AmblesideOnline - Year 8 Overview
"Let us try, however imperfectly, to make education a science of relationships--in other words, try in one subject or another to let the children work upon living ideas. In this field small efforts are honoured with great rewards, and we perceive that the education we are giving exceeds all that we intended or imagined."
Charlotte Mason, Volume 3, p. 163
A Basic Overview of Year 8
Bible
- Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua
- Psalms
- Proverbs
- Matthew
Citizenship
- Plutarch's Lives
- Ourselves
- Utopia
- Whatever Happened to Justice
History
- 1400s-1688 (Renaissance and Reformation)
- Elizabethan England
- King Charles
- Oliver Cromwell
- Timeline
- Book of Centuries
Geography
- Kon Tiki
- Columbus
Science and Math
- Living science books in botany, astronomy, molecules, chemistry
- Circulatory System
- Nature Writings
- Nature Study
- Math
Language Arts
- Copywork
- Dictation
- Oral and Written Narration
- Recitation
- Grammar
Literature
- Shakespeare
- Donne, Milton, Spenser
- Westward Ho!, The Holy War, and more...
Foreign Language
- Modern Language
- Latin
Music and Arts
- Hymns and Folk Songs
- Artist/Picture Study
- Composer
- Drawing and Handicrafts
Year 8 is a step up in difficulty. Students continue studying Plutarch's Lives as well as a Shakespeare play each term. They will continue with daily copywork, as well as studied dictation and grammar study. Every scheduled reading will still be narrated, either orally or in writing. Written narration should increase to more often than once a week, serving as further preparation for composition. Foreign language study continues as begun in previous years, alongside the study of Latin.
Choose a Course of Study for Year 8:
BASIC/LITE:
I want a basic, stripped down version, without a lot of options to choose from and a bit of a lighter load.
Year 8 Curriculum, Basic/Lite Version
36-Week Schedule
DETAILED/WITH OPTIONS:
I want to see all of my options and be able to make choices.
Year 8 Curriculum, Detailed
36-Week Schedule