2023 Eighth-Grade Curriculum Kit

We wanted our Curriculum Handbook to be extremely simple, easy to use, and promote independent study as early as possible. Our guides are designed to get you up and running today without being overwhelming, boring, or confusing.

This innovative grammar program will take your student from the fundamental definition of a noun through a detailed analysis of complex sentence structure. Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind will give him the skills he will need for articulate writing and confident speech.

Mosdos Press Literature is a complete literature program that reinforces the ideals of courage, honesty, loyalty, and compassion. Readings are from both classic and contemporary works. Mosdos Press Literature includes a beautifully illustrated student reader with selections of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, the novella; an engaging student activity workbook; and a detailed and well-organized teacher’s edition. Gold, the textbook for eighth grade, offers increasingly complex literature and a curriculum that prepares your student for high school. The lessons emphasize discussion and hone in on cultivating critical reasoning skills.

In Write Your Own Scripts, your student will strengthen creative writing skills by developing characters, scenes, settings, special effects, dialogue, and more. 

Shakespeare is a literary icon, and references to his works are everywhere. Graphic Shakespeare is the easier way to expose your child to Shakespeare. Full-color artwork brings the scenes to life, while speech bubbles present key excerpts from the original dialogue. 

Added captions in modern English make the stories easier to follow, plus a glossary at the foot of each page helps with any challenging vocabulary.

Children with a solid grasp of word roots will have better reading comprehension skills, because they have the ability to decode words. Word Roots teaches the meanings of Latin and Greek prefixes, roots, and suffixes of words commonly used in English.

Building Thinking Skills books are among our favorites because of their tremendous scope. This volume emphasizes figural problems for older students.

The Mystery of History Volume II includes everything you need for learning history from the early Church through the Middle Ages. Written in a conversational style, The Mystery of History II reader includes a download code for the companion guide with pretests, activities, research projects, and more.

Friendly Physical Science helps your young teen explore and make sense of how things work. Using straightforward narration and colorful diagrams and photos, Friendly Physical Science makes even complex ideas understandable.

A Year in My Life is a mashup of a creative writing journal and a doodle book with tons of kid appeal. This beautifully illustrated journal invites your child to create a commemorative keepsake from a year in his life. Fill in 365 quirky idea starters and unique prompts, one for every day of the year.

The Test Prep series offers students the essential groundwork needed to prepare for standardized tests. Based on subject areas covered by most state standardized tests, these colorful, inviting workbooks provide a good sampling of all the skills required of each grade level.