Friday, October 3. 2014

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

A & C Blocks Social Studies 10 - Today we'll connect our mapping, five themes and physiogeographic work together. I'll go through pages 18–23 of your textbook together with you and we'll work together in the class on explaining and identifying the six physiographic regions of Canada. We'll use the text along with the Canadian Atlas on line to go through each one of the regions - identifying the geologic structures, natural resources, climate types, ecosystems, population patterns and other cool stuff. Today I'll have you work on questions 1-5 on page 28 of the Horizons text. (Monday we'll look at natural regions, the cultural landscape and the First Nations peoples of the land while on Tuesday we'll see the big picture "How has Geography shaped the culture and history of Canada?") .

B Block Law 12 - We'll start by discussing yesterday's Charter work and then I'll have you work on questions 1-4 of the Canada (Attorney General) v. JTI Macdonald Corp., (2007) on page 44 in the text. I'd also like you to work on question 3 from page 46 which deals with the R. v. Keegstra (1990) and R. v. Butler (1992) cases.

When we finish this we'll watch an episode of Law & Order from season 9 (episode 1) called "Cherished". From tv.com:

After a baby girl is found dead, Briscoe and Curtis investigate the family and learn that her adopted family and brother were trying to keep some painful secrets. Jack gets a new partner, Abbie Carmichael, who had a 95% percent success rate in her four years with Special Narcotics. Together McCoy and Carmichael try to prove that the little girl's brother committed the crime

The episode deals with some pretty heavy stuff (child abandonment and fraud) and to see a real life example check out the Pravda news article here. The real life case surrounds a couple who adopted a child from a Russian orphanage and a decision was handed down in the case in 2008. From the Salt Lake Tribune:

A Tooele Utah mother who admitted to killing a 14-month-old boy she and her husband adopted from Russia was sentenced Friday to prison for up to 15 years. Kimberly K. Emelyantsev, 34, who had pleaded guilty to second-degree felony child-abuse homicide in the death of Nicoli Emelyantsev, offered a tearful apology in 3rd District Court.

D Block Criminology 12 - Today we will learn what Actus Reus, Mens Rea, Mala in Se and Mala Prohibitum mean along with taking a look at the differences between Indictable, Summary Conviction and Absolute Liability Offences. We'll see what defenses you can use and what the goals of criminal law are for society. After we'll watch an episode of Criminal Minds "The Crossing" from season 3. From tv.com:

The team members try to identify a stalker before he can attack a woman who is being stalked in Silver Spring, Maryland. Meanwhile, Hotch and Rossi are called as consultants on a possible battered woman syndrome murder case in Boston.
We'll see how your theories could explain the pathology of a serial criminal harasser - or a murderer.