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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 1 — 6 units, 113 skills.
Arithmetic
- Meanings of a fraction: part of a whole, division, ratio, operator, measure
- Reading and writing numbers in fractional and decimal notation
- Approximating numbers: estimating, rounding, truncating
Algebra
- The idea of an unknown
- Building an algebraic expression
- Interpreting an algebraic expression in context
Geometry
- Recognizing and naming regular convex polygons
- Decomposing plane figures
- Describing circles and sectors
Analytic Geometry
- Locating numbers on an axis
- Locating points in the Cartesian plane
Statistics
- Stratified and cluster sampling
- Recognizing sources of bias
- Types of statistical variables
Probability
- Multi-step random experiments
- Networks, tables and Venn diagrams
- Types of events
See the full Mathematics, Secondary 1 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
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 1 — 11 units, 20 skills.
Reading Process: Interpreting Texts
- Use: Considers the social function(s) of the text and the…
- Notice (guided intro): new Reading Process: Interpreting Texts material
Production Process
- Use: Selects a text in light of context, including purpos…
- Notice (guided intro): new Production Process material
- Use: Clarity and development of ideas, meaning(s)/message…
Research Process
- Notice (guided intro): new Research Process material
Required Genres: Planning Texts
- Notice (guided intro): new Required Genres: Planning Texts material
Required Genres: Narrative Texts
- Notice (guided intro): new Required Genres: Narrative Texts material
Required Genres: Explanatory Texts
- Notice (guided intro): new Required Genres: Explanatory Texts material
Required Genres: Reports
- Notice (guided intro): new Required Genres: Reports material
Exposition: Persuasive Texts
- Notice (guided intro): new Exposition: Persuasive Texts material
Conventions: Spoken Language
- Notice (guided intro): new Conventions: Spoken Language material
Conventions: Written Language
- Use: Uses the following parts of speech correctly: nouns,…
Conventions: Media Language
- Notice (guided intro): new Conventions: Media Language material
See the full English Language Arts, Secondary 1 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 Science and Technology, Secondary 1 — 4 units, 33 skills.
The Material World
- What mass is
- Heat and particle motion
- Naming the phase changes
The Living World
- Habitat and ecological niche
- Adaptations for survival
- The cell as the unit of life
The Earth and Space
- Inside the Earth
- The three rock types
- Fresh and salt water
The Technological World
- Diagram of principles
- Motion and force in objects
- Parts of a technological system
See the full Science and Technology, Secondary 1 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, 1re secondaire — 11 units, 101 skills.
1. La description dans les textes écrits et oraux
- Prendre en compte son destinataire — Prendre en compte son destinataire et les… (taking the addressee into account)
- Le groupe nominal et ses expansions — les expansions dans le GN, le GAdj, le GV (the noun group and its expansions)
- L’analyse et la production du genre — La division en paragraphes ou en parties à l’oral (analysing and producing a text genre)
2. L’explication dans les textes écrits et oraux
- L’analyse et la production du genre — La division en paragraphes ou en parties à l’oral (analysing and producing a text genre)
3. La justification dans les textes écrits et oraux
- La phrase syntaxique et ses constituants — Justifier le propos : décrire les étapes du… (the syntactic sentence and its constituents)
- Découverte guidée : Prendre en compte son destinataire — sa connaissance du sujet, ses goûts et, si… (taking the addressee into account)
4. L’argumentation dans les textes écrits et oraux
- Découverte guidée : Les moyens graphiques et typographiques — Des moyens graphiques : mise en page et marques… (graphic and typographic devices)
5. La narration dans les textes littéraires
- La construction de l’univers narratif — En lecture et en écoute (réception) Analyser la… (building the narrative world (setting, characters, time))
- La construction de l’univers narratif — la juxtaposition et la coordination (building the narrative world (setting, characters, time))
- Les temps verbaux et leurs valeurs — L’harmonisation des temps verbaux autour du temps… (tenses and their values)
6. Le théâtre
- Découverte guidée : La lecture du texte de théâtre — son identité, son appartenance géographique, son… (reading and analysing drama)
7. La poésie
- Les figures de style — expérimenter des jeux poétiques (figures of speech (comparison, metaphor, etc.))
