Thursday, September 11, 2008

Thursday's schedule is D-C-Lunch-A-B.

D - Geography 12 - Yesterday we looked at systems in geography (open versus closed, feedback, equilibrium, and thresholds). Today, after a quick review, we'll move on to geographic spheres within the Earth system. Your homework will be to look at figure 1.8 (p.13) and figure 1.9 (p.14) in the Geosystems book and try to interpret the relationships amongst the four spheres as a result of humans burning fossil fuels. If you're having trouble with this consider the carbon cycle (pages 634-5 in text) or look at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/CarbonCycle/. A reminder: the "Geography ID" assignment is due today.

A - Law 12 - Yesterday we began our look at the history of law and were assigned questions 1, 3, 5, 6, & 8 on page 19 in the All About Law textbook. Today we'll try to understand how to read a case citation and work on some case studies in class (R. v. Davis, 1995, and Finnie v. Ropponen, 1987). We'll discuss the "rule of law" and quickly review the Social Studies 11 topics of our constitution and how laws are made.

B- Earth and Space Science 11 - Yesterday we looked at minerals and their importance to our daily lives and had a day without homework. At the beginning of the class you will get some time to work on your chapter one review (due tomorrow). We'll review elements, atoms, and chemical bonds in class and take a look at the crystaline nature of minerals. There will be homework tonight on these topics (questions 2-3-4 on page 43 in the Earth Science and the Environment textbook). Our first lab will be on Monday and Tuesday of next week (identifying minerals) and a reminder that our first quiz will be a week from today (Thursday, September 18th).