B Block Human Geography - Today we are back in the library for your next day to work on your information graphic poster on an endangered language. There are lots of videos below to help. Remember, for your endangered language you’ll need to:
- Show where the endangered language originated and diffused to (yes on a map).
- Show the connection to the family, branch, and group of the endangered language. (Use your best judgment on this).
- Show where the language is spoken today, indicate how many people speak it.
- Show Unique features of this endangered language (What makes it different to and similar than others?)
- Show examples of how the language is written and or spoken
- Show why your endangered language is important to save
- Show how your endangered language is both being threatened (contributing factors) and being saved
- Show how people can find more info (links...sources cited)
Canva (I highly recommend this one - with your school district login credentials you have access to unlimited content - templets, images, fonts, colours and storage)
And then you could use this Spanish language infoposter as a guide as well
A Block Legal Studies - We are back in the Learning Commons to work on your criminal law legal memo project. Remember, the purpose of the legal memorandum is to answer one or more legal questions in the context of a specific set of facts. It should contain a thorough analysis of the relevant law and provide a well-reasoned answer to the questions posed. So, you have the block this morning in the Learning Commons to work on them. Facts: Present an overview of the case/matter at hand. State the legal question(s) asked or the issue(s) considered in the memorandum. So, here you are basically stating what the criminal charges / constitutional rights issues are connected to the scenario you are writing about. Make sure to include details that are of importance to the specific issues presented. In doing this you are summarizing all legally relevant facts from the case as you understand them AND explain how they connect to the potential charges. So, what is/are the charge(s) and what are the facts that support that/those charge(s).
If you'd like, you may do this section in a chart, table, or diagram format, however, be concise and precise (be brief, clear, simple, and accurate). If there is some disagreement or uncertainty about the facts, you need to say so and state both sides. Break down each question into all relevant sub-issues (are there problems or issues with the charges or the situation?) and list issues and related sub-issues in a logical order.
You write the fact section so that someone unfamiliar with the matter will get a concise and complete picture of the facts used in your legal analysis and conclusion. You include enough background facts to present the case coherently. Review your facts to make sure that each one is Legally Relevant (ask yourself: Does this fact prove or disprove an element in the case?) and Gives Background (ask yourself: What's needed to paint the big picture? - These are the facts that tell your story). Organizing the facts chronologically is usually convenient and efficient.
Discussion: Describe the relevant law (e.g., legislation like the Criminal Code of Canada, the Controlled Drug and Substances Act of Canada, or the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) and commentary on the law (e.g., texts, encyclopedias, policy statements - these are the resources you are using to back up your opinions and facts of the case you are looking at...so who wrote them and what are their qualifications), then apply them to the facts of your case.
- Analyse each issue separately. Show your reasoning, using a step-by-step approach.
- Address fairly any arguments on both sides of an issue.
- Identify any pertinent missing information and potentially outstanding issues.
- Anticipate what positions and counterarguments might be advanced by the opposing side (Give an opinion on the strengths and weaknesses of your position).
- Make any suitable recommendations about a course of action (most appropriate charge(s) and recommendations for penalties - along with your justification A.K.A. "Why" Present persuasively the best arguments based on any relevant legislation and common law principles. Show your reasoning.).
- Be creative.
- Think strategically.
- Focus on getting results.
- Reach a conclusion.
- Ensure that it is supported by the law.
Don't forget for your discussion section consider the principles of sentencing (deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation, resocialization, and segregation); the options for sentencing; along with considerations in sentencing; and finally sentencing, healing, and releasing circles. Try to identify the best choices among: absolute discharge, conditional discharge, probation, mitigating circumstances, aggravating circumstances, suspended sentence, concurrent sentence, consecutive sentence, intermittent sentence, indeterminate sentence.
For help with writing feel free to go down the Rabbit Hole of the following sites:
So for the Corley Hoogans case...Possession of a narcotic and Drug Possession Charges In Canada: Here Is What You Need To Know and Defending Yourself: Possession of an Illegal Drug and Charged with Possession of a Narcotic in British Columbia, Canada? Understand What It Means and What is the Penalty for the Possession of Cocaine in BC and
Don't waste time, use your time today to drill down on the issues at hand
D/C Blocks Social and Environmental Sciences - Today we'll bundle you up in the bus and head to the Government Dock in Fanny Bay. Why? We'll use our nets that you built at school to collect samples to check for plastic and plankton. Plankton are very small and often difficult to see, so we need to collect water samples so that we can look at them under the microscopes in the Science Lab at school. From the University of Delaware
Zooplankton range from ~20 μm to over 200 cm, but most are in the range of millimeters to a few centimeters. Their small size is important to understanding their biology. All plankton have a very limited ability to overcome horizontal currents (plankton comes from the Greek word planktos, which means wander or drift). Despite this limitation on horizontal movement, zooplankton often can undertake remarkable vertical migrations, helping them find food and avoid predators. Zooplankton vertical migrations can be 10,000 to 50,000 body lengths each day. This is equivalent to a human walking a roundtrip distance of 50 miles each evening to get dinner!
There are several methods that you can use to tow for plankton. The key to effective net sampling is to a pass sufficient amount of water through the net. One way to do this is to tow the net behind a boat (power, sail, canoe, kayak, etc.). Another way is fasten the net to a dock and lower it into moving water. A third option is to throw the net away from you into the water while holding onto an attached line, and then slowly retrieving it. This often must be repeated several times to ensure a sufficient volume of water is sampled. This method can filter a large volume of water, but the results will only be qualitative (types) or at best, semi-quantitative, as you cannot count the amount of zooplankton per liter of water.
Here are some questions to consider:
- Why did you use a nylon stocking as part of the plankton net? What would happen if you made a plankton net using flexible window screen? Why is it important to use a fine mesh fabric when constructing a plankton net?
- What difficulties did you encounter in collecting plankton using your plankton net? Could you make the plankton net differently to solve the problem?
- What method did you use to move water through your plankton net? How successful was that? Do you think another method might have been more successful?
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