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Language Arts
- Composition = descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive
- Language = grammar, usage, mechanics
- Resources = library, reference, electronic
- Skills = vocabulary, spelling, study, test taking, listening, speaking, viewing, representing critical thinking
Literature
- Genres = short story, autobiography, poetry, folktale, historical fiction, personal essay, drama, suspense story
- Reading and thinking skills = previewing, inferences, comprehension, setting purpose, persuasive techniques, main idea, supportive details, activating prior knowledge, predictions
Physical Science
- Matter, motion and forces, work, machine
- Energy, atom, interactions of matter,
- Electricity, waves, sound, light
- Labs
Mathematics
- Tools for problem solving, integers, statistics and data analysis
- Pattern and number sense, rational numbers, real numbers, applications with proportions, percent, discrete math and probability
- Algebra (functions and graphs, integers
- Geometry, area and volume
United States History
- Reconstruction through modern America
- Current events, map skills
Bible
- Overview of the Book of Acts
Art
8th Grade Curriculum Overview