Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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

C - Introduction to Law 9/10 - Today we are going to start with your first quiz dealing with the topics we covered in Law 9/10 last week. After your quiz, we are going to spend time discussing the differences between mass and serial murder. We will look at profiling and begin to understand what a psychopath is. Dr. Robert Hare of the University of British Columbia created a checklist called the PCL-R (Psychopathy Checklist Revised). We will look at a video on how profiling was developed in the F.B.I. Behavioural Science Unit through the efforts of many highlighted by the work of John Douglas. In Canada the R.C.M.P. call the technique criminal investigative analysis.

D - Law 12 - Today we will we'll continue our look at criminal law procedures and will focus on warrants. I'll have you work on questions 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 on page 97 AND questions 1, 2, 3, & 5 on page 102 of your All About Law text. We will then look at R. v. Wise (1992) and R. v. Ruiz (1991) as a class.

B - Geography 12 - Today we'll continue our look at weather; working on an activity called “Sunlight and the Seasons” (week 12 package Day 49 – solar energy and the reason for seasons). After you have finished this activity you need to complete questions 17, 19, and 20 from page 62 in your Geosystems textbook.

Don't forget, we'll start the class by looking at the synoptic chart for North America and begin to understand weather station plots. Take some time on the following sites to learn more and to practice your weather operational analysis capabilities:
WW2010 - University of Illinois Weather site
National Weather Service "Jet Stream" online weather school
American Meteorological Society "Data Streme"
British Broadcasting Corporation Reading Weather Maps
USA Today Reading Weather Maps

Practise at: Weather Office (Environment Canada) Operational Analysis Charts or at the Data Streme site above

A - Social Studies 11 - With Mr. Jones you will be looking at the home front in Canada specifically focusing on the war time economy, the role of women in the war effort (WREN - Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service & WD of the Royal Canadian Air Force) and the ever present fear of conscription (Canadian PM William Lyon Mackenzie King's belief in "Not necessarily conscription, but conscription if necessary").