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English · Grade 8
Learners build the precise academic language that high-school reading and writing demand. They use Latin roots such as ced/cess, duc/duct, pend, fer, voc and jur to unlock words, interpret verbal irony and puns, distinguish fine shades of connotation, and choose precise reporting verbs and appropriate levels of certainty when writing about texts and evidence.
English · Grade 8
Through an original story about a science-fair competitor who spots an error on her rival's poster, learners read closely in several passes, choose the evidence that most strongly supports an analysis, and analyze how particular lines of dialogue and incidents propel the action, reveal character and provoke a decision. They finish by writing an evidence-rich analysis.
English · Grade 8
Learners read an original retelling of the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus and an original modern story about a teen drone pilot who ignores his sister's warning. They analyze how each text develops its theme through characters, setting and plot, compare how the two texts' structures shape meaning and style, examine how the modern story borrows and renews the myth's patterns and character types, and write a comparative analysis.
English · Grade 8
Learners analyze how speakers and writers persuade and how perspective shapes a reader's experience. They determine a speaker's purpose and point of view and how the speaker answers opposing views, identify appeals to credibility, emotion and logic, analyze rhetorical devices in Abraham Lincoln's public-domain Gettysburg Address, and explain how dramatic irony creates humor or suspense.
English · Grade 8
Learners compare four fictional accounts of a new bridge's opening day: a newspaper article, a TV news script, a podcast transcript and an interactive map. They evaluate what each medium does well and poorly, separate disagreements about facts from disagreements about interpretation, resolve factual conflicts by checking sources, methods and definitions, and recommend the best medium for a given purpose and audience.
English · Grade 8
Learners evaluate a fictional study app's press release against an independent study. They delineate the argument and spot irrelevant evidence, identify subtler reasoning flaws (confusing correlation with causation, cherry-picking, straw man and slippery slope), judge source credibility by expertise, conflicts of interest and research methods, and write an evaluation. A new argument about school uniforms checks transfer.
English · Grade 8
Learners build an evidence-based argument about a fictional town's decision to turn an old rail line into a trail. They model claim, evidence and reasoning from four short original sources, compare a strong and a weak paragraph against criteria, answer a counterclaim fairly, then draft and revise after criteria-based feedback. The course ends with a mixed quiz and a teacher-reviewed argument on a new issue.
English · Grade 8
Learners explain how coral reefs bleach and recover by synthesizing four fictional sources, including two that disagree about coral restoration. They write a controlling idea and organize notes by subtopic, integrate evidence by quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing with signal phrases, explain disagreements between sources fairly, and draft a synthesized explanatory essay.
English · Grade 8
Using an original reflective narrative about a girl whose name has always been mispronounced, learners study style as a set of deliberate choices: precise diction, sentence length and rhythm, imagery, active and passive voice, and the conditional and subjunctive moods. They learn how reflective narratives weave events with insight from a later perspective, then draft and revise their own reflective narrative.
English · Grade 8
Learners edit like professionals. They identify gerunds, participles and infinitives and explain what each does, use the five verb moods and fix inappropriate shifts in voice and mood, punctuate pauses and breaks with commas, dashes and ellipses, mark omissions in quotations with an ellipsis, and polish a passage for correctness and effect.
English · Grade 8
Learners follow a fictional eighth grader's independent inquiry into students' sleep and design their own. They plan questions, sub-questions, methods and a timeline; collect information from people ethically with consent, privacy and adult approval; report results honestly without plagiarism, fabrication or cherry-picking (and disclose any AI help); and cite articles, websites, interviews and their own survey in a standard format.
English · Grade 8
In this capstone, learners lead and analyze a seminar on whether schools should require community service, learning to ask questions that connect several speakers' ideas and to qualify or justify their views in light of evidence. They then prepare a portfolio defense: a formal presentation that makes evidence-based claims about their growth as readers and writers, and thoughtful answers to a panel's challenging questions.
