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1). Attendance
2). Guest Speaker from Canada Border Security Agency
3). Reflective Writing Assignment #5 due at the beginning of next Wednesday’s class
4). HOMEWORK – study for Friday’s unit test

1). Attendance
2). Kahoot Review Game – Chapter 6 “Sentencing, Appeals, and Prison”
3). Finish Chapter 9 assignment due at the beginning of Thursday’s class
4). Study for Friday’s unit test
5). TEST – Friday June 7th Unit Test
6). HOMEWORK – Study for Unit Test

1). Formative (practice) quiz – parole
2). Attendance
3). Current Events (Utah uncle charged in murder of his 5 year old niece, he who was release after serving 22 years for sexual assault torments this victims, American soldier charged in the shooting death of an Iraqi citizen)
4). WORK BLOCK (80 minutes)
5). Students continue to work on their Chapter 9 – The Young Offender assignment due at the beginning of Thursday’s class.
6). TEST – Moved to Friday June 7th due to Thursday’s guest speaker booking

1). Attendance
2). Current Events (Quebec woman who faked being a nurse for 20 years faces possible charges of fraud, Hamilton man charged with first-degree murder in the death of Tyquan Brown who was celebrating a Toronto Raptors win with friends on May 24th, middle-aged man with mental health issues attacks and kills his mother in Israel, Wisconsin senior citizen convicted of 1976 double murder and rape from new DNA evidence)
3). Distribute Chapter 9 assignment due at the beginning of Friday’s class.
4). WORK BLOCK (80 minutes)
5). HOMEWORK – study for Friday’s unit test

1). Formative (practice) Quiz – Prison and Parole
2). Current Events (prison riot in Brazilian prison claims 55 lives, two men of south Asian decent and in their early 20s injury baby in brazen shooting on a Vancouver street, Denver man charged in the death of his 7 year old daughter, man loses control of his vehicle killing 3 teens in Miami, man in England sets fire to his flat and attacks firefighters)
3). Class discussion – Chapter 6 questions 14-25
4). Watch film “Babakiueria” about the Aboriginals of Australia
4). HOMEWORK – create 12 multiple choice questions with four answer options for next week’s Kahoot review and Thursday’s unit test. This assignment is due at the beginning of Monday’s class. In addition, study over the weekend
5). TEST – Unit Test Thursday June 6th.

1) Formative (practice) quiz – sentencing
2) Current Events (active member of El Chapo’s Cartel who was arrested in 2009 was sentenced today, actor Mel Gibson charged with domestic violence back in 2010 finally on placed probation for offence, Toronto resident Alec Subero charged with attempted murder and 6 firearms related offences, Mexican federal agents arrest the leaders of the Fuerca Anti-Union Criminal organization, Winnipeg man charged with the murder of his girlfriend)
3). Finish documentary “American Prison Systems”
4). Class Discussion compare and contrast Canadian penal system and American prison discussion
5). HOMEWORK – Study for next Thursday’s unit test
6). TEST – Unit Test Thursday June 6th.

1). Formative (practice) quiz – Sentencing
2). Current Events (man kills two girls and many injured during a stabbing spree in Tokyo Japan, man goes on a shooting spree at plumbing company office in Cleveland Texas, uncle arrested in the kidnapping and murder of Utah girl)
3). Continue to watch documentary “American Prison System”
4). WORK CHECK – Collect Reflective Writing Assignment #4
5). TEST – Unit Test next Thursday June 6th

1). Formative (practice) quiz – sentencing
2). Attendance
3). Current Events (55 inmates killed in gang-related prison riot in western Brazil, Philippines and Malaysia threatened lawsuit and violence against Canada over container full of garbage is shipped to their country, 37 year old Australian man sentenced to life in prison in the murder of his abused wife, senior citizen Michael Cadotte who suffers from Alzheimer’s convicted of suffocating his wife, 18 year old Devon Erikson from Denver is taken into custody after he opened fire at his high school)
4). Class discussion of Chapter 6 “Sentencing, Appeals, and Prison” questions 1-8
5). Watch documentary “The American Prison System” to highlight difference with Canada’s penal system.

1). Attendance
2). Distribute Reflective Writing Assignment to period 1’s class.
3). WORK BLOCK (80 minutes)
4). HOMEWORK – Reflective Writing Assignment “Canada’s Prisons” due at the beginning of Wednesday’s class for period 4s class and beginning of Thursday’s class for period 1s class
5). TEST – the unit test is tentatively scheduled for either Tuesday June 4th or Thursday June 6th (I am leaning toward the Thursday)

1). Attendance
2). Current Events (Kevin Wayne Powell of Texas sentenced to life in prison for the death of his girlfriend in 2015, Winnipeg man was arrested and is now recovering in hospital after threatening to shoot police officers during an unsuccessful arson of a residence, a student who attempted to stop one of the assailants during the Highlands Ranch High School shooting in Colorado has died in hospital due to their wounds, Abbotsford man is charged with a series of crimes in relation to an arson attempt on a family home, man from Israel is charged with 17 counts of sexual misconduct by online luring, six Vancouver men charged with manslaughter in failed kidnapping attempt, Florida man put to death yesterday in the 1984 murder of 10 woman, a teenage boy is attacked on his walk to a mosque in Dublin Ireland)
3). Class discuss and finish watching the CBC documentary “Inside Canada’s Prisons”