Suggested 

CURRICULUM GUIDE GRADE 8

Health and Safety

_  Grooming
_  Mental hygiene.
_  Grooming.
_  Accident prevention, safety, and first aid.
_  Sexually transmitted diseases.
_  Functions of the body.
_  Health care services.
_  The body's utilization of food.
_  Community Sanitation and health.
_  Types and functions of foods.

Science

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

Language Arts

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

Social Studies

_  Our old world backgrounds.
_  Exploration and discovery
_  Growth and development of:
    U.S. Colonial life; struggle for independence;
    U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights; Westward movement;
    Civil War; Reconstruction; U.S. as a world power.
_  Meaning of democracy.
_  Our American culture.
_  U.S. Political system
_  U.S. economic system
_  U.S. government.
_  U.S. geography
_  Advanced map and globe skills.