Grade 8 - Course Offerings

Visual Arts

Overview Visual Arts is a place for the students to create and express themselves, allowing the student to interpret the world visually and aesthetically while drawing on historical art movements and artworks for inspiration. A variety of mediums will be explored through a variety of projects. Students are encouraged to add their own personal interests to their work while fulfilling the specific criteria put forth for each project.

English Language Arts

The English Grade 8 course will continue to develop the student’s literacy skills. Through reading, writing and speaking students will be able to develop their critical understanding of different texts and big ideas found in literature.

Geography

In this course, students will examine and contemplate society’s use of space. Through an introduction to the division, protection, threats, and cultural significance of geographical place, students will understand that social phenomena has an impact on the physical world. Students will be taking class notes, engaging in various learning activities, and completing research projects that enable them to recognize the value of territories and develop analytical skills and geographic reasoning in order to respond to geographical problems.

Ethics

Dans le cours d’Éthique et culture religieuses, les élèves utiliseront la langue française pour tous les types de communication. L’évaluation des apprentissages est conçue pour développer des questions éthiques, la compréhension du phénomène religieux, le dialogue et la réflexion par rapport à l’évaluation que nous avons élaborée en classe.

En classe on discute les influences de notre entourage, l’autonomie, la liberté, la confiance, l’estime de soi, les influences de la société, la protection des valeurs sociales, les normes sociale et les individus et l’ordre social. Organiser et mener des débats, aborder des questions difficiles et essayer de trouver des arguments sont des éléments nécessaires pour le cours d’ECR.

Une interaction et un échange solides se font au courant de l’année pour enrichir les connaissances des élèves et leur aider à avoir un impact positif dans la société.

French Second Language

Students will develop their ability to interact exclusively in French through presentations and discussions, writing French-language texts, and reading and analyzing French-language texts. In addition to the grammar elements, the student will read three novels, watch films, and other texts and media. The students will write of opinion based texts, poetry, and critiques. Discussions and debates on various topics will be added to the presentations and vocabulary activities to complete the student's skills.

Mathematics

The Grade 8 Mathematics course involves teacher instruction and demonstration, student participation, group work, individual study and practice and formal testing. The curriculum follows the textbook, Panorama 1 and 2, which offers a series of exercises and contextual problems that help students integrate and apply mathematical reasoning. Part of the curriculum involves students solving situational problems which allow students to apply mathematical concepts in daily life situations. Topics covered include: algebraic terms and expressions, area and perimeter, area of solids, solving equations, circumference of a circle, percentage and probability.

Science and Technology

The Grade 8 Science and Technology course creates a single discipline by touching on 4 major worlds; Technology; Material; Earth and Space and lastly the Living World. In the Technological world, students will become engineers and learn how simple machines and design plans in order to get materials into the consumer market. The Material world focuses on a chemist’s perspective where they learn about the periodic table of elements, understand chemical formulas and how matter is organized. The Earth and Space unit will expose them to learn about the planets in our solar system and the types of soil that exists on Earth. Lastly, students will become biologists and learn how cells are like cities in the body, and will understand sexual reproduction of plants, humans and animals. They will also learn about the sexually transmitted infections, and what they can do to prevent them. This course will evaluate them using 2 competencies. C1, a practical competency which allows them to seek answers to scientific problems (40%), which is done through lab experiments and projects. The second and final competency, C2, a theoretical competencies which tests their knowledge through assignments and class tests.

History

Students will begin their first term with a general overview of the Neolithic, Antiquity, and Middle Ages periods. Students will then be introduced to the Modern Era and Contemporary Periods. Subjects to be covered include; Growth of Cities and Trade, Visions of Humanity, European Expansion, French and American Revolutions, Industrialization, Imperialism/Colonization, and Civil Rights and Freedoms. Our focus will be on the people within these time frames and their reactions to the change in society as well as how these changes came about.

Physical Education

Throughout the course students will understand demonstrated athletic techniques, improving individual athletic abilities, as well gain knowledge to participate in varied athletic games.
Mastery of the following activities; Basketball, Cosom Hockey, Athletics. As well as Health related components such as Muscular-skeletal System/Kinesthetic Feedback.
The program will aim to develop the 3 PE competencies.