Day 58 - Friday December 3. 2010

Hi Family. I hope that you don't fall down with a nasty case of Mount Washintonitis today. If you aren't here because you're "sick" cough cough then please check this blog to find out what we're doing in class today.

D - Geography 12 - Today we will look at reading a weather map. You can practice by using the following web pages: Wisconsin station model exercise WW2010 University of Illinois weather page Weather Report.com Your activity is to be the weather forecaster for Detroit Michigan and on page 17 of your week 13 package look at the synoptic chart figure out the probable weather for the next two days.

Next we'll look at Thunderstorms. We will look at how thunderstorms develop and what damage they can do. I'll show you a few quick videos of hail and lightning to see how they form and then at the end of the class you'll need to work on questions 13 and 14 from page 248 of your Geosystems textbook. Tomorrow we look at tornadoes, Wednesday we look at hurricanes, Thursday we'll spend the class looking at global climate classifications and Friday we're in the library working on our next project. Next Wednesday (December 16th) you'll have a unit final. UCAR: How Thunderstorms Work FEMA: Thunderstorms physicalgeography.net: Thunderstorms also found here National Severe Storm Laboratory: Thunderstorms




C - Law 12 - Today we finish our look at trial procedures and will discuss what "privileged communication" is. We will then shift into sentencing and look at the objectives of sentencing (deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation, re socialization, and segregation). You will need to answer the following questions:

Define: absolute discharge, conditional discharge, probation, suspended sentence, concurrent sentence, consecutive sentence, intermittent sentence, indeterminate sentence, parole, day parole, statutory release, and pardon

page 162 questions 8 & 11
page 166 questions 1, 2, & 4
page 171 questions 4 & 7

This takes us to the end of our criminal law unit and on Tuesday you'll have a unit final quiz and then we will turn our focus to civil law.

A - Introduction to Law 9/10 - Today we'll begin a look at crime scene investigation. We'll look at securing crime scenes and understand some of the proceedures and things that can be collected at the scene of a crime. Afterwards we'll watch an episode of CSI (Season 3 Episode 319 "A Night at the Movies"). There are many important things to notice in this episode but the one thing that I'd like you to remember is that forensics can't solve every case and that the forensic analysis of crime scenes is a tedious, slow meticulous and process.

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