C/D Blocks Social and Environmental Sciences - In C Block, with Benton, you'll be working on a farm activity. You are an aspiring horticultural farmer (not livestock) and after our visit to Amara Farms you now have a deeper understanding about the knowledge and skills needed to be a farmer. I would like you to focus on one crop, which leads to the questions...
Why is it beneficial to diversify and grow at least a few different crops?
What you need to answer is What crop are you going to be growing and why?
Research the following points before answering the above questions with a practical and financial plan:
- Soil type and nutrient requirements, planting temperature, water needs, infrastructure (greenhouse?), time to harvest (multiple crops per year?), volume harvest/ acre (or hectare).
- Seed or seedling costs (source?), labour involved (weeding, thinning, etc.), market value (grocery or farmers market).
- Pests, diseases or problems with this crop
In D Block, with Ms. Nadeau, we'll start by asking "What are Ethics?" and "What Shapes our own Ethics?" To help...
You'll have two sample scenarios to work on with a partner and then we will talk about how these ethical dilemmas can apply to farmers and consumers. You'll have a guided inquiry worksheet to work through during your peers presentations on their food items they researched. Your task will be to collect all the information for each food item presented in order to make your own ethical judgement ranking. This will take more than today so we will continue this activity on Thursday (tomorrow we're off to the VIU Deep Bay Marine Station)
A Block Criminology - Today we'll delve deeper into the five types of motor vehicle theft.
After, we'll continue looking at theft by focusing on Arson (and the motives for setting fires intentionally).
Why do people commit arson?
B Block Legal Studies - We'll continue our look at trials and evidence. In a trial, witnesses must answer all questions put to them unless it is considered privileged. Privileged information includes:
i) discussions between a client and his or her lawyer in situations when the lawyer was acting in a professional capacity,
ii) any information tending to reveal the identity of a confidential police informant, unless disclosure is the only way to establish the innocence of the accused, and
iii) communication between spouses.
A witness is required either to swear an oath or to solemnly affirm that he or she will tell the truth. Section 16(3) of the Canada Evidence Act permits a witness who is able to communicate the evidence, but does not understand the nature of an oath or a solemn affirmation due to age (under 14 years) or insufficient mental capacity, to testify – as long as he or she promises to tell the truth.
The judge decides whether to admit or exclude evidence, as governed by the laws of evidence, case law, the Charter, the BC Evidence Act, the Canada Evidence Act, and the statute creating the offence. Evidence must be relevant to the facts in issue. The facts in issue are those that go to establishing the essential elements of the offence and any legal defence to that offence. Evidence may be presented with respect to other issues as well, such as the credibility of a witness, provided that the evidence does not offend the collateral evidence rule.
i) discussions between a client and his or her lawyer in situations when the lawyer was acting in a professional capacity,
ii) any information tending to reveal the identity of a confidential police informant, unless disclosure is the only way to establish the innocence of the accused, and
iii) communication between spouses.
A witness is required either to swear an oath or to solemnly affirm that he or she will tell the truth. Section 16(3) of the Canada Evidence Act permits a witness who is able to communicate the evidence, but does not understand the nature of an oath or a solemn affirmation due to age (under 14 years) or insufficient mental capacity, to testify – as long as he or she promises to tell the truth.
The judge decides whether to admit or exclude evidence, as governed by the laws of evidence, case law, the Charter, the BC Evidence Act, the Canada Evidence Act, and the statute creating the offence. Evidence must be relevant to the facts in issue. The facts in issue are those that go to establishing the essential elements of the offence and any legal defence to that offence. Evidence may be presented with respect to other issues as well, such as the credibility of a witness, provided that the evidence does not offend the collateral evidence rule.
Lastly, we'll look at the advantages of trial by jury and understand the methods and challenges to jury selection. For more on juries in BC check out Justice BC - What is Jury Duty?
You'll need to work on questions 2, 3, & 4 from page 211 of the All About Law textbook and finish yesterday's questions 2 & 4 from page 200 and questions 1 & 2 from page 207.
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