10-12 Course Catalogue
Grade 10 Courses
Career and Life Education
Career Life Education helps students to develop the skills they need to become self-directed individuals who set goals, make thoughtful decisions, and take responsibility for pursuing their goals throughout life. The course encourages students to explore a range of pathways beyond secondary school, develop health and wellness goals, and polish their employability and financial planning skills.
The CLE and CLC curricula are designed to help students learn how to effectively manage their life journey toward several possible preferred futures. Through purposeful career-life development, students learn to recognize their evolving interests and strengths, refine their learning goals, and apply this self-knowledge to exploration of postgraduation possibilities in diverse education, work-related, and personal life contexts. In this way, students are able to advance toward who and how they want to be in the world.
English Language Arts 10: Composition
English Language Arts 10: Creative Writing
Math 10 Foundations and Pre-Calculus
Math 10 Workplace
Physical and Health Education 10
Science 10
Social Studies 10
Social Studies 10 involves an exploration of Canada and the World, from 1919 to the present, focusing on four Big Ideas.
- Global and regional conflicts have been a powerful force in shaping our contemporary world and identities.
- The development of political institutions is influenced by economic, social, ideological, and geographic factors.
- Worldviews lead to different perspectives and ideas about developments in Canadian society.
- Historical and contemporary injustices challenge the narrative and identity of Canada as an inclusive, multicultural society.
Grade 10 Electives: It is possible to do some additional electives which are not online. These are usually portfolio-based electives, typically in the fine arts, performing arts and applied skills. Please consult with the administrators if you are interested in these.
Grade 11 Courses
Active Living PE 11
Physical Education helps students enhance the quality of their life through the exploration of active living, movement and the development of both personal and social responsibility. Topics and activities include looking at personal choices and goal setting, dance, games, gymnastics, individual and/or team activities and leadership skills. In consultation with the teacher, students may choose to focus more on Active Living, Fitness & Conditioning or Outdoor Education.
Chemistry 11
Earth Science 11
English Language Arts 11
Explorations in Social Studies 11
Food 11
Independent Directed Studies 10, 11, or 12
Combine your passion with your talent to earn up to four course credits in Independent Directed Studies! You can work with the IDS teacher to build your own course based on training that you wish to take locally and at least one learning outcome from a Ministry approved course. Example: create an outdoor education focus by combining other courses such as Wilderness First Aid, Swift Water Rescue, and C. O. R. E. hunter training to focus on the PE 12 learning outcome of safety in alternate physical environments. Or you can pursue your own learning (by working with your online teacher/mentor) to develop a project that meets at least one learning outcome from a senior Ministry approved course. Examples: write and direct your own play, design and create a hologram, design and conduct your own science experiments, design and build a useful invention, create a documentary.
You are only limited by your imagination, available materials, and one course connection. Each thirty hours of work earns another credit to a maximum of four credits (120 hours). Students may begin an IDS course at any point in the year.
Interpersonal and Family Relationships 11
Life Sciences 11
Math 11 Foundations
This course is meant for students going into arts, humanities, and other post-secondary programs not requiring calculus. Many universities and colleges in BC will accept Foundations of Mathematics 11 for general admissions. Students going into math, sciences, or engineering should take Pre-Calculus 11 instead of, or in addition to, this course. The key concepts covered in this course are as follows:
- Measurements – rates, scale diagrams, proportional reasoning; relationships between scale factors, areas, surface areas, and volumes for 2-D and 3-D objects
- Geometry – properties of angles and triangles, the cosine and sine laws
- Logical reasoning-proving conjectures, inductive and deductive reasoning, puzzles and games that involve spatial reasoning
- Statistics – normal distributions, standard deviations, interpreting statistical data, confidence intervals, confidence levels, margin of error
- Relations and Functions – solving systems of linear inequalities, characteristics of quadratic functions
Math 11 Pre-Calculus
This course is meant for students going into math, science, engineering, and other post-secondary programs that require calculus. The key concepts covered in Pre-Calculus 11 are as follows:
- Algebra and Number – absolute value, operations on radical numbers and expressions, solving and applying radical equations, using rational expressions, solving and applying rational equations
- Geometry – angles in the standard position, trigonometric ratios, using the sine and cosine laws
- Relations and Functions – factoring polynomial expressions, using absolute value functions, analyzing quadratic functions, solving and applying quadratic equations, solving and applying linear-quadratic and quadratic systems of equations, applying linear and quadratic inequalities, analyzing and applying arithmetic sequences and series, analyzing and applying geometric sequences and series, reciprocal functions.
