8th
(This information taken from The Home School Manual by Theodore E. Wade, Jr. and Others)

 SOCIAL STUDIES

 ● Our Old World backgrounds
● Exploration and discovery
● Growth and development of the US: Colonial life: Struggle for independence; US Constitution and Bill of Rights; Westward movement; Civil War; Reconstruction; US as a world power
● Meaning of democracy
● Our American culture
● US political system
● US economic system
● US government
● US geography
● Advanced map and globe skills

SCIENCE

● Scientific method
● Scientific nomenclature
● Scientific measurement
● Ecology and environment
● Conservation
● Composition of earth
● Ocean atmosphere
● Weather
● Water and its uses
● Weathering and erosion
● Recycling of resources
● Magnetism and electricity
● Heat and light
● Forces in liquids and gases
● Wave, mechanical, electrical, and nuclear energy
● The earth's movement
● Newton's three laws of motion
● Machines
● The atom
● Periodic table of elements
● Compounds and mixtures
● Chemical changes
● Astronomy
● The universe and Milky Way
● Space and space travel

LANGUAGE ARTS

● Independent reading
● Literal, inferential, and evaluative reading skills
● Literary terms
● Novel, short story, narrative poetry
● Nonfiction
● Biographies of great Americans
● American poets and storytellers
● Creative dramatics
● Listening and speech activities
● Advanced dictionary work
● Extended vocabulary
● Figures of speech
● Spelling
● Infinitive, participle, gerund, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, direct and indirect object
● Kinds of sentences and their parts
● Functions of sentence elements
● Writing simple business letters
● Report-writing skills
● Improving skills in using basic reference materials
● Inductive and deductive reasoning

HEALTH AND SAFETY

● Grooming
● Functions of the body
● The body's utilization of food
● Types and functions of food
● Environmental hazards
● Community sanitation and health
● Health care services
● Sexually transmitted diseases
● Accident prevention, safety, and first aid
● Mental hygiene

MATHEMATICS

● Maintaining skills in fundamental operations
● Factoring and products
● Sets and simple sentences
● Numeration Systems
● Using fractions and decimals
● Ratio, proportion, and per cent
● Equalities and inequalities
● Simple formulas and equations
● Graphing equations
● Powers and roots of rational numbers
● Polynomials
● Metric and nonmetric geometry
● Pythagorean Theorem
● Scale drawing
● Right-triangle trigonometry
● Customary and metric measurement
● Permutations
● Probability statistics and statistical terms
● Mathematics of insurance, banking, and taxes

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