St. Edmund Campion Secondary School |
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COURSE NAME: Civics
COURSE CODE: CHV2O1
LEVEL: Grade 10, Open
COURSE OVERVIEW |
As the twenty-first century unfolds, Canada is undergoing significant change. Canadians are struggling with a range of challenging questions, such as the following: As our population becomes more diverse, how do we ensure that all voices are heard? How do we resolve important societal and community issues in the face of so many diverse and divergent views influenced by differing values? What role will Canada play within an increasingly interconnected global community? Our responses to these questions will affect not only our personal lives but the future of our communities, our provinces and territories, and our country. In civics, students explore what it means to be a “responsible citizen” in the local, national, and global arenas. They examine the structures and functions of the three levels of government, as well as the dimensions of democracy, notions of democratic citizenship, and political decision-making processes. They are encouraged to identify and clarify their own beliefs and values, and to develop an appreciation of others’ beliefs and values about questions of civic importance.
CURRICULUM STRANDS AND OVERALL EXPECTATIONS |
Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
* demonstrate an understanding of the need for democratic decision making;
* explain the legal rights and responsibilities associated with Canadian citizenship;
* describe the main structures and functions of municipal, provincial, and federal governments in Canada;
* explain what it means to be a “global citizen” and why it is important to be one.
By the end of this course, students will:
* demonstrate an understanding of the beliefs and values underlying democratic citizenship and explain how they guide citizens’ actions;
* describe the diversity of beliefs and values of various individuals and groups in Canadian society;
* analyse responses, at the local, national, and international levels, to civic issues that involve multiple perspectives and differing civic purposes.
Overall Expectations
By the end of this course, students will:
* apply appropriate inquiry skills to the research of questions and issues of civic importance;
* demonstrate an understanding of the various ways in which decisions are made and conflicts resolved in matters of civic importance, and the various ways in which individual citizens participate in these processes.
UNITS OF STUDY |
Ø Communities and individuals
Ø Forms of Government
Ø Levels of Government
Unit 2 –
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Ø Structures of
Ø Branches of Government
Ø Electoral Process
Unit 3 – Global Citizenship
Ø Global Citizenship
Ø Human Rights
ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION |
A final grade is recorded for every course, and a credit is granted and recorded for every course in which the student's grade is 50% or higher. The final grade for each course in Grades 9–12 will be determined as follows:
• Seventy per cent(70%) of the grade will be based on evaluations conducted throughout the course. This portion of the grade should reflect the student’s most consistent level of achievement
throughout the course, although special consideration should be given to more recent evidence
of achievement .• Thirty per cent(30%) of the grade will be based on a final evaluation in the form of an examination, performance, essay, and/or other method of evaluation suitable to the course content and administered towards the end of the course.
Term Work | 70% |
Final Culminating Activity | 15% |
Final Exam | 15% |
Knowledge and Understanding.
| 25% |
Thinking. The use of critical and creative thinking skills and/or processes, as follows :
| 25% |
Communication. The conveying of meaning through various forms , as follows :
| 25% |
Application.
| 25% |
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