Language Arts

Reading and Literature

• Oral reading

• Reading comprehension

• Speed reading

• Vocabulary building

• Dictionary skills

Penmanship

• Review of cursive writing formation

• Practice penmanship through creative writing and word exercises

Spelling and Poetry

• Weekly word lists by prefixes, suffixes, and root words

• Vocabulary study from the word lists

• Eight poems committed to memory

• Dictionary skills

Language

• Writing process

• Writing comparison and contrast

• Poetry

• Outlines

• Library research paper

• Narration journal

• Sentences and sentence parts

• Fragments, run-ons, punctuation and capitalization rules

• Library skills

• Student Writer's Handbook

Grammar

• Recognizing and diagramming all eight parts of speech

History and Geography

Advanced Map Studies

• Geography facts, including the 50 states

• Eight documents reviewed

North America and South America

• Canada, United States, Mexico, and Central America

• South America: Continent of Natural Resources

• Nation of South America

Science 

Plants

• Plentiful plants

Animals

• Observing Invertebrates

Earth and Space

• Our fascinating earth

• God's great universe

• Exploring space

Chemistry

• Matter and chemistry

• Atoms, elements, and compounds

Health

Safety First

• First step of first aid

• Your changing body

• An active lifestyle

Your Body's Defenses

• Your communication system

• Drugs - Use and Abuse

• A healthy spirit

Anatomy

• Endocrine System

• Respiratory System

• Muscular System

• Skeletal System

• Lymphatic System

• Skin

Arithmetic

• Place value of whole numbers and decimals

• Maintaining skills in fundamental operations

• Story problems / problem solving strategies

• Roman numerals

• Rounding offs

• English and metric measures

• Converting measures within the same system

• Solving measurement equations

• Adding, subtracting, and multiplying measures

• Prime factoring

• Fundamental operations involving fractions and decimals

• Estimation ratios and proportions

• Percent

• Probability

• Graphs and scale drawing

• Introduction to statistics

• Basic geometric shapes

• Perimeter, area, and circumference

• Bisecting angles

• Reading thermometers

• Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit and Fahrenheit to Celsius

• Equation solving

• Introduction to basic algebra

• Latitude, longitude, and time zones

• Banking, finding interest, and installment buying

• Reading electric and gas meters

Bible 

• Lessons such as Salvation Series, Life of Christ, Parables, Elijah, Elisha, Daniel, Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah

• Memory verses, hymns / choruses, and Bible doctrine

Music, Arts and Crafts

• Traditional, patriotic, fun songs

• Further development of perspective

• Introduction to composition, study of accomplished artists

Language Arts

Grammar

• Capitalization rules
• Punctuation rules
• Kinds of sentences and diagraming
• Eight parts of speech
• Sentence structure

Composition

• The writing process
• Outlining
• Summaries
• Book reports
• Library research paper
• Writing style
• Letter writing

Vocabulary

• Vocabulary lessons
• Weekly spelling lessons
• Eight poems memorized

Literature

• Reading for enjoyment
• Stories and poems by authors such as Frost, Dickinson, Kipling, Bunyan, Alcott, Luther, Dickens, Defoe

History and Geography

The Beginning from Sumer to Canaan

• Down to Egypt, Israel and It's Land
• Greece: A Drama in Two Acts
• Rome before Christ
• Rome after Christ
• Early Church History
• Islam versus Christendom

From Empire to Feudalism

• An Age of Darkness
• The Protestant Reformation
• Post Reformation Europe
• The English Nation
• An Age of Exploration
• The United States
• France in the Modern Age
• Science and Industry in the modern age

The New World of Classics

• The British Empire
• World War I
• The rise of communism before & during World War II
• The Cold War Era
• Dawning of a New Millennium toward Globalism
• Eastern Hemisphere
• Geography
• Parliamentary procedure
• Current events

Science & Health

Invitation to Science

• Plants: Provision for life
• Your wonderful body
• A healthy life

Creation and Science

• The science of classification
• Mammals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, and Amphibians

Sex Education from the Bible

• Morality, dating and marriage
• Sins such as adultery, fornication, and homosexuality

Mathematics

• Maintaining skills in fundamental operations (see grades 4-6)
• Fractions and decimals
• Factoring problem solving strategies
• Factorial
• Ratio and proportion
• Application of percent
• Personal finances
• Metric system
• Probability
• Basic geometric concepts
• Development and use of formulas
• Reading and constructing graphs
• Introduction to statistics
• Introduction to algebra
• Negative numbers
• Power and roots
• Time zones
• Latitude and longitude
• Introduction to plane and solid geometry
• Pythagorean rule
• Sine, cosine, tangent

 

Bible

• Lessons / Map journeys
• Exodus
• Life of Christ
• Memory verses and hymns

Language Arts

Grammar

• Capitalization rules
• Punctuation rules
• Different kinds of sentences and  diagramming
• Eight parts of speech and their rules
• Diagramming eight part of speech
• Sentence structure

Composition

• Manuscript form
• The writing process
• Outlining
• Summaries
• Book reports
• Paragraphs
• Descriptions
• Research paper
• Writing style

Vocabulary, Spelling, Poetry

• Vocabulary lessons
• Weekly spelling lessons
• Nine poems memorized

Literature

• Reading for enjoyment
• Stories and poems by authors such as Stuart, Whittier, Longfellow, Frost, Hawthorne, Sandburg

History

A New World to Explore

• The first English Colonies
• New Colonies
• Life in Colonial America
• Preparation for Independence
• Home of the Brave
• Land of the Free
• From the Appalachians to the Rockies
• The Jacksonian Era
• The blessings of technology

The Second Great Awakening and Its Impact

• Education and Culture
• The Promise of the West
• The Civil War and Reconstruction
• The Age of Industry
• The Gilded Age
• Growing into Greatness
• Into the Twentieth Century
• The Rise of Big Government

A World at War Time

• For Freedom and Responsibility
• Troubled Times for America
• Which Way, America?
• A New Millennium
• Western Hemisphere
• Geography
• Current events
• National, State, and Local Government

Science, Sex Education from the Bible

Introduction to Science

• Foundations of Geology
• Minerals and Rocks
• Morality, dating, and marriage
• Sins such as adultery, fornication, and homosexuality

Weathering and Erosion

• Interpreting the Fossil Record
• A survey of the seas

The Atmosphere

• Weather: Water Vapor and Air Masses
• Weather: Storms and Forecasting
• Consider the Heavens
• Man and the Universe
• Environmental Science

Mathematics

Pre-Algebra

• Maintaining skills in fundamental operations (see grades 4-7)
• Principles of mathematics
• English and metric measures
• Basic algebraic concepts
• Signed numbers
• Power and roots
• Like and unlike terms
• Multiplying and dividing monomials
• Multiplying and dividing polynomials by monomials
• Multiplying polynomials by polynomials
• Problem solving strategies
• Word problems solved
• Algebraically reading and constructing graphs
• Graphical scale drawings
• Statistics and Probability
• Business Math
• Earning income
• Banking, stocks and bonds, insurance
• Plane and solid geometric concepts
• Properties of geometric figures
• Constructing geometric figures
• Perimeter, area, surface, area, and volume
• Pythagorean rule
• Sine, cosine, and tangent
• Scientific notation

Bible

• Lessons / Map journeys
• Journeys of Paul, Joshua, Judges
• Memory verses and hymns