationalism
- Pick your groups
- Pick your topic
- Combined research, individual projects