In the Criminal Offences Package, please only complete the following:
Everything else in between should be skipped.
The notes should include:
The people absent today will need to see Ms. Hopkin in person to discuss the reasoning for the absence.
Today you are starting your Criminal Offences Package. This is something we will work on consistently and add to throughout the next few weeks. You will get to ask questions and clarify – the goal is everyone gets 100% on this so you can use it as a resource for the Trial!
Today you will be looking at Types of Offences. These are important so please ensure you are being detailed in your own words – nothing should be copied/pasted from the text (unless no other option, then need to cite it). All of the other elements of this package, as well as Criminal Defences we will work on later, are connected to these concepts.
Point form is the expectation here. You may also choose to write by hand. In that case, you will need to upload a photo of your work each day. You will also need to write out the prompts/questions of the package as you go through.
Reading:
Assignment:
Can always collaborate, but need to have your responses be your own work.
Please remember to write down any questions you have for when we go over it.
Due to Teams by the end of class. Hope to see you all tomorrow. Good luck Grade 12s on your CLC Interviews!
You have already been put into groups. Check Teams!
In theory, each group should be able to fill in the Word Document attached to the assignment. If there are any issues, there is a back-up of the Word Document in Files –> Class Materials –> World War II. Make sure you download the file and save it – do not just work on it in Teams. However, Teams has assured me you can just work on the attachment within the assignment!
Use the reading and notes from yesterday to collaboratively work through the assignment. Just one assignment per group. Point form is fine, but the questions about more recent events (Afghanistan) should be in sentence form and include a quotation.
Not required, but if you needed more information on the War/Invasion (depending which sources you ask) of Afghanistan, this is a Canadian-approved source (but, as always, be skeptical!): Canadian Encyclopedia: War in Afghanistan
Submit your assignment to Teams by the end of class one per group).
What happened today?
Reading and Annotation:
What happened today?
Readings:
Read and annotate. Notes due to Teams by the end of class.
Remember with Annotations:
The Battle of Seven Oaks
Read the above and watch the video (below).
Use some of the questions above to prompt your thinking. Make an outline and/or a mind map of what deeper ideas and questions you would like to explore. There is paper always at the back.
Use colours, patterns, and details to represent your thinking. This should be extremely detailed and fill out the full paper, given the amount of class time.
Remember: it does not have to be perfect, it mostly has to make sense to you.
Need help? Check this out: What Is a Mind Map?
Read the above and watch the video (below).
Use the mind map to help create an outline to organize your reflection. The outline should be handed in at the end of your reflection.
In your reflection, address any of the topics mentioned above (the power of words, changing of perspectives, two or more sides to one story AND why it matters).
Using proper grammar and remembering “I” statements are used, write your reflection. This should be at least one page in length (regular formatting, so double-spaced). You have a significant amount of time, and classes essentially devoted to planning (the Mind Map + Notes), so the length expected will therefore be longer than your typical assignments.
In your reflection, include at least two quotations from any of the readings or video to help use as evidence in your explanation. Remember: just because it is NOT a paragraph formula, does not mean quotations do not matter. Quotations are extremely helpful in reflections!
Citing:
You must do this assignment in this order.
Step 1: Do the readings, link, and video. Take detailed notes.
Step 2: Go through the questions above e.g. why is history told the way it is, difference between massacre/battle. Why does it matter that a Grade 9 class, not historians not adults, found out the truth about this history?
Step 3: You will be provided with large paper. There will be pencil crayons and some felts provided, but you are welcome to bring your own artistic supplies if you have them. Draft out your Mind Map in pencil. Use images, shapes, colours, etc to really make clear your connections and ideas to this event. It should say “Battle of Seven Oaks” in the centre.
Step 4: Work on the good copy of Mind Map. This means permanent with felts, colours, etc. Pencil erased.
Step 5: Use the Mind Map to help you think and process. Do a Quick-Write. Write an in-depth reflection based on everything you have learned here. Your goal should be one page.. Remember: A reflection should not repeat the history or events. Think about the samples we have read. The history/events/topic give you an idea for you to bounce off of and go explore your own thinking with evidence. As always, you will need to include quotations and citations.
