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Quebec publishes its curriculum as long official documents written for teachers. This page is the same content, translated for the fridge door: each subject below shows this year's units and the skills inside them. If a skill sounds unfamiliar, that's the point — now you know what to ask about at dinner.
Mathematics this year
Math builds in layers, and this year's layer matters — each unit below leans on the ones before it. In Quebec, that's Mathematics, Secondary 5 (Cultural, Social and Technical) — 7 units, 44 skills.
Arithmetic
- Writes numbers in logarithmic notation using the equivalence log_a x = n ⇔ a^n = x
- Manipulates numerical expressions involving powers (change of base), exponents and radicals (nth root), using their properties
Algebra
- Solves exponential, logarithmic and square root equations and inequalities using the properties of exponents, logarithms and radicals
- Analyzes a first-degree inequality in two variables
- Solves inequalities when analyzing a situation to be optimized
Probability
- Distinguishes between dependent and independent events and quantifies probabilities using fractions, decimals or percentages
- Recognizes, depending on the context, different types of probabilities: experimental, theoretical, subjective
- Defines or interprets the concept of odds/chance (odds for and odds against) (e.g. makes connections between odds and probabilities)
Geometry
- Recognizes equivalent figures (plane figures or solids)
- Determines measures of segments or perimeters in equivalent figures
- Determines the area of equivalent figures
Analytic Geometry
- Represents a half-plane graphically and algebraically
Discrete Mathematics
- Describes the basic elements of graph theory: degree, distance, path, circuit
- Recognizes Euler paths or circuits and Hamiltonian paths or circuits
- Constructs graphs: directed graphs, weighted graphs, coloured graphs, trees
Financial mathematics
- Value acquired by capital compounded over multiple periods
- Comparing interest rates to make informed decisions
- Types of income (salary, commission, contract, gratuities)
Mathematics this year
Math builds in layers, and this year's layer matters — each unit below leans on the ones before it. In Quebec, that's Mathematics, Secondary 5 (Science) — 5 units, 54 skills.
Arithmetic
- Writes numbers using radicals or rational exponents
- Estimates the value of the power of an exponential expression with respect to its components: base (between 0 and 1, greater than 1), exponent (positive or negative, integral or fractional)
- Estimates the order of magnitude of a real number using scientific notation
Algebra
- Factors trinomials of the form ax² + bx + c using formulas
- Solves rational equations and inequalities in one variable
- Solves inequalities when analyzing a situation to be optimized
Statistics
- Interpolates or extrapolates values using the functional model best suited to the situation
Geometry
- Defines the concept of radian
- Determines the correspondence between degrees and radians
- Determines, through exploration or deduction, different metric relations associated with plane figures
Analytic Geometry
- Calculates and interprets a slope
- Analyzes and models situations involving geometric loci in the Euclidian and Cartesian planes
- Describes and represents a parabola centred at the origin or resulting from a translation
See the full Mathematics, Secondary 5 (Science) curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Mathematics this year
Math builds in layers, and this year's layer matters — each unit below leans on the ones before it. In Quebec, that's Mathematics, Secondary 5 (Technical and Scientific) — 5 units, 70 skills.
Arithmetic
- Writes numbers in logarithmic notation using the equivalence log_a x = n ⇔ a^n = x
- Manipulates numerical expressions involving powers (change of base), exponents and radicals (nth root), using their properties
Algebra
- Interprets the role of a parameter in an algebraic expression
- Factors by completing the square (switching from one type of notation to another)
- Solves second-degree equations and inequalities in one variable
Geometry
- Recognizes equivalent figures (plane figures or solids)
- Defines the concept of radian
- Determines measures of segments or perimeters in equivalent figures
Analytic Geometry
- Identifies, through observation, the characteristics of geometric transformations in the Cartesian plane: translations, rotations centred at the origin, reflections with respect to the x-axis and y-axis, dilatations centred at the origin, scaling (expansions and contractions)
- Defines algebraically the rule for a geometric transformation
- Constructs, in the Cartesian plane, the image of a figure using a transformation rule
Discrete Mathematics
- Represents, interprets data using matrices
- Performs operations on matrices: addition and subtraction, multiplication with a scalar and with another matrix
- Performs geometric transformations (transformation matrices)
English Language Arts this year
Reading, writing, and speaking skills deepen this year — less "can they read it," more "what do they make of it." In Quebec, that's English Language Arts, Secondary 5 — 8 units, 64 skills.
