Friday, October 12. 2012

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

Don't forget today is X Block schedule day so...
A - 9:05-10:10
B - 10:15-11:20
Lunch 11:20-12:05
C - 12:10-1:10
D - 1:15-2:15
X Block 2:15-3:15 (A Social Studies tutorial in room 107)


A Block Law 12 - Today with Ms. Curry...you'll be working on your fairy tale briefs in the library this morning. You could check out National Geographic for some Grimm fairy tales or here for some other ones. The creepier, the better!

B Block Geography 12 - Today your Orting - Mount Rainier case study is due. Please ensure that I receive your assignment by the end of the day. OK from the COTF website consider the following:

How do you estimate the annual probability of an occurrence of a particular type of natural disaster--especially of disasters that don't happen every day? Count the number of the type of event over an interval of time and divide the sum by the number of years in the interval. For example, based on geologic evidence, the 14 Cascade volcanoes have erupted 50 times in the last 4000 years. So the probability of eruption for any given volcano in the Cascades in any given year is 50/[(14)(4000)], or about 1 in a thousand (10^-3) per year. This translates into about 1 or 2 eruptions among the 14 Cascade volcanoes each century. All of these 50 eruptions were relatively small ones -- even the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens! However, there is geologic evidence of eruptions more than 100x larger than Mount St. Helens in the Cascades. How often do these very large eruptions occur? Four eruptions in about a million years. This implies a probability of eruption of about 1 in 250,000 per year. Now, how accurate is this estimate? We must be careful because the so-called "statistics of small numbers" can be very misleading. In statistics, we are looking for typical events, not unique ones. If we compare the probability of small Cascade eruptions with the probability of large eruptions, we find that small eruptions are much more likely than large ones. This result is consistent with much experience in dealing with many other types of natural phenomena (earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, etc.): large events are much less probable than small events of the same kind.

You also have a tectonics test this Monday (October 15th). I posted a review this past week and in your course outline there is a section on studying for tests and answering questions...please take some time to look over it this weekend and review for your test.

Today we'll take the class to finish working on the Koko Head (Hawai'i Kai) topographic map assignment in your Canadian Landscape topographic map textbook.

C Block Criminology 12 - Today we will continue our look at property crime and theft. We'll continue our focus on shoplifting and you'll need to work the following:

You work for the Retail Council of Canada and have been hired to create a poster campaign about shoplifting. The poster campaign has two purposes:

1. To help employees identify people who are shoplifting and
2. To explain how to reduce shoplifting in stores (target hardening and target removal strategies)

Look at figure 11.2 on page 257 in the Criminology text for help. Here are some further ideas and points.....

Spot the Shoplifter: Unfortunately, there is no typical profile of a shoplifter. Thieves come in all ages, races and from various backgrounds. However, there are some signs that should signal a red flag for retailers. While the following characteristics don't necessarily mean guilt, retailers should keep a close eye on shoppers who exhibit the following:

1. Spends more time watching the cashier or sales clerk than actually shopping.
2. Wears bulky, heavy clothing during warm weather or coats when unnecessary.
3. Walks with short or unnatural steps, which may indicate that they are concealing lifted items.
4. Takes several items into dressing room and only leaves with one item.
5. Seems nervous and possibly picks up random items with no interest.
6. Frequently enters store and never makes a purchase.
7. Enters dressing room or rest rooms with merchandise and exits with none.
8. Large group entering the store at one time, especially juveniles. A member of the group causes a disturbance to distract sales staff.

This will take the whole class to complete and will be handed in on Monday for marks.

D Block Social Studies 11 - Today with Ms. Curry...we'll be going over the CEF. First, you'll work on this worksheet - you'll find the answers in your textbook. After that, we'll watch a 25 minutes video about the Canadians in WWI.