Day 3 - September 10. 2010

Today we begin the day with Advisory Group again so please make sure you bring your student fees ($25) and lock fee ($8). Don't forget that we'll also be collecting yearbook requests as well. Today will be the last extended advisory groups for the start up of the school year and next week we roll through the regular schedule. So today looks like:

8:55 - 9:25 Advisory Group
9:30 - 10:30 B Block
10:35 - 11:35 A Block (Introduction to Law 9/10)C Block (Law 12)
11:35 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 1: 50 D Block (Geography 12)
1:55 - 3:10 C Block (Law 12)

A - Introduction to Law 9/10 - Today we'll start by reviewing yesterday's work (I'll get it back up on the board); next you'll get a handout on Crime Theories and you will need to evaluate them (what you like about them and what you disagree with them about)...don't worry we'll go through them together in class today. This weekend you'll have to complete part two of today's assignment - this means you need to create your own theory of why crime happens. Remember you need to use the brainstormed list we did in class along with part one of the assignment (analysis of classical, biological, sociological, and interactionist theories).
Use the Crime Theory Web Site found on this link.

D - Geography 12 - Today you'll take your Observing as a Geographer assignment and share it with a partner. They'll add comments and ask questions and then it will be your responsibility to write two paragraphs on your photo. It is important to remember that when you ask questions (like "I wonder why there are no trees in this picture?") that you try to answer them as best as you can (make inferences and leaps in logic if necessary). If there's time, we'll work on the foundations of Geography starting with the Five Themes. In order to understand the increasingly complex and interconnected world we live in we need to find a way to make sense of information in a way that doesn't overwhelm us. The Five Themes (Location, Place, Human-Environment Interactions, Movement, and Regions) are a framework for making sense of geographic data. Today, hopefully, we'll cover the first two themes and then Monday we'll finish our look at them and move on to systems and spheres.

C - Law 12 - Today we will continue our Introduction to Law unit by taking down a few notes on the five functions of law and the divisions of Public (criminal, constitutional, and administrative) and Private law (tort, family, contract, property, and labour law). Lastly we'll take a look at the differences between Substantive and Procedural Law. Your assignment will be to look up the penalties for a law (in the Canadian Criminal Code) that you disagree with and explain why we should have stronger or lighter penalties for this law. Consider "Mischief"

C.C. 430. (1) Every one commits mischief who wilfully
(a) destroys or damages property;
(b) renders property dangerous, useless, inoperative or ineffective;
(c) obstructs, interrupts or interferes with the lawful use, enjoyment or operation of property; or
(d) obstructs, interrupts or interferes with any person in the lawful use, enjoyment or operation of property.

Punishment

(2) Every one who commits mischief that causes actual danger to life is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.

So if you are protesting the removal of old growth trees in a location and hammer spikes into trees then you are endangering the life of fallers (who would use chainsaws and chainsaws don't mix well with metal spikes)...that means you're eligible for life in prison much the same as if you tampered with someone's break lines in their car. Is that sentence too harsh or too light? Why? that's an example of what I'd like you to consider. You may use the pocket criminal codes in class or may use the computer to check the statutes on line.

Pau Hana.