Major curriculum units of study for eighth grade core classes.
English/Language Arts
Analyzing Threads, Dialogue, and/or Events
Narrative: Memoir and/or Realistic Fiction
Evaluating Incidents, Events, Issues, and Stories
Argumentative: Personal Commentary and/or Position Paper
Synthesizing Literary Structures
Informational: Profile: Individual(s), Event(s), and/or Idea(s)
Reading for Problem-Based Inquiry and Research Design
Arguments of Problem-Based Inquiry and Research Design
Math 8
Reasoning with Equations
Transformations, Congruence, and Similarity
Exponents and Operations with Scientific Notation
Using Rational and Irrational Numbers
Graphing and Writing Linear Equations
Modeling Functions
Bivariate Statistics
Math Practices: Modeling
Math - Algebra 1
Reasoning with Equations and Inequalities
Modeling with Linear Functions
Introduction to Exponential Functions
Quadratic Functions and Polynomial Operations
Descriptive Statistics
Analyzing Functions
Algebraic Reasoning with Geometric Concepts
Math - Geometry
Expressing Geometric Properties with Equations
Congruence
Similarity, Right Triangles, and Trigonometry
Quadrilaterals and Polygons
Probability and Statistics
Circles
Geometric Measurement and Dimension
Science
Conservation of Mass
(conservation of matter/energy within physical and chemical changes, such as cycling of matter and associated transfers of energy in systems)
Variation and Diversity
(biodiversity and variation of traits on genetics and heredity and to ecosystems as a whole)
Ecosystems: Climates and Influences
(the complex interactions of climates involving sunlight, the ocean, the atmosphere, ice, landforms, and living things; interconnected nature of climates, ecosystems, and human effect on the resiliency of such)
Motion is Relative
(relationships between speed and acceleration, net forces, and energy transfer/ transformations)
Our Place in Space
(formation of the solar system, the association between very large objects and their motion, and using the understanding of both to explain events such as seasons, eclipses, and tides)
Work of Waves
(wave qualities and attributes and how they connect to transfer and conservation of energy)
Interactions of Weather & Climate
(how air masses flow [transfers/transformations of energy] to cause weather at a fixed location to change over time, and the connections of weather to climate)
Social Studies - Early US History
America at the Beginning
Changes in a Young Nation
War from Within
Rebuilding a Nation