Grade 9 Course Selections 2017-2018

Grade 9 Course Selections 2017-2018 Information and Communication be on the use of strategies that contribute to Technology in Business, Grade 9 Open effective communication. The course is (BTT 1O) intended to prepare students for the Grade 10 This course introduces students to academic English course, which leads to information and communication technology university or college preparation courses in in a business environment and builds a Grades 11 and 12. foundation of digital literacy skills necessary Prerequisite: None for success in a technologically driven society. Students will develop word English, Grade 9, Applied (ENG 1P) processing, spreadsheet, database, desktop This course is designed to develop the key publishing, presentation software, and oral communication, reading, writing, and website design skills. Throughout the course, media literacy skills students need for success there is an emphasis on digital literacy, in secondary school and daily life. Students effective electronic research and will read, interpret, and create a variety of communication skills, and current issues informational, literary, and graphic texts. An related to the impact of information and important focus will be on identifying and communication technology. using appropriate strategies and processes to Prerequisite: None improve students’ comprehension of texts and to help them communicate clearly and Issues in Canadian Geography, Grade 9, effectively. The course is intended to prepare Academic (CGC 1D) students for the Grade 10 applied English This course examines interrelationships course, which leads to college or workplace Drama, Grade 9, Open (ADA 1O) within and between Canada’s natural and preparation courses in Grades 11 and 12. This course provides opportunities for human systems and how these systems Prerequisite: None students to explore dramatic forms and interconnect with those in other parts of the techniques, using material from a wide range world. Students will explore environmental, Core French, Grade 9, Academic (FSF 1D) of sources and cultures. Students will use the economic, and social geographic issues This course provides opportunities for elements of drama to examine situations and relating to topics such as transportation students to communicate and interact in issues that are relevant to their lives. Students options, energy choices, and urban French with increasing independence, with a will create, perform, discuss, and analyse development. Students will apply the focus on familiar topics related to their daily drama, and then reflect on the experiences to concepts of geographic thinking and the lives. Students will continue to develop develop an understanding of themselves, the geographic inquiry process, including spatial language knowledge and skills by using art form, and the world around them. technologies, to investigate various language-learning strategies introduced in the Prerequisite: None geographic issues and to develop possible elementary Core French program, and will approaches for making Canada a more apply creative and critical thinking skills in Music, Grade 9, Open (AMU 1O, AMI1O) sustainable place in which to live. various ways. They will also enhance their This course emphasizes the creation and Prerequisite: None understanding and appreciation of diverse performance of music at a level consistent Issues in Canadian Geography Grade 9, French-speaking communities, and will with previous experience and is aimed at Applied (CGC 1P) develop the skills necessary to become life- developing technique, sensitivity, and This course focuses on current geographic long language learners. imagination. Students will develop musical issues that affect Canadians. Students will Prerequisite: Minimum of 600 hours of literacy skills by using the creative and draw on their personal and everyday elementary Core French instruction, or critical analysis processes in composition, experiences as they explore issues relating to equivalent performance, and a range of reflective and food and water supplies, competing land uses, analytical activities. Students will develop an interactions with the natural environment, and Core French, Grade 9, Applied (FSF 1P) understanding of the conventions and other topics relevant to sustainable living in This course provides opportunities for elements of music and of safe practices Canada. They will also develop awareness students to communicate and interact in related to music, and will develop a variety of that issues that affect their lives in Canada are French in structured situations on everyday skills transferable to other areas of their life. interconnected with issues in other parts of topics and to apply their knowledge of French AMU1O: No previous experience is the world. Throughout the course, students in everyday situations. Students will continue necessary. will use the concepts of geographic thinking, to develop language knowledge and skills AMI1O : Previous instrumental experience is the geographic inquiry process, and spatial introduced in the elementary Core French necessary. technologies to guide and support their program, through practical applications and investigations. concrete examples, and will use creative and Visual Arts, Grade 9, Open (AVI1O) Prerequisite: None critical thinking skills in various ways. They This course is exploratory in nature, offering will also enhance their understanding and an overview of visual arts as a foundation for English, Grade 9, Academic (ENG 1D) appreciation of diverse French-speaking further study. Students will become familiar This course is designed to develop the oral communities, and will develop the skills with the elements and principles of design communication, reading, writing, and media necessary to become life-long language and the expressive qualities of various literacy skills that students need for success in learners. materials by using a range of media, their secondary school academic programs Prerequisite: Minimum of 600 hours of processes, techniques, and styles. Students and in their daily lives. Students will analyse elementary Core French instruction, or will use the creative and critical analysis literary texts from contemporary and equivalent processes and will interpret art within a historical periods, interpret informational and personal, contemporary, and historical graphic texts, and create oral, written, and context. media texts in a variety of forms. An Prerequisite: None important focus will Grade 9 Course Selections 2017-2018 Learning Strategies, Grade 9, Open will investigate real-life examples to develop practical problems and issues related to the (GLS1O) various representations of linear relations, and impact of human activity on