Reading Process: Interpreting Texts
- Use: Known characteristics of a closed narrative text (e.…
- Use: Connects significant facts/information in relation t…
- Use: Establishes interrelationships between the structure…
Production Process
- Use: Distant but known audience, conceptually appropriate…
- Use: Distance between self as writer/producer, topic, pur…
- Use: Looks into issues of ownership, property and privacy…
Research Process
- Use: Uses ethnography to study a social world relevant to…
- Use: Adopts a stance that promotes the smooth development…
Required Genres: Narrative Texts
- Use: Written for adults and reflecting the variety of tex…
- Use: (Reading only) Structural irony (i.e. a double meani…
- Use: Recurring motifs, concepts, and other patterns
Required Genres: Reports
- Use: Multigenre conventions (e.g. use of case studies in…
- Use: Conventions that establish authority and expertise (…
Exposition: Persuasive Texts
- Use: Speeches (e.g. pitch an ad campaign, book talk)
- Use: Persuasive language such as connotation, loaded word…
- Use: Transformation of ideas/concept from one mode/medium…
Exposition: Argumentative Texts
- Use: Texts dealing with personal and social concerns, suc…
- Use: Rhetorical strategies to engage and convince reader…
Conventions: Media Language
- Use: Establish relevance (i.e. image/word/sound coexist a…
- Use: Values, beliefs, ideologies (e.g. a close-up of a sl…
See the full English Language Arts, Secondary 5 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Science this year
Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In Quebec, that's Chemistry, Secondary 5 — 4 units, 46 skills.
Energy changes in reactions
- Distinguishing endothermic from exothermic reactions
- Producing and interpreting energy diagrams
- Decomposition and synthesis reactions
Reaction rate
- Concentration of aqueous solutions
- Investigating rate factors experimentally
- Writing the rate law
Chemical equilibrium
- Dynamic equilibrium
- Ionic bonds
- Salts from neutralization
See the full Chemistry, Secondary 5 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Science this year
Science gets more structured this year — real investigations, real explanations, real vocabulary. In Quebec, that's Physics, Secondary 5 — 4 units, 42 skills.
Kinematics
- Constant speed, distance and time
- Acceleration and change in velocity
- Motion of a free-falling body
Dynamics
- Work, force and distance
- Effective force
- The law of inertia (Newton's First Law)
Transformation of energy
- Conservation of energy (qualitative)
- Gravitational potential energy (Ep = mgh)
- Electrical energy and power
Geometric optics
- The law of reflection
- Index of refraction
- Focal point of lenses
See the full Physics, Secondary 5 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
French this year
French builds through listening, speaking, and simple reading — confidence first, grammar second. In Quebec, that's Français, langue d’enseignement, 5e secondaire — 7 units, 18 skills.
4. L’argumentation dans les textes écrits et oraux
- L’insertion de séquences — le sujet situé dans son contexte (où? quand?… (inserting secondary sequences into a text)
5. La narration dans les textes littéraires
- Le narrateur et le point de vue — des narrateurs multiples (the narrator and point of view)
7. La poésie
- La structure du poème — l’enjambement, le rejet et le lien avec le sens (the structure of a poem)
1. Les ressources de la langue pour nommer et caractériser
- Le nom et son sens — dans les noms composés de lieux (the noun (common / proper) and its sense)
- Les procédés de reprise — par un terme synthétique (reprise (reference-chaining) devices)
2. Les ressources de la langue pour situer dans le temps
- Les temps verbaux et leurs valeurs — le sujet est plus d’un ou moins de deux suivi ou… (tenses and their values)
3. Les ressources de la langue pour introduire des discours rapportés (DR)
- Le discours indirect — Reconnaître le discours indirect libre : les propos… (indirect reported speech)
4. Les ressources de la langue pour modaliser
- Les figures et marques de modalisation — certains temps et modes verbaux et leurs valeurs… (figures and marks that modalise)
French as a Second Language this year
French builds through listening, speaking, and simple reading — confidence first, grammar second. In Quebec, that's Français, langue seconde (Core), Secondary 5 — 8 units, 36 skills.
