Eighth Grade Main Lesson Blocks
- Human Anatomy
- Organic Chemistry
- Physics including the Industrial and Digital Revolutions
- Political and Economic Geography
- Revolutions in history
- Topics in United States History: 1850 – 2000
- Current Events
- Geometry (Platonic solids)
- Class Play
Eighth Grade Language Arts
- Weather journals
- Five paragraph essays
- Persuasive/argumentative essays
- Essay tests in history
- Editing and proofreading
- Non-fiction writing (personal responses, book report, geography report)
- Vocabulary skills work
- Creation of yearbook
- Speech exercises
- Class readers
Eighth Grade Math
- Simplifying Expressions (adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing with variables)
- Like terms, laws of exponents, distributive property
- Writing and solving linear equations (order of operations, axioms of equality)
- Graphing linear equations on a coordinate plane
- Slope, intercepts, coordinates
- Writing equations from a graph and graphing from an equation
- Table of values
- Slope-intercept form, point-slope form, standard form, slope formula
- Writing, solving, and graphing linear inequalities
- Dotted and solid lines
- Shading
- Solution set
- Rational Expressions and Square Roots
- Laws of exponents and roots
- Simplifying square roots
- Operations with roots and exponents
- Writing, solving, and graphing quadratic equations
- Standard form and vertex form
- Identifying vertex, axis of symmetry, roots
- Quadratic formula
- Zero product property
- Factoring
- Solving real world quadratic problems
- Systems of equations and inequalities
- Two linear equations with two variables
- Elimination, substitution, and graphing
- Writing systems of equations from real world situations