Thursday, April 29. 2010

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

B - Social Studies 10 -Today I have been able to secure the library for a final day of work on your First Nations peoples of North America poster assignment. You may work in the class or the library but either way the poster is due tomorrow in class. Tomorrow we'll look at the problems associated with first contact between the European colonizers and the First Nations peoples of Canada. I'll show you a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode to demonstrate the effects of contact between the Spanish Conquistadors and the Aztec Empire. We'll then look at the contact between the fur trading companies (NWC & HBC) and the First Nations peoples on the Canadian prairies.

A - Earth & Space Science 11 - Today is your Tectonics Unit Final Test. I hope you come prepared (A.K.A. you studied!) If you did study then I'm sure you'll do fine. Good Luck!

C - Criminology 12 - Today we'll finish up the notes I wanted to get to yesterday on the problems of being crime victims (economic loss, system abuse, long term stress, fear, and antisocial behaviour). This will be important for your next journal/blog entry on Monday (which will connect with Friday's class this week). To bridge the topics of violent crime and victimization I'll have you create a poster showing a typical victim of a violent crime. You will need to choose a type of violent crime (homicide, assault, sexual assault, criminal harassment - stalking, hate crimes, kidnapping) and identify the personal characteristics, behaviours, and traits of the most likely victim of that crime (consider age, gender, social status, relationship status, race or ethnicity, prior victimization, behaviour, location, culture, etc...). You'll need to explain & draw the victim and then describe the theory of victimization that explains why they would fall prey to that crime.