Thursday, May 2. 2019

Today's schedule is DC-Assembly-BA. Today is Diversity Day so the schedule looks like this

9:05 am – 10:10 am – D block
10:15 am – 11:20 am – C block
11:20 am – 12:55 pm – Assembly & Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:05 pm – B block
2:10 pm – 3:15 pm – A block

D Block Law - Today you'll have time to work on the 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

Remember you are trying to consider your own personal beliefs (morals) along with the professional code of conduct (ethics) for the BC Law Society. It is a lawyer’s duty to:

1. promote the interests of the state
2. serve the cause of justice
3. maintain the authority and dignity of the courts
4. be faithful to clients
5. be candid and courteous in relations with other lawyers
6. demonstrate personal integrity.

Tomorrow, we'll watch a very cool Law and Order episode from Season 14 called "Bodies" which deals with defense lawyers, ethics and lawyer-client privilege. Then, for the next three days, we'll finish our look at Criminal Law by shifting into sentencing. We'll look at the objectives of sentencing (deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation, re socialization, and segregation). You will need to answer the following questions:

1. Define: absolute discharge, conditional discharge, probation, mitigating circumstances, aggravating circumstances, suspended sentence, concurrent sentence, consecutive sentence, intermittent sentence, indeterminate sentence, parole, day parole, statutory release, pardon, restorative justice, sentencing circle, closed custody, and open custody
2. Questions: page 298 Review Your Understanding question 3; page 301 Review Your Understanding question 1; page 314 Review Your Understanding question 1

We'll be finished our Criminal Law unit Wednesday next week and then we'll begin looking at Civil Law and Civil procedures. I'll have your final project ready for you by no later than next Friday. The questions from today are due by the end of Wednesday's class.

C Block Criminology - Today we will finish presenting our media analysis of the advertisements that you and your partner were assigned last week in class. Remember I asked you to practice the skills of critical analysis of the message and the medium. After your presentations we'll go through your first handout for the course on media literacy and critical thinking that I gave you last week.

B Block Human Geography - Remember, this semester, rather than a final exam, you will be completing an extended individual research project guided by the tenets of Inquiry Learning. As this is an extended project, you will have a lot of class time where you will be working independently, and you will need to manage your homework time effectively. 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. In essence you are telling a Geo-Inquiry story. The Geo-Inquiry Process forced you to ask geographic questions, collect geospatial data, and then visualize that data in order to create a compelling story that drives an action. It provided a systematic way to investigate and understand the world through the patterns, processes, and interactions between human and natural systems, take action on issues they identify, and make a difference in our own community. So you're telling a story...a story of research and discovery.

Within the context of Geography  in order to start your inquiry process you'll need to ask/consider:

• What is my broad area of inquiry?
• How can I narrow down my focus...
• Some possible inquiry questions are...
• Where can I find reliable information sources?
• Who will be the audience and what format will I make my presentation?
• How will I be evaluated on this inquiry project?

From page 11 of the Inquiry project booklet I gave you:

1. Identify Key Topic of Interest
a.) What do you know? What do you want to know?  (List/brainstorm the possible topics you would like to know more about; use your textbook as a guide)
2. Key topics of interest:  b) Generate a list of questions about these issues/topics.

A Block Physical Geography - Today we will really make sense of the Coriolis force. Let's get this out of the way right now...No, toilets are not affected by the Coriolis force, but both meso (middle scale) and macro (large scale) scale weather patterns are.



After we will look at winds and pressure circulations. We'll understand where the permanent areas of high and low pressure are on the planet and figure out what that means for a macro-scale pressure gradient wind pattern. We'll try to understand what the Coriolis force is and see how it affects wind. We'll also talk about the Horse Latitudes, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Doldrums. You will need to complete question 1 from page 176 and questions 9 & 15 from page 177 of your Geosystems textbook.

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