Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Thursday, September 6. 2012

Today's schedule is once again altered for our advisory group meetings. The schedule looks like this:

9:05 - 9:35 - Advisory Group
9:40 - 10:40 - D Block
10:45 - 11:45 - C Block
11:45 - 12:35 - Lunch
12:40 - 1:55 - B Block
2:00 - 3:15 - A Block

D Block Social Studies 11 - Today we'll see what geographic information we know of other regions in Canada and we'll look at stereotypes of Canadian regions and examine why we have them. We'll try to figure out what the concept "regionalism" means, see how it is affected by our stereotypes, and determine how regionalism causes challenges to Canada as a country. I'll have you draw mental maps of Canada (not from the maps on the wall!) and get you to work in partners on a large scale map. You need to include as much detail about the geographic information you brainstormed yesterday which would include Canada's political geography (provinces/territories/borders/capitals) and physical geography (lakes/oceans/mountains/rivers/islands) as you can. When we finish, we'll share our maps and discuss why it is difficult to conceptualize and graphically represent our country.



C Block Criminology 12 - Today I want you to continue with your brainstormed list of all the reasons you can think why someone would commit a crime. We will collect all of your ideas on large sheets of paper with smelly felts and then try to categorize them into crime theory clusters (similar categories). After, you'll present your ideas and then we'll begin our look at the nature vs. nurture debate by focusing on the history of psychological and sociological criminology (Power Point).

B Block Geography 12 - Today we'll work on learning to observe as a geographer would where we'll look beyond simple observations and try to see a larger picture with connections to the wider world. We'll practice an analysis of a photo in class and you'll start working on your first assignment for the course which is a geographic analysis of a photo from a Canadian Geographic magazine. You'll need to use the Observing as a Geographer Would questions (in your week 1 package that you'll get today) to help with your analysis.

A Block Law 12 -  Today we will continue our discussion on what crime is, why we have laws, and figure out the difference between what is legal what is moral and what is ethical. We'll partner up and get our ideas on big sheets of paper with some smelly felts so that we can have a discussion on the topic. Next we'll come up with a list of laws that we know about (again with the pesky brainstorming - data dump) and then we'll take down a few notes on the five functions of law.

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