Holy Martyrs School     121 Allison Road, Oreland PA  19075        

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Holy Martyrs 
School 
#1111 (KYW)
 
For busing info only, please keep the following numbers in mind:  Springfield #319
 Abington #301
 Colonial #305
Upper Dublin #311  
Cheltenham #306 

 

 

Eighth Grade Overview

 

ILA

Integrated Language Arts

 

·       Interpretation of Short Stories, Novels, Drama, and Poetry

·          Independent Reading Projects

·          Research Paper and Internet Skills

·         Paragraph and Essay Development

 

 

 

Social Studies

 

·         U.S. History:  Pre-Civil War to the 1960's

·         Reconstruction

·         The Progressive Era and Reformers

·          World Wars

·          Current Events

Math

 

·          Number Systems and Operations

·          Equations and Inequalities

·          Algebra

·          Factoring

·      Problem Solving

·      Graphing

·      Coordinate Plane

 

 

By: N. Holden

 

Religion

 

·          Church History

·          The Mass

·          Styles of Prayer

·          Application of Commandments

·          Christian Identity and Self-Awareness

Science

 

·     Earth's surface

·       Earth's Internal Processes

·        Environment

·        Astronomy

·         Oceanography

·         Geology

Weekly instruction in:  

Art, Music, Library, Physical Education, Spanish, Technology

Band Instruction is available in Grades 4-8 

(provided by Northeastern Music Programs, Inc.)