A Beka Book
8 Grade SCOPE & SEQUENCE
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LANGUAGE ARTS
Grammar
Composition
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Capitalization and punctuation rules
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Manuscript form
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Kinds of sentences and diagramming
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Summaries and descriptions
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Eight parts of speech and their uses
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Book reports
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Diagramming eight parts of speech
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Paragraphs and outlines
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Sentence structure
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Improving writing style
Literature
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The library and research papers
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Reading for enjoyment stories &
Vocabulary, Spelling, Poetry
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Vocabulary lessons
poems by
such authors as Stuart, Whittier, Longfellow
Burns, Rawlings, Browning, Hawthorne,
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Weekly spelling lessons
Sandburg
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Eleven poems memorized
HISTORY and GEOGRAPHY
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A New World to
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Blessings of
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The Rise of Big
Explore
Technology
Government
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The 1st English
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The 2nd Great
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A World at War
Colonies
Awakening
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New Colonies
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Education & Culture
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A New Millennium
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Life in Colonial
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The Promise of the
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Troubled Times for
America
West
America
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Preparing for
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Civil War &
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Which Way, America?
Independence
Reconstruction
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Home of the Brave
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The Age of Industry
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Current events
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Land of the Free
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The Gilded Age
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National, State and
Local
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Appalachians to
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Growing into Greatness
Government
Rockies
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The Jacksonian Era
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Time for Freedom &
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Western Hemisphere
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Into the 20th Century
Responsibility
Geography
SCIENCE
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Consider the Heavens
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Electrons and
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Birds: Efficiency in
Electricity
Motion
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Man and the Universe •
Magnets and
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Fluids in Motion
Magnetism
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Science vs. Evolution
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Heat Molecules in
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Solid Matter in Motion
Motion
HEALTH
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Physical Fitness: The Active Life
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Safety First: Then Basic Aid
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Spiritual Growth: A Personal
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Disease: Today’s Battle against It
Challenge
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Good Nutrition: Eating for Energy
SEX EDUCATION from the BIBLE
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Morality
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Sins such as adultery, fornication, and
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Dating and Marriage
homosexuality
MATHEMATICS
Pre-Algebra
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Principles of Math
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Banking
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Signed numbers
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English & metric
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Stocks & Bonds
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Business math
measures
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Basic algebraic
concepts
Graphical scale
drawings
Scientific notation
Powers and roots •
Like and unlike terms
Problem solving
strategies
Word problems solved
algebraically
Multiplying and
dividing monomials
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Constructing geometric
figures
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Sign, cosine, tangent
Basic plane and solid
geometric concepts
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Insurance
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Perimeter, area, surface
area, volume
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Properties of geometric
figures
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Earning income
Pythagorean rule
Statistic & probability
Reading, constructing
graphs
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Maintaining skills in
fundamental operations
BIBLE
Study Series: Journeys of Paul, Joshua, Judges (includes memory verses and hymns)