The Humanities 8 course is designed to ensure all students gain the skills and dispositions that allow you to:
- Analyze the impact of author's choices (language, structure and point of view) on the development of a text.
- Apply grade-level conventions, language and vocabulary in own writing.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of grammar and usage.
- Identify and produce appropriate text types for a range of purposes and audiences.
- Integrate knowledge and ideas.
- Produce effective and organized informative writing for a specific audience to extend reader’s knowledge or acceptance of ideas and procedures on a topic or event.
- Produce informative writing to convey complex ideas and information through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
- Research to build and present knowledge.
- Understand how key ideas, details and themes develop and evolve over the course of a text.
- Understand social studies concepts at a depth sufficient to apply critical-thinking and problem solving skills in the context of relevant, real world, engaging issues.
- Teacher: Ryan Challis-Jones
- Teacher: Rayan Itani
- Teacher: David Roach