Math 11 Workplace
This course is meant for students who intend to take trades or apprenticeship training, or need a course dealing with more everyday math. It fulfills Grade 11 math requirements for graduation, but cannot be used as a prerequisite for Pre-Calculus 12 or Foundations of Mathematics 12. Check post-secondary math requirements to see if the Apprenticeship and Workplace pathway is best for you. Apprenticeship and Workplace Mathematics 11 covers the following main topic areas:
- Measurement- how to solve problems involving surface and volumes
- Geometry- solving problems that involve right triangles and scale, and drawing and analyzing diagrams
- Numbers- puzzles and games involving numbers, personal budgets, compound interest, managing finances and credit options
- Algebra – solving problems involving formulas, understanding slopes of lines, using proportional reasoning and unit analysis.
Photography 11
Physics 11
Science for Citizens 11
Grade 11 Electives: It is possible to do some additional electives which are not online. These are usually portfolio-based electives, typically in the fine arts, performing arts and applied skills. Please consult with the administrators if you are interested in these.
Grade 12 Courses
Active Living PE 12
Physical Education helps students enhance the quality of their life through the exploration of active living, movement and the development of both personal and social responsibility. Topics and activities include looking at personal choices and goal setting, dance, games, gymnastics, individual and/or team activities and leadership skills. In consultation with the teacher, students may choose to focus more on Active Living, Fitness & Conditioning or Outdoor Education.
Anatomy and Physiology 12
BC First Peoples 12
Career and Life Connections & Capstone Project
Chemistry 12
Child Development and Caregiving 12
English Studies 12
Food 12
Independent Directed Studies 10, 11, or 12
Combine your passion with your talent to earn up to four course credits in Independent Directed Studies! You can work with the IDS teacher to build your own course based on training that you wish to take locally and at least one learning outcome from a Ministry approved course. Example: create an outdoor education focus by combining other courses such as Wilderness First Aid, Swift Water Rescue, and C. O. R. E. hunter training to focus on the PE 12 learning outcome of safety in alternate physical environments. Or you can pursue your own learning (by working with your online teacher/mentor) to develop a project that meets at least one learning outcome from a senior Ministry approved course. Examples: write and direct your own play, design and create a hologram, design and conduct your own science experiments, design and build a useful invention, create a documentary.
You are only limited by your imagination, available materials, and one course connection. Each thirty hours of work earns another credit to a maximum of four credits (120 hours). Students may begin an IDS course at any point in the year.
Law Studies 12
Math 12 Foundations
Math 12 Pre-Calculus
This course is meant for students going into math, science, engineering, and other post-secondary programs that require calculus. The key concepts covered in Pre-Calculus 12 are as follows:
- Trigonometry – angles in standard position (degrees and radians), the unit circle, solve problems using the 6 trigonometric ratios (degrees and radians), graph and analyze the trigonometric functions (sine, cosine and tangent) to solve problems, solving first and second degree trigonometric equations (degrees and radians), prove trigonometric identities using various techniques.
- Relations and Functions – operations on (and compositions of) functions, horizontal and vertical translations/stretches/reflections of functions and their graphs, inverse relations, logarithms (including product, quotient and power laws of logarithms), graphing and problem solving involving exponential and logarithmic functions, factoring/graphing/analyzing polynomial/radical/rational functions.
- Permutations, Combinations, and Binomial Theorem – solving problems using the fundamental counting principle, solving problems involving permutations and combinations, expanding powers of a binomial using a variety of techniques including the binomial theorem.
Photography 12
Physical Geography
Psychology 12: Living in a Complex World
Why do you sometimes remember song lyrics but can’t remember where you left your phone, your keys, or even your shoes? How does language affect the way we think? Why is your personality so different from (or so similar) your brother’s or sister’s personality? Personal Psychology II: Living in a Complex World will you to explore what makes you ‘you.’ Why do some things motivate you more than others? How can you determine your IQ? If you’ve ever wanted to dive right into the depths of who you are and how you got to be you, jump on board and start your exploration now.
WEX 12 A and B
Grade 12 Electives: It is possible to do some additional electives which are not online. These are usually portfolio-based electives, typically in the fine arts, performing arts and applied skills. Please consult with the administrators if you are interested in these.
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