Humanities

Grade 6, 7 and 8 —Humanities

Humanities is taught by one teacher for five periods per week.

Middle School Humanities standards

All learning is focused around nine standards which are then broken down for the students to understand. The standards are:

1. The interrelated, interdependent and dynamic nature of natural and human systems shapes the environment.

2. Sustainable development requires people to participate in decision-making and take informed action.

3. Significant factors interacting in time and place lead to continuity and change.

4. Place, space and time create conditions that significantly shape the human experience.

5. Systems for resource allocation lead to short and long-term consequences for individuals and societies.

6. Culture develops in groups over time and is transmitted to inform individual identity.

7. Individual and group values form norms that define standards of behaviour and how people interpret the world.

8. Humans make sense of themselves and the world through processes of critical and creative thinking.

9. Humans communicate to construct and share meaning.