Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Wednesday, September 6. 2017

Hey, guess what? It's welcome back to school day! Yay! Today's schedule is Assembly-AG-B-A-D-C

AG - Welcome back to those of you who've been in AG 36 for a while and welcome to the new family members who are joining us this year. We'll look over attendance, bus passes, timetables, counselling appointments and school fees ($25...either cash - dolla dolla bills yo - or cheque - made payable to Me....no actually to Georges P Vanier School). Students new to Vanier will need to purchase a school lock ($8), which belongs to you and can be used for your entire time at Vanier.



B Block Physical Geography 12 -  Welcome to Geography 12...the most important class you'll ever take in your life. Today we will go through the course outline package and become familiar with the routines and structures of room 611 (I flat out refuse to call it room 115). We will take the class to orient ourselves to the curriculum and  then 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 along with the acronym “OSAE”

O - Observe. What do you see? What's going on? Work from obvious to complex. Be precise!
S - Speculate. Why is something there or not there? Write open ended Qs and make sense of your observations.
A - Analyse. How come? What is the real reason why it's here or not here? Find answers to your questions.
E - Evaluate. In what ways could this landscape change? Consider social values here. Justify your opinions.​

D Block Criminology 12 - Welcome to Criminology 12. Today we will go through the course outline package and see what crimes we have in store for the semester. In this course we look at crime theories and crime typology. The first three weeks of term 1 sees us look at a general history of crime, big ideas about why people commit crime and thoughts on why people become victims of crime. The rest of the term then focuses on crime typologies: violent crimes; property crimes; white collar/enterprise/business crimes; organized/gang crimes; and crimes of a social nature (gambling, drug use, sex trade). Each week we spend Monday in the library working on an on-line crime blog while each Thursday or Friday we'll watch an episode of CSI, Law & Order, Criminal Minds, White Collar, Leverage, Elementary or another crime television program (but there's always a question about what you watch). So...

Today, I have one question that I'd like you to brainstorm: Why do people commit crime?

After a few minutes I'd like you to partner up and get your ideas on a large sheet of paper. After you collect all of your ideas on large sheets of paper with smelly felts, 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

C Block Human Geography 11
- Welcome to Geography 11...the second most important class you'll ever take in your life. Today we will go through the course outline package and become familiar with the routines and structures of room 611 (I flat out refuse to call it room 115). We will take the class to orient ourselves to the curriculum and the course outline.

Human geographers ask two simple questions: Where are people and activities found on Earth? Why are they found there? So we'll try to work on the Key Question: How do Geographers describe where things are? You'll have two questions to work on for me:


  1. Transferring the locations on Earth’s surface is called projection. The problem with projecting a round sphere to a flat plain is that it causes distortion. So, Describe the four types of distortion AND for each type of distortion explain which type of map projection you would use to best minimize the distortion. For help you may use USGS Map Projections
  2. GPS is most commonly used for navigation. Pilots of aircraft and ships stay on course with GPS. On land, GPS detects a vehicle’s current position, the motorist programs the desired destination, and GPS provides instructions on how to reach the destination. So, in your everyday life how do you use GPS and how does it affect your activities?



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