Springboard to a DCS

This course focuses on the relationship between physical fitness, healthy and active lifestyle, and health. You will have to experiment with one or a few physical activities and relate them to your ability to adapt to exercise, your needs to change or maintain your physical condition, your motivation, your lifestyle habits, and your knowledge regarding prevention, in order to make a relevant and justified choice of physical activities. 

This course has been specifically designed to give you the opportunity to develop the attitudes, skills and strategies required to successfully pursue a college education. It is a privileged place to obtain help in completing the work required for all of its courses by applying the strategies developed in concrete terms. 

The course will allow you to better manage your time and studies while developing your own learning strategies. It aims to provide a coaching structure that can take the form of targeted meetings with teachers, the individual educational assistant, the guidance counselor, or another intervener, depending on the needs. Academic and career planning will also be addressed, in close collaboration with the professionals involved.

The focus of these courses is to improve students’ ability to communicate in French through their daily outings and to better understand the language. The students will be developing their writing, speaking, listening and speaking skills while working on different projects.

This course is designed to help you make the transition from high school English courses and improve the writing and analytical skills you will need for college English. It serves as the foundation for the organizational and interpretative skills you will develop and apply in the other three English courses.

You will explore works of literature in detail and, on a cultural level, attempt to understand their relationship to your world and your life. You will be encouraged to read and respond to literature on both a literal and metaphorical level. You will read short stories and examine the literary elements necessary for critical thinking and analysis. Your proficiency in these literary elements will allow you to take a concrete approach to literary analysis, and you will continue to develop these skills in the other two literature courses.

You will also learn to organize ideas in the form of a formal essay, develop a focused thesis statement, write in a coherent and organized style, and support arguments and explanations with appropriate references to the literary text. To achieve these goals, you will be required to adopt a writing process in which you outline your essay, write a rough draft, and proofread and edit your work. To this end, the course will emphasize practical written work, including grammar exercises and editing skills. You will also be encouraged to develop your reading comprehension skills, present your ideas in class discussions, and continue to improve your writing style.

This course is about revealing our sources of knowledge. By referring back to the history of ideas, we can better understand how we know what we think we know and how to criticize what we think we know intelligently, thoughtfully, and efficiently. After studying the material throughout the course, students should be able to answer the following questions: How is knowledge acquired? Can we know anything? What can we know?

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• 105-003-RE – Remedial Activities for Secondary IV Environmental Science and Technology
• 201-016-RE – Secondary IV Mathematics: Technical and Scientific Option

This course is about the process of improving effectiveness through an objective-based approach in the context of a sport, expression, or outdoor activity. You will need to take an initial survey and assess your skills and behaviors regarding the practice of physical activity, set goals and interpret your progress to improve. This course aims to empower you by taking charge of your apprenticeships required for your improvement in the practice of physical activity. 

The focus of these courses is to improve students’ ability to communicate in French through their daily outings and to better understand the language. The students will be developing their writing, speaking, listening and speaking skills while working on different projects.

Literary Genres is the second course in the Language of Instruction and Literature component of the General Education profile. Students will continue to develop the skills and abilities broached in Introduction to College English but will broaden their understanding of English literature by reading different literary genres (poetry, drama, prose) from different cultural and historical contexts.

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• Secondary V Mathematics: Technical and Scientific Option

• Remedial Activities for Secondary V Chemistry

• Remedial Activities for Secondary V Physics

This course is designed to help you integrate physical activity into your lifestyle, including better management of the factors that facilitate this integration. During the supervised practice, you will apply the previous apprenticeships by practicing physical activity regularly and sufficiently from a health perspective, on the one hand, and by planning, carrying out and evaluating a personal physical activity program that you have the opportunity to practice and validate under the supervision of the teaching staff, on the other. 

This cours builds on the critical thinking and writing skills acquired in Knowledge. Its aim is to introduce students to a number of world views held by different groups at different points throughout history. We will cover four world views: the scala naturae, which places human beings within a larger, continuous cosmos ordered from matter to intelligent life; the geocentric model, which places the Earth at the center of the cosmos and makes human experience a universal reference point; the Copernican Revolution, through which the Earth was understood to revolve around the sun and by which human experience was similarly decentralized; and the possible worlds, according to which many distinct worlds, similar but not identical to ours, may exist either literally or as a speculative instrument. At the end of the course, students will be asked to write a philosophy essay comparing two world views on some determined topic.

Literary Themes is the third course in the Language of Instruction and Literature component of the General Education profile. Students will use the skills and knowledge gained in Introduction to College English and Literary Genres to improve their interpretation and explanation of literary texts and to better understand the importance of context in the production of literature. Moreover, this course broadens the cultural value of literature through its choice of texts and the examination of a key theme within the readings.