Course Description:

English Language Arts B10 (ELA B10) is an issue-oriented course that is organized around the human concerns facing contemporary society. Issue-based units suggested in this curriculum are:

Decisions--Action or Apathy

Related issues include: Life Pressures, Values, Consequences, Career Decisions, Apathy versus Action.

Environment and Technology--Reality and Responsibility

Related issues include: Survival, Disasters, Animal Rights, Urban and Rural Issues, Ecology and Technology.

Equality--Pain and Pride

Related issues include: Judging and Misjudging Others, Rights and Responsibilities, Inequalities, Racial Tensions, Justice and Fairness.

One sample unit for ELA A10, The Unknown (50 hours), and one for ELA B10, Equality (50 hours), are provided in the curriculum guide. These sample units can be used as models for planning and teaching.

Course Description:

English Language Arts 20 (ELA 20) is organized around themes that are of interest to adolescents and that focus on self, society, and what it means to be human. In this course:

• language processes are integrated

• language provides the foundation for all learning, including the study of literature and other forms of communication

• students use language to learn, think, and communicate effectively, and to understand the functions and forms of language.

Sample themes suggested in this curriculum are:

Recollection--A Journey Back

Possible subthemes include: Innocence and Experience, Family and Peer Relationships, School and Education, Wonder and Imagination, Triumphs and Defeats.

Anticipation--On the Threshold

Possible subthemes include: Roles and Responsibilities, Choices and Commitments, Perspectives and Passages, Values and Goals.

A sample unit for ELA 20, Recollection--A Journey Back, is provided in the curriculum guide. 
 

Course Description:

English language Arts A30 (ELA A30) is organized around themes that focus on Canadian literature and society.

Canada--Diverse Landscapes and Peoples

Possible subthemes include: A Vast and Varied Land, Nature and the Seasons, Regional Landscapes, Identity and Diversity, Personalities and Values.

Canada--Diverse Voices

Possible subthemes include: Aboriginal Voices, Voices Through Time, Regional Voices, Multicultural Voices, Female and Male Voices, Marginalized Voices.

Course Description:

English Language Arts B30 (ELA B30) is an issue-oriented course that is organized around human concerns in a global society. English Language Arts B30 examines global perspectives using traditional and contemporary world literature in a comparative manner. Issue-based units in this curriculum are:

The Human Condition--In Search of Self

Related issues include: Identity and Sense of Self, Human Qualities and Ideals, Human Relationships, Joy and Inspiration, Doubt and Fear.

The Social Experience--Beyond Personal Goals

Related issues include: Individual and Social Responsibility; Truth and Justice; Ambition, Power, and the Common Good; Social Criticism; Causes and Crusades.

Sample units for ELA A30, Diverse Landscapes and People (50 hours), and ELA B30, The Human Condition--In Search of Self (50 hours), are provided in the curriculum guide. These sample units can be used as models for planning and teaching.

Course Description:

Media Studies 20 is concerned with helping students develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the mass media, the messages contained in the mass media, the techniques used by them, and the impact of these media.

The following principles form a foundation for teaching Media Studies 20.

• Language learning thrives when students are engaged in meaningful use of language. In this course, students should be given many opportunities to experiment and explore the various media and the issues associated with them. They should be encouraged to become involved in analysis, inquiry, and "hands on" activities related to the media.
• This course places language and the mass media in the context of communication. Throughout each module, students should be encouraged to apply the "5W+H" questioning process to each communication context.
  • Who is communicating?
  • What is being communicated?
  • To whom is it communicated?
  • What medium is used?
  • What is the purpose of the communication? To inform and instruct? To persuade? To entertain?
  • How effective is the communication?
• Media literacy involves understanding mass media and how they affect us. Students should explore the values and tastes that are relevant to their own community and the impact of the mass media on their community.
• A balanced view of each medium is important. The positive features of the mass media as well as the negative features should be examined.

In addition, five key concepts underlie the Media Studies 20 course.

• The mass media use carefully crafted messages that present a particular sense of what the world is and how it works. While all of us have our own view of the way the world is "constructed" based on our experiences, many of our notions are influenced by what the mass media show us.
• Each medium has its own forms and conventions. Language, design, sound, lighting, camera angles, etc. are used to construct meaning in a particular way.
• Each media message has its own ideology and biases. Recognizing values and biases is part of being media literate.
• Media messages often have commercial implications. Most media production is undertaken as a business with a goal of making a profit. This can influence what is presented in the mass media.
• The mass media are responded to and interpreted in different ways. No individual or group is entirely alike any other. Each audience will react to and interpret media messages in a different way. The informed viewer, listener, and reader analyzes the media message and tries to understand and appreciate how and why a particular interpretation is made.

