Today we had the first Friday 5 of Term 2. From here we went over and corrected our Gradation tests. We finished up doing question 7 on p. 25 and defining: core, mantle, crust, sial, sima and aesthenosphere.
Friday, November 14, 2025
SS 10, Nov. 14
Today in SS10 we had the first Friday 5 of Term 2. We finished our review of WWI on the board including PM Borden and the Treaty of Versailles. We watched two videos on the Treaty of Versailles and made some notes about the headings below:
Treaty of Versailles:
-territory
-military
-economic
*Woodrow’s 14 points
*League of Nations
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jycVFL8CNM
We also looked more specifically at the 14 points looking at this website and the following video:
https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/peace/fourteen-points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbdhxLVlrhI
Finally we answered the following questions and looked at p. 221:
- Who were the big 3 and what did they each want at the end of the war?
- What was Canada’s role at the Paris Peace conferences?
- Were the terms of the treaty of Versailles just and fair?
- How might the treaty led to further unrest?
Thursday, November 13, 2025
SS10 Nov 13
Today in the first half we talked about current events, particularly the budget and the crossing of the floor by a member of the conservative party. From here we talked about our WWI mind maps and created a large mind map with many of our ideas also skimming the chapter in the text book. We finished with some fill in the blank notes on the end of WWI.
In the second half I introduced part 2 of the issues project (see blog post) and worked on this as well as the redo of the cartoon analysis. I spent time meeting with students about their part 1 mind maps (which were due today).
Geog 12 - Nov 13
November 13th
In the first half today we talked about latitude and longitude. We took some notes and then did a sheet working on essentially absolute location and grid location. We also did a little map activity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=p-vNSqUy0l4&feature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=48&v=PgEO-4qPyUc&feature=emb_logo
Convection currents explained in this video operate the same in the mantle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mUU69ParFM
Seafloor spreading and the early discovery of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyMLlLxbfa4
Exploring the Marianna trench, the deepest part of the ocean:
Socials 10 - Issues part 2: Annotated Bibliography
Part 2: Search for Sources & Preparing an Annotated Bibliography
This is a research essay. Your opinion (thesis) must be supported with evidence. Thus you must consult CREDIBLE, ACCURATE & RELIABLE sources of information such as: online newspapers, interviews, websites, documentaries, books etc… We will use two blocks to begin your search and compile your annotated bibliography. I WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO create an annotated bibliography!
- document each source according to Chicago Style. You will then
-skim through the source and write down (annotate) information which will be helpful to you. For example: note the maps, images, quotes, chapters, drawings etc., included in source.
-include the biases, topics addressed, quality of the source.
These notes are to save YOU time in your research so make notes that will help you be most efficient. They act as a reminder of what is in that source when/if you consult it again. You must annotate a minimum of 5 sources.
Stage 2: Creating your annotated bibliography
What is an annotated bibliography?
An annotated bibliography is a 50-150 word summary of what is in your source. You will be critically examining and evaluating the source. Explain why and how this source is important to your research. Is there a bias? Is the author credible? Who was the intended audience?
An annotated bibliography includes three things:
-a number (for organizational purposes)
-your documented source in Chicago style
-a summary of the information found in that source. Part of the summary will be an assessment of its value to your overall paper. It may include good graphs or tables, so you will say this.
**these notes are to help you save time in your research so make notes that will help you be most efficient
***PURPOSE of annotated bibliography is to act as a reminder of what is in that source when/if you consult it again.
****You must annotate a minimum of 5 sources
Start with finding scholarly articles from BC Digital Classroom found https://focusedresources.ca/en/digital-classroom-access
Here is an example:
Topic: Tans-mountain pipeline
#1 | Mahor, Stephen, “Memo to Alberta: Get a grip,” April 22, 2018, 5. |
-favours hearing BC concerns -opinion piece – very biased, maybe use for ideas for against building but need more info or not useful -long term favours Alberta but hard to see economic gains for BC in long term -BC gets increased tanker traffic and high chance of bituman spill that BC will then need to clean up -(blames) US environmental lobby against Keystone XL -Trudeau will back pipeline with federal money esp since failure of other pipelines to move Alberta oil -talks of history of Fed gov funding energy and oil projects -transfer payments -reference to Chris Turner “The Patch” |
Quick Reference Chicago Style Bibliography for a website
Lastname, Fristname. "Title of Web Page.” Publishing Organization or Name of Website.
Publication date and/or access date if available. URL.
Monday, November 10, 2025
SS10 & Geog 12 Friday Nov. 7th
TODAY WAS THE LAST DAY TO SUBMIT TERM 1 ASSIGNMENTS.
SS10
Today we headed to the library and Mr. Wilson went through some more important information on finding good sourced info and how to cite it well plus some of the online tools that you can use to help make researching easier. Students then finished up part 1 of our issues project.
Issues part 1 due: Thursday Nov 13th at the start of class.
Geog 12
We finished up the Babushkas of Chernobyl work, going through the Geographic thinking concepts and applying them to this Ted talk. Then students got to work on finishing their article analysis.
Article Analysis due: Friday November 14th
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Mass Wasting & Ted Talk Geography 12 - November 3, 4 & 5
This week we finished up gradation. On Monday we reviewed the Friday 5 (see previous post). Then we reviewed coastal landscapes including going over the matching sheet. We also differentiated between coastal erosional features and coastal depositional features. We watched these two videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-ELTz8DEc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w16HmD_qe_o
We then went over waves and wave action including labeling a diagram and discussing what fetch and undertow are. We finished off with doing a little reading in our textbook on Mass Wasting pp 108-112 in Earth Matters.
On Tuesday we did a review sheet on Aeolian features, Karst Landscapes and Coastal landscapes in preparation for the test (Wednesday). From here we moved onto reviewing Mass Wasting, what it is and how gravity is involved. We did the chart on the back of the wave action sheet and completed the chart on p. 114 Q 5a and discussed this. We finished up going over the Geographic Thinking concepts.
We discussed the Geographical Thinking Concepts, what these are and how they can be framed.
- Geographic Importance
- Evidence and Interpretation
- Patterns and Trends
- Interactions and Associations
- Sense of Place
- Geographic Value Judgements
For our course, we will use a modified version of the Curricular Competencies:
Establish Significance
Use Primary Evidence
Identify Patterns and Change,
Analyze Cause and Consequence
Understand Interactions and Associations
Take Geographic Perspectives
Consider Ethical dimensions
We then practiced applying these to this Ted Talk on the Babushka's of Chernobyl and considered the following questions: (we will finish on Wed, but be ready by watching the Ted talk and considering the questions and thinking concepts)
-take some notes on this video (on the sheet provided) (practice using the 7 Geographical thinking concepts)...note this is a TED talk from 2015
Think about how you would respond to the prompts:
1) What does home mean to you? What is the “personal geography” of your life -- to what and to where and to what time periods do you most connect? “Sense of place”
2) Respond to the Chernobyl video, your thoughts about why the babushkas were so stubborn about staying and what this says about people's connection to place. Incorporate as much of the notes (from the template on the previous page) as you wish.
****Students will have time to finish article analysis on Friday
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