Curriculum

Jr Languages

  • English 7

    This course incorporates the skills of reading, writing, listening, speaking, and critical literacy.  The course includes novel study, creative writing, poetry, spelling strategies, grammar, media literacy studies, and public speaking.

  • English 8

    Grade Eight Academic English is designed to improve students' literary and communication skills. Grade Eight English focuses on writing, reading and speaking, so students can improve their expository, descriptive and narrative writing. Students also read a variety of texts including short stories, novels, and plays. The speaking component of the Grade Eight program focuses on poetry recitation and public speaking.

  • English 9

    This course is designed to strengthen students' comprehension and communication skills through grammar, writing and literature analysis.  This course starts with a review of basic grammar and progresses to pronouns and tenses.  The written component of the course includes analytical, informational, satirical, expository, creative and narrative writing.  The literature analysis includes the study of prose, poetry, short fiction, and Shakespeare.

  • English Language Arts 6

    This course provides students with a broad foundation upon which their future Junior School English courses will build. Students respond creatively and critically to a number of texts while being introduced to various genres and forms. As with the other courses in the Junior English programme, the curriculum will be centered upon reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Students are asked to collaborate with their peers as well as individually throughout the course.

  • English For Academic Purposes 7

    This course focuses on improving English oral and written communication skills for students who speak English as a second language. The course provides a variety of engaging experiential activities which provide opportunity for students to improve their English reading, writing, speaking and listening. Grammar and vocabulary are a focus throughout the year. Material from other subjects such as history, social studies and science is also covered.

  • English For Academic Purposes 8

    This course focuses on improving academic English oral and written communication skills for students who speak English as a second language.  An integrated approach in the skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking ensures steady progress during the year.   The course is broken up into several theme-based units such as  movies, music, travel, sports, and the Internet.  This course also provides an opportunity for students to improve the quality of their written work in other subjects.

  • English Language Learners 6

    This course focuses on improving English oral and written communication skills for students who speak English as a second language. The course provides a variety of engaging experiential activities which provide opportunity for students to improve their English reading, writing, speaking and listening. Grammar and vocabulary are a focus throughout the year. Material from other subjects such as history, social studies and science is also covered.

  • French 6

    The curriculum is designed to develop the student’s language capabilities in both oral and written communication. The development of these speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in French will enable learners to communicate and understand during interactions with the world around them. With this in mind, there is a variety of instructional methods and a multitude of activities, which range from thematic activity-based interactive exercises to individual grammatical work. In addition, students learn about various aspects of francophone culture.  Students in Grade 6 French continue to build on previous knowledge regarding numbers, days, months, seasons and colours. By the end of French 6, students should be able to: ask and respond to simple yes/no questions in complete sentences; express preferences, desires, and possibilities; discuss pastimes, movie and music viewing/listening habits, and the weather.

  • French 7

    The curriculum is designed to develop the student’s language capabilities in both oral and written communication. With this in mind, there is a variety of instructional methods and a multitude of activities, which range from thematic activity-based interactive exercises to individual grammatical work. In addition, students learn about various aspects of francophone culture.

  • French 8

    Students will continue to build on the linguistic content presented in Grade 7. Review of basic vocabulary and grammar helps students to consolidate these structures, and new concepts are also introduced. Theme-based units are designed to help students to strengthen their oral and written communication skills in a variety of real-life situations. Students complete individual and group assignments on a regular basis.  Each May, students have the opportunity to travel to Quebec City to experience first-hand the French language and culture.

  • French 9

    Students continue to build on the linguistic content presented in Grade 8. Thematic units help to broaden each student’s vocabulary base; the grammatical focus is on the past tense and the future tense. Individual and group assignments help students to express themselves more confidently and with increasing practice in French in oral and written communication.

  • English For Academic Purposes 9

    This course focuses on improving academic English oral and written communication skills for students who speak English as a second language.  An integrated approach in the skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking ensures steady progress during the year.   The course is broken up into several theme-based units such as  hobbies, travel, the environment, jobs, food, and fashion.  This course also provides an opportunity for students to improve the quality of their written work in other subjects.

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