B - Social Studies 10 -To start the class today we'll go over the work from yesterday on the fur trade and the relationship that developed between Aboriginal Peoples and the HBC and NWC. Next we'll take a look at the Metis, Lord Selkirk and Assiniboia. From the Manitoba Metis Federation website:
Blue and White are the colours of the National Metis Flag. It has a white infinity symbol with a blue background. This flag was flown on June 19, 1816 at the “Battle of Seven Oaks” under the leadership of Cuthbert Grant. He led a Metis brigade on the Assiniboine River and seized the Company post at Brandon House. They then set off to the Red River Fough, the skirmish of Seven Oaks, in which Governor Semple and twenty-one of his men were killed for the cost of one Metis life.
We'll discuss Seven Oaks and look at how the geography of the Red River valley led to conflict between settlers, fur companies, and settlers. You'll need to complete question 8 from page 99 of the text today.
A - Earth & Space Science 11 - Today we will go over yesterday's questions on Mass Wasting, then we'll look at the water cycle, rivers and streams and fluvial erosion (Chapter 11 in the Earth Science and the Environment textbook). We will take diagrams and notes down and then you'll have a few questions to complete at the end of class (questions 2, 4, 7, 8 and 9 "For Review" page 273).
C - Criminology 12 - We will focus on the roots of violent crime today. Yesterday I asked you to create a list of violent forms of entertainment and I'd like to go over those lists with you today. Why do people find violence entertaining? Where does violence come from (personal traits, ineffective families, evolutionary factors, exposure to violence, cultural values, substance abuse, and firearm availability)?
Can the roots of violence be traced back to youth? If so should we ban Warner Brothers cartoons? Is Bugs Bunny bad for kids? Comedy and violence are intermingled into a typical or formulaic narrative story.....Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner, Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny, Sylvester chases Tweety Bird andthey inflict carnage on each other. The end is always the same....someone wins, someone loses, the loser is humiliated and we laugh at them (good clean wholesome fun). So today we'll watch some Warner Brothers cartoons with all the glorious violence in them and we'll have a discussion about the acceptance of violence in our modern culture. Think about the implicit and implied messages that each cartoon sends to kids.
An excellent source of information on violence in media and its link to aggression is the Media Awareness Network.
Check out Time Magazine for a good article on "Seeking the Roots of Violence"
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