Today students were presented with a video that looked at various jobs in the oil industry. It is a good video and certainly points out the various options available to young people. It is based on Newfoundland and is fairly interesting. It also highlighted some of the information we have been discussing.

The final 15 minuets we began the last set of notes on this topic we will take this year. This will concluded in Thursday's class and on Friday we will; go over an outline of the test and begin our review.

Students should make good use of the review classes and bring topics and questions to class that they wish to have clarified.

We are completing the final 3-4 classes before we begin review for the final exam. Highlighted the key concepts that students should be aware of in respect to energy. Remainder of class we concluded our first power point in respect to the oil industry, especially the offshore.

Continued to cover the energy topic. Looking at why Canada is such a large consumer of energy and has such a reliance on oil products. Using a PowerPoint to cover this material and students should be taking good notes from this. On Wednesday students will have a worksheet on various types of alternative energy sources and renewable sources. 9 classes left and students should make sure they stay abreast of all work. Last three classes will be for review.

Stduents need to read Chapyter 11 (pages 207-241 in the text).

We spent the first 10-15 minutes summarising the key points students should be aware of in respect to the fishery.

We then started the last topic we will be covering this year in the course. This is the understandings related to energy. In particular we will be focusing primarily on oil and hydroelectricity because of their importance to Newfoundland & Labrador. We started covering the reasons for energy consumption and why Canada is a major user of energy as compared to other nations around the world. We also looked at the fluctuation in the price of oil since the late 1940s. We will be exploring this topic further in coming classes and students should really try to gain an appreciation of the importance of petroleum products in their lives.

Although the text is older students have to read pages 207 - 241. Despite some of the information being dated many of the concepts and definitions are still relevant and have not changed. Renewable resources are still renewable resources......

Today we worked on an 4 page in-class assignment related to the fishery. Students had the entire class to work on the questions. It is due on Wednesday. Also last week's assignment which has been handed back to some students will not be accepted after Wednesday. We are nearing the end of the year and marks are being entered for final calculations.

Getting to the end of our short section on the fishery. Students had to hand their work on a worksheet on Thursday and have been given another they will be working on next class (Monday) which will be due next Wednesday. We have emphasized why the fishery collapsed and there was moratorium in 1992. Students should know those reasons and be able to determine which they see as the most important and why? W e have also used musical selections to help illustrate the various emotions and feelings of people towards the fishery and the collapse that has occurred.

Continued our work with the fishery today. To set the scene a little more we first watched a music video "Where are the Fishing Boats?" by the Split Peas that sort of sums up where the fishery is at this point in Newfoundland. Students were then given the remainder fo the class to complete their worksheet on the fishery which is due tomorrow, Tuesday, May 10.

Yesterday we spent the class discussing the Federal election. Students are expected to have some basic knowledge about what occurred in the election such as what party won? who is the Prime Minster? leaedr of the Oppositon? is it a minority or majority government and why? how did all the parties do? who won in our district and in the seven Newfoundland districts? Alsop students should have some idea of where parties were stronger or weaker in the country as a whole. The website www.cbc.ca provides some really good resources for this and is easily accessed.

Today we started to look at the fishery. Students were given an introductory paragraph and an overview of the fishery in Newfoundland over the past 500 plus years with an emphasis on the cod moratorium declared in 1992. Students were then given a worksheet to complete. This will be required to be handed in on Wednesday, May 11, 2011.