Wednesday, May 1. 2019

Today's schedule is BADC-L

9:05 am – 10:05 am Block - B
10:10 am – 11:10 am Block- A
11:10 am – 12:00 pm Lunch Break
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Block - D
1:05 pm – 2:05 pm Block- C
2:05 pm – 3:15 pm Personalized Learning

B Block Human Geography - Today we'll continue with the key question "Why Do Ethnicities Engage in Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide?" and our focus will be on Africa (Somalia and Darfur). Today we will watch Scream Bloody Murder on Darfur...


And we'll look at a few parts of "The Devil Came on Horseback"



And for Myanmar...





If there's time you may work on your week 12 questions. If you are interested, Daniel Goldhagen's ground-breaking documentary "Worse than War" is linked below. In his documentary he states, "By the most fundamental measure -- the number of people killed -- the perpetrators of mass murder since the beginning of the twentieth century have taken the lives of more people than have died in military conflict. So genocide is worse than war."

And your questions are:

1. Give the historical background of the two rival groups in Central Africa’s countries of Rwanda and Burundi. 
2. What is the situation in Rwanda and Burundi today? 
3. Why might the European colonial powers have preferred to place in leadership positions members of the minority Tutsis rather than members of the majority Hutus?

A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll continue our look at weather; working on an activity called “Sunlight and the Seasons” (week 12 package "Solar energy and the reason for seasons"). After you have finished this activity you need to complete questions 17, 19, and 20 from page 62 in your Geosystems textbook. If there's time we'll see what Bill Nye has to say about seasons. Below you'll find a decent if somewhat slow video on seasons...
and what does the rotation of the Earth on its axis -giving us seasons-look like and mean for us?




Don't forget that every day we are going to start by looking at the synoptic forecast along with weather maps.
Data Streme
Envrionment Canada: Weather Office Comox

Take some time on the following sites to learn more and to practice your weather operational analysis capabilities:
WW2010 - University of Illinois Weather site
National Weather Service "Jet Stream" online weather school
American Meteorological Society "Data Streme"
British Broadcasting Corporation Reading Weather Maps
USA Today Reading Weather Maps

Practise at: Weather Office (Environment Canada) Operational Analysis Charts or at the Data Streme site above

D Block Law - Today you'll have time to work on work on questions 1, 2 and 4 from page 200 as well as questions 1, 2 and 3 from page 207 of the All About Law text. After a bit we'll go over how trials end (by reaching a verdict) and we'll also discuss the concept of a hung jury (and what happens if that is an outcome of a trial). Lastly I'll ask you to add Develop Your Thinking question 12 from page 215 of AAL.

As a defense counsel, outline what you would do in the following situations. Your client does the following:
a) brings you evidence that would obviously incriminate her
b) admits to committing the offence —an offence you abhor
c) tells you that he is going to have the main witness killed before the trial begins
d) tells you that she did not commit the crime, but knows who did
e) has no respect for the legal process and becomes disruptive during the trial
f) has secretly instructed his friend to burn evidence before police find it

C Block Criminology - Today is quiz day. Dazzle me with what you know. You may use your notes.