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arts, through imagination and symbol, reflect in a special way, the
delight and creativity that God expects His human creatures to experience.
Art objects, whether visual or musical, are creations which tell stories,
lay bare meaning, or teach. Students in the arts program are encouraged
to create, compose, listen, view and knowledgeably appreciate in order
to continue their task of being servants of the King, unfolding creation
and expressing sense. Grade
9 music appreciation music; (1 credit,) Grade
10 choral music; open (1/2 credit, optional) Grade 10 dramatic arts; open (1 credit, optional) Grade 11 choral music; open (1/2 credit, optional) Grade 11 instrumental music; open (1/2 credit, optional) Grade 12 Music; open (1 credit, optional) Bible and Christian Perspectives Biblical
Studies Grade 12 Interdisicplinary studies; open or university preparation (1 credit each; compulsory) Grade 12 Challenge and Change is Society; university preparation (1 credit, compulsory)
Courses offered: 2011-2012
Grade 11 Accounting and Finance (1 credit, open) Grade 11 Entrepreneurship, The Venture; college preparation (1 credit, open) The
English program includes the study of literature, the various media
and language, both written and spoken. It seeks to enable students to
understand and evaluate the nature and types of literature and other
media. The program is designed to encourage creativity in each student,
and an appreciation of the role of literature and other media in manifesting
the great issues of the human experience in God's world. Grade 10 English, academic or applied (1 credit each; compulsory) Grade 11 Media Studies; open (1 credit, elective) Grade 11 English, university or college preparation (1 credit each; compulsory) Grade 12 English, university or college preparation (1 credit each; compulsory) Grade 12 Ontario Secondary Literacy Course; open (1 credit; taken in specific circumstanes) Geography - Canadian and World Studies This
program offers each student the opportunity to learn about and evaluate
human responses to God's call for justice and stewardship in local and
global settings, past and present. It is a celebration of God's physical
creation, and an analysis of geographical interactions and relationships
over time and space. This program is a vehicle which encourages students
to struggle with the meaning of the unfolding of God's Kingdom in His
creation first in Canada (grade nine), and then over the whole globe
(grade twelve). Grade 12 geography, college/university preparation (1 credit; open) The
history program helps each student to understand past and present cultures
and their contribution to the current state of affairs in the world,
and to understand human responsibility for cultural formation and to
make a commitment to share in that task in a responsible way. The history
program helps each student explore how decisions of the past affect
life today and how actions are based on choices, and worldviews. Grade 12 History, university (1 credit, optional) The
French program aims to prepare each student to perform effectively as
they speak the official language with confidence and gain transferable
academic and cognitive skills. The learning of this second language
offers each student opportunities to deal with another culture with
understanding and appreciation. The program celebrates the gifts of
communication and opens each student to wide-ranging possibilities in
career and relationship options. Grade 11 Frensh, university preparation (1 credit, optional) Grade 12 French, university preparation (1 credit, optional) The
Guidance program aims to help each student to know and appreciate themselves
as image-bearers of God, to relate in Christian ways to others, to develop
appropriate educational plans, to explore career alternatives, and to
be successful in their schoolwork. Grade 9 learning strategies I; open (1 credit, optional) Grade 10 career studies; open (1/2 credit, compulsory) Grade 10 learning strategies II; open (1 credit, optional)
Grade 11 advanced learning strategies; open (1 credit, optional) The
health and physical education program seeks to encourage each student
to develop the attitude and practice of life-long physical fitness.
The program implements this through individual and corporate physical
skills training and health awareness to encourage individual motor skill
development and community participation. A major aim is also to engender
sports and related skills in order to allow each student to be able
to participate in organized and structured games. Leisure activities
for fitness which allow for consistent, healthy service for the King
are also emphasized. Grade 12 recreation and fitness leadership; college preparation (1 credit, optional) *note: one seniors PE course must be taken by each Unity student. Mathematics
and the relationships among numbers are part of created reality; they
waited to be discovered and developed; the major importance of mathematics
lies in its ability to be applied to solving real problems. The emphases
in the mathematics program is on reasoning, problem solving, communicating
and understanding ideas, processes and results, and the use of appropriate
technology, each of which are highly transferable thinking skills. Mathematical
work at Unity Christian High School is based around the recognition
of the spatial and numerical order of God's creation and celebrates
its unfolding to students. Grade 11 functions, university preparation (1 credit, optional) Grade 11 functions and applications, university/college preparation (1 credit, optional) Grade 12 advanced functions, university preparations (1 credit, optional) Grade 12 calculus, university preparations (1 credit, optional) The
creation is a wondrous, beautiful, complex manifestation of God's majesty;
doing science requires a response to God's power, and a recognition
of His omnipotence. Science abstracts, examines and derives laws based
on the regularity of God's works in creation. The science program at
Unity Christian High School has a two-fold aim: to successively uncover
the beauty and diversity of the creation, and to develop in each student
a scientific literacy enabling each one to have the scientific knowledge,
skills and habits of mind to make knowledgeable decisions and to have
such positive attitudes to be able to live and work well in Godís
world. Grade 9 science, academic and applied (1 credit each; compulsory) Grade
10 science, academic and applied (1 credit each; compulsory) Grade 11 physics, university preparation (1 credit, optional) Grade 12 biology, university preparation (1 credit, optional) Grade 12 chemistry, university preparation (1 credit, optional)- offered in 2012-2013 only Grade 12 physics, university preparation (1 credit, optional) Scripture
shows a picture of humans in relationship with God, with self, with
fellow humans and with all created reality. Taking this theme as central,
the social sciences analyze and interpret actual and normative practices
and ideals. Underlying the social sciences is the concept that basic
to culture-forming activities and institutions is the heart-response
to God. The grade nine course specifically explores the factors that
affect attitudes and decisions about food and examines current issues
of body image and food marketing, as they relate to this heart response
to God. The food and nutrition course describes the role of food in
enabling optimum health at all stages in life, equipping students to
be faithful servants in the Kingdom of God. The grade eleven course
develops the theme in a broader way, outlining and understanding normatives,
attitudes and practices for family life, from conception to final breath. Grade 11 Parenting; open (1 credit, optional) Technologies
have consistently worked in tandem with society to illustrate cultural
change. In this century, technology may be at the forefront of or even
leading that change. This program has a two-fold aim: first, to offer
a perspective on technological change and how it fits into contemporary
culture; and second, to develop in each student the skills necessary
to live and work creatively and competently in the technology-based
society in which they live. |