Room 611: Thursday, May 2. 2024

Today's schedule is DCBA

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). For other maps and information on Medicine Hat that will help you with some of the topographic map assignment questions check out Tourism Medicine Hat

From Tourism Medicine Hat...

Pinto McBean – the World’s Largest and Most Armed Pinto Bean – Bow Island’s answer to the World’s Largest Catsup Bottle (in Illinois, for you long-haul road-trippers). Pinto McBean celebrates the town’s role in Southern Alberta’s agriculture industry, which is a leader in beans and lentils. The fact that agriculture even exists here is a feat of human engineering thanks to an impressive canal system that delivers nearly a billion cubic metres of waters to farmers. Indeed, with the effort put forth to grow crops in this dry, sun-soaked land, the world’s largest pinto bean is an apt, wonderful mascot and a deserving point of pride.

C Block Human Geography - Today we are back in the library for your next day to work on your information graphic poster on an endangered language. There are lots of videos below to help. Remember, for your endangered language you’ll need to:

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

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

Infogram

Canva (I highly recommend this one - with your school district login credentials you have access to unlimited content - templets, images, fonts, colours and storage)

Easily

Visme

Venngage

Snappa

Piktochart

What can your poster look like? Here are some stock vector examples for layout ideas

And then you could use this Spanish language infoposter as a guide as well

See me if you need help or assistance. This project is due this Friday - email me your digital infoposter.

And...FYI The Global Extinction of Languages Is Threatening a Vital Type of Human Knowledge

B Block Legal Studies - You have the block to work on two things:

Questions 2, 3 and 4 on page 231 of the All About Law text
"Key Components of Criminal Code Offenses" worksheet, which you'll get today. You may work on this activity in partners. For the Elements that Must be Proven section you will need to identify BOTH the Actus Reus (yes that means explain what the physical act or omission that it is which constitutes the crime) and the type of Mens Rea (yes that means explain what the Intent, Knowledge, Recklessness or Willful Blindness is for the crime - you have this in your text but you do not need to worry about general intent or specific intent for this activity) in each scenario you're given. For the Maximum Penalty section feel free to use the Wikibooks Canadian Criminal Sentencing/Appendix/Offence Charts for questions regarding narcotics you'll need to look at the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and the Cannabis Act

A Block Criminology - Today we'll

look at gangs and gang activity in Canada. Your job will be to make a gang information poster about organized crime in Canada. In Triads (groups of three) you'll need to:

Identify the gangs we have in Canada (aboriginal crime groups, cartels, ethnic crime groups, and outlaw motorcycle gangs - be specific) and
Explain the activities of each group: What do they do? How do they do it? What do they control? Where are they based in Canada?

Organized crime by nature (according to Howard Abadinsky) is monopolistic - in other words organized crime groups want to have a monopoly over a specific geographic area for the illicit activity they wish to pursue. (Note: use the section in your text to help as well). For more stories about organized crime (especially a particularly interesting court case in Ontario and Manitoba involving the Bandidos) see:

The Canadian Encyclopedia Organized Crime in Canada