Welcome back family. I hope your Easter break was restful;
Today's schedule is A-B-C-D
A & D - Criminology 12 - Today we will be in the library working on our second journal / blog entry. Over the weekend I asked you to watch some television news broadcasts and see how many and what kind of crime stories they show. I asked you to do this because there is a direct link between perception of crime and what the news media portrays of crime. Remember the statistics I showed you about crime trends here in BC? So today I would like you to tell me what you think about crime trends here in Canada / B.C.
I want you to tell me if you think crime is increasing, decreasing, or staying the same. I would like you to be specific in your thoughts (ex: if you think crime is increasing what kind of crime? what age group? where? why?) Outline the current trends in crime (age, economy, social problems, firearms availability, gangs, drug use and justice policy - p.37-8 in Criminology: The Core) and crime patterns (ecology, social class, age, gender, and race p.42-9 in Criminology: The Core). You may want to throw in a reason or two why you think that violence is over reported in the media and maybe consider explaining why that hurts rather than helps deal with crime. Next find a news story that helps to explain your ideas about crime trends, make a link to the news article on your blogsite and then tell me all about how that story exemplifies your thoughts on crime trends.
Stats Can Crime Trends
So on the weekend I asked you to watch the first ten minutes of local news broadcasts to check out crime related stories...and you probably didn't so to see the differences look at local news for KING 5 News, KIRO 7 News, KOMO News 4 or Q13 FOX News for Seattle and GLOBAL TV BC, CTVBC, or CBC for Vancouver.
B - Earth & Space Science 11 - Today we move on to the process of water and wind breaking down the surface of the earth. We will look at the different types of physical (mechanical) and chemical weathering. We'll start with a few notes and then move on to questions 1, 2, 3, 5, & 6 on page 243. For more information and help on the work, check out:
McGill University Geog 203 weathering notes
The Physical Environment textbook on line
Exploring Earth textbook on line
You'll have a bit of time to work on this tomorrow in class and then we move on to Mass Wasting.
C - Geography 12 - Today we'll continue our look at weather; working on an activity called “Sunlight and the Seasons” (week 12 package "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
Nestled away, in the back corner of G.P. Vanier, you'll find room 115 (we used to be 611). Lurking in the shadows of this room is Mr. Young...waiting to pounce on unsuspecting students and natter on about volcanoes, hail, psychopathy, criminal law defenses, cultural diffusion, media theories, crime, and urban models of city development. He loves his job in 115 and can't wait to work with you this year.
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