Day 17: Inclass write and Global Citizen

In class write on your biography.

Intro to the website Global Citizen: CLICK TO VIEW

Celebrities and shining light on global causes.
Example.  Helping Africa (song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie in 1985) Click to watch "We are the World"
Example.  Michael Jackson Click to watch "Man in the Mirror"

Day 16: homelessness continued

US election debate.  A look at this past Monday.  Click to watch

Current events:  Former Israeli PM Shimon Peres dies.  Click to watch

Homelessness continued...
A focus on Aboriginal Homelessness (SFU doc)

Canada hosts One Young World conference Click to view
What is this conference about?

Scenes from a Trump rally after the debate: Click to watch

Day 15: biography presentations

Finished off remaining presentations.

Well done.

Day 14: Biography presentations

Well done today!

We will finish the remaining presentations tomorrow.

Day 13: Homelessness at a local level

Hand back journals from last day.

Current events:  The Royals make their way to BC
Duke and Duchess visit SHEWAY in the DTES

Video of police shooting in Tulsa, OK (police cam): CLICK TO WATCH

Trevor Noah on recent police shooting in the USA.  Talking about racism and bias in the media. CLICK TO WATCH (around the 6:00 min mark)

Learning About Homelessness in BC: CLICK TO READ a report from SFU
Please complete worksheet that accompanies the above document.

Presentations tomorrow.
Please email me your links tonight.

Day 12: Field trip debrief

Debrief/Journal:

• Thoughts on our trip to Union Gospel Mission.  What do they do?  What did you take away from the experience?
• Thoughts on our walk through the DTES.  What stood out to you?  What did you take away from the experience?

Excellent discussion as a class!

Insite vs. Onsite.  Other groups in the DTES
Helping or Enabling (defined this - negative connotation)
Is this improving the situation?

Biography assignment/presentation due next Tuesday.

Day 11: Field trip

What an amazing adventure down to Union Gospel Mission to see how they help out those in need in the DTES.

Also an unbelievable experience walking the DTES with several fantastic members of the VPD.  Thank you for the amazing tour.

So many issues to discuss for tomorrows class.


CLICK TO READ SFU document: Learning about homelessness in BC

Day 10: Movie Analysis

Finishing Zootopia.

Movie analysis due on Thursday.  See Rubric regarding how this will be marked.

Meet at 9:45am tomorrow for the field trip.

Day 9: Movie analysis

Field trip forms in please.

Biography assignments due next Tuesday, September 27th.

Zootopia movie analysis.

Day 8: State of Poverty in Canada

Handout: ideas to keep in mind for your year end project

Review: Why is poverty so expensive?

Fraser Institute: An introduction to the state of poverty in Canada
CLICK TO READ

•  Define Absolute vs Relative poverty
• Definition of Low Income Cut-off (LICO)
• What are some trends happening with groups over the past 20 years
• Pg. 20.  Who are the at-risk groups for persistent low income?
• Pg 21.  Table 3.  What are the "at risk characteristics"

What do you know about the Downtown Eastside?   CLICK TO WATCH

 Downtown Eastside life on the streets: CLICK TO WATCH

Work on your biography projects.
Due on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th

Day 7: Local poverty

Current events: Aung San Suu Kyi visits the White House

Current events: Random act of kindness goes viral

Further discussion on the difference between poverty in Canada compared to a developing country.
How is poverty defined in Canada? -  spending more than 56 percent of a person's or family's income on the necessities of life, such as food, shelter and clothing.

Looking at the poverty cycle.  At what stage do you think intervention in the poverty cycle would be most effective?  How might remedies applied to developing countries differ from those applied to poverty in Canada?

The Cost of Poverty. CLICK TO VIEW
Why is combating poverty so expensive?
What is the $ going towards?

CBC: 10 things you might not know about poverty

Day 6: Defining poverty

1) Comparing morality of Canadians vs. Americans.  A look at an interesting study.

Click to see article

2) A look at 9/11.  What are different ways in which the world has changed since 2011?
An article talked about changes to, a) foreign policy, b) politics, c) gov't surveillance, d) immigration, e) TSA (transportation security), f) Islamopobia

3) Handout of Social Justice 12 terms that we will be studying throughout the year

4) Identify basic human needs.

5) Copy down Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Click to view

6) Review of the poverty cycle.

7) Counterpoints.  Comparing poverty in Canada vs. other countries.
Read 343-345.  Page 345 #4a, 4b

Day 5: project

Field trip forms handed out - please have your teacher and parent sign the forms and return asap.

If you have not paid yet, please bring in a cheque asap.

Remember to use bibme.org for your bibliography.

2 pages of handwritten notes.

Day 4: Biography research

Picking topics.

Handwritten notes.

Using the school website (biography, and other sites for researching)

Day 3: Bias. Relational Attitudes.

Current event.  Example of racism in society.  China Airlines

Journal topics:

a) What are my biases?  How do they affect the way I see the world?

b) Where do my beliefs come from (ex. family, peers, school, religious teachings, media, experiences).  To what degree are they unique to me?

Identifying Bias (optional notes to print)

How to detect bias in the news (optional notes to print)

Understanding conscious bias (click to WATCH)

Biography project.  Example, Johann Olav Koss.  Click to WATCH

Koss success at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics  Click to WATCH

For homework please come up with a list of potential people to research for your project.

Selection will take place on Monday.

Day 2: Terms

Collecting field trip $

Ice breaker activity: find someone who...

Kahoot: social injustice.

Brainstrom: Define change.  How do we achieve lasting change?

What is empathy? Click to watch a short clip.

Define Bias/Discrimination/Stereotype/Prejudice

Understanding unconscious bias: Click to watch

HW: bring in your signed class outline and field trip $ tomorrow.

Day 1: Welcome to SJ 12

Course outline: please ask your parents to read the outline and sign it for tomorrow.
PPT: Welcome to SJ 12

Field trip $15 (UGM) + $30 (Avenue Q) by Friday.

Ice breaker sheets

Clip of what we may see on our field trip: Avenue Q