Nick Broomfield's "Ghosts"

This is the documovie I love so much! I tried so hard without much success to buy the DVD! It documents so poignantly the plight of illegal migrant workers. So much for globalization! Watch this!

Synopsis: When a young girl, Ai Qin, pays $25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China, she becomes another one of 3 million migrant workers. Risking their lives for pennies these unprotected workers end up cockling in Morcombe Bay at night.

With an extraordinary debut performance from Ai Qin Lin in a film whose principal characters are played by Chinese former illegal immigrants, Ghosts offers a unique insight into a secret world that surrounds us.

HSS3.2.3 Healthcare Services in Singapore

Essential Question: How is good governance reflected in Singapore's health care policies?

• Review:
• Notes on Transport and Population Policies can be downloaded here.
• Understanding goals:
  
• To what extent is healthcare the responsibility of the government?
• Quality?
• Afforability?
• Accessibility?
• What are approaches to managing healthcare?
• Healthcare in history
  
• Healthcare in the present: individual, community and government (in that order)
• Healthcare in the future: Meeting the needs of an Ageing population
• Performances:
• Review: SBQ on ERP in Managing Traffic Flow
  
• Skills: Inference & Comparison
• Assessment:
• SEQ Test on Population: To what extent does government support ensure that Singapore is able to meet the needs of senior citizens? Explain your answer. (12 marks, 25 mins)
• Test dates: 3B (Thu 0900), 3D (Tue 0935), 3F (Fri 1120)
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MWH4.2.3 Korean War

Essential Question: How stable was the post-WWII World?

• Review:
• What led to an escalation of the Cold War: intensity and extensity matrix
  
• Political - Germany
• Economic - Eastern Europe
• Military - Asia & Americas
• Nuclear - Earth & Space
• Understanding Goals:
  
• What led to the Korean War?
• Cold War tensions
• Division of Korea
• UN intervention/incursion
• What led to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
• Escalation of the Cold War
• 1959 Cuban Revolution
• Soviet-US Missile Gap
  
• Performances:
• How much is too much: for each of the events leading to the Korean War, determine which set of actions was justifiable and which was not.
• Korean War SBQ Test
  
• Assessment:
• Class test: Post-WWII Peace Settlements at Yalta & Potsdam in 1945 (13 marks, 25 mins)

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MWH4.2.2 Korean War

Essential Question: How stable was the post-WWII World?

• Review:
• What were the outcomes of the Yalta & Potsdam Conferences?
• Germany: Division, Demilitarisation & Denazification
• Eastern Europe: Political Systems, Geographical Boundaries & Displaced People
  
• International Relations: Founding of the United Nations & Ending the Pacific War
• Understanding Goals
• What led to an escalation of the Cold War
• Political - Germany
• Economic - Eastern Europe
• Military - Asia & Americas
• Nuclear - Earth & Space
• What led to the Korean War
• Cold War tensions
• Division of Korea
• UN intervention/incursion
• Performances:
• Watch video Escape from Berlin
  
• Graphically represent the escalation of the Cold War in its dual dimensions of extensity and intensity.
• How much is too much: for each of the events leading to the Korean War, determine which set of actions was justifiable and which was not.
• Assessment:
• Class test: Post-WWII Peace Settlements at Yalta & Potsdam in 1945 (13 marks, 25 mins)
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HSS3.2.2 Transport & Population Policies

Topic: Transport & Population Policies in Singapore

Enquiry Question: How are the guiding principles of good governance observed in transport and population policies?

• Review: Suggested answers to Governance in Singapore handout can be downloaded here.
  
• Understanding goals:
• How have the principles of governance helped shaped the management of traffic flow in Singapore?
• Measures to manage traffic flow
• ALS & Electronic Road Pricing
• Park & Ride Scheme
• Vehicle Quota System

• How have the principles of governance helped shaped population policies in Singapore?

• Measures to influence population growth rates
• Statutory measures
• Public education
  
• Foreign Talent schemes

• Performances:
• Debate the usefulness of transport/population measures in achieving the desire effects.

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MWH4.2.1 Cold War

Essential Question: How stable was the post-WWII World?

