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Grade 8 Curriculum
Unlike the self-contained curriculum of our earlier grades, the 8th grade program requires that you obtain a copy of several novels with which our material will correlate. This allows your child to begin developing comprehension skills used in evaluating complete literary works.
| Month |
Suggested Month |
Topics |
| 1 |
Sep |
Annotating text; Fiction and Drama terminology, Novel - Westing Game; Novel Vocabulary |
| 2 |
Oct |
Novel - Westing Game (cont); Literary Devices-Irony, Point of view; Novel Vocabulary; Grammar Review |
| 3 |
Nov |
Novel - Westing Game (completion); Literary Devices-Hyperbole, Litotes, Personification, Onomatopoeia, antithesis, mentonym,synecdoche; Novel Vocabulary; Grammar Review |
| 4 |
Dec |
Novel - Behind Rebel lines; Literary Devices-Mood, Tone, Novel Vocabulary; Grammar Review |
| 5 |
Jan |
Novel - The Outsiders; Literary Devices-Connotation, Denotation, Ethos, Pathos, Logos; Novel Vocabulary; Grammar Review |
| 6 |
Feb |
Novel - The Outsiders (cont); Literary Devices- Inciting Action, Epiphany, Paradox; Novel Vocabulary; Grammar Review |
| 7 |
Mar |
Novel - The Outsiders (completion); Literary Devices- Anaphora, Epistrophe, Euphemism, Jargon; Novel Vocabulary; Grammar Review |
| 8 |
Apr |
Non-Fiction - Essays from A Summer Life; Literary Devices-Antihero, Ancedote; Essay vocabulary; Grammar Review |
| 9 |
May |
Non-Fiction - Essays from A Summer Life; Essay vocabulary; Grammar & Literary Devices Review |
Note: For a new student, the suggested starting months are underlined above. This is due to the fact that a new novel/book is commenced in those months. Hence, we will pick the closest starting month to the calendar month for a new enrolling student.
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