Languages
Required Course
Elective Course
Grade 9 English Language Arts
St. Paul’s High School prepares students to live in an increasingly global and multicultural world by offering culturally enriching programs in English Language Arts and French with both regular and Advanced Placement levels.
French
Designed to prepare them for post-secondary education and the years beyond, students follow a four-year English Language Arts program that emphasizes reading, writing, speech, debate and critical thinking. A wide variety of literature will be explored, including Canadian Literature, British Literature, American Literature and International Literature. The study of poetry, novels, dramas and non-fiction will help students enhance their intellectual, emotional and spiritual development. Writing with clarity, precision and passion is a major goal of the program. Research skills are taught along with writing skills and the mechanics of language. The English department is committed to excellence, understanding, social justice and personal growth.
Grade 10
The French Department prepares students to live in a bilingual Canada, as well as a global, multilingual world by offering an academically rigorous and culturally enriching French program in both regular and Advanced Placement. The faculty teaches to all four fundamental communication skills: reading, writing, listening, and most importantly, speaking, using a variety of sources and forms of comprehensible input in the French language. In the first two years of study, students acquire a broad range of practical vocabulary, knowledge of basic grammar structures and an introduction to the French culture. In the upper level courses, practical daily vocabulary is strengthened, idiomatic structures are introduced, advanced grammar is covered in depth and the skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking are emphasized.
Advanced French
English Language Arts Understanding Mass Media French Advanced French Grade 11 English AP English Film Studies French Advanced French Grade 12 English Literary Focus AP English Comprehensive Focus Language and Transactional Forms Language and Literary Forms French AP French Language and Culture