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Ideology, liberalism, source analysis, and citizenship practice
Source
When individuals are free to pursue their own goals and exchange property voluntarily, their choices coordinate society more effectively than a central authority could.
Source
A community is strongest when each person accepts responsibilities to future generations, protects shared resources, and places long-term collective well-being ahead of immediate personal gain.
Economic conditions in a fictional country, 1932
Unemployment has reached 28%. Banks continue to fail, consumer spending is falling, and local charities cannot meet demand for food and housing.
Government announcement
All youth organizations will be merged into one national movement. Newspapers must publish approved accounts of government achievements, and public rallies will celebrate loyalty to the leader.
Source
The governing party won a competitive election. After taking office, it dismissed judges who ruled against it, restricted independent news outlets, and changed electoral rules to disadvantage opponents.
Security proposal
To prevent a possible attack, authorities want access to every citizen's private messages without obtaining a warrant or demonstrating individual suspicion.
Election results
A party received 18% of votes nationwide but won only 7% of seats. Another party received 39% of votes and won 52% of seats.
Source
After every legal appeal failed, protesters peacefully blocked access to a government office, publicly accepted arrest, and explained that the law being enforced violated equal treatment.
Source
An environmental organization researches proposed legislation, publishes its findings, meets members of Parliament, and encourages supporters to submit policy recommendations.
Digital media study
Users who repeatedly engage with one political viewpoint are gradually shown fewer opposing perspectives and more emotionally charged versions of views they already hold.
Source
A nation within a state asks to control language education, protect treaty relationships, and participate directly in decisions about development on its traditional territory.
Source I
A government insists that events within its borders are solely a domestic matter.
Source II
Neighbouring states argue that mass attacks on civilians create obligations that extend beyond national borders.
Source I
Democratic societies remain stable when citizens defend their own rights and leave others free to make different choices.
Source II
Rights survive only when citizens also protect institutions and accept duties to people whose interests differ from their own.
Part two
Written-response practice and personalized feedback
Alberta Ace Original Practice
This practice task mirrors the form of Assignment I (Source Interpretation), worth 20% of the diploma exam. Suggested time: 60–75 minutes.
"A society is nothing more than the individuals who compose it. Every time a government taxes one citizen to comfort another, it treats that citizen as a means to an end. Prosperity has only ever come from leaving people free to build, trade, and keep what they earn."
— fictional 20th-century industrialist
"We measure a nation not by the fortunes of its strongest but by the security of its weakest. Markets are useful servants and cruel masters; it is the duty of a democratic state to harness them — through public healthcare, pensions, and education — so that liberty is real for everyone, not merely affordable for some."
— fictional post-war election address
A cartoon shows two doors side by side. The first door, labelled "On Your Own," is tall, gleaming, and opens onto a staircase that only a few well-dressed figures are climbing. The second door, labelled "All Together," is plain and crowded, with a long queue of identical figures shuffling through it slowly. A caption underneath reads: "Choose your exit."
Write a response in which you:
Scoring mirrors the diploma categories: Interpretation of Sources, Relationships, and Communication.
Attach up to 4 images of your written work.
Do not submit secured, unreleased, photographed, memorized, leaked, or reconstructed diploma-exam questions.
Alberta Ace Original Practice
This practice task mirrors the form of Assignment I (Source Interpretation), worth 20% of the diploma exam. Suggested time: 60–75 minutes.
"In an emergency, debate is a luxury. When the state faces invasion, plague, or terror, the government must act first and explain later. Citizens who demand their usual freedoms in such moments mistake the lifeboat for the cruise ship."
— fictional wartime newspaper editorial
"Every emergency power we grant is a debt against our future freedom, and history shows such debts are rarely repaid. The measures adopted 'for the duration' have a way of outliving the crisis that justified them. A free people should fear the permanent emergency more than the temporary danger."
