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Grade 10 Civics

Strands:
Informed Citizenship, Purposeful Citizenship, Citizenship within the Global Context, Civic Purpose, Community and Personal Responsibility

Overall Expectation:
- Demonstrate an understanding of citizenship within the global context

Specific Expectations:
- Analyse contemporary crises or issues of an international significance in the context of the global community
- Research and summarize the introduction of the Nuremberg laws, the public response to these laws in pre-World War II Europe, and the subsequent erosion of human rights that led to the Holocaust

Grade 10 Canadian History in the 20th Century
CHC2D

Strands: Communities: Local, National, and Global, Canada's Participation in War, Peace, and Security

Overall Expectation:
- Demonstrate an understanding of Canada's participation in war, peace, and security

Specific Expectation:
- Demonstrate knowledge of how Canada's foreign and domestic policies in the 1930s contributed to the development of new policies after World War II

Grade 11 Canadian History and Politics Since 1945
CHH3C

Strands: Communities: Local, National, and Global, Canada and the World Community

Overall Expectation:
- Describe examples of Canada's contributions to and continuing role in the world community and demonstrate an understanding of the importance of such involvement

Specific Expectation:
- Evaluate Canada's participation in international agreements and organizations

Grade 11 Canadian History and Politics Since 1945
CHH3E

Strands: Communities: Local, National, and Global, Canada and the World Community

Overall Expectation:
- Identify examples of Canada's contributions to and continuing role in the world community and demonstrate an understanding of the importance of such involvement

Specific Expectation:
- Evaluate Canada's participation in international agreements and organizations

Grade 11 20th Century History: Global and Regional Perspectives
CHT3O

Strands: Communities: Local, National, and Global, The End of the Century, Process of Continuity

Overall Expectation:
- Describe significant characteristics of the world community at the end of the 20th century.

Specific Expectation:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the influence of international organizations in defining new concepts of "global communities"
- Demonstrate an understanding of the efforts of organizations and agencies to improve the human condition throughout the world
- Describe and assess the impact of significant local and regional conflicts that occurred at the end of the 20th century
- Demonstrate an understanding of the cause and effect relationship between decisions taken in history and their consequences in helping to shape significant historical events

Grade 11 Canadian Politics and Citizenship
CPC3O

Strands: Decision-Making Systems and Processes, Making Decisions for the Common Good

Overall Expectations:
- Describe the extent to which political and economic systems and institutions meet people's needs and promote the common good

Specific Expectations:
- identify the types of decisions made by government that are critical for protecting individual rights and promoting the common good

Grade 12 World History: The West and the World
CHY4U

Strands: Communities: Local, National and Global, Conflict and Cooperation

Overall Expectation:
- Evaluate the key factors that have led to conflict and war or to cooperation and peace, Change and Continuity, Chronology and Cause and Effect

Specific Expectations:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance and use of chronology and cause and effect in historical analyses of developments in the West and throughout the world since the 16th century.
- Explain how viewing events in chronological order and within a specific periodization provides a basis for historical understanding;
- Describe the key factors that have motivated people to seek peace and to cooperate with others
- Demonstrate an understanding of the consequences of war

Grade 12 World History: The West and the World
CHY4C

Strands: Communities: Local, National, and Global, Conflict and Cooperation, Change and Continuity, Change in History, Chronology and Cause and Effect

Overall Expectations
- Evaluate key factors that have led to conflict and war or to cooperation and peace

Specific Expectations:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the consequences of war
- Identify key factors that have motivated people to seek peace and to cooperate with others
- Identify influential forces that have facilitated the process of change and those that have tended to impede it
- Explain how viewing events in chronological order and within a specific periodization provides a basis for historical understanding;

Grade 12 Adventures in World History
CHM4E

Strands: Change and Continuity, Conflict and its Resolution

Overall Expectations:
- Analyse how people throughout history have dealt with conflict and conflict resolution

Specific Expectations:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the organizations that societies have created to wage war and those they have created to maintain order
- Demonstrate an understanding of various non-violent means used to resolve conflicts and to maintain peace

Grade 12 Canadian and International Law

Strands: Heritage, Law and Society, Law Reform

Overall Expectation:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between law and societal values
- Assess the influence of individual and collective action on the evolution of law

Specific Expectations:
- Analyse how society uses law to express its values
- Assess the role of collective action in changing the law in democracies

Grade 12 Canadian and World Politics

Strands: Participation in the International Community, Rights and Responsibilities of International Participation, International Conflict and Cooperation, International Human Rights

Overall Expectations: - Explain the rights and responsibilities of individual citizens, groups, and states in the international community

Specific Expectations:
- Evaluate the extent to which the rights and responsibilities of states in the international community are parallel to the rights and responsibilities of citizens in democratic national communities
- Describe the participation of several states in international relations in terms of their objectives, resources, and methods
- Explain the role of state and non-state participants in international controversies about certain rights

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