Curriculum

The curriculum of the subject Social Studies is designed to help students understand how the world has evolved and why it works the way it does today. In Humanities 8, you start by learning the three basics with language, stories, and geography and how everything functions or works. You study time periods from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and you get to learn how events that happened from centuries ago still influence our lives today.

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In Social Studies 9, the curriculum is mostly about 17 to 19th centuries. You learn about revolutionary, new technologies, and how countries like our own for instance, Canada started to form. A big part of this grade is understanding the concepts of imperialism and colonialism and how it affected Indigenous people, and how these impacts are still continuing today.

 

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Social Studies 10 builds on everything that’s been learnt in our previous years. These topics will of Canada’s political systems, economic, and how our national identity has changed is what they learn about. The curriculum focuses on a lot of discrimination, conflict, and truth and reconciliation, especially with the First Peoples in Canada. It teaches how to analyze information, observe using questions, and being able to communicate your thoughts clearly.

 

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Lastly, by grade 11 and 12, the curriculum lets you explore topics moreover something that interests. Specifically in the course of Explorations 11, you’ll get the chance to explore modern media, human rights, or how the society is today. In Grade 12 courses of the 20th Century World History, BC First Peoples, Law, and Psychology, the curriculum becomes more focused as studying bigger topics for instances the worlds conflicts, legal rights, colonial impacts, and the human mind.

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In conclusion, the Social Studies curriculum is designed for both students and teachers to guide you from historical understanding in the younger grade of 8, all the way to global issues in the Grade of 12. It helps to understand different cultures, and think about how the society would learn from mistakes and pick up from it. It’s not just about learning events, but it’s about becoming more aware with the world.