— fictional civil-liberties lawyer
A cartoon shows a citizen handing coats labelled "privacy," "assembly," and "due process" to a cloakroom attendant whose desk is labelled "Emergency Measures — temporary." Behind the attendant, the cloakroom shelves stretch back endlessly, packed with dusty, unclaimed coats.
Write a response in which you:
Scoring mirrors the diploma categories: Interpretation of Sources, Relationships, and Communication.
Attach up to 4 images of your written work.
Do not submit secured, unreleased, photographed, memorized, leaked, or reconstructed diploma-exam questions.
Alberta Ace Original Practice
This practice task mirrors the form of Assignment I (Source Interpretation), worth 20% of the diploma exam. Suggested time: 60–75 minutes.
"A depression is the economy's fever: painful, but purgative. Prices fall until goods find buyers; wages fall until workers find jobs. Governments that spend borrowed money to shorten the fever only lengthen the disease."
— fictional 1930s banker
"Waiting for the market to cure itself is a policy of despair. When private spending collapses, only public spending can restart the engine — roads, dams, schools, wages in workers' pockets. The budget can be balanced over the cycle; a generation cannot be un-ruined."
— fictional economist
A staged period-style photograph shows a long line of men outside a soup kitchen. In the foreground, a government poster on a wall announces: "Public Works Program — Men Wanted." One man in the line studies the poster; another, beside him, looks away with his arms crossed. The caption reads: "Two answers to the same winter."
Write a response in which you:
Scoring mirrors the diploma categories: Interpretation of Sources, Relationships, and Communication.
Attach up to 4 images of your written work.
Do not submit secured, unreleased, photographed, memorized, leaked, or reconstructed diploma-exam questions.
Alberta Ace Original Practice
This practice task mirrors the form of Assignment II (Position Paper), worth 30% of the diploma exam. Suggested time: 105–120 minutes.
"The freest society is not the one with the smallest government but the one whose citizens are most able to live the lives they choose. Poverty, sickness, and ignorance imprison people as surely as any law. A government that shrinks from fighting these jailers in the name of 'liberty' has confused the absence of restraint with the presence of freedom."
— fictional political philosopher
Write an essay in which you take and defend a position in response to the question:
To what extent should the perspective reflected in this source be embraced?
Your essay should:
Scoring mirrors the diploma categories: Analysis of Source, Argumentation, Evidence, and Communication.
Attach up to 4 images of your written work.
Do not submit secured, unreleased, photographed, memorized, leaked, or reconstructed diploma-exam questions.
Alberta Ace Original Practice
This practice task mirrors the form of Assignment II (Position Paper), worth 30% of the diploma exam. Suggested time: 105–120 minutes.
"An identity spread across the whole of humanity is spread too thin to warm anyone. People will always give their deepest loyalty to a particular place, language, and story — and political ideals that ignore this truth will be swept aside by ones that honour it. The nation is not a stage of history to be outgrown; it is the household of belonging."
— fictional essayist
Write an essay in which you take and defend a position in response to the question:
To what extent should the perspective reflected in this source be embraced?
Your essay should:
Scoring mirrors the diploma categories: Analysis of Source, Argumentation, Evidence, and Communication.
Attach up to 4 images of your written work.
Do not submit secured, unreleased, photographed, memorized, leaked, or reconstructed diploma-exam questions.
Alberta Ace Original Practice
This practice task mirrors the form of Assignment II (Position Paper), worth 30% of the diploma exam. Suggested time: 105–120 minutes.
"Obedience is the citizenship of subjects; questioning is the citizenship of the free. A democracy that punishes its critics, or a citizenry too comfortable to produce any, is already practising for tyranny. The measure of a liberal society is not how it treats its loyal majority but how it treats its inconvenient minority."
— fictional dissident
Write an essay in which you take and defend a position in response to the question:
To what extent should the perspective reflected in this source be embraced?
Your essay should:
Scoring mirrors the diploma categories: Analysis of Source, Argumentation, Evidence, and Communication.
Attach up to 4 images of your written work.
Do not submit secured, unreleased, photographed, memorized, leaked, or reconstructed diploma-exam questions.