Eighth Grade English
(One Year of English required)

This course focuses on four basic skills areas: writing (expository and research), grammar, vocabulary development, and reading/literary analysis. By the end of the year, students develop proficiency in each of these areas. Using literature, students write about and interpret the author’s purpose, characters’ motivations, and the structure of the text. Students identify conflict, theme, characterization, setting, foreshadowing, and point of view. English 8 studies seek to relate and compare texts to the students’ lives as much as possible.