Wednesday, October 1, 2008

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

B- Earth and Space Science 11 - Yesterday was our last day in the library to work on our mining project. Your mining project is due this Friday (on Friday, we're in the library so you can work on your major semester long project). Today we'll focus on Earth history, mass extinctions, and geologic time. We'll look at sections of the documentary "The Day the Earth Nearly Died" which deals with the Permian mass extinction (95% of all species on the planet died off within 1000 years). The K/T extinction 65 million years ago wiped out 60% of all life on the planet. We'll have a few questions to work on after the video.

A - Law 12 - Yesterday we looked at summary conviction, indictable, and hybrid offences and worked on questions 3-7 on page 74 (due today). Today we will go over the different types of Mens Rea (Intent/Knowledge/Recklessness) and as a class we'll go over R. v. Mac (1995) and R. v. Harricharan (1995). You will then be responsible for working on the case questions from R. v. Thornton (1990) q 1-4 p.70 and R. v. Sansregret (1985) q 1-6 p.72

D - Geography 12 - Today....Oh today we look at Tsunamis and the west coast of North America. We'll watch sections of the PBS documentary "The Wave that Shook the World" and the Discovery Channel documentary "America's Tsunami: Are we Next?" You will have two questions to work on tonight in your week four package (How do Tsunami’s work? from p.6 & Why can tsunamis cause such damage and devastation? What are some characteristics of the wave that factor into how much damage it could cause? How do coastal or shoreline features factor into the extent of damage? What role could a warning system play? How effective would a warning system be for the west coast of Vancouver Island? Why? from p.7)