2008 09 Calendar.indd - Algoma District School Board

Canadian & World Studies
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Geography
Geographics : The Geographer’s Tool kit , Grade 11 Workplace Preparaon( CGT3E )
This course focuses on giving students praccal experiences with geotechnologies and related skills. Students will engage in image
interpretaon, desktop mapping, analysis using geographic informaon systems (GIS), use of the global posioning system (GPS),
and data collecon and management. Students will conduct fie l d work and explore applicaons and career opportunies in
environmental, economic, and polical contexts. Students will use a variety of communicaon tools and methods to present the
results of their invesgaons. Prerequisite: Geography of Canada, Grade 9, Academic or Applied Michipicoten and WC Eaket only.
Also available as part of the ADSB Outdoor Educaon Program at SJD.
Travel and Tourism : A Regional Geographic Perspecve, Grade 11 Open (CGG3O)
This course focuses on travel and tourism as the vehicle for studying selected world regions. Using a variety of geotechnologies
and inquiry and communicaon methods, students will conduct and present case studies that develop their understanding of the
unique characteriscs of selected world regions; the environmental, cultural, economic, and polical factors that influence travel
and tourism; and the impact of the travel industry on communies and environments around the world. Prerequisite: Geography of
Canada, Grade 9, Academic or Applied CASS, Elliot Lake, Korah, SJD, and WC Eaket only
Physical Geography : Paerns , Processes ,and Interacons, Grade 11 University / College Preparaon (CGF3M )
This course examines the major paerns of physical geography and the powerful forces that affect them. Students will invesgate
the dynamic nature of the earth, the evolving relaonship between the planet and its people, and the factors that limit our ability
to predict the changes that will occur. Students will use a wide range of geotechnologies and inquiry methods to invesgate
the distribuon and interacon of the elements of their physical environment and to communicate their findings. Prerequisite:
Geography of Canada, Grade 9, Academic or Applied All schools except Alexander Henry
History
Canadian History and Polics Since 1945, Grade 11 Workplace Preparaon (CHH3E)
This course traces the most significant changes in Canadian society since 1945 and connects them to the issues facing the
country today. Students will learn about the social, economic, and polical forces that affect their lives, covering topics such
as mulculturalism, labour relaons, technological change, equity issues, and globalizaon. Through their invesgaon of the
connecons between historical developments and current issues, students will strengthen their crical-thinking and communicaon
skills in preparaon for the workplace. Prerequisite: Canadian History Since World War I, Grade 10, Academic or Applied Elliot Lake
only
World History Since 1900: Global and Regional Perspecves, Grade 11 Open (CHT3O)
This course focuses on the major events and issues in world history from 1900 to the present. Students will invesgate the causes
and effects of global and regional conflicts and the responses of individuals and governments to social, economic, and polical
changes. Students will use crical-thinking and communicaon skills to formulate and test points of view, draw conclusions, and
present their findings about the challenges that have faced and connue to face people in various parts of the world. Prerequisite:
Canadian History Since World War I, Grade 10, Academic or Applied Bawang, CASS, SJD and White Pines only
World History to the Sixteenth Century, Grade 11 University / College Preparaon (CHW3M)
This course invesgates the history of humanity from earliest mes to the sixteenth century. Students will analyse diverse sociees
from around the world, with an emphasis on the polical, cultural, and economic structures and historical forces that have shaped
the modern world. They will apply historical inquiry, crical-thinking, and communicaon skills to evaluate the influence of selected
individuals, groups, and innovaons and to present their own conclusions. Prerequisite: Canadian History Since World War I, Grade
10, Academic or Applied CASS, Elliot Lake, Michipicoten, SJD, and White Pines only
American History, Grade 11 University Preparaon (CHA3U)
This course traces the social, economic, and polical development of the United States from colonial mes to the present. Students
will examine issues of diversity, identy, and culture that have influenced the country’s social and polical formaon and will
consider the implicaons of its expansion into a global superpower. Students will use crical-thinking and communicaon skills to
determine causal relaonships, evaluate mulple perspecves, and present their own points of view. Prerequisite: Canadian History
Since World War I, Grade 10, Academic or Applied Korah only
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