Concord Christian School endeavors to give a completely God-centered orientation of life to each student. We strive to help produce the mind of Christ in our students and establish a well-grounded biblical world view.
Academic concepts taught in Eighth Grade include:
Bible
- Evidence for Christianity
- Reliability of Old and New Testaments
- The uniqueness of the Bible
- Evidence for Christ’s claims
- Character of Christ
- Salvation
- Evangelism
Language Arts
- Language Network and Elements of Literature
- Honors or Standard language class
- Write for specific purpose or audience
- Write for critical evaluation
- Read and comprehend a variety of materials and genres of literature
- Use research skills, primary sources, and secondary sources
- Evaluate purpose, audience, and message
- Novel studies: Across Five Aprils and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- Honors additions: A Christmas Carol and National History Day project
Math
- Glencoe Pre-Algebra or Algebra I
- Honors or Standard math class
- Algebraic properties
- Algebraic reasoning
- Using algebra to solve problems
- Real numbers
- Solving linear equations
- Graphing relations and functions
- Using slope
- Algebraic inequalities
- Polynomials (Algebra I only)
- Non-linear functions (Algebra I only)
- Factoring (Algebra I only)
History
- Bob Jones: The American Republic
- Exploration and settlement of the New World
- Wilderness and colonies
- Independence and a new nation
- Establishing the Constitution
- Growth of American nation
- Era of Manifest Destiny
- Divided nation and the Civil War
- Reconstruction
Science
- Bob Jones Physical Science
- Classification and changes in matter
- Chemical and physical changes
- Scientific measurements
- Mechanics and motion
- Force, gravity, and momentum
- Energy
- Simple machines
- Thermodynamics
- Electricity and magnetism