Thursday, March 4. 2010

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

B - Social Studies 10 - Today as a class we'll take notes down on two of the four causes of discontent in Upper Canada. We'll look at the colonial government structure (Governor appointed members of the Executive and Legislative Councils that routinely ignored the wishes of the elected Assembly) and the ruling colonial elite (Anglican Church, the wealthy United Empire Loyalists and the business people, bankers, lawyers and military leaders that formed the Family Compact). At the end of class, you'll need to work on questions 2 & 6 from page 30 of the Challenge of the West textbook.

A - Earth & Space Science 11 - Today we'll continue with our look at rocks with the Earth Materials Worksheets (3-4-5) . We'll start with a few notes about metamorphic rocks and metamorphism (contact, regional, and dynamic). I'll give you time to finish the worksheets and then I'll have you begin a Sedimentary and Metamorphic rock identification activity.

For more on Metamorphic Rocks check out:
Cal Poly GSC 101 Notes on Metamorphism
Physical Geography Metamorphic Rocks
Tulane University Geol 212 Notes on Metamorphic Rock Types

C - Criminology 12 - We'll take some time to review the roots of violence that we started yesterday and then we'll discuss murder and homicide. We'll discuss the divisions of murder in Canada (1st and 2nd degree and manslaughter), the extent of murder in Canada, and murderous relations (acquaintance and stranger homicide). If there's time I'd like to talk about multiple homicides (mass and serial murder) and motives for killing other human beings.