2008 09 Calendar.indd - Algoma District School Board

Guidance & Career Education
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Learning Strategies 1: Skills for Success in Secondary School, Grade 9 Open (GLS1O/GLE1O/GLE2O)
This course focuses on learning strategies to help students become beer, more independent learners. Students will learn how to
develop and apply literacy and numeracy skills, personal management skills, and interpersonal and teamwork skills to improve their
learning and achievement in school, the workplace, and the community. The course helps students build confidence and movaon
to pursue opportunies for success in secondary school and beyond. Prerequisite: For GLS1O – None, For GLE1O and GLE2O
– Recommendaon of Principal All schools except Hornepayne and Chapleau
Health & Physical Education
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Healthy Acve Living Educaon, Grade 9 Open (PPL1O)
This course emphasizes regular parcipaon in a variety of enjoyable physical acvies that promote lifelong healthy acve living.
Students will learn movement skills and principles, ways to improve personal fitness and physical competence, and safety and injury
prevenon. They will invesgate issues related to healthy sexuality and the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs,
and will parcipate in acvies designed to develop goal-seng, communicaon, and social skills. All schools – may be offered as
PPL10M (Boy’s Physical Educaon), PPL1OF (Girl’s Physical Educaon)
Mathematics
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Mathemacs, Grade 9 Locally Developed Compulsory Course (MAT1L)
This course provides further development of mathemacal knowledge and skills to prepare students for success in their daily lives, in
the workplace, and in the Grade 10 LDCC Course. The course is organized into three strands related to money sense, measurement,
and proporonal reasoning. In all strands, the focus is on developing and consolidang key foundaonal mathemacal concepts
and skills by solving authenc, everyday problems. Students have opportunies to further develop their mathemacal literacy and
problem-solving skills and to connue developing their skills in reading, wring, and oral language through relevant and praccal
math acvies. All schools except Chapleau
Foundaons of Mathemacs, Grade 9 Applied (MFM1P)
This course enables students to develop an understanding of mathemacal concepts related to introductory algebra, proporonal
reasoning, and measurement and geometry through invesgaon, the effecve use of technology, and hands-on acvies. Students
will invesgate real-life examples to develop various representaons of linear relaons, and will determine the connecons between
the representaons. They will also explore certain relaonships that emerge from the measurement of three-dimensional figures and
two-dimensional shapes. Students will consolidate their mathemacal skills as they solve problems and communicate their thinking.
All schools except Alexander Henry
Principles of Mathemacs, Grade 9 Academic (MPM1D)
This course enables students to develop an understanding of mathemacal concepts related to algebra, analyc geometry, and
measurement and geometry through invesgaon, the effecve use of technology, and abstract reasoning. Students will invesgate
relaonships, which they will then generalize as equaons of lines, and will determine the connecons between different
representaons of a linear relaon. They will also explore relaonships that emerge from the measurement of three-dimensional
figures and two-dimensional shapes. Students will reason mathemacally and communicate their thinking as they solve mul-step
problems. All schools except Alexander Henry. Also offered as part of the French Immersion Program at SJD.
36 ADSB 2008-2009 Course Calendar