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West Chester Area School District Language Arts - English (8th Grade) and editorials.


8th Grade Academic Courses Reading Plus


All English classes include the study of a variety of texts: novels, poetry, short stories, drama, and nonfiction, which includes speeches, biographies, autobiographies


Integrating


reading, speaking, listening, writing, and viewing skills encourages critical thinking and effective communication. Students also study grammar, spelling and vocabulary according to a grade level scope and sequence.


The specific data points that middle school principals will consider for placement into eighth grade reading and English courses are as follows: teacher recommendation, historical and current PSSA performance in reading and writing, and seventh grade reading and English report card grades. Principals may also consider additional data points that may be available for individual students.


English 8 Accelerated Honors


This course is recommended for avid readers, advanced writers, critical thinkers and those who have a passion for Language Arts. This class teaches students to analyze, explain and evaluate elements of literature and write at an accelerated pace.


English 8 Honors


This class teaches students to analyze, explain, and evaluate elements of literature and writing at a challenging pace.


English 8 Grade Level


This class teaches students to explain, evaluate, and analyze elements of literature and writing at a continuous pace.


Language Arts - Reading (8th Grade)


Reading and Writing for Life Grade Level This course is an elective designed for students who wish to explore reading and writing in the areas of short stories, non-fiction, journalism, living on your own, the law, and script writing.


Tis course replaces World Language and Reading and Writing for Life.


Reading Plus is designed to provide intense,


formal reading intervention by a reading specialist. Students who are required to take this course will be selected based on need as determined by multiple criteria.


Mathematics (8th Grade)


The specific data points that middle school principals will consider for placement into eighth grade mathematics courses are as follows: teacher recommendation,


historical and current PSSA


performance in math, and seventh grade math grades. Principals may also consider additional data points that may be available for individual students.


Students who are non-proficient on the PSSA may receive math support through an additional math class or support within their regular math class.


Geometry 8


This course explores Geometry in great depth. Content includes a rigorous study of reasoning and proof, perpendicular and parallel lines, congruent triangles, properties of triangles, transformations, similarity, right trigonometry, circles, area, volume.


quadrilaterals, triangles and


surface area, and Prerequisite: Successful completion of Algebra 1.


Algebra 1 - Grade 8 Algebra 1 requires abstract thinking for the study of higher-order problem solving. The content includes algebraic properties, linear equations and functions, inequalities, systems of equations and inequalities, quadratic


exponents, exponential equations and functions, functions, polynomials


and factoring, rational equations and functions, radicals, measurement and data and probability.


Prerequisite: Successful completion of Mathematics 7.


Pre-Algebra 8 Pre-Algebra requires a focus on abstract thinking as an introduction to algebraic concepts. The content


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