ecosystems; the This course explores learning strategies and will determine the connections between the structure and properties of elements and helps students become better, more representations. They will also explore certain compounds; space exploration and the independent learners while increasing their relationships that emerge from the components of the universe; and static and personal management skills, both in school measurement of three-dimensional objects current electricity. and in other contexts. Students will learn and two-dimensional shapes. Students will Prerequisite: None how to develop and apply a range of consolidate their mathematical skills as they strategies to improve their learning and solve problems and communicate their Exploring Family Studies, achievement, particularly their literacy, thinking. Successful completion of this course Grade 9 or 10, Open (HIF 1O) numeracy, communication and planning prepares students for Foundations of This course explores, within the context of skills. This course will increase students’ Mathematics, Grade 10, Applied (MFM 2P). families, some of the fundamental challenges confidence, motivation and ability to learn. (Note: Students who wish to take Principles people face: how to meet basic needs, how to Prerequisite: None of Mathematics, Grade 10, Academic (MPM relate to others, how to manage resources, 2D) after completing this course will need to and how to become responsible members of Healthy Active Living Education, Grade 9, take a transfer course.) Learning through society. Students will explore adolescent Open (PPL 1OF, PPL 1OM)) hands-on activities and the use of concrete development and will have opportunities to This course equips students with the examples is an important aspect of this develop interpersonal, decision-making, and knowledge and skills they need to make course. practical skills related to daily life. They will healthy choices now and lead healthy, active Prerequisite: None learn about the diverse ways in which lives in the future. Through participation in a families function in Canada and will use wide range of physical activities, students Locally Developed Compulsory Credit research skills as they explore topics related develop knowledge and skills related to Grade 9 (MAT 1L) to individual and family needs and resources. movement competence and personal fitness This course emphasizes further development Prerequisite: None that provide a foundation for active living. of mathematical knowledge and skills to Students also acquire an understanding of the prepare students for success in their everyday Exploring Technologies, Grade 9, Open factors and skills that contribute to healthy lives, in the workplace, and in the Grade 10 (TIJ 1O) development and learn how their own well- LDCC course. The course is organized in This course enables students to further being is affected by, and affects, the world three strands related to money sense, explore and develop technological knowledge around them. Students build their sense of measurement, and proportional reasoning. In and skills introduced in the elementary self, learn to interact positively with others, all strands, the focus is on developing and science and technology program. Students and develop their ability to think critically consolidating key foundational mathematical will be given the opportunity to design and and creatively. Prerequisite: None concepts and skills by solving authentic, create products and/or provide services everyday problems. Students have related to the various technological areas or Principles of Mathematics, Grade 9, opportunities to further develop their industries, working with a variety of tools, Academic (MPM 1D) mathematical literacy and problem-solving equipment, and software commonly used in This course enables students to develop an skills and to continue developing their skills industry. Students will develop an awareness understanding of mathematical concepts in reading, writing, and oral language through of environmental and societal issues, and will related to algebra, analytic geometry, and relevant and practical math activities. begin to explore secondary and postsecondary measurement and geometry through Prerequisite: None education and training pathways leading to investigation, the effective use of technology, careers in technology-related fields. and abstract reasoning. Students will Science, Grade 9, Academic (SNC 1D) Prerequisite: None investigate relationships, which they will then This course enables students to develop their generalize as equations of lines, and will understanding of basic concepts in biology, determine the connections between different chemistry, earth and space science, and representations of a linear relation. They will physics, and to relate science to technology, also explore relationships that emerge from society, and the environment. Throughout the the measurement of three-dimensional figures course, students will develop their skills in and two-dimensional shapes. Students will the processes of scientific investigation. reason mathematically and communicate their Students will acquire an understanding of thinking as they solve multi-step problems. scientific theories and conduct investigations Successful completion of this course prepares related to sustainable ecosystems; atomic and students for Principles of Mathematics, Grade molecular structures and the properties of 10, Academic (MPM 2D) or Foundations of elements and compounds; the study of the Mathematics, Grade 10, Applied (MFM 2P). universe and its properties and components; Learning through abstract reasoning is an and the principles of electricity. important aspect of this course. Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: None Science, Grade 9, Applied (SNC 1P) Foundations of Mathematics, Grade 9, This course enables students to develop their Applied (MFM 1P) understanding of basic concepts in biology, This course enables students to develop an chemistry, earth and space science, and understanding of mathematical concepts physics, and to apply their knowledge of related to introductory algebra, proportional science to everyday situations. They are also reasoning, and measurement and geometry given opportunities to develop practical skills through investigation, the effective use of related to scientific investigation. Students technology, and hands-on activities. Students will plan and conduct investigations into Grade 9 Course Selections 2017-2018

Regular 2-day Schedule Period 1: 9:00 to 10:19 2: 10:22 to 11:37 Lunch: 11:37 to 12:37 3: 12:37 to 1:52 4: 1:55 to 3:10 Alternate Schedule Lunch: 11:00 to 11:40 Period 1: 11:41 to 12:31 2: 12:34 to 1:24 3: 1:27 to 2:17 4: 2:20 to 3:10

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