Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Wednesday, May 1. 2024

Today's schedule is BADC

B Block Legal Studies - Today you have a Criminal Law Unit test. The test will cover chapters 4, 5, and 6 of the All About Law text (Introduction to Criminal Law; The Police - Investigation, Arrest, and Bringing the Accused to Trial; and Trial Procedures). The test will have: 20 True/False questions; 15 Multiple Choice questions; 15 Matching questions; and 4 Short Answer questions.  I am certain that you will do extra well on this test. No lawyer works in isolation and today neither will you, you may not use notes, however, you may collaborate with colleagues on the test. You'll have as much time as you need for the test however it should only take 45-50 minutes to complete.


After you may work on questions 2, 3, 4, and 5 from page 221 of the All About Law text (Homicide) along with questions 2, 3 and 4 on page 231 of the All About Law text (Assault/Sexual Assault). 

A Block Criminology - Today we start with your second to last quiz in the course. This quiz covers our property crime and white collar crime units in Criminology. After you still have four questions to answer for me:

1. What’s the psychology behind the con and what can we learn from it? (check out The 7 Psychological Principles of Scams: Protect Yourself by Learning the Techniques)
2. How does a con man identify a mark? (check out Maria Konnikova on How we Get Conned and her interview below) 
3. What are the nine phases of a long-con game? (check out The 9 Stages of the Big Con and the 4 Phases of Small Value Fraud)
4. What is the one fact that instantly makes you harder to con? (check out Protect yourself from scams and fraud) 

-AND/OR- 

What can you do to reduce the chances of being victimized by a good burglar? - Consider targets (houses, cars AND commercial properties like businesses)

Tomorrow....gangs, yo!

D Block Physical Geography - Today you have the block to finish your work on the Medicine Hat Topographic map. You need your Canadian Landscape topographic map book and the Medicine Hat map can be found on pages 40-42. You will need to work on questions 1 a, b and d, 2 a&b, 3 a-e, 4, 7 a-d and 8 (PLEASE NOTE...I've added questions 4 & 8 to your work). You can find topographic maps of Medicine Hat on Google Maps (Type in Medicine Hat Alberta on a Google search and click on maps at the top and then choose "Terrain" as an option). 

The Seven Persons Creek watershed is 4,785.01 km2 in size and comprises 3.28% of the South  Saskatchewan River Basin (146,100 km2). The watershed consists of a topography of slightly rolling grassy hills and deep coulees which is similar to other South Saskatchewan River Sub-Basin regional  watersheds; land that was glacially scoured and subsequently shaped by huge volumes of meltwater which occasionally cut through the glacial debris to form long and narrow, now typically dry, flat-floored valleys. Seven Persons Creek is a major tributary of the South Saskatchewan River, intersecting the City of  Medicine Hat, providing off-stream storage for irrigation, and discharging to the South Saskatchewan River. On average, the Medicine Hat weather station receives 330 sunny days and 2,544 sunshine hours annually and receives 323 mm of precipitation per year making it a semi-arid climate.

To Help:



Quiz Review:

Weathering & MW: Names of MW (Big 3 – flows slides and falls – speed and consistency); Chemical & Physical Weathering (Frost Action, Oxidation & Solution – Carbonation); Karst (Carbonation created it – found in limestone) along with features (stalagmite & stalactite); Slopes – causes of slope failure
 
H2O & Streams: Water Cycle terminology (condensation, evaporation, precipitation, transpiration, percolation, infiltration, aquifer); Where is most of fresh water?; Transportation of sediment in water (bed load & suspended load); Young – mature – old profile (what’s going on in terms of erosion & deposition) and features of young & old; Deltas (4 types); Floods (causes, damages, impact); Cross section of a river (meandering profile)

Coasts, Glaciers & Deserts: Longshore Drift (swash & backwash); Types of coastlines and features (depositional- spit/barrier bar vs erosional Cave-Arch-Stack); Continental vs Alpine erosion (scouring & plucking) – features cirque, horn (pyramidical peak) & hanging valley, U Shaped valley & fjord Deposition – moraines Deserts – erosion (Aeolian) & transportation & desertification (increasing sizes of deserts – causes)

C Block Human Geography - Today, we are in the learning commons/library working on a language project. Your job will be to create an information graphic poster on an endangered language. 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)
From Lera Boroditsky in Scientific American:
A hallmark feature of human intelligence is its adaptability, the ability to invent and rearrange conceptions of the world to suit changing goals and environments. One consequence of this flexibility is the great diversity of languages that have emerged around the globe. Each provides its own cognitive toolkit and encapsulates the knowledge and worldview developed over thousands of years within a culture. Each contains a way of perceiving, categorizing and making meaning in the world, an invaluable guidebook developed and honed by our ancestors. Research into how the languages we speak shape the way we think is helping scientists to unravel how we create knowledge and construct reality and how we got to be as smart and sophisticated as we are. And this insight, in turn, helps us understand the very essence of what makes us human. 
From A silenced tongue: the last Nuchatlaht speaker dies
Without a geographic and population base to cling to, minority languages seldom tread water for more than a generation or two before going under. Chances are, if your grandparents came to B.C. speaking something other than English, you can’t speak their mother tongue...The question has to be asked: Why fight the tide? The answer: Language is key to retaining culture...That’s not just important to those within the culture, but to all of us. “What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth,” argued Canadian author Mark Abley in his book Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages. Lose a language and you lose the nuanced perspectives it contains, the ones that offer a different view of the world.
And from Wade Davis
“Language is not merely a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. It is a flash of the human spirit, the means by which the soul of each particular culture reaches into the material world. Every language is an old-growth forest of the …mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.”
UNESCO has six factors that identify the vitality and endangeredness of a language. They are:

1) Intergenerational Language Transmission;
2) Absolute Number of Speakers;
3) Proportion of Speakers within the Total Population;
4) Trends in Existing Language Domains;
5) Response to New Domains and Media; and
6) Materials for Language Education and Literacy.

*Hint* Start on page 9 (of 27) on the pdf document above for help

So, today you’ll need to choose an endangered language and research the points above. Start here:

http://languagesindanger.eu/
https://www.ethnologue.com/
http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
http://www.fpcc.ca/language/ELP/
https://www.firstvoices.com/




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