** Note that students entering the IB programme who choose to leave for any reason must return to their home school by address. **

Monarch Park is open for the first time for grade 10 entry.    Applications must be completed through the TDSB CSIP lottery system.  The information page for applications can be accessed HERE and the application can be found HERE.

Applicants should be minimally at provincial standard across all of their courses.   Students must have completed FSF1D1 (academic grade 9 French and not FSF101 (open French).

Credits that must be completed by the end of grade 10: (highlighted courses are done as pre-IB classes for students starting IB in grade 9, highlighted courses are done as pre-IB classes in grade 10).  

• Grade 9 French - FSF1D

• Grade 10 French - FSF2D

• Grade 9 English - ENL1W

• Grade 10 English - ENG2D

• Grade 9 Geography - CGC1D

• Grade 10 History - CHC2D

• Grade 9 math - MTH1W

• Grade 10 math - MPM2D

• Grade 9 science - SNC1W

• Grade 10 science - SNC2D

• Civics / Careers - BOTH GLC2O and CHV2O

• completed tech course (must be a grade 9 or 10 course starting with a T)

• any art credit

• any phys ed credit

• Psychology - HSP3U7

** N.B. If you have not completed your civics/careers and tech requirements in grade 9, you will not have any electives in grade 10 unless you take non-pre-IB courses in summer school.**

Differences between IB and the Collegiate program

There are a number of differences in what is taught in grade 9 regular stream vs gr 9 pre-IB.  Here are some of the pieces identified by the MPC teachers as well as their suggestions for a smoother transition:

Science:

• Biology/Ecology likely done in greater depth in grade 9 and it reappears in 11 and 12 IB.  Focus on nutrient cycles, species interactions, more complex approach to food chains and webs and pyramids of energy and numbers

• Chemistry/periodic table will be important.  Grade 10 is more directly important, but Bohr Rutherford, organization of the periodic table, properties of matter should be well done

• Skills: scientific notation and measurement uncertainty will be helpful.

• Physics/Electricity:  doesn't matter to the MPC IB program. 

• Earth and space / Astronomy doesn't matter to the MPC IB program. 

English:

• Read. 

• Practice/review writing a 5-paragraph formal academic essay.

• Students will need to know narrative elements: characterization, plot, setting, conflict, point of view, theme. 

• Literary devices: simile, metaphor, personification, allusion, imagery, irony, symbolism to start. 

• Formal Academic writing - thesis, evidence, analysis.

• Visit reputable online sites for definitions of these terms and practice essays.

Example of a good site: Purdue Owl Writing Lab

and their page on essays: Expository Essays

Math:

• Mainly follows the MTH1W curriculum, but extends some concepts a little. 

• Tests broken into two parts - paper 1 does not allow for a calculator, paper 2 is completed with a calculator.

• For success in Grade 10, students would ideally come into the course feeling comfortable with:

  • numeracy skills (working with integers/exponents/fractions, ratios and proportions)

  • Solid understanding and memorization of the multiplication table, preferably upto a minimum of 12x12

  • algebra (solving and manipulating linear equations, distributive property and common factoring)

  • linear relations (graphing from y = mx + b, graphing from standard form using intercepts, finding slope and intercept from graph/equation/table of values, properties of parallel/perpendicular/horizontal/vertical lines)

** Please also see the tips from getting ready for Grade 9 pre-IB for additional resources and needed skills **