Core 9 (English & Socials) Homework & Assignments
N/A for 2023-24
Sorry, grade 9's. Maybe next year?
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Core 9 Course Objectives
English 9 emphasizes the following objectives:
Social Studies 9 Course Objectives
Socials 9 Objectives include the following:
Sorry, grade 9's. Maybe next year?
Fake homework is to the left; REAL HOMEWORK IS ABOVE THESE LINES!!
Core 9 Course Objectives
English 9 emphasizes the following objectives:
- Oral Language. You will be encouraged to develop your speaking, listening, and group work skills. This includes responding (out loud) to texts in a personal, critical, and creative manner.
- Reading and Viewing. You will learn to deconstruct and analyze a variety of visual images. You will also be focusing on strategies to improve your silent reading, reading comprehension, and personal responses to reading. These strategies will include: questioning, connecting, inferring, visualizing, synthesizing and justifying your opinions.
- Writing and Representing. You will create personal goals that will aim to improve your writing in many of the following areas: organization, ideas, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions and presentation. To apply these skills, we will do a variety of activities: daily vocabulary work, regular journal responses, plenty of persuasive writing (in particular, the essay), plenty of creative writing, and several visual representations.
- Critical Thinking: You will be encouraged to think critically and creatively, and to reflect on your thinking and learning. We will discuss strategies, which you will use in order to do this effectively.
- Connections: You will be challenged to make connections between texts and the world around you and to develop a continuously increasing understanding of self and others, with a focus on diversity.
Social Studies 9 Course Objectives
Socials 9 Objectives include the following:
- This course is built around the study of specific themes within the years 1750 to 1919, but also around the development of skills required for the 21st Century, such as identifying problems, gathering and interpreting information from different resources, assessing positions on controversial issues, and planning, revising, and delivering written and oral presentations.
- Society and Culture. You will examine civilizations from around the world, assessing daily life, gender roles, traditions, religions, and cultural achievements. You will see how cultures preserve traditions, how civilizations develop and decline, and adapt to change.
- Politics and Law. You will learn the tension between the ruled and the rulers, how citizens are impacted by conflict and conquest, and how individuals and groups can influence the legal and political system.
- Economy and Technology. You will look at how cultures are impacted by trade, technology, and the jobs that people performed, both in cities and in farms.
- Environment and Geography. You will learn how people interacted and altered their environment and how to interpret and analyze current and historical maps.
- Critical Thinking and Connections: You will be encouraged to think critically and creatively, and to reflect on your thinking and learning. We will discuss strategies, which you will use in order to do this effectively. You will be challenged to make connections between historical events and the world around you and to develop a continuously increasing understanding of self and others, with a focus on diversity.