BJU Press Grade 8 Literature

Encourage a lifelong love of literature! This 8th-grade curriculum gives students the reading strategies and skills they need to comprehend, analyze, interpret, and compare a variety of contemporary and classic literary selections---including a full-length study of Irene Hunt's novel Across Five Aprils. Kit includes fourth edition teacher and student textbooks, assessments book, and answer key.

BJU Press’ Grade 8 Making Connections in Literature 4^th Edition engages students with a variety of literary selections that follow the themes of Maturity, Wisdom, Generosity, Freedom, and Nature. In the Student Text, chapters ask Big Questions to guide students towards thinking about key literary features and cultural beliefs. Author backgrounds and biographies, defined vocabulary terms, and Before Reading sections prepare students for the literary passages. During Reading and After Reading sections and Think & Discuss questions assist students in analysis, evaluation, and text comparison. Writing assignments with rubrics and oral presentation provide students with opportunities to grow their ability to comprehend and consider the big ideas and biblical application of literature. A novel study on Across Five Aprils (sold separately) is also part of this course. The Teacher Edition is sold separately. 608 pages, softcover. Grade 8.

BJU Press’ Grade 8 Making Connections in Literature 4^th Edition engages students with a variety of literary selections that follow the themes of Maturity, Wisdom, Generosity, Freedom, and Nature. The 2-volume Teacher Edition provides a scaffolded lesson pathway for teachers to follow as they prepare students to understand complex literary texts.  Chapters include reduced student pages with teaching notes that include supplemental content, lesson plan overview at the beginning of each unit, measurable objectives, answers and suggested answers to During Reading and Think & Discuss questions, multisensory teaching strategies, and more. In addition, a copy of Across Five Aprils is included along with teaching content for the novel study. The Student Text is sold separately. 869 pages in two volumes, spiral bound softcovers. Grade 8.

BJU Press’ Grade 8 Making Connections in Literature 4^th Edition engages students with a variety of literary selections that follow the themes of Maturity, Wisdom, Generosity, Freedom, and Nature. The Assessments book includes 63 reading comprehension quizzes , 5 unit tests, 1 novel assessment, 12 vocabulary tests, and 10 practice tests for reading standardized tests. The Assessments Answer Key is sold separately. 270 pages, softcover. Grade 8.

BJU Press’ Grade 8 Making Connections in Literature 4^th Edition engages students with a variety of literary selections that follow the themes of Maturity, Wisdom, Generosity, Freedom, and Nature. The Assessment Answer Key includes student pages from the Assessment book with overprint answers for all quizzes, unit tests, vocabulary tests, practice tests, and the novel assessment. The Assessments book is sold separately. 270 pages, softcover. Grade 8.