D Block Law - Today you can start with yesterday's questions 2, 3,and 5 from page 21 of the All About Law text. Next, we'll work on understanding case citations yesterday we looked at R. v. Kerr, 2004, and today we'll look at Grant v. Dempsey, 2001. We'll discuss the "rule of law" and quickly review the Social Studies 11 topics of our constitution and how laws are made. Tomorrow...Law & Order!
For more on how to read case studies check out:
Reading a Legal Citation Queens University
Legal Citation Guide UBC
Scroll down to Case Citation on this PowerPoint from New Learner
Duhaime.org Legal Citations Guide
C Block Criminology - Today we'll continue our brief history of criminology (from B.C.E up to and including the current theories).
Don't forget, for Monday, you need to create your own theory of why crime happens and we'll go to the learning commons/library to create a blog for the course and start with our theory. Look at the sites on yesterday's post for help with theories and now that you have the CRIM text you may use chapters 4-9 (I'll post a review of them on Monday for you).
B Block Human Geography - Okay so I'm not a huge watch-a-"list" video kind of teacher (you know like buzzfeed's "top 10 ________ that will make you ______") but our topic for the day is "Why is each point on Earth unique?" I do like the opening for the Netflix series Sense8 as an example of the diversity of regions and for an visual explanation of why each point on earth is unique...
There are some good things to help with the concept in The Richest's "The Most Beautiful Places in the World" list video
We'll figure out the difference between place and region (hint think scale) and talk about toponyms, site and situation and look at the differences between formal, functional and vernacular regions. You'll have two questions to work on for me:
How do people shape places? How do places shape people?
Next, we are going to look at the Key Question: Why Are Different Places Similar? To do this we will look at Globalization in terms of culture and economy. Increasingly uniform cultural preferences produce uniform “global” landscapes of material artifacts and of cultural values. Underlying the uniform cultural landscape is globalization of cultural beliefs and forms, especially religion and language. Globalization of the economy has been led primarily by transnational corporations, sometimes called multinational corporations. Every place in the world is part of the global economy, but globalization has led to more specialization at the local level. Each place plays a distinctive role, based on its local assets. So, you'll have a few questions to work on for me today including:
- In what ways has the communications revolution played a role in globalization?
- Why might some group(s) of people oppose globalism or globalization?
A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll continue our work on the foundations of Geography starting with our Geography I.D. assignment. After, we'll move on to systems. This is an important class as everything we look at in geography will be through the lens of systems science. We'll look at systems, feedback, equilibrium, and thresholds. You'll have four questions to work on today (What is a System; Define and give examples of Open and Closed Systems; Explain with examples what Positive and Negative Feedback is; and Explain in terms of systems what Dynamic Equilibrium, Thresholds, and Metastable Equilibrium are) along with your Observing as a Geographer O.S.A.E. activity that you started on Tuesday.
University of Twente System Theory
Principa Cybernetica Web What is Systems Theory
Fundamentals of Physical Geography Introduction to Systems Theory
Human Ecology Chapter 2 Populations and Feedback Systems
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