Course Outline

Integrated French offers a distinct approach to teaching and learning social studies through French. The program was designed for non-Francophone students who are not yet fluent in French when they start the program in Grade 7. It aims to help them acquire French language skills by offering social studies in French from the start of the program until the end of the students’ schooling.

Integrated French 7 program is designed to lead students to achieve the learning outcomes for French Language Arts and Social Studies simultaneously through learning experiences, teachings, and meaningful performance assessments. Integrating these two subjects into one single program highlights the important link between them and allows the student to discern its global meaning.

Integrated French Language Arts has four components:

• Attributing value to French language and cultural diversity
• Listening and oral expression
• Reading and watching
• Writing and representation

The first component of the program is intended to deal with attitudes towards French language and culture as well as cultural diversity. The other three components target modes of communication.

With inquiry at its centre, the Citizenship 9 course aims to engage learners as citizens at the local and global level. Learners will assess their own skills and goals as individuals and as members of a variety of communities and will consider the ways they can be active citizens, with emphasis on how they can contribute to those communities even as young people. Learners will become empowered by gaining knowledge in the decision-making process and in their own understanding of rights and responsibilities. They will become aware of the importance of perspective and points of view on issues of community and Canadian significance and will consider how historic and geographic decisions have affected citizenship in Canada and the world.

From this inquiry and empowerment, learners will act upon their understandings through a key component of the course - Service Learning. Service Learning connects curriculum outcomes, skills, and community needs. It enables learners to evaluate needs and their underlying causes, to make decisions that have real results, and to work collaboratively to affect change. The service learning piece is the capstone of the course and involves all learners in a meaningful service project. Different than individual volunteerism, it is about changes and not charity, and is outcomes-based.

Updated August 18,2022