Eighth grade students continue to improve their ability to use proper sentence structure and the proper use of action verbs, state of being verbs, linking verbs, and verb tenses. Grammar, spelling, and work presentation skills are also part of eighth grade studies. The students read and study ballads, lyrics, epics, elegies, odes, and sonnets. They learn how to prepare friendly and business letters. Eighth grade students learn the meaning of consumer documents and problem solving with consumer materials. Students learn to prepare, practice, and present speeches using visual aids. They learn beginning persuasive writing, arguments and counterarguments, and write a persuasive composition. Set includes Starline Press English 8 Student Books 801-812 and Teacher Score Keys. Order the complete set and save.
The Starline Solution (TSS) is a character-based, individualized curriculum, designed to allow each student to progress at his or her own pace, which may vary from subject to subject. TSS curriculum is designed to benefit each student individually.
The Starline Solution (TSS) is an interpretation of the principals of Personalized Systems of Instruction. TSS is a three part system of learning. • Part one is the curriculum – learning that is divided up into bite-sized pieces. • Part two is the system of delivery, a process that insures learning is happening through a self-paced, monitored system. • Part three is the motivational plan that partners all participants in the success of the student.
The Starline Solution is the students’ annual curriculum divided up into self-directed, bite-sized Learning Units to be used in a classroom supervised by a teacher (whether this is a traditional teacher or home school teacher). Each student will complete the Units at his or her own rate of learning. This means that students will be working on different Units and completing them at different times. This allows the teacher time to work individually with students on problem or enrichment areas.
