COURSE DESCRIPTION: The new curriculum focuses on the core and curricular competencies (listed below). Students will apply these competencies by analyzing the "Big Ideas" and the content that is prescribed.
Core Competencies
Communication
Thinking
Personal and Social Responsibility
Big Ideas
Emerging ideas and ideologies profoundly influence societies and events.
The physical environment influences the nature of political, social, and economic change.
Disparities in power alter the balance of relationships between individuals and between societies.
Collective identity is constructed and can change over time.
Curricular Competencies
Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions
Assess the significance of people, places, events, or developments, and compare varying perspectives on their historical significance at particular times and places, and from group to group (significance)
Assess the justification for competing historical accounts after investigating points of contention, reliability of sources, and adequacy of evidence (evidence)
Compare and contrast continuities and changes for different groups at the same time period (continuity and change)
Assess how prevailing conditions and the actions of individuals or groups affect events, decisions, or developments (cause and consequence)
Explain and infer different perspectives on past or present people, places, issues, or events by considering prevailing norms, values, worldviews, and beliefs (perspective)
Recognize implicit and explicit ethical judgments in a variety of sources (ethical judgment)
Make reasoned ethical judgments about actions in the past and present, and determine appropriate ways to remember and respond(ethical judgment)
Content
Students are expected to know the following:
political, social, economic, and technological revolutions
the continuing effects of imperialism and colonialism on indigenous peoples in Canada and around the world
global demographic shifts, including patterns of migration and population growth
nationalism and the development of modern nation-states, including Canada
local, regional, and global conflicts
discriminatory policies, attitudes, and historical wrongs
physiographic features of Canada and geological processes
REQUIRED SUPPLIES: Students are expected to come fully prepared each day with the following supplies: paper, pens, pencils, eraser, pencil crayons, glue stick, agenda.
ASSESSMENT: See "Assessment" tab on this site.
YEARLY OVERVIEW: This is a basic outline for the year, however it is always subject to change throughout the year.
Term 1
•Current Events
•Geographic Regions of North America
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Term 2
•Current Events
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Term 3
•Current Events
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Review