- La structure du poème — la répétition de mots, de groupes de mots, de… (the structure of a poem)
- Les thèmes et les réseaux de sens — Comparer les réseaux de sens établis avec ceux des… (themes and networks of meaning in a work)
1. Les ressources de la langue pour nommer et caractériser
- Le nom et son sens — dans les noms de personnes, de lieux (pays, ville,… (the noun (common / proper) and its sense)
- La formation des mots — télescopage, abrègement (word formation (derivation, composition))
- Les relations de sens entre les mots — sens contextuel (sense relations (synonym, antonym, families of words))
2. Les ressources de la langue pour situer dans le temps
- Les temps verbaux et leurs valeurs — les mots et les groupes de mots qui donnent des… (tenses and their values)
- L’accord du verbe avec son sujet — règle générale : receveur de la personne et du… (agreement of the verb with its subject)
- Le groupe nominal et ses expansions — le GN (recours à la manipulation de… (the noun group and its expansions)
3. Les ressources de la langue pour introduire des discours rapportés (DR)
- L’identification des énonciateurs — les différents énonciateurs des propos rapportés… (identifying the speakers in reported speech)
- Le discours direct — Un mot entre guillemets (direct reported speech)
4. Les ressources de la langue pour modaliser
- Les figures de style — la comparaison et la métaphore courante ou… (figures of speech (comparison, metaphor, etc.))
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 1 — 8 units, 112 skills.
Éléments de la situation de communication
- Discover: Reconnaître les éléments de la situation de communication : destinateur, destinataire, contexte, message, code, support de communication (1/2)
- Discover: 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
- Discover: Reconnaître des conventions de la communication utilisées par des locuteurs francophones (ex. : pour exprimer son désaccord poliment, dire Je comprends, mais je ne suis pas d’accord avec vous.) (1/2)
- Discover: Reconnaître le nom de personnalités publiques ayant marqué le Québec d’hier et d’aujourd’hui dans des textes entendus, lus ou vus (ex. : des premiers ministres, des dirigeants d’entreprise)
- Discover: Explorer des chansons d’expression française d’hier et d’aujourd’hui (ex. : La complainte du phoque en Alaska de Beau Dommage, L’été indien de Joe Dassin, Je reviendrai à Montréal de Robert Charlebois) (1/2)
Lexique
- Use: Reconnaître le procédé d’élision orthographique (ex. : je crois qu’elle viendra [et non *que elle], je ne sais pas s'il est parti [et non *si il], l’arrivée [et non *la arrivée])
- Use: Reconnaître dans un mot ce qui en constitue la base, à laquelle un préfixe ou un suffixe a été ajouté (ex. : in-démod-able)
- Use: les familles de mots (ex. : social → socialisation → sociable → socialement→ société→ sociologie)
Éléments du langage oral
- Use: les voyelles nasales des voyelles orales (ex. : plein [plɛ ̃] / pleine [plɛn], brun [brœ̃] / brune [bryn]) (1/2)
- Use: Utiliser une gestuelle appropriée au contexte et au support de communication
Grammaire du texte
- Use: dialoguer (ex. : conversation, blogue)
- Use: Reconnaître l’unité du sujet traité au fil des phrases et des paragraphes (1/2)
- Use: Reconnaître le destinataire dans une séquence narrative ou argumentative par la présence de pronoms ou de déterminants possessifs à la 2 personne du singulier ou du pluriel (ex. : tu, vous, à votre avis)
Grammaire de la phrase
- Use: la phrase graphique, pour délimiter la phrase à observer
- Use: un point d’interrogation à la fin de la phrase (1/3)
- Use: Reconnaître le nom comme noyau du groupe nominal
Stratégies
- Use: Activer ses connaissances sur le sujet traité (1/2)
- Use: Recourir à ses pairs pour favoriser son apprentissage du français
- Discover: Déterminer les conditions qui facilitent ses apprentissages (ex. : ambiance, organisation de son environnement physique) (1/2)
Démarche intégrée d’interaction, de compréhension et de production
- Use: Activer ses connaissances antérieures
- Use: Distinguer ce qui appartient au domaine du réel de ce qui relève de l’imaginaire
- Discover: Analyser le texte et vérifier s’il respecte l’intention de communication (1/2)
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 One — Year 1 — 5 units, 49 skills.
Culture
- Discover: Explores cultural products from English-language cultures
Language Repertoire
- Using English: Invites other speakers to contribute to exchanges and to mai
- Using English: Makes suggestions
- Discover: Uses targeted vocabulary related to the immediate environmen
Strategies
- Discover: Uses physical actions to convey or support messages
- Discover: Maintains attention during task by purposely avoiding distra
- Using English: Makes intelligent guesses based on prior knowledge of cues s
Processes
- Discover: Uses strategies, prompts and guiding questions
- Discover: Identifies text components in model written texts
- Discover: Identifies text components in model media texts
Texts
- Discover: Explores a variety of authentic popular, literary and inform
- Discover: Uses text components to construct meaning when listening to,
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Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 7 in Quebec?
Quebec's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, French, French as a Second Language, English as an Additional Language for Grade 7 — 428 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers arithmetic and algebra; English Language Arts covers reading process: interpreting texts and production process; Science covers the material world and the living world. 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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MapleMind isn't affiliated with any ministry of education. We build these guides from each province's official program of studies and refresh them from time to time — but curricula change, and we can't guarantee this page reflects the very latest revision. Always confirm against the live provincial curriculum data. Last updated 2026-08-15.