South Carolina Calvert Academy Eighth Grade

Course Materials

Eighth Grade students study narrative poetry and prose that correspond to the American history program. Through literature and our South Carolina history textbook, atlas, and geography workbooks, your child is immersed in the state’s intellectual, physical, and political identities.

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

By this point, your child’s writing, vocabulary, and grammar skills will be intertwined. Reading comprehension is built through poetry reading, speeches, sonnets, plays, and award-winning novels.

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. In technology, your child will further his or her abilities in presentations, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, and HTML.

Our online Learning Strategies Guidebook helps develop skills for studying, organizing, test taking, note-taking, and researching. Our Eighth Grade curriculum builds on the skills of earlier grades while preparing your child for high school.

Course Materials
• Science Lesson Manual
• Humanities Lesson Manual
• English Language Arts Lesson Manual
• Computer Skills & Applications Manual
• Activity Pages
• The Pearl
• The True Confession of Charlotte Doyle
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
• Reflections: An Anthology
• Stories in Verse
• Elements of Language
• The Growing Vocabulary
• Calvert Math Lesson Manual
• Calvert Math
• Calvert Math Practice and Enrichment Workbook
• Earth’s Changing Surface
• Astronomy
• Motion, Forces, and Energy
• Sound and Light
• Inside Earth
• South Carolina: The History of an American State
• History and Geography Workbook
• Atlas of United States History
• Learning Strategies Guidebook
• Answer Keys for Daily Work (online)
• How to Diagram a Sentence (online)

Optional Enrichment Courses
• Discoveries in Art
• Discoveries in Reading VIIIa and b
• Discoveries in Science
• Grade Level Science Kit
• Calvert Reference Library IV
• Intermediate Math Manipulatives
• Algebra I
• Skills Workshops: Grammar, Composition, Math, and Study Skills