Friday, June 14. 2019

Today's schedule is BADC

B Block Human Geography - Today we will be going to the Library/Learning Commons for another day to work on your Inquiry Project. Today I'll need you to explore the different formats you could use to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story. Answer the questions below to organize your thoughts and prepare to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story:

1. What is your Geo-Inquiry Question?
2. What kinds of data did you collect?
3. What did you learn from this data?
4. How will you represent data in your Geo-Inquiry Story?
5. What is the answer to your Geo-Inquiry Question or your proposed solution?
6. What action would you like to take based on your findings?
7. Who is the best audience for your Geo-Inquiry Story?
8. What kinds of elements will be most important to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story?
9. What is the best tool to use to tell your Geo-Inquiry Story?

Decide on a format for your end product by thinking about your interests and strengths, and what might be the most effective means of communicating the information that you have gathered and analysed. Analyse each format to determine which is the best fit for your Geo-Inquiry Story. Now...what do you need to do? How do you plan to go about doing it? When do you plan on getting it done.  Don't forget this is an active research project and I expect you'll need to go out into the community to interview people so who do you need to talk to and when will you talk with them? So yeah...it's the day where you really need to get going because including today there's only 5 classes remaining in the semester.

A Block Physical Geography - Today we look at the impacts of climate change in BC and try to understand why people don't believe the science of climate change.






Feeling the Heat in Winter
See the drastic toll climate change is taking on our oceans
The Leaders of These Sinking Countries Are Fighting to Stop Climate Change. Here's What the Rest of the World Can Learn
In Our Backyard: What Climate Change in Canada looks Like (CBC)

D Block Law - After today there are 5 classes remaining in the semester, with just three more classes in the learning commons to complete your civil litigator project. You will have a final test on civil law (torts, negligence, and family law) next Tuesday...hope you come prepared. I will bring previous examples of the project with me to the learning commons for you to peruse if you'd like.

C Block Criminology - 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 production days. A day normally begins at 6 am 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 the pre-production work which includes: script writing (when given an episode, scriptwriters are expected to turn out their draft in one to two weeks); story boarding; scouting & securing locations and location prep ("shooting" not on studio or sound stage means scouting out placers to film); casting talent and rehearsing...all told between 3-4 weeks. Then there's post production work too (editing and sound) which typically takes two to three weeks to edit a one hour, action-adventure TV show. It is important to note that with a TV series, different episodes overlap. One show is in pre-production (the writing), another episode is in production, and another is in post production.

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 (pay careful attention to the interview/interrogation) 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.