JellyMan's 8th Grade Homeschool Plan

Math

Saxon Algebra 2

Grammar/Composition

• Rod & Staff English 8
• Classical Writing Poetry for Beginners 
• Classical Writing Diogenes: Maxim

Foreign Language

• Henle Latin 1 (units 8-14)
• Elementary Greek 2

History

Famous Men of Modern Times
Story of the World Volume 4
The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

A Short History of the World; J. M. Roberts

Science

• Nature study
• Science Matters; Robert M. Hazen and James Trefil

Literature

How to Read a Book; Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren (all year)

1st Quarter:

• Plains Indian Mythology; Alice Marriot and Carol K. Rachlin
• The Scarlet Letter; Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (never mind - he's already read it)

2nd Quarter:

• "Self-Reliance"; Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Walden; Henry David Thoreau
• Civil Disobedience; Henry David Thoreau

3rd Quarter:

• The Last of the Mohicans; James Fenimore Cooper
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Mark Twain
• To Kill a Mockingbird; Harper Lee

4th Quarter:

• "Paul Revere's Ride"; Walt Whitman
• "Young Goodman Brown"; Nathaniel Hawthorne
• "The Fall of the House of Usher"; Edgar Allen Poe
• "O Captain! My Captain!"; Walt Whitman
• "The Lottery"; Shirley Jackson
• "To Build a Fire"; Jack London
• "The Gift of the Magi"; O. Henry
• "Hiawatha"; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Logic

Traditional Logic 2

Christian Studies

• King James Version Bible (all year)
• Lingua Angelica (all year)

1st Quarter:

• The Abolition of Man; C. S. Lewis

2nd Quarter:

• Mere Christianity; C. S. Lewis

3rd Quarter:

• Socrates Meets Jesus; Peter Kreeft

4th Quarter:

• The Handbook of Christian Apologetics; Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli

Fine Arts

Drama (lessons, productions, sets, crew)
Piano
Art History (Sister Wendy books/videos)
Tap dancing 

Comments

[MNKristy]

Wow...wait until I post my kid's curriculum for next year....the boys both have Saxon Math in common (although my guy is just in Algebra I) but that is about all that is in common. You just amaze me. I am in awe.

[Melanie]

Thanks, Kristy, but you would not say that if you knew how easy I have it with JellyMan. He does math, foreign language and logic without any real involvement from me, other than discussing the interesting bits over lunch. (I work through all of his books ahead of time so that I'll be able to help him if needed, but I hardly ever have to do more than ask him a few pointed questions to get him back on track.) He absolutely loves to read, and he enjoys talking about books - I never have to prompt him with tedious comprehension questions. He comes and chats with me on his own. I don't deserve your amazement - it's all him.

And I am feeling so insecure about science. I don't want to talk about science. I might start crying.

[Tressa]

Looks like some serious study for the both of them. I say we talk science. haha Just kidding. You are further along them I am in the planning. I need to get my act together.

[Melanie]

Tressa, I knew you'd want to talk science! Leave me alone! LOL

Oh, and don't get me started on history. I planned twenty different courses and then just went with the easiest one. He could do do more, but I'm not sure what benefit would be at this point other than my being able to hold my head up high while standing around the homeschool mom water cooler. ;-P