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Upper School

Welcome to 8th Grade

Daily

Schedule

Monday
8:45-9:30 Advisory/ WIN/RTI
9:35-10:25 Period 1
10:30-11:20 Period 2
11:25-12:15 Period 3
12:15-12:40 Lunch
12:45-1:35 CEE Block A (P4)
1:40-2:30 CEE Block B (P5)
2:35-3:25 Period 6
3:30-4:00 Dismissal

Course

Curriculum

Reading / ELA

Reading Comprehension and Literary Skills: Novel Study

Use context clues to make predictions and define unknown vocabulary terms

Identify theme, point of view, main idea, and support evidence with text

Make inferences and support with text evidence

Analyzing character traits and support with text evidence

Identify plot structure and development

Identify conflict/resolution

Writing

Summarizing

Personal Narrative

Argumentative Writing

Mathematics

Algebraic Reasoning:

  • Order of Operations
  • Variables and Expressions

Integers and Rational Numbers

Solving Equations

Decimal Operations and Applications

Fraction Operations and Applications

Spiral review of all skills and concepts taught

Science

Earth Science

Social Studies

Review of Renaissance & Reformation

Age of Enlightenment and Exploration

Settling the New World

Indigenous Peoples

Colonies and Westward Expansion

Establishing the Constitution and American Government

The New Republic

Reading / ELA

Reading Comprehension and Literary Skills: Novel Study & Short Stories

Identify and Explain Story Elements

Identify Types of Conflict in a Story

Compare and Contrast Character Traits with Citing Evidence

Analyzing Character Traits and Plot Structure

Writing

Argumentative Writing

Informative Writing

Mathematics

Proportional Relationships

  • Ratios, Rates, and Proportions
  • Proportions in Geometry

Graphs

Percents

Data Analysis

Spiral review of all skills and concepts previously taught

Science

Earth Science

Social Studies

Settling the New Industrial Revolution

Social Reforms

Manifest Destiny

Civil War

Reconstruction

World War I

Reading / ELA

Reading Comprehension and Literary Skills: Novel Study & Poetry

Use Context Clues to Make Predictions and Define Unknown Vocabulary Terms

Identify Theme, Point of View, Main Idea and Support with Text Evidence

Make Inferences and Support with Text Evidence

Writing

Informative Writing

Poetry and Figurative Language

Mathematics

Geometric Figures:

  • Lines and Angles
  • Congruent Figures

Measurement and Geometry:

  • Perimeter, Circumference, Area, Volume, and Surface Area

Probability

Multi-Step Equations and Inequalities

Spiral review of all skills and concepts previously taught

Science

Earth Science

Social Studies

Stock Market Crash of 1929

Great Depression

World War II and Holocaust

Cold War

Vietnam War

Up to the 20th Century