Course Description:

The focus of the renewed accounting curriculum is to provide young people with practical business and financial knowledge and skills to function effectively in our changing and complex technological and market-based society. The needs of all students for decision making, resource management, citizenship, career and personal planning and financial skills must be present in the curriculum.

Young people leaving school today need essential understandings, economic, financial, and consumer skills and attitudes to cope successfully and to participate productively in an information society. Students must be able to manage personal finances, act appropriately according to their rights and responsibilities as citizens, process information effectively and efficiently, make sound decisions about life careers and choices, and participate constructively as consumers and producers. These general competencies must be coupled with those that may lead to employment or advanced studies in business.

Course Description:

The focus of the renewed accounting curriculum is to provide young people with practical business and financial knowledge and skills to function effectively in our changing and complex technological and market-based society. The needs of all students for decision making, resource management, citizenship, career and personal planning and financial skills must be present in the curriculum.

Young people leaving school today need essential understandings, economic, financial, and consumer skills and attitudes to cope successfully and to participate productively in an information society. Students must be able to manage personal finances, act appropriately according to their rights and responsibilities as citizens, process information effectively and efficiently, make sound decisions about life careers and choices, and participate constructively as consumers and producers. These general competencies must be coupled with those that may lead to employment or advanced studies in business.

Course Description:

Calculus 30 is a 100-hour course.  The content of the Calculus 30 curriculum guide has been divided into nine units:

A.      Introduction

B.       Functions

C.       Limits and Continuity

D.      Differentiation

E.       Applications of Derivatives to Curve Sketching

F.       Practical Applications of Derivatives

G.       Derivatives of the Transcendental Functions

H.      Integration

I.         The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

Many of the units contain both compulsory and optional learning objectives.  The optional learning objectives have been included to indicate other possible topics for interested or advanced students and are found in Appendix A.  The optional learning objectives should only be used with the full class if time permits.  These objectives should not be addressed at the expense of any of the compulsory learning objectives.

Course Description:

The curriculum goals are intended to provide for students the mathematical preparation essential to:

• function as consumers and workers; that is, to develop the skills and knowledge of concepts necessary to meet the needs of the average worker and consumer. This can be accomplished by developing an understanding of the relationship between problem solving in the real-world and the mathematics taught in schools;
• function as informed responsible citizens; that is, to develop the ability to analyze and interpret quantitative information.
• obtain a liberal education; that is, to develop logical thinking skills, effective work habits and an appreciation of mathematics;
• become capable problem solvers; that is, to develop the desire, confidence and ability to solve problems;
• communicate mathematically; and,
• pursue further study in mathematics and mathematically related areas.

Course Description:

Western Protocol - General Outcomes Grades 10-12
Foundational Objectives - Mathematics A 30

1. Probability
2. Data Analysis
3. Matrices
4. Complex Numbers
5. Quadratic Equations
6. Polynomial and Rational Functions
7. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

Course Description:

Course Description:

The goal of this course is to help students understand that humans establish various kinds of organizations as a means of systematically meeting their needs and wants. These organizations may be political or economic. Additionally, this course is about a lot of "isms", (conservatism, liberalism, socialism, imperialism) or philosophical viewpoints that underlie how people think about society in unique ways.

The ideas of this course are far-reaching, and while complex at times, certainly the basis for understanding almost everything about the makeup and the conflicts of our world.

There are five core concepts which figure prominently in Grade 10 History.

• Interdependence: The concept of interdependence underlies the study of social organizations.

• Social Institution: Students will explore the organizations which have been established to organize our social or common lives.

• Decision-Making: Students will study how political and economic decisions are made at the national and international levels.

• Power: Students will further develop their understanding of this concept by exploring political and economic decision-making.

• Ideology: Students will examine the role ideology plays in the economic and political decision-making processes of social organizations.

The concepts of this course can be quite challenging, but for those who read broadly before undertaking to answer questions in the assignments, the rewards of studying this course and the 18^th, 19^th and 20^th century events that are used to illustrate the unit concepts, can be substantial and thought-provoking.

Due to the demanding nature of this course, it is recommended for students who have excellent independent study and research skills.

Note: The following textbook will be required for this course: "Globe Fearon World History" published by Pearson Group. It can be purchased by phoning "1-800-387-8028". 

Course Description:

Foundations of Mathematics and Pre-Calculus 10 is a pre-requisite for both the Foundations Math and the Pre-Calculus Math in Grade 11. It introduces and/or focuses on the following concepts: factoring, rational and irrational numbers, laws of exponents, operations with polynomials, trigonometry, relations and functions, slope, linear relations, graphing, linear systems, the metric system and imperial measurements.