March 9-13

• Business Letters were due on Tuesday - If you have been away, please submit these when you return to school

• Novel Study for Touching Spirit Bear - we finished reading the story on Friday, so if you have been away, please use the PDF  version of the book to finish reading to the end of the book.  Make sure you keep up with your response journal as well.

• We viewed the Documentary film, God Grew Tired of Us, which documents the experiences of a group of Sudanese refugees moving to the United States.  Please watch this film and answer the  related questions. 

• Earlier this week, Senator Paula Simons from Edmonton gave a speech in the Senate related to the link between Immigration and prosperity - with particular emphasis on Edmonton and Calgary.  Please watch the clip, and make note of Simons' main point as well as the evidence she provides to support her opinion.

• We are also working from chapter five in the textbook and taking notes.  

March 2-6

Business letter for Touching Spirit Bear is due on Tuesday, March 10.  You will have time to print on Tuesday, but not time to work, so please make sure your letter is complete.

YCJA Quiz is Monday, March 9.  To prepare, take a look at the following, as well as Chapter 2 in the textbook (shared in Google Drive)

• Advocacy groups - (John Howard, Elizabeth Fry) How is their focus unique?
• Fair and equitable
• Rehabilitate
• Restitution
• Reintegration 
• Extrajudicial Measures / Extrajudicial sanctions
• Counseling
• Community Service
• Criminal record
• Publication ban
• Prosecution
• Defense
• Jury
• Age range for YCJA
• Adult sentences
• Indigenous Sentencing Circle

Goals of YCJA:

• Rehabilitation
• Reintegration
• Meaningful Consequences
• Hold youth accountable for actions

Factors that determine consequences:

• Seriousness of the offense
• History of young person
• Attitude of young person
• Circumstances of young person