Citizenship 9

Unit 1: Engaged Citizenship

Constructing a collaboratively-designed service learning project that addresses a real need in the school or larger community - selecting the need, planning, implementing, and evaluating the growth in citizenship skills.

• Selecting a need and planning the project
• Implementing and evaluating the project

Unit 2: Who Am I as a Citizen?

Evaluating evolving concepts of citizenship across different communities, and evaluating key changes in the citizenship rights of Mi'kmaw and other traditionally disempowered people, including treaties and reconciliation.

• Rights, responsibilities, and worldview
• Personal strengths and a changing role

• How rights changed and the role of treaties
• The role of all citizens in reconciliation

Unit 3: Financial Citizenship

Comparing the impact of economic decisions from the perspectives of various groups of people, and analysing how effective decision-making and informed participation in society relate to personal financial management.

• Culture, money, and taxation
• Economic disparity and equality

• Financial goals and informed choices
• Impact on others and financial capability

Unit 4: Digital Citizenship

Evaluating how perceptions of current issues are influenced by various media, and evaluating the risks, rights, and responsibilities of digital citizens.

• Representation and omission in media
• How media shapes issue awareness and choices

• Opportunities, risks, and your digital footprint
• The role of anonymity online

Unit 5: Governance

Analysing how issues become valued across government and society, investigating the structure and selection of government in Canada (including Indigenous models), and evaluating strategies to engage meaningfully in a democratic process.

• Worldview and Canadian values
• Party platforms and why issues matter

• How governments in Canada are formed
• Indigenous and non-Indigenous governance

• Working within and outside government
• Protest and unequal access to democracy

Unit 6: Global Citizenship

Evaluating the consequences of action and inaction as twenty-first century global citizens - examining global issues from differing perspectives, weighing consequences, connecting human rights and globalization, and evaluating Canada's response.

• A global issue from differing perspectives
• Consequences of action and inaction

• Human rights and globalization
• Evaluating Canada's response to a global issue