How to read this page
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 3 — 6 units, 62 skills.
Arithmetic
- Rational versus irrational numbers
- Representing subsets of the real numbers
- The concept of absolute value
Algebra
- The idea of a parameter
- The rule for inequalities with negatives
- Multiplying an algebraic expression by a monomial
Geometry
- Legs and hypotenuse of a right triangle
- Right cones and spheres
- Representing 3-D figures in the plane
Analytic Geometry
- Distance between two points
- Relative position of two lines by slope
- Equations of straight lines
Statistics
- Grouped data, histograms and box plots
- Measures of central tendency
- Comparing experimental and theoretical data
Probability
- Discrete versus continuous random variables
- Geometric probability
- Arrangements, permutations and combinations
See the full Mathematics, Secondary 3 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 3 — 13 units, 97 skills.
Reading Process: Interpreting Texts
- Use: Extends/supports/scaffolds first reading/initial res…
- Notice (guided intro): new Reading Process: Interpreting Texts material
- Use: Draws inferences about the view of the world present…
Production Process
- Use: See also the Required Genres section of this documen…
- Use: Familiar audience (e.g. provides additional details…
- Use: Personal experience(s) and knowledge
Research Process
- Use: Uses problem solving to interpret data and informati…
- Use: Primary sources (e.g. artefacts, interviews, autobio…
- Use: Categorizes data/information (e.g. collates results…
Required Genres: Planning Texts
- Use: Outlines and storyboards (i.e. for research, written…
- Use: List of actions to undertake or of ideas to discuss/…
Required Genres: Reflective Texts
- Use: Texts reflecting on values, experiences, ideas, opin…
- Use: Written self-evaluations and reflections, including…
- Use: Focus on ideas/experiences/qualities that are select…
Required Genres: Narrative Texts
- Use: Popular mass-produced texts such as magazines, graph…
- Use: Spoken performances (e.g. poetry reading, spoken wor…
- Use: Narratives in poetic form (e.g. lyric poetry, free v…
Required Genres: Explanatory Texts
- Use: Explanations of a process (e.g. teaching something t…
- Use: Visuals to focus reader’s attention on what is most…
Required Genres: Reports
- Notice (guided intro): new Required Genres: Reports material
- Use: Information organized and sequenced using a structur…
- Use: Visual conventions to convey information, meaning(s)…
Exposition: Persuasive Texts
- Use: Advertisements, including public service announcemen…
Exposition: Argumentative Texts
- Notice (guided intro): new Exposition: Argumentative Texts material
Conventions: Spoken Language
- Use: Adapts the rhetorical aspects of spoken language to…
Conventions: Written Language
- Use: Uses a variety of sentence structures (simple, compo…
- Use: Uses a metalanguage to discuss own texts, own progre…
Conventions: Media Language
- Use: Depiction of products in advertising (e.g. magazine,…
- Notice (guided intro): new Conventions: Media Language material
- Use: Create a sense of tone, mood, emotion, pacing (e.g.…
See the full English Language Arts, Secondary 3 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 3 — 4 units, 34 skills.
The Material World
- Solubility and its limits
- The particle model and its limits
- Decomposition, synthesis and oxidation
The Living World
- Cells, tissues, organs and systems
- The digestive tract and glands
- The respiratory system
The Earth and Space
- Rock strata and geological time
- Astronomical distances and conditions for life
The Technological World
- Choosing diagrams and reading lines
- Links and typical functions
- Material constraints and properties
See the full Science and Technology, Secondary 3 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, 3e secondaire — 10 units, 100 skills.
1. La description dans les textes écrits et oraux
- L’analyse et la production du genre — Tenir compte des conditions de réalisation de la… (analysing and producing a text genre)
- L’explication : causes et conséquences — l’insertion d’une séquence descriptive dans un… (explaining causes and consequences)
2. L’explication dans les textes écrits et oraux
- Prendre en compte son destinataire — ses caractéristiques : sa connaissance du sujet,… (taking the addressee into account)
- La variété de langue et le registre — une variété de langue standard (register and variety of language)
- L’explication : causes et conséquences — un plan par succession de causes – conséquences : a… (explaining causes and consequences)
3. La justification dans les textes écrits et oraux
- La variété de langue et le registre — Tendre à l’utilisation de la langue standard (register and variety of language)
5. La narration dans les textes littéraires
- La construction de l’univers narratif — son identité, son appartenance géographique, son… (building the narrative world (setting, characters, time))
- La construction de l’univers narratif — l’indication d’actions que les personnages posent… (building the narrative world (setting, characters, time))
- L’insertion de séquences — l’insertion de séquences explicatives (inserting secondary sequences into a text)
6. Le théâtre
- La lecture du texte de théâtre — son identité, son appartenance géographique, son… (reading and analysing drama)
7. La poésie
- La structure du poème — son identité, son appartenance géographique, son… (the structure of a poem)
- La structure du poème — le découpage : strophes, couplets, refrains (the structure of a poem)
- Les figures de style — La progression thématique par les champs lexicaux,… (figures of speech (comparison, metaphor, etc.))
