Eighth Grade Syllabus:
| LITERATURE | Mythology,
Hamilton The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas The Long Walk, Rawicz Anthem, Rand The Deerslayer, Cooper 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Verne Captains Courageous, Kipling Gone With the Wind, Mitchell To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee Rebecca, du Maurier Dracula, Stoker |
| ENGLISH | Warriner’s
English Grammar & Composition, Fourth Course, Harcourt
Brace Thorough instruction and review of grammar, usage, mechanics, study aids, speaking and listening, with special emphasis on the several separate skills of composition. Vocabulary for the College Bound Student, Amsco (Chapters 5-10) Enrichment of our reading and spelling programs with the vocabulary lessons grouped logically by Latin prefixes and roots, derivations from classical mythology, and enrichments from French, Italian, and Spanish languages, as well as preparation for standardized tests. |
| HISTORY | History
of a Free Nation, Glencoe (Chapters 14-36) The story of our nation from “The War for Southern Independence”: 1826-1877 through “The Growth of America”: 1878 – 1928, and “The Welfare State”: 1929-2003. Explores the continuing drama of the American “Great Experiment in Freedom” as Americans turned to more centralized, statist answers rather than individualist solutions to the challenges of freedom. |
| ECONOMICS | Whatever
Happened to Penny Candy?, Maybury Introduction to how the world works in an economic sense. Covers TANSTAAFL, the first economic law, the nature of money, inflation, recession, velocity, wage-price controls with glimpses into the history of money. Shows why the government has grown large and burdensome during the current century. |
| LAW | Whatever
Happened to Justice?, Maybury Introduction to common law vs. political law. Covers why civilizations flourish whe natural law is respected and decay when political law reigns. |
| MATHEMATICS | Algebra
II, Saxon Radicals, conic sections, complex roots, geometric proofs, logarithms and antilogarithms, exponential equations, algebra of polynomials, vectors, algebraic word problems, inequalities and systems of inequalities, basic trigometric functions. |
| SCIENCE | Biology:
The Study of Life, Prentice Hall A disciplined, high school level study of the science of living things beginning with the nature of science and of life. The course explores basic and organic chemistry and the cell. It then takes up how different animal and plant systems work toward life maintenance. Reproduction and development, genetics, and evolution are explored before final units on thorough plant and animal classification, and ecology. |
| MUSIC | Advanced
chorus |
| ART | Baker
Academy's Mastery of Arts |
| PHYSICAL EDUCATION |
Various
ball handling skills, games, and exercises. President's Challenge Physical Fitness Program |
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