2020-2021 COURSE SELECTION GUIDE Dear Parents ~ Welcome to Shawnigan! In the coming weeks, incoming students for grades 8 through 12 will begin the course selection process for the 2020-2021 school year. The online version of the course selection form will be used by our office to support accuracy, parental involvement and communication among all those involved as we attempt to find the best courses for each individual student. The Academic Office can be contacted in a variety of ways, but for specific course selection questions and to submit your choices, please email
[email protected]. To get full course descriptions of the BC curriculum that Shawnigan delivers, please see the curriculum documents on the curriculum.gov.bc.ca website. For descriptions of our AP courses, please visit the apstudent.collegeboard.org website. How the process will work: • Please use this document to inform your course selection. • Please send your choices to
[email protected] within the next two weeks. • For all grades, the attached information should answer most questions. • For some grades, there are prescribed courses that all students take, while in others, there are many choices including Honours (denoted with a *) and AP level classes. • It is important that you and your child have the correct information when choosing classes. While changes to courses are possible at a later date, the timetable is staffed and built based on student requests. So we ask that course selection be completed with the intent of staying with the courses chosen. • You will notice that there is no Social Studies 11 course listed.