Core Knowledge at a Glance: Major Topic Headings, 6–8

  Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade
Language Art/English
  1. Writing, Grammar, and Usage
  2. Poetry
  3. Fiction and Drama (Stories; Shakespeare; Classical Myths)
  4. Sayings and Phrases
  1. Writing, Grammar, and Usage
  2. Poetry
  3. Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama
  4. Foreign Phrases Commonly Used in English
  1. Writing, Grammar, and Usage
  2. Poetry
  3. Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama
  4. Foreign Phrases Commonly Used in English
History and Geography

World

  1. World Geography (Spatial Sense; Deserts)
  2. Lasting Ideas from Ancient Civilizations (Judaism, Christianity; Greece and Rome)
  3. Enlightenment
  4. French Revolution
  5. Romanticism
  6. Industrialism, Capitalism, and Socialism
  7. Latin American Independence Movements

American

  1. Immigration, Industrialization, and Urbanization
  2. Reform 

World

  1. America Becomes a World Power
  2. World War I, “The Great War”
  3. Russian Revolution
  4. America from the Twenties to the New Deal
  5. World War II
  6. Geography of the United States

World

  1. Decline of European Colonialism
  2. Cold War
  3. Civil Rights Movement
  4. Vietnam War and the Rose of Social Activism
  5. Middle East and Oil Politics
  6. End of the Cold War: Expansion of Democracy and Continuing Challenges
  7. Civics: The Constitution — Principles and Structure of American Democracy
  8. Geography of Canada and Mexico
Visual Arts
  1. Art History: Periods and Schools (Classical; Gothic; Renaissance; Baroque; Rococo; Neoclassical; Romantic; Realism)
  1. Art History: Periods and Schools (Impressionism; Post-Impressionism; Expressionism and Abstraction; Modern American Painting)
  1. Art History: Periods and Schools (Painting Since World War
    II; Photography; 20th-Century Sculpture)
  2. Architecture Since the Industrial Revolution
Music
  1. Elements of Music
  2. Classical Music: From Baroque to Romantic (Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann)
  1. Elements of Music
  2. Classical Music (Romantics and Nationalists (Brahms, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Dvorak, Grieg, Tchaikovsky)
  3. American Musical Traditions (Blues and Jazz)
  1. Elements of Music
  2. Non-Western Music
  3. Classical Music: Nationalists and Moderns (Sibelius, Bartok, Rodrigo, Copland, Debussy, Stravinsky)
  4. Vocal Music (Opera; American Musical Theater)
Mathematics
  1. Numbers and Number Sense
  2. Ratio and Percent
  3. Computation
  4. Measurement
  5. Geometry
  6. Probability and Statistics
  7. Pre-Algebra
  1. Pre-Algebra (Properties of the Real Numbers; Polynomial Arithmetic; Equivalent Equations and Inequalities; Integer Exponents)
  2. Geometry (Three-Dimensional Objects; Angle Pairs; Triangles; Measurement)
  3. Probability and Statistics
  1. Algebra (Properties of the Real Numbers; Relations, Functions, and Graphs; Linear Equations and Functions; Arithmetic of Rational Expression; Quadratic Equations and Functions)
  2. Geometry (Analytic Geometry; Introduction to Trigonometry; Triangles and Proofs)
Science
  1. Plate Tectonics
  2. Oceans
  3. Astronomy: Gravity, Stars, and Galaxies
  4. Energy, Heat, and Energy Transfer
  5. Human Body (Lymphatic an Immune Systems)
  6. Science Biographies
  1. Atomic Structure
  2. Chemical Bonds and Reactions
  3. Cell Division and Genetics
  4. History of the Earth and Life Forms
  5. Evolution
  6. Science Biographies
  1. Physics
  2. Electricity and Magnetism
  3. Electromagnetic Radiation and Light
  4. Sound Waves
  5. Chemistry of Food and Respiration
  6. Science Biographies

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