Today's schedule is AG-B-A-D-C
Advisory Class - Did you remember your student fees? Student
fees are $25 and the cost for a lock is $8; so $33 in total if you don't have a
lock for your locker.
B 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 then jump in to our Introduction to Law unit by taking down a few
notes on the five functions of law and the divisions of Public (criminal,
constitutional, and administrative) and Private law (tort, family, contract,
property, and labour law). Lastly we'll take a look at the differences between
Substantive and Procedural Law. Your assignment will be to look up the penalties
for a law (in the Canadian Criminal Code)
that you disagree with and explain why we should have stronger or lighter
penalties for this law. Consider "Mischief"
C.C. 430. (1) Every one
commits mischief who wilfully
(a) destroys or damages property;
(b)
renders property dangerous, useless, inoperative or ineffective;
(c)
obstructs, interrupts or interferes with the lawful use, enjoyment or operation
of property; or
(d) obstructs, interrupts or interferes with any person in
the lawful use, enjoyment or operation of property.
Punishment
(2)
Every one who commits mischief that causes actual danger to life is guilty of an
indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.
So if you are
protesting the removal of old growth trees in a location and hammer spikes into
trees then you are endangering the life of fallers (who would use chainsaws and
chainsaws don't mix well with metal spikes)...that means you're
eligible for life in prison much the same as if you tampered with
someone's break lines in their car. Is that sentence too harsh or too light?
Why? that's an example of what I'd like you to consider. You may use the pocket
criminal codes in class or may use the computer to check the statutes on
line.
A and C Blocks Social Studies 10 - Today we'll continue drawing our large scale mental maps of Canada in groups.
When we finish, we'll share our maps and discuss why it is difficult to
conceptualize and graphically represent our country. In the time remaining we'll
begin a lab exercise on latitude, longitude, and time zones. We'll finish that
activity tomorrow and start looking at the five themes of geography.
So
why did I ask you to do a large scale mental map? Our activity yesterday was to
collectively create mental maps of Canada. This was a difficult experience
considering there were no outline maps of Canada in the class for you to base
your individual and collective maps on. You had to use your own image/concept of
Canada. Maps are subjective because they are made by people to represent data in
a specific way. What you did yesterday was a highly complex activity working
through verbal communication skills in order to collectively represent data
in a graphic format (encoding rather than decoding). You had to negotiate a
diverse set of frames, or points of view, with different sets of data in order
to build something that represented your collective knowledge of Canada.
What do maps show? Professor Michael Peterson from the University of
Nebraska (Omaha) said:
The purpose of a map is to show the world at a
smaller scale so that we are able to get a sense of where things are located in
relation to one another, and that we can have a better understanding of
different patterns in geographical space. Maps are also valuable in that they
are useful for gaining knowledge of patterns in geographic space and expanding
our understanding of navigation. They are important to show trends in things as
weather, population and growth. They are a visual source where spatial messages
are transmitted from a cartographer to everyday people like you and
me.
So maps are a language...the language of geography and
today we'll look at some map basics
D 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
the overhead-computer-board and then try to categorize them into crime theory
clusters (similar categories). We'll see where your clusters fit in terms of
Choice, Trait, Social Structure, Social Learning, and Conflict theories. After
this, we'll begin our look at the nature vs. nurture debate by focusing on the
history of psychological and sociological criminology.
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