Grade 10 Curriculum
Opening possibilities and stepping into grad transition.
In Grade 10, students get their first look at the Graduation Numeracy Assessment (GNA) and Graduation Literacy Assessment (GLA), which are standardized exams required for students to graduate.
Goals for a Grade 10 Student
- Solidify an effective study routine for numeracy and literary exams
- Build self-confidence in public speaking presentations and oral reports
- Develop critical thinking skills for research, essay writing, and analyses
English 10 Curriculum
• Use ideas from texts to make accurate predictions and inferences
• Determine the importance of main ideas of a text with analyses
• Use original ideas to demonstrate content knowledge
• Formulate thesis statements with supporting details for research essays
• Evaluate credibility, and validity of information from various sources
Introduce strategies to formulate thesis statements that examines why and how
Practice voicing original ideas by listening critically, building upon ideas of others, and asking clarifying questions
Introduce techniques to hypothesize possible outcomes from texts, while recognizing relevant causes and factors
Practice ways to evaluate reliability, credibility, and validity of information from a variety of sources
Math 10 Curriculum
• Use operations on powers with integral exponents
• Answer questions with exponents, exponent laws, and prime factorization
• Understand how to integrate arithmetic sequences
• Properly use relations such as connecting data and graphs
• Understand financial literacy concepts such as gross and net pay
Prepare for GLA at the end of the year
Increase knowledge on abstract concepts such as integral exponents and Pythagorean theorems
Demonstrate and apply mental math strategies to make sense of quantities and differences
Introduce statistics and its usage in real life problems