I hope you are all well, safe and healthy. I have a plan for term four and will email you (to your school email address) the specific details on what work will look like (expect this just after Easter). Having said that let me remind you that although the expectations for work are different during this emergency remote learning time period, I still know you can do great things. I have scaled back the amount of work for you to complete and you will have options as to what kind of work you engage in during the remainder of the year. I will use this blogsite for resources (video, link, podcast, text) and we will use Microsoft Teams through the school district for chat rooms and seminars. It will be awkward and we'll stumble along the way but we'll get through it together and come through stronger on the other side.
For Legal Studies...you will have two assignments to complete; one about Criminal Law and one about Civil Law. For the Criminal Law activity, you either are a Crown Prosecutor (or work for one) or are a presiding judge over a case, and will have 10 case scenarios to choose from. You are responsible for two of the ten cases where you'll need to provide a one-page memo/letter for each. Each memo needs to answer/address issues specific to each case, and these issues will be mentioned at the end of each case. For the Civil Law activity, you have become the founding member of a new law firm. You’ve set up shop, hired some junior partners and are ready to go to work. After a savvy advertising campaign, thirteen people have come through your doors for an initial consult. You will need to choose five of these thirteen potential cases and provide a one-page memo/letter for each on the possibilities of a successful lawsuit. Each memo needs to address issues specific to each case, and these issues will be mentioned at the end of each case. You do not necessarily have to choose a case where the likelihood of a successful lawsuit is high, you may choose a case and indicate to that client that they should not proceed with a lawsuit. In that instance you will need to indicate why they will not be successful in litigation (NOTE If you wish to respond to just three of your clients, instead of five, you need to make a 30 second TV commercial for your Law Firm). More details upcoming in the email but you have access to an online version of the textbook to help.
For Human Geography...you have some options as there are two units to cover. You may choose to complete two projects, or you may choose to complete one project and a set of weekly note/work packages, or you may choose to complete two sets of weekly note/work packages. The two units to complete are culture and urbanization. For the culture unit, the project is to make an online virtual exhibition for a museum of culture. In this, you may choose a specific folk culture to present or you may choose modern popular culture to present. The online museum doesn't necessarily need to be online (you may use powerpoint, using museum templates, or google slides) but you may also use a web page creation site to make your museum. For the urbanization unit, the project is to play SimCity or build a model of a city (using Lego©, cardboard, or other building materials) and then report on it (making videos, creating podcasts, blogging, or writing about it), describing your city’s key features and design attributes. The weekly work/note packages are the same as what you've seen in Human Geography so far. More details upcoming in the email, but you do not have access to an online version of the textbook to help.
For Criminology...the topics remaining for you are media literacy, critical thinking, sociology and representations of crime. Everything here will be on line and connected to the blogs you created for the third term. You will have a weekly online activity to connect to an overall term 4 assignment. Your task will be to watch, read, listen to, interact with, investigate, and then report on 10 days, episodes, entries, podcasts, examples or instances of media coverage of crime. You may choose from any media sources, yet do not mix them up…choose either one real (news) or one fictional (drama, movie, comic) source and then stick with it. If you are reviewing a daily news source(s) you should include a full listing of the number of crimes covered by category (e.g. murder, robbery, rape, property crimes, white-collar crime, computer crime, government deviance, etc.), along with specific details on "high profile" stories. For fictional sources, you might want to choose a theme or crime type, and then pick examples of the media source that features it. For example, serial crime, white-collar crime, street crime, drug crime, crime inside prisons, police deviance, sex crimes, psychopathology, war-related crime, terrorism, computer crime, hacking, family violence, school crime, etc. would make good topics. If your media source is movies, then locate a set of films that all focus on that type of crime. Your report will be posted in your own blog. So what do you need to report on? You need to become an expert on one type of crime media. You`ll need to give an overview of what it is along with what it shows. Describe what crimes were shown or reported including as much criminological information (type of crime and why it was perpetrated) and sociological information (age, gender, race, ethnicity, class) about victims and perpetrators as you can find. Lastly you need to evaluate that information through the lens of media literacy. More details upcoming in the email, but you do not have access to an online version of the textbook to help.
So, to review, this is weird...I miss working with you in the class but the virtual social distancing thing is our new reality. You'll get an email from me detailing the expectations for your specific course. Like I said above, things will be awkward and we'll stumble along the way. Please be patient with me as we enter this new reality. Hopefully we can have a bit of fun and discover some new things along the way. I hope you are well and enjoy the Easter weekend...at a distance.
Young
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