Eighth Grade Scope and Sequence
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MATH |
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- Pre-Algebra
- Use metric system to solve problems
- Tables and graphs--preparation, use
- Compare and convert metric system to English system
- Rate, time and distance
- Line graphs with positives and negatives
- Equation solving--one and two step, opposite operations, with fractions
- Adding and subtracting with positives and negatives
- Consumer math
- Equations from written problems
- Banks--interest, discounts, savings
- Formula equations in problem solving
- Financial freedom
- New formulas from old formulas
- Mortgages
- Percentage problems solved by equations
- Investments
- Volume and surface area problems
- Real estate
- Use of Pythagorean Theorem
- Stocks and bonds
- Square root
- Taxes--federal, property, sales; finding tax rates
- Identifying proper and improper fractions and mixed numbers
- Insurance--premiums, policies
- Simplifying and comparing fractions
- Identifying decimals to millionth
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ENGLISH |
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- Language and Writing
- Grammar
- Dictionary work
- Nouns (functions, compound, collective, plurals, possessive)
- Sentence fragments, complete sentences, run-on sentences
- Verbs (action, linking, transitive, intransitive, active, passive)
- Basic sentence parts
- Principal parts of speech
- Development and improvement of sentences and paragraphs
- Conjugation of all six verb tenses
- Four kinds of paragraphs
- Five classes of pronouns
- Topic sentences
- Three cases of personal pronouns
- Punctuation
- Subject pronoun- verb agreement
- Capitalization
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Letter writing
- Prepositions, conjunctions, interjections
- Outlining
- Diagramming
- Writing paragraphs from an outline
- Phrases and clauses
- Writing a biographical sketch
- Infinitives, gerunds, participles
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SOCIAL
STUDIES |
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- American History
- Blue versus Gray
- Finding a New World
- Road to reunion
- From ship to shore
- From war to depression
- Birth to freedom
- American socialism and World War II
- From confederation to nation
- The Fair Deal, New Frontier, and Great Society
- Launching the ship of state
- From weakness to reformation
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SCIENCE |
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- Earth and its neighbors
- Mapping the world
- Foundations of the world
- Understanding mineral resources
- The Earths layers
- Creation--wonders of, cycles of, resources of
- Topography of the Earths crust
- Changing Earths face--weathering and erosion
- Earth--The Blue Planet
- Earth in space
- Oceanography
- Proof of Creation
- Earths atmosphere
- Proof of the flood
- Meteorology
- Earthquakes
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HEALTH |
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- The sun and its effect on the earth and its inhabitants
- Weather and climate and its effects on us
- The atmosphere and its qualities, effects on us
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BIBLE |
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- Bible Doctrine
- Wonders of creation
- Cycles of creation
- Messages of the stars
- Character traits
- Proof of the flood
- Gods hand in establishing our country
- Memory verses
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