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The following subjects are required for eighth grade:
Literature comprises one third of the English requriement for eighth grade (the other parts being grammar and book reports).
Note: You may, or we might, choose different courses from different grade levels if they are more appropriate for your student. CLASS reserves the right to modify course selection based on achievement test scores, course availability, and previous course assignments.
The first course listed will be assigned by CLASS unless you choose an alternate from those shown below. Write any alternate choices selected in the comments section of the enrollment application.
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| Title: Exploring Christian Literature |
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| Subject: Literature |
Course Number: 29695 |
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| Suggested Grade Level: 8th |
| Author: Michael J. McHugh, ed. |
Number of Pages: 264 |
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| Publisher: Christian Liberty Press |
Academic Credit: None* |
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| Copyright: 1997 (3rd edition) |
Elective Fee: None |
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| Prerequisites: None |
| Course Materials: Textbook, answer key, and 8 tests |
| * Half credit if assigned at the high school level |
| Course Description: This course features classic American and English literature in a variety of short stories, biographies, prose, plays, and poems. The text covers such themes as charity and industry, courage and humility, faith, family, justice, and heaven. It includes selections by such authors as Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Tennyson, Edwards, Milton, and Machen. |
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| Title: Of Places Literature |
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| Subject: Literature |
Course Number: 20195 |
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| Suggested Grade Level: 8th |
| Author: Jan Anderson, ed. |
Number of Pages: 535 |
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| Publisher: A Beka Book Publishers |
Academic Credit: None† |
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| Copyright: 1999 (3rd edition) |
Elective Fee: None |
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| Prerequisites: None |
| Course Materials: Textbook, supplemental lessons booklet,* answer key,* and 10 tests* |
* Item published by Christian Liberty Press
† Half credit if assigned at the high school level |
| Course Description: This course provides a thematic study of classic literature, primarily written by English and American authors. The selections of fiction and non-fiction stories and poetry are arranged in units by settings. Locations highlighted include At Home, At School, Throughout America, Around the World, About the Sea, and Upon the Mountains. Featured authors include Christie, Whittier, Frost, Longfellow, Irving, Wesley, Kipling, London, Hawthorne, O. Henry, and Dickinson. A separate booklet of supplementary lessons published by Christian Liberty Press introduces literary terms such as plot and climax, personification, simile and metaphor, rhythm and meter, allusion, rhyme scheme, and apostrophe. |
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