Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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

A - Social Studies 11 - Today we'll watch the American Civil Defense video "Duck and Cover" along with a bit of the Atomic Cafe movie in class. The Atomic Cafe contains civil defense movies from the 1940's through the 1960's and will help you understand the culture of fear that developed throughout the Cold War. You'll need to work on questions 2 and 4 from page 146 in your Counterpoints textbook.

B - Geography 12 - Today we look at mesoscale convective complexes and tornadoes. I'll show you some footage of a tornado captured on video by a Kansas television crew. This footage was actually detrimental to tornado safety as most people who saw it assumed that a highway overpass provides shelter and safety. This proved deadly with the May 3, 1999 Moore Oklahoma F5 tornado. We'll also watch footage of the Moore tornado and see the damage it wrought. At the end of the class you will need to work on questions 15 and 16 from page 248 of your Geosystems textbook.

C - Introduction to Law 9/10 - Today you'll write quiz three of the course on the work from last week. After the quiz we will continue our look at criminal forensics by looking at how investigators estimate time of death, how fingerprints are "lifted" at a crime scene (including what AFIS is), what the "Four T's" are for marks at a scene, how fibres are used, and what ballistics is. Tomorrow we'll do our fingerprinting activity and Thursday we look at the use of DNA and try to understand the process of analyzing it and you'll have a crime to try and solve in class.

Today and Thursday we'll go to: Rice University's CSI: The Experience Web Adventure to understand more about our topics.


D - Law 12 - Today we take a look at the differences between Criminal and Civil law. We'll take down a chart on these differences and then I'll read out a civil case for us to discuss. After I would like you to read the Thomas v Hamilton Board of Education (1994) case and complete questions 1, 2, 3, 4, & 6 on page 272. Tomorrow I'll give you your case study project and we'll review the cases together as a class.