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 8th grade homeschool 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 8th grade homeschool curriculum 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, 4-Day.
Science
Includes Science H: Physical Science (4-Day).
The included Science H books provide a well-rounded introduction to physics, energy, electrical concepts and more. Each book contributes to providing a layered approach to physics by introducing broad concepts, applying them to human abilities with practical applications. Students will gain a deeper, interconnected understanding of physical science and how both the natural world and human performance is affected.
Super Simple Physics offers a broad introduction to key physics principles, including motion, forces, energy, waves, electricity and magnetism and presents them in a clear and visually engaging way. In What's Your Potential students explore the science behind their own physical and mental capabilities and makes physics more relatable by connecting it to everyday activities and personal potential.
Weekly science experiments tie directly to the week’s reading material for a more linear progression from reading to doing. Thanks to Discover & Do: Science Experiments, your end-of-week experiments reinforce and apply the concepts studied in the days previous so you can plainly see your child’s developing mastery of particular science concepts.
But the learning doesn't stop there! Your students will then make connections to broader scientific ideas and go further with fun ways to apply and appreciate what they have discovered. The Science H package also includes the Discover & Do: Level H Science Experiment Videos. Included in digital-only format, these highly entertaining videos reenact all the 36 experiments your students will perform, and reinforce the concepts observed during the experiment. Filled with fascinating activities and peppered with humor, the new Discover & Do Videos bring science to life!
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.
Required Resources for this 8th Grade Homeschool Curriculum
This package includes a 3" Binder with Tabs to organize your Instructor’s Guides but does not include all Required Resources. If you are new to Sonlight or don't already own the necessary Required Resources, be sure to select the option that includes these essential resources to make your learning extra rich. You'll use Sonlight's Timeline Book and Markable Map throughout your Sonlight career.
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 Teachâ„¢ 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 for this 8th Grade Homeschool Curriculum (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 homeschool curriculum package here.
- 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.
