Friday, May 5. 2023

Today's schedule is CDAB 

May 5th is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Amnesty International No More Stolen Sisters

Native Women’s Association of Canada action plan, Our Calls, Our Actions

Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

C Block Human Geography -  Today we are back in the library for your second to last day to work on your information graphic poster on an endangered language. Remember, for your endangered language you’ll need to:

1. Show where the endangered language originated and diffused to (yes on a map).
2. Show the connection to the family, branch, and group of the endangered language. (Use your best judgment on this). 
3. Show where the language is spoken today, indicate how many people speak it.
4. Show Unique features of this endangered language (What makes it different to and similar than others?)
5. Show examples of how the language is written and or spoken 
6. Show why your endangered language is important to save
7. Show how your endangered language is both being threatened (contributing factors) and being saved
8. Show how people can find more info (links...sources cited)

And FYI:

B.C. First Nation's app revitalizes old Indigenous language in a new way

Indigenous languages across Canada

Revitalizing Vancouver Island’s Indigenous languages

Why Are Languages Worth Preserving?

Languages: Why we must save dying tongues

The Race to Save the World's Disappearing Languages 

AND

Endangered Languages Project

Living Tongues: Institute for Endangered Languages

UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The Guardian Endangered Languages List

You will need to chose an information graphic site to use:

Infogram

Canva

Easily  

Visme  

Venngage  

Snappa  

Piktochart

D Block Physical Geography - Okay so I get it when you think about deserts normally this comes to mind:

Those cartoon backgrounds were inspired by this:


Today we will look at deserts and desert environments. We'll see the different types of deserts. I'll show you the Namib desert and the Skeleton Coast and then you'll  have three questions to answer:

• Describe the erosional processes associated with moving air. (p.306-7) 
• Explain how a sand dune forms and migrates. What are the major dune forms and what are the three factors that affect their creation. (p.309) 
• Explain how a sand dune forms and migrates. What are the major dune forms and what are the three factors that affect their creation. (p.309) 

 For desertification watch this:

 For the websites look here:

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
USGS Desertification page
Green Facts Scientific page on Desertification


Great Sand Dune National Park Colorado, U.S.A.

Do you know what used to be under the Saharan desert sands? Nope not candy. Check out the image and article on Smithsonian about ancient riverbeds below the Saharan sands  (or IFL Science here or Ecowatch here). And you could watch this fascinatingly poor dub of an article on a really good video about the sub Saharan river systems:

A Block Legal Studies - Today we'll go over property crimes (arson, theft, identity theft, B&E, possession of stolen goods and fraud). We'll go over the R. v. Foidart, 2005 case and examine what "colour of right" means.

Edwin Foidart was hired by a Winnipeg church to repair their existing pipe organ as part of a major restoration project. In order to do this, Foidart located and purchased a used organ for the church. He planned to use the parts to restore the church’s pipe organ. The used organ parts were temporarily stored in a garage on Foidart’s property. However, difficulties arose, and the church had to cancel the restoration project. As a result, Foidart was asked to return all the organ parts in his possession. Over time, church members discovered that not all the organ parts had been returned. Some of the parts were found in pipe organs belonging to other churches. The accused was eventually charged with theft over $5000. In his defence, Foidart argued that he had a colour of right to the pieces from the collection. However, he chose not to testify at his trial to this effect. The trial judge found Foidart guilty of theft, Since the judge had not heard from Foidart as to reasonable belief of colour of belief, he could not consider this defence in his decision. Foidart appealed to the Manitoba Court of Appeal. The issue before the court was whether the lack of evidence from the accused himself as to his belief in the ownership of the organ parts was fatal to his case. In a 3-0 decision, the court agreed with the initial trial judge and dismissed Foidart’s appeal.

I'll have you discuss in partners the following:

ARSON OR ACCIDENT?

Jack and his friend Marcus want to roast hot dogs in Jack’s backyard. They dig a fire pit and start a small fire to cook their food. After they eat the hot dogs, they decide that they want to roast marshmallows. Jack goes into the house to find the marshmallows. While Jack is gone, Marcus decides that they need some music so he walks around to the front of the house to get his CDs from the car. While the boys are not attending the fire, the flames grow bigger. A wind blows an ember onto the neighbour’s property and ignites a pile of towels lying on the neighbour’s deck. Unfortunately, nobody saw the fire start and the neighbours are not home. Within a few minutes, the fire in the neighbour’s yard has spread to their house. Soon after that, Jack and Marcus see the flames and call the fire department. The fire department is able to put out the fire, but the neighbour’s property has sustained damage of about $5000.

1. Who is responsible for causing the fire?
2. Should the charge of arson be laid against Jack and/or Marcus?

You can then finish your "Key Components of Criminal Code Offenses"

B Block Criminology -  Finish your gang poster. You have access to computers and a printer. Get it done. From the Daily Beast: The songs (Narcocorrido) sound like a cross between mariachi and polka and come from the norteño folk tradition. The first of these ballads go as far back as the 1930s, and the lyrics, while they’ve always dealt with drug traffickers and murderers, have, since the Mexican drug wars began in 2006, become exponentially swaggering in their brazen glorification of violence. Americans listen to gangster rap and love to watch mob flicks. We relish crime depicted well and expect a level of authenticity in the portrayal. It’s nothing out of the ordinary to hire mafia members as movie consultants. We might even prefer musicians with street cred. It seems that as consumers we demand the real thing, not some impostor. 

I guess it's kind of like a Mexican version of