8th Grade Curriculum

Complete 8th grade homeschool curriculum in one quick order.

Get our best recommendations for your eighth grader with this All-Subjects Package. Simply choose between a 4-Day or 5-Day option. With an All-Subjects Package, you’ll get your entire curriculum for the year, including:

• Daily lesson plans, notes & teaching tips for the entire year.
• A History / Bible / Literature program that integrates History, Geography, Bible, Readers and Read-Alouds.
• Language Arts, Science and Math.
• Our biggest discount (save 20% off retail!)
• Free shipping (lower 48), a one-year, money-back guarantee and other perks.

Success from the start—guaranteed!

Whether you are new to homeschooling or new to Sonlight, this package will equip you to teach one child (ages 13-15) for an entire year while you prepare him or her for a lifetime of spiritual and academic success. To use this program with multiple children, simply add extra copies of the few consumable items and purchase each additional student their own skill-based programs (i.e. Math) as needed.

It's flexible–to fit your family's needs.

All of the planning is done for you. Relax knowing you don't have to be an expert to give your child an excellent education. Simply follow our step-by-step Instructor's Guide.

Included in this package:

• Instructor’s Guides
• History & Geography
• Bible
• Read-Alouds
• Readers
• Language Arts
• Science
• Math
• Resources

Here’s an in depth look at what you’ll receive:

Instructor's Guides

The Instructor's Guides include complete, 36-week lesson plans and notes that integrate your children's various subjects into an exciting, unified learning experience. The Instructor's Guides weave your books and materials together into a cohesive full-year curriculum—it's your roadmap for the entire school year!

History, Geography, Bible reading and memorization

This program completes the study that began in Sonlight G. Get a backstage pass to the last 500 years of World History—colonial rule and colonial rule overthrown, the influence of the Renaissance on the American and French Revolutions, the World Wars and life for everyday people during those wars. In this program, you will meet the people whose ideas and actions forged the course of history, from reformers to rocket scientists. Gain a working knowledge of what happened from the 17th century to about 1990.

Additionally, we've selected four powerful learning resources that will challenge and equip your young teens to live out their faith in every circumstance. They'll learn what sets Christianity apart from other religions and how to put their complete trust in Jesus—no matter what. They'll also dig deep and learn to read, study, meditate, and apply God's word to their lives in preparation for adulthood. Scripture memorization covers two key passages per week.

Sonlight H includes a mix of challenging books and fun books. You’ll find thrilling adventures, laugh-out-loud scenes, and heartwarming stories, for a thoroughly enjoyable experience.

Includes Sonlight’s History / Bible / Literature H program, World History, Year 2 of 2.

Literature

Sonlight offers two types of literature: Read-Alouds for parents to share with their children, and Readers for children to read on their own. The Read-Alouds offer more sophisticated story lines and rich discussion points, and the Readers offer age-appropriate reading tied directly into the history content of the program.

Language Arts

This year in 8th grade, your children will have many opportunities to develop into well-rounded writers with a blend of grammar, mechanics, and creative instruction. From haiku to the research paper, from gerunds to participles, from writing a superb literary hook to avoiding fragments, students gain tools to become more effective communicators.

At this level, Language Arts instruction and assignments are linked to the History / Bible / Literature program, which means that every assignment reinforces what your children are learning about as they read.

8th grade literature program includes Language Arts H.

Science

Hands-on Science with everything you need to teach successfully. Includes either Science H - Technology (4-day program) or General Science H (5-day program).

Math

Sonlight includes Math-U-See Algebra 1 in the 8th Grade All-Subjects Package. Algebra 1 covers topics like graphing, simultaneous equations, exponents, polynomials, and unit multipliers. Your student will learn about commutative and associative properties, the order of operations, solving for an unknown with one variable, the distributive property, the slope-intercept formula and finding the slope-intercept formula with different givens among other things.

Resources

A few essential resources make your learning extra rich this year. The All-Subjects package includes a 3” Binder with Tabs to organize your Instructor’s Guides. We recommend adding The Timeline Book, and Markable Map and Markers if you don’t already own them. (The Timeline Book and Markable Map only need to be purchased once. You'll be using them each year).

An Extended Money-Back Guarantee

We're so confident that you and your children will love to learn with this package of books for 8th grade, we give you a guarantee unmatched anywhere else in the homeschool world. Take up to a year to use the first half of this package. Read the books, write in the schedule ... even dog-ear the book pages if you want! If you don't completely love it, return it for a full refund of your purchase price. Get full details about the Love to Learn, Love to Teach™ Guarantee here.

Hands-On (Optional)

The OPTIONAL World History II - Lap Book can be added to this package and is scheduled in the Instructor's Guide for your convenience.

*Daily Time Requirements (including your other subjects.)
Child: 4 – 6 hrs; Parent: 2 – 3.5 hrs

Breathe easy with this program you're guaranteed to love.

• If you'd prefer, you can build your own customized 8th Grade package using our SmoothCourse™ curriculum builder tool.
• A Sonlight Homeschool Advisor can help you add resources to use this Sonlight 8th Grade All-Subjects Package with more than one child or answer any questions you have.