8th+Grade+Year+At+a+Glance




 * English**
 * 1st 6 weeks: Literary Terms/Short Stories and Parts of Speech
 * 2nd 6 weeks: Literary Devices/Short Stories and Sentence Structure
 * 3rd 6 weeks: Personal Narrative and Novel Unit
 * 4th 6 weeks: Common Grammar mistakes and Novel Unit/Research Process/Research Paper
 * 5th 6 weeks: Drama/Poetry/Expository Writing
 * 6th 6 weeks: Novel Unit/Persuasive Writing/Rhetorical Devices

• 1st 6 Weeks: Exploration & Colonization • 2nd 6 Weeks: Cause of Revolution & Revolution • 3rd 6 Weeks: Constitution & Government • 4th 6 Weeks: Washington’s Admin through Monroe’s Admin & Industrial Revolution • 5th 6 Weeks: Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, TX Indep, MX War, Reform, Immigration & Abolition • 6th 6 Weeks: Civil War & Reconstruction
 * History**


 * Science**
 * 1st 6 weeks: Lab Safety & Physics
 * 2nd 6 weeks: Dynamic Earth, Topography, & Climate
 * 3rd 6 weeks: Astronomy
 * 4th 6 weeks: Chemistry
 * 5th 6 weeks: Ecology & Human Impact
 * 6th 6 weeks: Projects


 * Pre-Algebra**

1st 6 weeks: 2nd 6 weeks: 3rd 6 weeks: 4th 6 weeks: 5th 6 weeks: 6th 6 weeks:
 * Integers, fractions, decimals
 * Identify equivalent decimals, fractions & percents
 * Convert between fractions, decimals & percents
 * Compare & order fractions, decimals & percents
 * Perfect, non-perfect squares, positive, negative exponents
 * Irrational numbers, standard, expanded & scientific notation
 * Problem situations, problem solutions
 * Algebraic equations, Algebraic representations
 * Verbal descriptions, expressions, order of operations
 * Nth term expression, pattern, table, list
 * Labels & units for a solution
 * Unit/measurement conversions
 * Proportions/proportional relationship
 * Customary/metric conversions
 * Estimation
 * Sales tax, discounts, tips, commissions, percent increases/decreases, interest
 * Scale drawings, scale factor
 * Rational numbers in proportional problems
 * Labels/units
 * Constant from a table & problem situation
 * Sales tax, discounts, tips, commissions, percent increases/decreases, interest
 * Estimate
 * Corresponding sides to similar figures
 * Proportions for missing measurements
 * Proportions for scale drawings
 * Scale factor for missing measurements
 * 4 quadrants & points
 * Plot rational number in 4 quadrants
 * Graph figures on coordinate plane
 * Linear equations
 * X & Y axes
 * Horizontal & vertical figures
 * 90, 180, 270, 360 rotations
 * Dilation of a figure
 * Prime notations
 * Sides/angles on dilated figures & originals
 * Dependent/independent axes labels
 * Positive/negative/no correlation trends of scatter plots
 * Line plots, line graphs, stem & leaf plots, circle graphs, bar graphs, box & whisker plots, histograms & Venn Diagrams
 * Biased sampling because of method of collecting data
 * Misuse of graphs
 * Mean, median, mode & range
 * Outliers
 * Central Tendency
 * Geometric terms, triangles, quadrilaterals
 * Irrational numbers with Pythagorean Theorem
 * Right triangle, legs, hypotenuse
 * Properties of two dimensional figures
 * Perimeter, circumference, area, or missing dimension
 * Top, front, side of three dimensional figure
 * Surface area, volume
 * Lateral & total surface area
 * Dependent event, independent event, sampling
 * Theoretical & experimental probability
 * Two-step equations
 * Variables
 * Formulate equations
 * Choosing the correct solution or linear equation
 * Multi-step equations
 * Add, subtract, multiply polynomials
 * Order & degree of polynomials
 * Distributive property

1st 6 weeks:
 * Algebra**
 * Writing expressions & equations
 * Order of operations
 * Open sentences
 * Properties
 * Number systems
 * Solving equations with variableson both sides with distribution
 * Solving literal equations

2nd 6 weeks: 3rd 6 weeks :
 * Representing relations
 * Representing Functions
 * Domain & range of discrete functions
 * Linear functions
 * Equations with tables
 * Arithmetic sequences
 * Interpret graphs
 * Linear Parent
 * Rate of change & slope
 * Slope & direct variation
 * Graphing linear equations
 * Writing equations in slope-intercept form
 * Scatter plots & line of best fit
 * Parallel & perpendicular lines
 * Find domain & range of continuous functions
 * One-step inequalities
 * Multi-step inequalities
 * Graph inequalities on number line
 * Intersections
 * Domain & range of continuous/discrete functions

4th 6 weeks :
 * Graphing systems of equations
 * Solving systems using substitution & elimination
 * Application of systems
 * Multiplying monomials
 * Monomials raised to a power
 * Dividing monomials
 * Polynomials (degree, descending order) (adding/subtracting)
 * Multiplying a polynomial by a monomial
 * Multiplying binomials

5th 6 weeks :
 * Prime factorization & GCF
 * Factoring trinomials

6th 6 weeks :
 * Quadratic parent function
 * Graphing quadratics
 * Solving quadratics by graphing & factoring
 * Simplifying radicals
 * Solving quadratics using quadratic formula
 * Exponential growth & decay
 * Inverse variation