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Discovering the Workplace, Grade 10 Open (GLD2O)
This course provides students with opportunies to discover and develop the workplace essenal skills and work habits required to
be successfully employed, and helps students make plans for connued learning and work. Students will develop an understanding
of work through praccal hands-on experiences in the school and in the community, using real workplace materials. Students
will invesgate occupaons of interest through experienal learning opportunies, such as worksite visits, job shadowing, work
experience, simulaons, and entrepreneurial projects. Prerequisite: None Alexander Henry, Elliot Lake only
*At CASS, this course is 1 credit in the 3-credit On-SITE package
Health & Physical Education
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Healthy Acve Living Educaon, Grade 10 Open (PPL2O)
This course emphasizes regular parcipaon in a variety of enjoyable physical acvies that promote lifelong healthy acve living.
Student learning will include the applicaon of movement principles to refine skills; parcipaon in a variety of acvies that
enhance personal competence, fitness, and health; examinaon of issues related to healthy sexuality, healthy eang, substance use
and abuse; and the use of informed decision-making, conflict resoluon, and social skills in making personal choices. All schools
– May be offered as PPL20M (Boy’s Physical Educaon), PPL2OF (Girl’s Physical Educaon)
Girls Personal and Fitness Acvies, Grade 10 Open (PAF2O)
This course focuses on the development of a healthy lifestyle and parcipaon in a variety of enjoyable physical acvies that have
the potenal to engage students’ interest throughout their lives. Students will be encouraged to develop personal competence
in a variety of movement skills and will be given opportunies to pracse goal-seng, decision-making, social, and interpersonal
skills. Students will also study the components of healthy relaonships, reproducve health, mental health, and personal safety.
Prerequisite: None Elliot Lake only
Mathematics
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Mathemacs, Grade 10 Local Developed Compulsory Courses (MAT2L)
This course emphasizes the extension of mathemacal knowledge and skills to prepare students for success in their everyday lives,
in the workplace, and in the Grade 11 and Grade 12 Mathemacs Workplace Preparaon courses. The course is organized by three
major strands related to money sense, measurement, and proporonal reasoning. In all strands, the focus is on strengthening and
extending key foundaonal mathemacal concepts and skills by solving authenc, everyday problems. Students have opportunies
to extend 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. Prerequisite: A Grade 9 Mathemacs credit All schools except Chapleau
Foundaons of Mathemacs, Grade 10 Applied (MFM2P)
This course enables students to consolidate their understanding of linear relaons and extend their problem-solving and algebraic
skills through invesgaon, the effecve use of technology, and hands-on acvies. Students will develop and graph equaons in
analyc geometry; solve and apply linear systems, using real-life examples; and explore and interpret graphs of quadrac relaons.
Students will invesgate similar triangles, the trigonometry of right triangles, and the measurement of three-dimensional figures.
Students will consolidate their mathemacal skills as they solve problems and communicate their thinking. Prerequisite: MFM1P or
MPM1D All schools
Principles of Mathemacs, Grade 10 Academic (MPM2D)
This course enables students to broaden their understanding of relaonships and extend their problem-solving and algebraic skills
through invesgaon, the effecve use of technology, and abstract reasoning. Students will explore quadrac relaons and their
applicaons; solve and apply linear systems; verify properes of geometric figures using analyc geometry; and invesgate the
trigonometry of right and acute triangles. Students will reason mathemacally and communicate their thinking as they solve mulstep
problems. Prerequisite: MPM1D All schools except Alexander Henry. Offered as part of the French Immersion Program at SJD.
Native Studies
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Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (NAC2O)
This course emphasizes historical and contemporary issues that affect the relaonship between Aboriginal peoples and Canadian
governments. Students will examine legal, polical, social, and economic issues; key aspects of the Indian Act and its revisions that
have an impact on the daily lives of Aboriginal persons; the different types of relaonships that Aboriginals peoples have established
with other naons throughout history; and the methodology of historical inquiry. CASS and WC Eaket only
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