Thursday, June 14. 2018

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

D Block Human Geography 11 - Today we'll look at the Key Issue "Why Are Urban Areas Expanding"? We'll understand urban areas, census metropolitan areas, annexation, sub-urbanization, sprawl, smart growth and transportation into and out of city cores.



You have some questions to answer for me:

1. What is required before an area can be annexed by a city?
2. In the past, why did peripheral areas desire annexation?
3. What has changed?
4. What is meant by the statement: the “periphery of U.S. cities looks like Swiss cheese”?
5. What has prevented the peripheries of European cities from looking like Swiss cheese?
6. What is smart growth?
7. List four ways demand for congested roads is being reduced
8. List four ways in which public transportation is better than an automobile.

C Block Criminology 12 - Today we'll watch the fictionalized version of the Russell Williams case from Law & Order: Los Angeles "Silver Lake". This episode aired on April 16, 2011...that's 6 months after Russell Williams plead guilty. To film a television show (like a 1 hour drama police procedural) takes anywhere between six to eight days. A day normally begins at 6am and runs 11 to 13 hours long. It takes between 60 and 96 hours to produce 44 minutes of program content (for a 60 minute television show). That's just filming - don't forget script writing, set construction and post production work too so NBC "ripped from the headlines" the Russell Williams story literally as it was happening. If you think that's fast consider that NBC's Dateline aired "Conduct Unbecoming" on Friday, February 18, 2011 (4 months after his guilty plea) and CBS aired the 48 Hours episode "Name, Rank, Serial Killer?", the one that we watched yesterday, on April 9th, 2011 (the L&O:LA episode aired one week later!).

So we'll watch the episode and then I have two questions for you to answer (from yesterday):

1. Do you think the news coverage of Col. Russell Williams' sentencing was too sensational? Do you think the court was right to release so much information and that the Canadian press were right to publish it all, or do you think that there is such a thing as too much information, and that there are some details we really don’t need to know?
2. How did the Canadian and American coverage of the Russell Williams case differ? Use the the 48 Hours episode "Name, Rank & Serial Killer?" as well as the Fifth Estate episode "Above Suspicion" as your sources of information.

B Block Introduction to Law 10 - Today you'll have some time to work on yesterday's questions 1 & 2 from page 133 along with 10 & 11 from page 134 of the All About Law text, After a bit we'll watch an episode of Law & Order from Season 20 called "Innocence" where Detectives Lupo and Bernard detain a man who is tried and found guilty of killing a LGBTQ+ man as a hate crime. Shortly after, one of Assistant District Attorney Cutter's former law professors, Emily Ryan, steps in with The Innocence Collective determined to prove his innocence and reverse the verdict.

A Block Law 12 - Today I have the library/learning commons booked for you to continue your work on the major civil law project that is due two weeks from today. Including today you have Three (3) library blocks left to finish this assignment...no pressure really. And don't forget if you're choosing to do three cases with a video for your law firm...you had better start script writing and planning your production dates ASAP