Free printable · 8th grade
8th grade homeschool, on one page
What to teach this year, how often, and for how long. About an hour and 45 minutes a day, four days a week, with Friday kept light.
Arbor turns this page into your child’s whole year, every lesson written out for you to teach, at their level. Free for 14 days.
The subjects
| Subject | Days a week | Minutes | What 8th grade covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math | 4 | 20 | Linear equations, exponents and scientific notation, the Pythagorean theorem, transformations, slope, systems, functions |
| Reading | 4 | 20 | The strongest evidence, a novel (The Hound of the Baskervilles), a play (A Midsummer Night's Dream), poetry, great speeches |
| Writing | 4 | 20 | Nuanced arguments, writing from several sources, memoir, literary analysis, rhetoric, an extended research project |
| Science | 2 | 30 | Motion and Newton's laws, energy, gravity and magnetism, waves and light, the solar system, natural selection |
| History | 2 | 20 | The colonies, the Revolution, the Constitution, the Civil War and Reconstruction, industry, the world wars, civil rights |
| Read aloud | Every day | 15–20 | A book you both love, or one they read on their own and you talk about |
History can be Geography instead: maps and time zones, Earth's regions, and every continent.
A sample week
Mon
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- Science
- Read aloud
About 110 minutes
Tue
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- History
- Read aloud
About 100 minutes
Wed
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- Science
- Read aloud
About 110 minutes
Thu
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- History
- Read aloud
About 100 minutes
Fri
- Read aloud
- Catch up, a field trip, or co-op
About 20 minutes
Move any of it to suit your family. The days and minutes are the pace of Arbor’s own 8th grade curriculum.
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