Coursebook Overview
In this course students explore issues affecting their community and region and examine national issues through the lens of historic and current events. They have the opportunity to learn how to support argumentation with reasoning and evidence by studying landmark cases of the United States Supreme Court and practice civic debate by arguing for and against issues affecting their own communities.
Students develop an understanding of social and political issues through research reflection discussion and practical activities such as community service projects and interviewing local community leaders. Students gain skills in rhetoric and debate critical thinking expository and persuasive writing and project management as well as experience in evaluating the validity of a claim or source and differentiating between fact and opinion. (Note: While this course is written for students in the United States it can easily be adapted for residents of other countries.)
View samples of our 8th grade curriculum or read a review of our 8th grade Civics course on howtohomeschool.com.
Additional Materials Required for Civics
The following items are needed to complete 8th Grade Civics:
Product Details
- Publisher: Oak Meadow Inc.
- Version date: 2024
- Pages: 280
- Binding: Spiral bound
- Product dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches
- Item weight: 1.60 lbs
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Civics 8th Gradw
I think the messages and lessons are great and important for kids to learn. The readings are good and the work assignments feel productive in a way that reinforces the readings and not like busy work just to occupy them. The only thing I wish is that the teacher guide came with page numbers for the student book readings so I don’t have to flip back and forth between two books to create lesson plans. It would also be nice if there was a suggested timeline or year-long at-a-glance weekly plan in any kind of format that could be tweaked depending on how frequently each family works on the subject.
