Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Tuesday, May 17. 2011

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


C - Geography 12 - Today in the library I'd like you to take an hour to play the game stop disasters. The scenario I would like you to work on is the Caribbean Island Hurricane. There is a population of 180 people in your town and you will need to develop some housing, a hospital, a school, and secure the boats in the harbour. You have a budget of $50,000 to work with and don't forget to develop some defenses to protect people, buildings, and livelihoods. When you click on an object square you will likely get three choices: info, develop, & defences. Read through your options and try to uncover all 15 key facts (which will give you extra points). When you finish keep a track of your highest score (you might get through two or three games) and respond to this post with things you learned and what your scores were. Have fun playing and learn something.

D & A - Criminology 12 - Today we'll start the class with the conclusion of the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode that we started last week. After we'll review our discussion on 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). Next we'll look at child & domestic abuse and robbery.

After this, I'd like you to explain the types of serial and mass murderer along with the reasons why they commit these crimes. You can find the answers to this in the work of Jack Levin and James Alan Fox "Multiple Homicide: Patterns of Serial and Mass Murder". The summary of their work is on pages 234 and 235 of the textbook in the Criminological Enterprise section. For more info look at the work of John Douglas (former FBI profiler) on mindhunter.com (look in the article section and there is a great read entitled "So, you want to become a profiler...").

Tomorrow you'll have a quiz in Criminology on Victimology and Violent Crime.

B - Earth & Space Science 11 - So yesterday I went through some of your "5 Burning Questions" and then we took a diagram down about the vertical extent of the atmosphere (layer names). Today we'll finish that diagram and then I'll ask you to look at the composition of the atmosphere and the differences between the Earth's original atmosphere and our modern atmosphere. After I'll ask you to complete "For Review" questions 1, 2, 4, and 7 from page 426. I will also ask you to combine questions 8 & 10 together (where you need to explain the heat & pressure changes along with significant properties of the bottom two layers of the atmosphere).

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