Miss Dickie

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EIGHTH GRADE CURRICULUM OVERVIEW

LANGUAGE ARTS

ENGLISH

Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics

• ​Chapter 1: The Sentence and Its Parts

• Chapter 2: Nouns

• Chapter 3: Pronouns

• Chapter 4: Verbs

• Chapter 5: Adjectives and Adverbs

• Chapter 6: Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections

• Chapter 7: Verbals and Verbal Phrases

• Chapter 8: Sentence Structure

• Chapter 9: Subject-Verb Agreement

• Chapter 10: Capitalization

• Chapter 11: Punctuation

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Essential Writing Skills/Writing Workshops

•   Building Sentences and Organizing Paragraphs

• Expanding on the Compositions Process 

• Editing & revising w/peer review process

• Style and Effective Language

• Short Story Writing

• Character/Biographical Writing 

• Refining the Research Report and citing sources within text using multiple sources

• Listening and Speaking - Oral Presentations Skills

 

LITERATURE

• Independent and Group Reading in the form of Short Stories, Poems, Plays, and Novels

• Applying literary terms to a variety of texts 

• Text-Dependent Analysis Essay Writing

• Creative Writing - Poems and Short Stories 

• Emphasis on new vocabulary words in stories

• Spelling and vocabulary emphasis

 

MATH

• PRE-ALGEBRA

  • Equations and Inequalities

  • Graphing

  • Integers and Exponents

  • Exponents and Scientific Notation

  • Rational and Real Numbers

  • Collecting, Displaying, and Analyzing Data

  • Plane Geometry

  • Perimeter, Area, and Volume

  • Ratios and Similarity

  • Percents

  • Probability

  • Sequences and Functions

  • Polynomials

  • Set Theory

 

• ALGEBRA

  • Variables, Function Patterns and Graphs

  • Rational Numbers

  • Solving Equations

  • Graphs and Functions

  • Linear Equations and Their Graphs

  • Systems of Equations and Inequalities

  • Exponents and Exponential Functions

  • Polynomials and Factoring

  • Quadratic Equations and Functions

  • Radical Expressions and Equations

  • Rational Expressions and Functions
     

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Westward Expansion (1824-1860)

• Society and Culture Before the Civil War (1820-1860)

• Sectionalism and Civil War (1820-1865)

• Reconstruction (1865-1877)

• Industrial and Economic Growth (1865-1914)

• The Progressive Era (1865-1920)

• World War I (1853-1919)

• Prosperity and Depression (1919-1939)

• World War II (1935-1945)

• Cold War (1945-Present)

 

SCIENCE: LIFE SCIENCE

• Cell Anatomy and Function

• Body Systems

• Sensory Receptors

• Photosynthesis

• Energy Flow in Organisms

• Matter and Energy in Food Webs

• Organism Interactions, Competition and Predation in Ecosystems

• Ecosystem Changes in Biodiversity

• Reproduction and Variation

• Reproduction in Plants and Animals

• Growth of Plants

• Gene and Gene Mutations

• Genetic Variation

• Inheritance

Weekly Spiral Review of Earth, Life, and Physical Sciences

 

SPANISH

• Vocabulary emphasis in conversation and writing exercises

• Verb emphasis in the present and past tense for time sequence

• Grammar in context

• Writing and reading practice and application

• Cultural Perspectives and Customs from Latin America, Spain, & Mexico, and Central America

• Themes

  • Around the Community

  • Entertainment: Music, Movies, & TV Shows

  • Restaurants & Dining

  • The Environment

 

RELIGION

• We Live Our Faith  as Members of the Church

• Decision Point: Confirmation Preparation​

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