1. Les ressources de la langue pour nommer et caractériser
- Le nom et son sens — dans les noms de peuples en opposition avec… (the noun (common / proper) and its sense)
- Le nom et son sens — des phrases à construction particulière La phrase… (the noun (common / proper) and its sense)
- L’adjectif et son accord — accord de l’adjectif avec plusieurs noms singuliers… (the adjective and adjective agreement)
2. Les ressources de la langue pour situer dans le temps
- Les temps verbaux et leurs valeurs — plusieurs sujets constitués de noms et de pronoms… (tenses and their values)
- La phrase subordonnée — la réduction de la subordonnée complétive à un… (subordinate clauses)
- Les temps verbaux et leurs valeurs — le mode et les temps qui ont une valeur temporelle… (tenses and their values)
3. Les ressources de la langue pour introduire des discours rapportés (DR)
- La justification : propos et raisons — difficilement repérables parce qu’ils sont nombreux… (justifying a stance (propos + reasons))
- Le discours direct — La prosodie (direct reported speech)
4. Les ressources de la langue pour modaliser
- Les marques énonciatives — des verbes (enunciative marks (speaker/addressee presence))
- Les marques énonciatives — la répétition (enunciative marks (speaker/addressee presence))
- Découverte guidée : Les marques énonciatives — la possibilité (enunciative marks (speaker/addressee presence))
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 3 — 8 units, 67 skills.
Éléments de la situation de communication
- Use: du contexte (ex. : le contexte externe, dont font partie le lieu physique et le moment, ou le contexte interne, dont font partie les expériences et les connaissances des interlocuteurs)
- Use: du destinateur (ex. : le locuteur ou le scripteur veut informer)
Repères culturels
- Use: 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.)
- Use: Décrire certaines coutumes propres aux cultures anglophone et francophone (ex. : l’importance, pour les anglophones, de célébrer l’Action de grâces)
- Use: 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)
Lexique
- Use: Comprendre le vocabulaire courant associé au sujet abordé (ex. : un coiffeur, une enseignante, un informaticien pour parler de métiers et professions)
- Use: Orthographier correctement les mots appris
- Use: une position ou un mouvement dans l’espace ou le temps (ex. : préscolaire, encercler) (1/4)
Éléments du langage oral
- Use: l’affrication (ex. : petit [pətsi], durci [dzyrsi], tuile [tsɥil], tiens [tsjɛ̃]) (1/4)
- Use: les hésitations et l’utilisation abusive de mots de remplissage (ex. : pis, ok)
Grammaire du texte
- Use: Reconnaître des caractéristiques d’une séquence explicative (ex. : parties de la séquence, organisateurs textuels)
- Use: Reconnaître la progression de l’information d’une phrase à l’autre, d’un paragraphe à l’autre (1/3)
- Discover: argumenter (ex. : lettre d’opinion, débat)
Grammaire de la phrase
- Use: l’effacement (ex. : pour identifier le noyau du groupe)
- Use: le complément de phrase est placé en tête de phrase et est détaché par une virgule (ex. : Tous les matins, mon père promène son chien.) (1/2)
- Use: Reconnaître les éléments d’un groupe syntaxique : un noyau obligatoire et une ou des expansions facultatives (ex. : un grand chapeau noir) (1/6)
Stratégies
- Use: Déterminer les conditions qui facilitent ses apprentissages (ex. : ambiance, organisation de son environnement physique) (1/2)
- Use: Repérer les idées principales et secondaires d’un texte entendu, lu ou vu
- Use: Solliciter les commentaires et les suggestions de ses pairs pour améliorer sa démarche ou son produit
Démarche intégrée d’interaction, de compréhension et de production
- Use: Reconnaître ou choisir les éléments de la situation de communication (1/2)
- Use: Établir un lien entre la tâche à accomplir et la réalité extrascolaire, comme le marché du travail (1/2)
- Use: Modifier son texte au besoin
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 1 — 4 units, 21 skills.
Language Repertoire
- Using English: Gives advice and feedback
- Using English: Uses knowledge of mechanics to construct meaning
Strategies
- Using English: Uses self-evaluation means to reflect on the effectiveness o
- Using English: Uses self-evaluation means to reflect on the effectiveness o
- Using English: Groups ideas in meaningful clusters to visually represent re
Processes
- Using English: Determines overall message of texts
- Discover: Deconstructs model written texts
- Discover: Deconstructs model media texts
Texts
- Discover: Uses text features to construct meaning when listening to, r
Three ways parents use this list
Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 9 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 9 — 427 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.
My child is finding one of these skills hard. What can I do?
That's normal — every skill on this page is one most kids wobble on at first. MapleMind teaches any of them one-on-one: a short lesson in plain words, a worked example, then solving together. It's free to start, on any device, in 14 languages.
Keep exploring
Knowing the list is half the job
The other half is the teaching — and that's what MapleMind does. Pick any skill on this page and see it taught properly, free, in under a minute.
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.
Social Studies this year
Social studies widens the lens this year — history, geography, and how communities and governments work. In Quebec, that's History of Quebec and Canada, Secondary III — 4 units, 46 skills.
The experience of the Indigenous peoples and the colonization attempts (Origins to 1608)
- The First Occupants and their ways of life
- First contacts between First Peoples and Europeans
+ 5 more skills in this unit →The evolution of colonial society under French rule (1608-1760)
- The monopoly of the chartered companies
- First Nations warfare and diplomacy
- The Catholic Church in New France
+ 11 more skills in this unit →The Conquest and the change of empire (1760-1791)
- The military regime
- Governing under Murray and the Canadiens
- The American Revolution and the invasion of Quebec
+ 8 more skills in this unit →The demands and struggles of nationhood (1791-1840)
- The Constitutional Act of 1791
- The rise of nationalisms
- The Rebellions of 1837-1838
+ 11 more skills in this unit →See the full History of Quebec and Canada, Secondary III curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →