Composition
- Manuscript form
- The writing process
- The library
- Outlining
- Summaries
- Book reports
- Paragraphs
- Descriptions
- Research paper
- Writing style
Grammar
- Capitalization rules
- Punctuation rules
- Kinds of sentences and diagramming eight parts of speech and their uses
- Diagramming eight parts of speech
- Sentence structure
Literature
- Reading for enjoyment stories and poems by such authors as Stuart, Whittier, Longfellow, Frost, Browning, Hawthorne, Sandburg
Vocabulary, Spelling, Poetry
- Vocabulary lessons
- Weekly spelling lessons
- Nine poems memorized
History and Geography
- A New World to Explore
- The First English Colonies
- New Colonies
- Life in Colonial America
- Preparation for Independence
- Home of the Brave
- Land of the Free
- From the Appalachians to the Rockies
- The Jacksonian Era
- The Blessings of TechnologyThe Second Great Awakening and Its Impact
- Education and Culture
- The Promise of the West
- The Civil War and Reconstruction
- The Age of Industry
- The Gilded Age
- Growing into Greatness
- Into the Twentieth Century
- The Rise of Big Government
- A World at War
- Time for Freedom and Responsibility
- Troubled Times for America
- Which Way, America?
- A New Millennium
- Western Hemisphere Geography
- Current events
- National, State, and Local Government
- Consider the Heavens
- Man and the Universe
- Solid Matter in Motion
- Fluids in Motion
- Heat Molecules in Motion
Science
- Birds: Efficiency in Motion
- Science vs. Evolution
- Magnets and Magnetism
- Electrons and Electricity
Health
- Physical Fitness: The Active Life
- Good Nutrition: Eating for Energy
- Disease: Today’s Battle against It
- Safety First: Then Basic Aid
Algebra
- Maintaining skills in fundamental operations (See grades 4–7)
- Principles of mathematics
- English and metric measures
- Basic algebraic concepts
- Signed numbers
- Powers and roots
- Like and unlike terms
- Multiplying and dividing monomials
- Problem-solving strategies
- Word problems solved algebraically
- Reading and constructing graphs
- Graphical scale drawings
- Statistics and probability
- Business math
- Earning income
- Banking
- Stocks and bonds
- Insurance
- Basic plane and solid geometric concepts
- Properties of geometric figures
- Constructing geometric figures
- Perimeter, area, surface area, and volume
- Pythagorean rule
- Sine, cosine, and tangent
- Scientific notation
Bible
- Study series: Journeys of Paul, Joshua, Judges (Includes memory verses and hymns)
- Spiritual Growth: A Personal Challenge
- Sex Education from the Bible (see seventh grade)
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