Amesbury Seventh-day Adventist School

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Grade 8

Curriculum:

  • BIBLE

    • Sources of inspired writings

    • The Trinity

    • Role of prophets

    • Sin and guilt

    • Justification and sanctification

    • Practical problems young Christians face

    • History and observance of the Sabbath

    • Faith, prayer, and forgiveness

    • Baptism, Communion

    • State of the dead

    • Mission outreach of the church

    • Second coming

  • ART

    • Watercolor, oil, pastel

    • Sculpture and drawing

    • Architecture: history and construction

    • Graphics

    • Color theory

    • Elements and principles of design

    • Forms in composition

    • Proportion and perspective

    • Still life and scapes: sea, land, city, sky

    • Major individual project

    • Art history and appreciation

  • COMPUTERS

    • Computer accessories, scanners, voice recognition

    • Importation of graphics

    • Spreadsheets, data labels, displaying, printing

    • File management, subdirectories, merging, linking

  • LANGUAGE ARTS

    • Reading and Literature

      • Read independently

      • Word analysis: etymology

      • Comprehension: author’s intent, summarizing, paraphrasing, compare content

      • Wide variety of literature

      • Compare literary forms and types

      • Literary elements: rhyme, rhythm, and figurative language

      • Analysis of media: reliability, accuracy, point of view

      • Read in the content areas

      • Abstract vocabulary development

      • Words that persuade, dissuade, entertain, enlist

    • Speaking

      • Appropriate vocabulary and usage

      • Parliamentary procedure

      • Conduct interviews and surveys

    • Spelling

      • Assigned words

      • Organized study plan

      • Spells correctly written work

    • Listening

      • Critical thinking: fact versus opinion, persuasive words, nonverbal clues

    • Writing

      • Legibility

      • Composition: writing across the curriculum

      • Parts of speech: appositive nouns, collective, passive and active voice verbs, transitive and intransitive, demonstrative, intensive and relative pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, correlative conjunctions, interjections

      • Sentences: complex, implied subject, direct & indirect objects, dependent & independent clauses, diagramming

      • Capitalization and punctuation

    • Study Skills and Reference

      • References: periodicals, Readers Guide, Bible Commentaries

      • Setting goals, priorities, schedule

  • MATHEMATICS

    • Maintaining skills in fundamental operations

    • Solving for an unknown quantity using inverse operations

    • Ratios, proportions, and percent

    • Graphing coordinates, inequalities, systems of equations, ordered pairs, on a number line

    • Equalities and inequalities

    • Formulas and equations

    • Operations and functions of integers

    • Geometric concepts terms and construction

    • Standard and metric measurements

    • Problem solving and applications

    • Squares and square root

    • Integers: operations, functions, as exponents

    • Rational numbers, comparing, ordering, and computing

    • Using triangles to solve problems

    • Permutations

    • Statistics and probability

  • MUSIC

    • Regular meter patterns

    • Major key signatures

    • Music and instruments of the Renaissance period

    • Homophonic and polyphonic chords

    • 19th Century and contemporary Seventh-day Adventist hymns

    • Contemporary music media

    • Symphonic form

    • Modulation

    • Conducting patterns

    • Accompaniment chords

    • Minor scale patterns

    • Cultural scale patterns

    • Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal

  • PHYSICAL EDUCATION

    • Motor skills

      • team sports, tumbling stunts, track and individual activities

    • Concepts

      • safety, games strategies, environmental responsibility, sport history

    • Fitness

      • testing, agility, running and jogging, heart rate monitoring and cardiovascular endurance

    • Positive attitudes

      • self-worth, self-control, honesty, humility, patience

    • Interpersonal skills

      • cooperation, sportsmanship, leadership, respect

  • SCIENCE & HEALTH+

    • God as Master designer

    • Plant classification, structure, process

    • Natural resources and ecology

    • Animal behavior

    • Theories of origins: creation, evolution

    • Age of the Earth

    • Dinosaurs and fossils

    • Geologic column

    • Disease risk factors

    • Consumer, community health

    • Matter and its structure

    • Mixtures and compounds

    • Chemical reactions

    • Atomic nucleus

  • SOCIAL STUDIES+

    • Exploration and discovery

    • Conflict, growth, & development: colonial heritage

    • National Constitution

    • Westward movement

    • Civil War and Reconstruction

    • Industrial development

    • World powers

    • History and prophecy

    • Old World backgrounds

    • World War I, World War II, Cold War

    • Meaning of democracy

    • Cultural diversity

    • Political and economic systems

    • Government

    • Advanced map and globe skills

    • Geography

    • Capitalism and other economic systems

  • + Subjects may alternate for grades 5 and 6 and for grades 7 and 8. Materials are adapted to the appropriate grade level.

 

 

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