Monday, December 17. 2012

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

A Block Law 12 - Today we have the class to continue working on our case study project. Tomorrow we will be back in the library and on Wednesday - Thursday we'll be in the class watching the documentary Hot Coffee. When we return from Christmas break we'll look at Intentional Torts and then shift our focus into family law.

B Block Geography 12 - Today we will spend the entire class finishing our work on the Okanagan Valley topographic map out of the Canadian Landscape Air Photo & Topographic Map textbook. The map can be found on pages 27-31 of the text and you will need to work on questions 1 a-c, 2 i, ii & c, 3 a & b, 5 a, b, c, & d, 8, 9 a, b, c, and 11. This work needs to be finished for tomorrow's class and please do not forget our unit final tomorrow as well.

C Block Crime, Media & Society 12 - Today we're back in the library working on the collaborize classroom site. Now for today I'd like you to do two things:

1. Finish your work on the Colton Harris-Moore thread question about the media's reporting of crime and celebrity.
2. Work on the question about similarities/differences between Canadian and American crime-media coverage  (more on the collaborize class site)

D Block Social Studies 11 - So we got lost in Canada as a social welfare state on Friday which really was all good because we did get to understand some very big concepts and look at the essential components of healthcare and welfare in Canada. Today we will work on the history of Quebec “nationalism” and the roots of the separatist movement (Chapter 8 pages 190-204 in the Counterpoints textbook). We'll go through pages 198 – 204 as a class and then we will watch Canada: A People’s History episode “Years of Hope and Anger” chapter 12 "October 1970". This deals with the Front de Libération de Québec (Quebec Liberation Front) whose actions culminated with the kidnapping of James Cross (who was released) and Pierre Laporte (who died while in FLQ custody) in the province of Quebec. The Canadian Prime Minister (Pierre-Eliott Trudeau) responded by imposing the War Measures Act in Quebec (suspending civil liberties). I have a flowchart/worksheet that we'll work through as a class today.