Wednesday, December 13. 2017

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

B Block Physical Geography 12 - Today we'll continue our map/poster on severe weather for elementary school students or our weather report for a newscast project that we started in the library yesterday. Check the blog for sites to help. If you are doing the forecast option, Mr. Ingram is in room 003 and that is where the green screen is. You should have a script and props ready before you go so realistically tomorrow is the better day for your video recording. Good luck!

D Block Criminology 12 - Yesterday we looked at Social Structure Theories and tried to see if the explanation of crime by the Crips fit within any of those theories (social disorganization, strain, and or cultural deviance). Remember the narrator in the documentary indicated that the Crips came out of an area that had poor schools, housing and an unemployment rate three times the national rate. Also Raymond 'Dhanifu' Cook said that they were "like bandits coming from the poor sections (of LA) to the more affluent sections (of LA) to requisition their material to bring it back to the neighbourhood" and 'Crippin' meant "are you ready to rob, plunder, pillage"? This kind of fits within the Social Structure theories. There are three major arguments among Social Process Theories that focus on how people learn to commit crime (Social Learning), how society fails to control deviancy and criminality (Social Control), and the impact of criminal labels on individuals subsequent behavior (Social Reaction). Today we'll finish the National Geographic "Inside the Bloods and Crips" show and to end the class I'll have you work on yesterday's question along with today's question:

Have you ever been given a negative label, and, if so, did it cause you social harm? How did you lose the label, or did it become a permanent marker that still troubles you today?

C Block Human Geography 11 - Today and tomorrow we'll look at the Key Issue "Where Is Agriculture Distributed"? Geographer Derwent Whittlesey mapped the world’s agricultural regions in 1936 which helped lay the foundation for the modern division of the Earth into agriculture regions. The five agriculture regions primarily seen in developing countries are intensive subsistence, wet-rice dominant; intensive subsistence, crops other than rice dominant; pastoral nomadism; shifting cultivation; and plantation and we'll look at those today. You'll need to answer the following:

1. What is pastoral nomadism and in what type of climate is it usually found?
2. How do pastoral nomads obtain grain (several ways)?
3. What is transhumance?
4. In what way do modern governments currently threaten pastoral nomadism?
5. How is land owned in a typical village that practices shifting cultivation?
6. What percentage of the world’s land area is devoted to shifting cultivation?
7. Describe the PROS and CONS of shifting cultivation, or the arguments made for it and criticisms leveled against it on the chart in the work package.
8. Define and describe plantation farming by filling out the chart in the work package.

The Past, Present and Future of Agriculture

National Geographic Agriculture