This year, our eighth grade class will be studying the following curriculum:

Language Arts
Grammar
Capitalization rules
Punctuation rules
Kinds of sentences and diagraming
Eight parts of speech and their uses
Diagraming eight parts of speech
Sentence structure

Composition
Manuscript form
The writing process
The library
Outlining
Summaries
Book reports
Paragraphs
Descriptions
Research paper
Writing style

Vocabulary, Spelling, Poetry:
Vocabulary lessons
Weekly spelling lessons
Nine poems memorized

Literature
Reading for enjoyment stories and poems by such authors as Stuart, Whittier, Longfellow, Frost, Browning, Hawthorne, Sandburg

 

History and Geography

A New World to Explore	The Age of Industry
The First English Colonies	The Gilded Age
New Colonies	Growing into Greatness
Life in Colonial America	Into the Twentieth Century
Preparation for Independence	The Rise of Big Government
Home of the Brave	A World at War
Land of the Free	Time for Freedom and Responsibility
From the Appalachians to the Rockies	Troubled Times for America
The Jacksonian Era	Which Way, America?
The Blessings of Technology	Western Hemisphere Geography
The Second Great Awakening and Its Impact	Current events
Education and Culture	National, State, and Local Government
The Promise of the West
The Civil War and Reconstruction

 

Science
Consider the Heavens
Man and the Universe
Solid Matter in Motion
Fluids in Motion
Heat Molecules in Motion
Birds: Efficiency in Motion
Science vs. Evolution
Magnets and Magnetism
Electrons and Electricity

 

Health
Physical Fitness: The Active Life
Good Nutrition: Eating for Energy
Disease: Today's Battle against It
Safety First: Then Basic Aid
Spiritual Growth: A Personal Challenge

 

Mathematics:
Pre-Algebra (traditional track)
Maintaining skills in fundamental operations (see grades 4-7)
Principles of mathematics
English and metric measures
Basic algebraic concepts
Signed numbers
Powers and roots
Like and unlike terms
Multiplying and dividing monomials
Problem-solving strategies
Word problems solved algebraically
Reading and constructing graphs
Graphical scale drawings
Statistics and probability
Business math
Earning income
Banking
Stocks and bonds
Insurance
Basic plane and solid geometric concepts
Properties of geometric figures
Constructing geometric figures
Perimeter, area, surface area, and volume
Pythagorean rule
Sine, cosine, and tangent
Scientific notation

 

Algebra I (advanced track):

Linear equations in one variable

Algebraic numbers

Graphs

Formulas

Positive and negative numbers

Fundamental operations

Special products and factoring

Fractions

Ratio, proportion, and variation

Linear systems of equations

Powers and roots

Exponents and radicals

Quadratic equations

Numerical trigonometry

Mathematics in an Age of Science

Bible:
New Testament Survey:

Bible for the Eighth Grade is a survey of the New Testament. The course takes a biographical approach, focusing on the life story of major biblical characters who encountered God. Priority is given to the background, content and chronology of the narrative and didactic genres in order to give the student a sense of the flow of New Testament history and teaching.

Semester 1:
Unit 1: Introduction to Bible Survey
Unit 2: Life in the Intertestamental Period
Unit 3: The Life of Christ
Unit 4: The Life of Peter
Unit 5: The Life of Paul, Part 1 (Acts Narratives)

Semester 2:
Unit 6: The Life of Paul, Part 2 (The Pauline Epistles)
Unit 7: The Epistle to the Hebrews
Unit 8: The Lives of Jesus’ Brothers
Unit 9: The Life of John

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