Every day you will be required to upload your progress to Teams to an assignment. It is okay if it is not done/perfect – it is just to demonstrate your progress each day.
Mind Map and Reflection due Monday, 15 April 2024.
You will be researching one specialized area of Criminalistics or Forensic Science in a group of four (4) people. It will be presented in the form of a PowerPoint presentation in a seminar style. Your goal is to present the type of Forensic Science: what does it mean; how does it work in practice; investigation procedures and requirements; how they work with police, lawyers, and other law enforcement; what type of education is required; what does their work environment look like, etc? After, you will connect your type of Forensics to some well-known fiction, such as a fairy tale or nursery rhyme (which you can tweak if necessary to fit your needs), and discuss how your Forensics would be applied to this case. These questions are meant as prompts, you do not necessarily have to hit each one exactly and should not organize your PowerPoint based on these prompts as titles.
The main thing to keep in mind is that this is a Law class, not a Science class. So, while there is obviously cross-curricular requirements for this assignment (yay!), you need to ensure you are tying it back to Law.
Furthermore, remember this is not a divide-and-conquer assignment. This is something each person needs to know every, little, piece about and your presentation is clearly interwoven with all of you equally involved in all parts.
You need to be consistently interacting with your classmates, stopping here and there to ask open-ended questions. This is called a “seminar style.” If all you do is a presentation (talk at the class about your research), that would be not meeting expectations for this assignment.
A seminar style presentation does not mean one moment of interaction. It means you are consistently engaging the class consistently and repeatedly throughout the entire presentation. This can include big or small moments, such as:
As an audience, you are engaging constantly. You should be ready to jump in and support presenters in their seminars. You may also put your hand up at any point and ask the presenters questions. Presenters should finish their thought, then answer when able.
Your interaction with your classmates will not count towards your time. However, due to the need to have presentations done within a certain period of time, you will have a maximum of 20 minutes total per group, so try keep your interactions within 5-6 minutes total
Notice that it says PowerPoint. As in Microsoft PowerPoint. As in not Keynote, not Google Slides, not Prezi, not anything that is not Microsoft PowerPoint.
Ensure you include both images and text. There should be a reasonable balance with each on your slides. They should not be cramped full of things, nor should your slides be nearly empty.
Ensure your presentation is evenly balanced between each person in your group. It should not be broken up to each person doing a “part.” You should naturally be flowing back and forth complimenting each others’ words because you all know all of the information. Each human in the group is allowed to have five (5) cue cards, one side only (the lined side). These will be provided for you.
Presentations should be exactly between fifteen to sixteen (15-16) minutes. A good strategy would be to aim for around 16-ish minutes since you always speak faster when you present. You will have ample amount of class time, which means you will need to rehearse with your group to ensure you are within the time frame. The requirement for the final class before presentation day (14 April 2023) will be the entire class must be spent rehearsing and timing. You should also be gauging how the class will respond to your seminar engagement.
You are welcome to also have a timer going whilst you present.
Though given the nature of this type of research, it is still expected all images are school appropriate. Just because you might be comfortable with something, does not mean everyone is, and there are plenty of ways to tastefully give this information. If you are unsure, always check with your teacher.
How we are going to do this in our new and exciting age, is through Teams. Once I have your groups, I will be making a channel for you within the Law 12 Team. Just remember to tag your group members and NOT the name of the group. Your groups will be public, so if you tag the group name, the entire class gets the notification.
You will have a lesson on the topics prior to choosing so your group has time to come up with a couple of choices. Everyone will be doing a different topic. The topics will be decided by random draw.
Starting Research for You: The Criminalistics (Forensics) source from university days. Lucky you! This will be posted in a File in Teams. You should read the chapter from this source on your topic first before any other source to get a thorough understanding and prepare you to research. Again, each person individually reads the entire chapter – DO NOT DIVIDE AND CONQUER – get a good, comprehensive understanding, then move forward to find other corroborative evidence.
