Van-hayes wrote:If I remember correctly here in N.B Canada we are required to take french until grade 10, unless you are in french immersion, and after that it is optional for grade 11-12. We also have english required for all year except grade 12 where you have the option of only doing half a year. Math is the same as english I think, plus 1 science a year be it physics, biology, chemistry, computer sciences or other ones I can't remember at the moment. Finally you need 1 history credit in Grade 11, before that it was just social studies and mandatory, though i think the only courses they ever had enough people for every year were Canadian and Modern history.
So half the year is usually filled with mandatory courses of some kind while the other half is yours to choose. The only real problem I had at my school was that since it was relatively small if enough people didn't sign up for a course the course wasn't offered, i.e the journalism class I tried for 3 times/3 years in a row and never got
. Other than that and possibly the mandatory french I imagine it is the same as most public schools. Also we don't pick our own courses until grade 11, except for 1 course in grade 10, not sure if that's how it's done other places as well.
It's changed a bit. You have to do french in Grade 8, but you can drop it in grade 9 for an extra course. You can also start spanish in grade 9, japanese in grade 11, and another one I forget in grade 11. I dropped french in Grade 10 (Incidentally word, that's why I put 10 beside my courses
) to make up for the fact that you are forced to take Planning 10, which leaves you with only one chosen elective instead of two
But otherwise yeah that's accurate
In my school we have a "self-directed" program, meaning that we have Great Halls for the main classes (Math, Science, English, etc.), And at the beginning of the day in Homeroom you plan out where you're going to go. We also use a learning guide system, which means that every course has 20 learning guides, and a Unit Test every 5 Learning Guides, which makes it easy for a smart and ambitious person to just zip right through them and go to the next grade level (starting at learning guide 1 again). It's a technique for some people to finish 20 learning guides in one subject just to be done with it, then move on to another one.
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