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Incentive Social Studies
Incentive Social Studies from grade 8-10 is intended for students that have been accepted into the Incentive Program.
Incentive Social Studies is a challenging course that, in one school year, covers the student's entire curriculum of Social Studies and an approximate 2/3rds of the subsequent years'.
Across all Incentive courses, students are expected to maintain a 73% (B) average. Otherwise, their position in the Incentive Program will be reviewed.
Courses Offered
Incentive Humanities 8
Prerequisite: Grade 7 & Admission into Incentive Program
Incentive Humanities 8 mainly develops the advanced components of Social Studies, in combination with English.
Students will develop the critical thinking, social, and thinking core competencies required for later education as they make text-to-world connections.
Significant social, economic, and political changes (see below) are explored, which will require students to carefully scrutinize a variety of nuances as they understand the roots of modern issues.
Incentive Humanities 8 covers:
- The Middles Ages
- The Renaissance
- The Tudors
- Reformation
Incentive Social Studies 9
Prerequisite: Incentive Humanities 8 and/or admission into Incentive Program
Incentive Social Studies 9 presents students the roots of major issues stemming from the 17th and 19th centuries.
Themes of ideologies (see below) will be explored in detail and its effects on Indigenous Peoples and modern demographics.
Moreover, students will develop a greater sense of civic responsibility as a variety of topics from early Canadian history will be drawn and explored through date and inquiry.
Incentive Social Studies 9 covers:
- Nationalism
- Imperialism
- Colonialism
Incentive Social Studies 10
Prerequisite: Incentive Social Studies 9 and/or admission into Incentive Program
Incentive Social Studies 10 teaches students of cause-and-effect as they learn how various events in Canadian history
(see below) have influenced the developments of different functions in modern Canadian Governance.
Moreover, they will explore Canadian involvement in contemporary First People's Governance as well as reconciliation.
Students will also be given the opportunity to enhance their learning with various enrichment activities ranging from independent study to group debate.
Incentive Social Studies 10 covers:
- The functions of different Canadian political institutions
- Canadian Ideologies
- The evolution of The Canadian Identity
- Canadian conflicts and discriminatory decree
- Canada's role in the global economy
Various illustrations of Canadian history made by students
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