Éléments de la situation de communication
- Use: Reconnaître les principales intentions de communication : exprimer, informer ou s’informer, inciter à agir ou à réagir, se divertir ou amuser, évaluer (1/2)
Repères culturels
- Use: Utiliser le registre de langue approprié à l’intention de communication et à d’autres éléments de la situation de communication
- Use: Décrire brièvement la contribution de personnalités publiques marquantes à la culture et à la société québécoises (ex. : la nationalisation de l’électricité par René Lévesque)
- Use: Explorer et apprécier la littérature classique ou contemporaine en langue française (ex. : les nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant, les romans de Dominique Demers, les pièces de théâtre de Michel Tremblay) (1/2)
Lexique
- Use: Comprendre le vocabulaire spécialisé associé au sujet abordé (ex. : un greffier, un juge, une avocate pour parler de métiers et professions dans le domaine juridique) (1/2)
- Use: des locutions (ex. : de temps en temps, avoir faim, à la différence de)
- Use: la polysémie (ex. : donner un coup de pied, recevoir un coup de téléphone, faire un bon coup)
Éléments du langage oral
- Use: Placer l’accent tonique de façon appropriée ou l’accent d’insistance selon l’intention
- Use: les hésitations et l’utilisation de mots de remplissage
Grammaire du texte
- Use: argumenter (ex. : lettre d’opinion, débat)
- Use: Produire un texte à séquence dominante argumentative
- Use: Produire un texte en s’assurant qu’aucune partie du texte n’en contredit une autre et que les temps verbaux utilisés sont conformes aux indices de temps
Grammaire de la phrase
- Use: une phrase subordonnée complétive
- Use: pronom de reprise (ex. : il renvoie à un objet ou à une situation évoquée dans le texte) (1/2)
- Use: elle est obligatoire devant certains coordonnants (ex. : Il a mangé un fruit, car il fait attention à son alimentation.) (1/2)
Stratégies
- Use: Faire un résumé pour démontrer sa compréhension des propos entendus et des textes lus
- Use: Recourir à des techniques variées pour gérer son stress (ex. : prendre de grandes respirations, écouter une musique relaxante)
Démarche intégrée d’interaction, de compréhension et de production
- Use: Se soucier de diversifier son expérience (ex. : type de texte, intention, support) (1/2)
- Use: Dégager ou décrire les sentiments, les idées, les valeurs ou les éléments culturels explicitement ou implicitement véhiculés ou à véhiculer (1/2)
- Use: Recourir à des opérations syntaxiques pour clarifier le message, réorganiser les idées, enrichir, préciser ou nuancer sa pensée, ainsi que pour créer ou comprendre des effets de style
English as an Additional Language this year
English language skills for learners whose first language is something else — practical, everyday, encouraging. In Quebec, that's English as a Second Language (Core), Secondary Cycle Two — Year 3 — 4 units, 16 skills.
Culture
- Using English: Explores cultural products from English-language cultures
Language Repertoire
- Using English: Health and Well-Being
- Using English: Uses knowledge of targeted grammatical structures to constru
Strategies
- Using English: selects which ones to use for a given task
- Consolidating English: your lifelong strategies and functional language
- Using English: Tries to communicate with someone who speaks English; learns
Texts
- Using English: Explores a variety of authentic popular, literary and inform
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Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 11 in Quebec?
Quebec's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, French, French as a Second Language, English as an Additional Language for Grade 11 — 420 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers arithmetic and algebra; Mathematics covers arithmetic and algebra; Mathematics covers arithmetic and algebra. The full list is on this page.
Is this the official Quebec curriculum?
It's built from Quebec's official program of studies, reorganized into plain language — and each subject links to a course page that quotes the ministry's own wording and links to the government source, so you can check our work. One honest caveat: we're not the ministry, curricula do change, and we can't guarantee this reflects the very latest revision, so confirm anything important against the live provincial curriculum data.
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Social Studies this year
Social studies widens the lens this year — history, geography, and how communities and governments work. In Quebec, that's Contemporary World, Secondary 5 — 3 units, 30 skills.
Population
- Where the world's people live
- Migration and its flows
- Immigrant workers and employment policies
+ 6 more skills in this unit →Tensions and conflicts
- Tension zones, sovereignty, and intervention
- The Charter of the United Nations
- Humanitarian NGOs in conflict
+ 10 more skills in this unit →Wealth
- How wealth is created
- Colonization, decolonization, neocolonization
+ 6 more skills in this unit →See the full Contemporary World, Secondary 5 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →