Welcome to the Grade 8 page
Below you can find out a little more about school life and what we get up to in Grade 8.
Homeroom Teacher
Ms. Joan Delgado
Curriculum Overview
Language Arts
Reading
- Cite the most significant element of a text
- Analyse particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story
- Analyse in detail the structure of a specific paragraph
- Determine an author’s point
In addition to course textbooks class novels will include: – Animal Farm (George Orwell -Number the Stars) (Lois Lowry)
Writing
- Logically organize and provide conclusions that support presented arguments in essay and speech writing
- Develop a topic with relevant definitions, details and quotations in report writing
- Use technology to produce and publish writing
- Gather and assess credibility and accuracy of relevant information from multiple sources
- Quote or paraphrase data while avoiding plagiarism
- Write semi-formal blogs, emails and letter
- Write short stories and poetry
Speaking & Listening
- Follow rules for collegial discussions and decision making
- Acknowledge new information expressed by others
- Clarify information, strengthen claims and add interest using multimedia
Grammar
Students will build on grammar practice in grade 7 to include:
- Use present perfect simple and continuous, past perfect simple and continuous, 3rd conditional, and expressing the future
- Punctuation – commas, ellipsis, dash to indicate a pause or break
- Passive and active voice; past and present perfect passive
- Use relative and participle clauses
- Use wider range of conjunctions, strong adjectives, intensifiers, compound nouns and adverbs
- Use complex noun phrases in academic and narrative writing
History
Use multiple perspectives to examine events that shaped the 20th Century
Understand and explain the origins of the First World War
Investigate the causes and effects of:
- The rise of the Nazi’s in Europe
- Colonial Japan in Asia
- Research the competition for control of territories which led to the Second World War
Be able to trace the rise of totalitarianism in Europe
Analyse race gender and class in Nazi Germany which eventually led to the Holocaust
Geography
Understand the key processes in relation to: rocks, weathering and soils and geological timescales
Explain the reasons why there is a big Development Gap between poor and rich countries
Model how Tectonic Plates move and explain why these movements cause Earthquakes; Tsunamis and formation of Volcanoes and other geological features
- Focus on Russia, its environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics and major cities
- Focus on The Middle East, its environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics and major cities
Physical Education
Recognize the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, self-expression, and social interaction.
Demonstrate competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.
- Describe and demonstrate the difference between dynamic and static stretches.
- Accept responsibility for improving one’s own levels of physical activity and fitness
- Demonstrate respect for self by asking for help and helping others in various physical activities
Demonstrate respect for themselves and others by appropriately seeking help and offering assistance during various physical activities, fostering a supportive and collaborative environment.
Art
Drawing and Painting
- Explain how works of art are created
- Analyze, interpret, and make informed judgments about works of art
- Identify and describe elements and principles of design.
- Demonstrate technical proficiency and craftsmanship in planning
- Utilize current and available technology to refine an idea, and create original and imaginative works of art
- Connect to cultural traditions and how events impact visual arts within a community
Arts and Crafts
- Create and utilize materials to invent a unique design
School Calendar
Class Schedule
Science
Life Science
- Determine the mineral salts for plant growth.
- Identify the flower structures
- Understand the process of pollination and fertilisation
- Relate the concepts about biotic and abiotic factors to plant and animal adaptations
- Learn how the Earth maintains its ecological balance through the cascade of energy in food chain and food web
- Analyse the factors that lead to habitat destruction
- Create a plan to protect the environment
- Identify the species based on dichotomous keys
- Learn about inheritance, selective breeding, and natural selection
- Explain the importance of variation for the survival of the species
Physical Science
- Differentiate various atomic models
- Explain the trends in the Periodic Table
- Compare exothermic and endothermic reactions
- Determine the reactivity of metals
- Understand the formation of salts by neutralisation and rates of reaction
- Calculate density, pressure, and moments
- Create a simple electric circuit
Earth and Space Science
- Learn how to conserve energy
- Compare renewables and non-renewables
- Understand the process of convection, conduction, radiation and evaporation
Mathematics
Numbers and Operations
- Solve with real numbers, rational and irrational numbers, exponents and scientific notation
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
- Solve unit rate and slope;
slope and y-interceptGraph relationships
Geometry
- Model figures
- Solve circumference, perimeter, area, and volume;
- Show transformation and similarity
Expressions and Equations
- Construct and solve linear equations with integer coefficients
- Understand and use inequality signs
- Solve systems of equations
Angle relationships in parallel lines and triangles.
- Learn about the angle theorem of triangles
- Solve problems using properties of angles, of parallel and intersecting lines, and of triangles
The Pythagorean Theorem
- Converse of the theorem
- Solve the distance between two points
Probability
- Know that the sum of probabilities of all mutually exclusive outcomes is 1
- Find and record all outcomes for two successive events
- Understand relative frequency and use this to compare outcomes of experiments
Planning, Collecting and Processing Data
- Solve for averages
- Collect Data for research
- Design, Trial and refine data collection sheets
Application of fractions, decimals, percentages
- Solve for profit, loss, discount, taxes and interests
ICT
Computer Science/Robotics
Students learn programming concepts, computational thinking, and develop problem-solving skills and persistence. Along the way, they create computer programs including interactive games and creative projects they can share
Digital Citizenship, sequencing, binary, loops, events and data.
- Conditionals
- Impacts of computing, nested loops and functions
- Variable data for loops, internet sprites
- Problem-solving and computing
- Input output
- Processing
KP
- Learn basic Filipino Language for Communication
- Demonstrate proficiency in reading and writing in Filipino grammar by effectively using appropriate coherence and clarity in communication
- Understand the social and cultural life of early Filipinos
- Explain the system of writing and the Baybayin script.
- Memorize Philippine script (Filipino letter and symbols)
- Analyze and Describe Philippine history and government under the occupation of Spain, America, and Japan
- Analyze and evaluate the contributions, governance styles, and historical impact of the Philippine president.
- Interpret and describe Filipinos as good astrologers and astronomers