• Review:
• How did WWII end in Europe & the Pacific?
• Understanding Goals:
• What were the outcomes of the Yalta & Potsdam Conferences?
• Germany: Division, Demilitarisation & Denazification
• Eastern Europe: Political Systems, Geographical Boundaries & Displaced People
  
• International Relations: Founding of the United Nations & Ending the Pacific War
• How far did the post-war conferences bring about a peace settlement?
• Germany: Disagreements over the economic policies
• Eastern Europe: Disagreements over the political systems
• International Relations: Disagreements over military involvement

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HSS3.2.1 Understanding Governance

Throughline: Appreciating Singapore

Topic: Singapore: Nation in the World/Governance in Singapore
Enquiry Question: How is governance practised in Singapore? What are the guiding principles of governance?

• Review: Singapore: A Nation in the World
• Nationhood & its challenges: What do you need to ensure:
  
• National Security
• Diplomacy
  
• Defence
• Economic Survival
• Industrialisation
• Trade
  
• Social Cohesion
• Social needs: Education, Healthcare & Housing
• National identity
• Understanding goals:
• What are the principles of good governance
• Incorruptible Leadership (Leadership is key)
  
• Pragmatic & Forward-looking government (Anticipate change)
  
• Meritocratic Policies (Work for Rewards)
  
• Fairness & transparency in decision-making (Opportunities for all)
  
• Performances:
• Apply the principles of good governance to the management of your CCA
• identify the examples of good governance
• identify the examples of the lack of good governance
• propose how you will address the areas where good governance is lacking

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Term 1 Recess Assignments

Pls take some time to consolidate your learnings during this term recess. Pls ensure these assignments are completed by opening week Term 2.

• Sec 3s
  
• Complete backlog of MWH notes for Units 2.1 and 2.2 (if any)
  
• Complete HSS notes for Chapter 2 Understanding Governance by Term 2 Week 1.
• Sec 4s
• Complete backlog of HSS notes for Textbook 3 Chapter 2 Globalisation & Sustainable Development (for 4H only)
  
• Complete backlog of MWH notes for Unit 4.1 (for 4G History and 4H)
  
• Complete backlog of SEA notes for Unit 4.1 & 4.2

These should keep you reasonable occupied. Consolidate.

MWH3.1.10 Rise of Authoritarian Regimes

Topic: Rise of Authoritarian Regimes - Nazi Germany
Enquiry-question: Was the rise of Nazi dictatorship in Germany inevitable?

• Review
• Did Hitler bring more harm than good?
• Economic self-sufficiency
• Education control
• Propaganda & Gestapo
• Anti-Semitism
  
• Performance:
• SBQ Skills revision: Inference practise
• SBQ Skills: Comparison
• Assessment:
• CA1 Diagnosis & Corrections
• Suggested Answers (2008MWH3CA1LON-TOV)
  
• How similar are Sources A and B?
  

Source A
Every Bolshevik, every worker, every citizen of our Soviet land is clearly aware that if we had been able to defeat all these enemies of communism and all these contemptible anti-Bolshevik supporters, it was all because we are indebted to our great and glorious Stalin.

A speech by Nikita Khruschev, a delegate to the Eighteenth Party Congress, 1939.

Source B
Stalin acted not through persuasion, explanation, and patient cooperation with people, but by imposing his concepts and demanding absolute submission to his opinion. Whoever opposed this concept or tried to prove his viewpoint, and the correctness of his position, was doomed to removal from the collective and to subsequent moral and physical punishment.

A speech by Nikita Khruschev, the new leader of Soviet Union, at the Twentieth Party Conference in 1956.

MWH4.1.10 Cold War - Peace Settlements

Throughlines: The Making of the Modern World History
Essential Question: How stable was the post-WWII World?

• Preparation:
• Notes Check for Unit 4.1
• SBQ Practise for Sustainable Development (3 Gorges Dam) - for 4H only
• Suggested Answer (HSS.3GORGES.SBQ.ANS)
  
• Review of CA1 (Diplomacy & Deterrence/Iraq-Kuwait Conflict) - for 4H only
  
• Review:
• How did WWII end in Europe & the Pacific?
• Understanding Goals:
• What were the outcomes of the Yalta & Potsdam Conferences?
• Germany: Division, Demilitarisation & Denazification
• Eastern Europe: Political Systems, Geographical Boundaries & Displaced People
  
• International Relations: Founding of the United Nations & Ending the Pacific War
• How far did the post-war conferences bring about a peace settlement?
• Germany: Disagreements over the economic policies
• Eastern Europe: Disagreements over the political systems
• International Relations: Disagreements over military involvements
• Performances:
• How far do you agree that the formation of the United Nations was the most important outcome of the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences? Explain your answer. (13)