Honors Language Arts 8 challenges eighth grade students (ages 13-14) with an advanced middle school language arts curriculum.
Live instructors help students develop writing and critical thinking skills and appreciation of language arts.
Honors LA 8: Research, Presentation, and Public Speaking
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Choose the right level
This course is recommended for students entering Grade 8. We recommend students enroll in Language Arts courses at grade level.
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Curriculum
The 36-week course covers 4 units, with each unit featuring a long-term project that integrates a variety of reading, writing, critical thinking, and grammar skills.
Honors LA 8
- Investigative Journalism: By reading articles by the world's top journalists, students learn to gather and organize facts, conduct interviews with sources, and synthesize the information they've gathered into a magazine-quality investigative article and a live report on their investigation during the AoPS Nightly News.
- Essay Writing: Students study and join the long tradition of the personal essay, articulating not just their belief, but also the experiences that have led them to hold it.
- Documentary: Students build their research skills by becoming documentarians, tracing the historical development of an aspect of the modern world. At the end of the unit, students create a documentary detailing the historical patterns they’ve uncovered.
- Scientific Research: Students master the skills crucial to clear scientific communication, including framing the thought process, guiding an investigation, and articulating complex and abstract concepts to a lay audience. At the end of the unit, students present their findings in the form of a TED Talk, blending hard data with engaging public speaking.
Students must purchase the required books before the start of the course.
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Format
Our instructors hold classes virtually, in a small-sized (10-16 students) videoconferencing classroom.
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Homework and projects
Students should expect to spend about 60-90 minutes on homework every week. Homework will include practicing skills learned in class through short answer questions, long-term writing assignments connected to the unit project, and assigned reading in one of the four quarterly textbooks.
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Drop and refund policies
Visit our tuition page to learn more about our drop and refund policies.
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Schedule
Each course runs for 18 weeks, meeting for one 105-minute lesson per week.
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