Grade 8
Each Trent grade consists of twenty-eight sets of lessons and seven
examinations. A report card is issued following each test and upon completion
of each grade. Each set of lessons contains the equivalent of five chapters
from five separate text books on five different subjects. At Trent, you will
have no additional books, CDs, or tapes to purchase. Permanent grade
records are maintained, and grade transcripts are provided. Trent lessons
adhere to the Federally Suggested Guidelines for Education.
Your student will learn. .
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Language Arts: Guided reading of literary classics
of Shakespeare and Arthur Conan Doyle, improving comprehension and reading of
authors: Hemingway, Frost, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Wilbur, Saki,
Plath, Keats, and Tennyson; Introduction to writing the five paragraph
essay; emphasis on building spoken, reading and written vocabulary.
Narrative, descriptive and explanatory writing; proofreading, story writing;
review of parts of speech; reading the play, The Diary of Anne
Frank and the short story, Hound of the Baskervilles.
Math: Problem solving and intro to algebra, exponents and power,
review of variables, expressions, and equations; explore solving division and
multiplication equations and two step equations; includes geometry ,
graphs and statistics, symmetry, prime factorization , rational numbers and
decimals; discussion of square roots, scientific notation, ratio, proportion
and percent, and probability.
Science: Review the scientific method. design experiments, study
physics, states of matter, the heat and motion connection; includes study of
the atom, the periodic table, rational numbers and decimals; discussion
of organic and inorganic material, solutions, concentration, acids,
bases, wave, frequency and pitch; examines the optics of lens,
electricity, matter, energy, electricity, energy and nuclear sources.
Social Science:
Looks at responsibilities and privileges of citizenship, the history of America's
government and national, state and local government's responsibilities to
citizens; examines the political party system, voting, nominating candidates,
elections, how a bill becomes a law, how the Congress, courts and executive
branch of the government work, and our economic systems. Each student
will design and carry out a project that will make his or her town a better
place to live. This project will require twenty hours of volunteer time.
Fine Arts:
History of American home entertainment from the games and songs of the
colonists to the computers and Ipods of the twenty-first century.
A look at the art techniques of fresco, the marches of John Phillip Sousa, and
the photography of Brady, Jackson, and Hine.
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