Do not, I repeat, DO NOT ASK MS. HOPKIN HOW TO CITE THIS without thoroughly looking at the files provided for you in Teams from this source.
In addition, you need a minimum of ten (yes, 10) academic sources. Five of these sources must be academic journal articles, which is how academic research, statistics, findings, and hypotheses are documented. Since you are so fortunate, Pinetree has a subscription to the extortionately expensive Academic Search Premier (also known EBSCO Host), which has access to tens of thousands of academic journal articles.
Things that are studies on EBSCO typically say words like “Journal Article” or “Periodical.”
Apparently, you can also try contact the authors of the articles and they might send them to you! (Not required!).
The rest of your sources may be any academic source.
You will be required to formally cite your sources in APA style citation. Ms. Hopkin will be distributing APA Guide (in Teams already), and you will have one full lesson in class specifically on this topic with examples.
You will be graded holistically on this assignment. From the moment you and your group set to work, your use of class time, to the content of your presentation, research capabilities, correct engagement of seminar style, to the professionalism and articulation of your seminar are all a part of your grade in addition to the content and your understanding of Forensics in Criminal Procedure and Evidence. You will all be assessed individually, not as a group, though one aspect of that assessment will be how you work within your group.
Submission of Slides: End of class on Monday, 15 April 2024. There will be an assignment upload on Teams.
Presentations will start on Tuesday, 16 April 2024 and likely continue until 18 April 2024.
VICTIMS OF GERMAN-OCCUPIED FRANCE AND NETHERLANDS: NEWSPAPER ASSIGNMENT
You will be writing as a citizen of France or the Netherlands, whose countries have been taken over by the Germans.
White you can use a provided template, HOWEVER – if you do use a Microsoft Word provided template, ensure you edit and adjust it to make it your own.
You are writing and fully formatting a newspaper article for a situation of your choice as a French or Dutch victim in German-Occupied France/Netherlands. You need to be extremely thorough in your background and in your execution of the paper.
The assignment should be the front page of a newspaper at the time. It should be in Microsoft Word, but you can save it as a PDF. It should also be landscape and you should adjust the margins to be narrow. It should be one page. Not more, not less!
You will be writing one predominant article that should take up most of the main space of the page. You should include most of the suggestions/prompts below. Remember it is the front page of your newspaper, so there is a lot more happening than just your article. Samples will be shown for inspiration. You should also try to look up newspapers from the time to get an idea of how to do this!
There will also be YouTube videos included to help guide you on how you could format your article. You do not have to do it this way, this is just to show you some of the formatting Word offers of which a lot of people are not aware. This will be at the bottom of this post.
Things to Consider:
READINGS
If just a link or title provided, you need to read the entire piece. If a link is provided with annotations below, it means only read those sections and skip the rest. This is also in addition to a verbal lesson given on the invasion of France yesterday.
Encyclopedia Britannica: Battle of France and Invasion of the Low Countries
Washington Post Article 2014: A History of Paris During Nazi Occupation
OPTIONAL (but, very interesting!) – Time: A Jewish Writer Kept a Secret Diary During the Nazi Occupation of France. It Offers an Important Lesson About History
A Firsthand Account of Life in German-Occupied France
Creating Canada Chapter 10 p. 287 “Growing Up in Occupied Holland.”
Dutch Perspective: Holland’s Occupation During World War II
You may use other sources (NEVER Wikipedia!), but you must cite them on a separate page.
MAKING NEWS ARTICLES IN MICROSOFT WORD TUTORIALS
Sound quality is not amazing, but the tutorials are quite helpful.
As always, remember it will change dependent on what version of Word you have, and whether you are using an app or online. All of these things are doable on all versions, you just may have to search or look in different locations to find them.
How to Make a Newspaper in Word (Basics)
Due at the end of class to Teams Monday, 15 April 2024.
What happened today?
The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Canada Declares War: