Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Tuesday, March 30. 2010


Today's schedule is C-D-Lunch-B-A

C - Criminology 12 - Today we'll focus our efforts at the beginning of class on auto theft. You'll need to explain the five types of motor vehicle theft and identify how you can protect your vehicle from being stolen (target hardening strategies). The Kanetix website below lists the top vehicles stolen in Canada and check out this article on the Macleans website for the article on the top 100 cities for auto theft in Canada.
Crime Stoppers Bait Car website

Auto Theft Canada
Kanetix.ca Auto theft in Canada

Next, we'll look at burglary & Break and Enter. I'll give you a few notes and then you'll need to answer the following: What characteristics must a good burglar have? (Look at Neil Shover's explanation on page 264) and What are the differences between male and female burglars?

B - Social Studies 10
- Today we will develop a mind map of the six factors that led Canada into Confederation. These are a complex set of problems that are interconnected and just imagine how difficult it would be for the founding fathers to solve them (U.S. expansionism, Transportation problems, Fenians, Political Deadlock, Changing British Attitudes, and Economic problems).

We'll take a look again at the US Civil War (1861-1865) and the postwar "Reconstruction" (including the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the US Constitution) and expansion westwards. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist within the United States." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865. We'll next look at the Fenian Raids led by John O'Mahony and Michael Murphy. We'll make sense of Canada losing preferential status through the abolition of the Corn Laws in 1846 and our Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 with the United States. We'll look at the development of the Grand Trunk Railway and the need for railways in Canada (think trade and defense).We'll take a look at changing attitudes in Britain (Little Englanders) and political deadlock in the 1860's (between 1849 - 1864 there were twelve governments formed).

A - Earth & Space Science 11 - Today you have the block to continue your work on the "Mapping Mountains, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes" activity that you started yesterday in class. If you work hard then we'll watch the first half hour of the National Geographic IMAX movie "Forces of Nature". If there is time left we'll take some diagrams down of plate boundaries (and if not we'll start with that tomorrow morning). The mapping activity is due today at the end of class.

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