Friday, November 9. 2018

Today's schedule is BA(Assembly)DC

9:05 am - 10:10 am – B Block
10:15 am – 11:20 am – A Block
11:25 am – 12:25 pm – Assembly
12:25 pm – 1:05 pm – Lunch
1:10 pm – 2:10 pm – D Block
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm – C Block

B Block Criminology - I'm going to show you a television show called White Collar today. White Collar is about the unlikely partnership of a con artist and an FBI agent who have been playing cat and mouse for years. Neal Caffery (Matt Boomer), a charming criminal mastermind, is finally caught by his nemesis, FBI Agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay). When Neal escapes from a maximum-security prison to find his long-lost love, Peter nabs him once again. Rather than returning to jail, Neal suggests an alternate plan: He'll provide his criminal expertise to assist the Feds in catching other elusive criminals in exchange for his eventual freedom. Initially wary, Peter quickly finds that Neal provides insight and intuition that can't be found on the right side of the law.

The episode I’d like you to show is called Hard Sell from season 1, which deals with stock manipulation and churning the value of stock in a boiler room (metaphor). From tv.com...

The scam is a "pump and dump", in which a group of "junior Gordon Gekkos" is selling bad stock. The guy in charge buys a large amount of dollar stocks, and has his men inflate the price by selling it over the phone. When the price peaks, guy in charge dumps the stock and leaves the buyers holding worthless shares. The average person loses $30,000, and some victims have lost their homes. The boiler room is mobile, moving to a new location after each stock dump

A & D Blocks Human Geography - Today we will be going to the Library/Learning Commons for a quick presentation from Mr. Errico. He will be go over research databases and e-research options for your Inquiry Project. Remember...Inquiry is the process of being puzzled about something, generating your own questions about the subject, using information to satisfy your own interests and to develop your knowledge. What does it include? Planning, Research, Focus, Creating, Sharing, Evaluating and Reflecting. Within the context of Geography you've already started your inquiry process by asking/considering:

• What is my broad area of inquiry?
• How can I narrow down my focus...
• Some possible inquiry questions are...

Today Mr. Errico will help you with:

• Where can I find reliable information sources?

Once you've learned about options for information acquisition then you need to move on to research for your Inquiry question/s you've generated.