Eighth Grade

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Eighth Grade students will study narrative poetry and prose that correspond to the American history program. Through this literature and our American history textbook, atlas, and geography workbooks, your students will immerse themselves in the country’s intellectual, physical, and political identities.

Eighth Grade Calvert Math emphasizes problem-solving steps and will help lead your students further into the exciting concepts of pre-algebra. Other topics include scientific notation, rational and irrational numbers, and graphing functions.

By this point, your students’ writing, vocabulary, and grammar skills will
be intertwined and mutually beneficial. Reading comprehension is built through poetry reading.

In science the focus will be on physical, life, and earth sciences such as electricity, magnetism, the structure of plant and animal cells, genetics, space, topography,
and erosion. During technology lessons, your students will further their abilities in presentations, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, and HTML.

You can also take advantage of our Calvert-created Learning Strategies Guidebook, which helps students develop skills for studying, organizing, test-taking, note-taking, and researching. As always, our Eighth Grade curriculum builds on the skills of earlier grades while preparing your students for the next step into high school.

• Scope and Sequence PDF
• Sample Lesson PDF
• Course Outline PDF