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Our African, Asian, and European backgrounds
Exploration and discovery
Growth and development of the United States
- Colonial life
- Struggle for independence
- U. S. Constitution and Bill of Rights
- Westward movement in America
- American Civil War
- Reconstruction
- U. S. as a world power |
Meaning of democracy
Our American culture
U. S. political system
U. S. economic system
U. S. government
U. S. geography
Advanced map and globe skills
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| Science |
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Scientific method
Scientific nomenclature
Scientific measurement
Ecology and environment
Conservation
Composition of the earth
Ocean, atmosphere
Weather
Water and its uses
Weathering and erosion
Recycling of resources
Magnetism and electricity
Heat and light
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Forces in liquids and gases
Wave, mechanical, electrical, and nuclear energy
The earth's movement
Newton's three laws of motion
Machines
The atom
Periodic table of elements
Compounds and mixtures
Chemical changes
Astronomy
The universe and Milky Way
Space and space travel
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| Language
Arts |
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Independent reading
Literal, inferential, and evaluative reading skills
Literary terms
Novel, short story, narrative poetry
Nonfiction
Biographies of great Americans
American poets and storytellers
Creative dramatics
Listening and speech activities
Advanced dictionary work
Extended vocabulary
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Figures of speech
Spelling
Infinitive, participle, gerund, predicate nominative, predicate adjective,
direct and indirect object
Kinds of sentences and their parts
Functions of sentence elements
Writing simple business letters
Report-writing skills
Improving skills in using basic reference sources
Inductive and deductive reasoning
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| Health
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Grooming
Functions of the body
The body's utilization of food
Types and functions of foods
Environmental hazards
Community sanitation and health
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Health care services
Sexually transmitted diseases
Accident prevention, safety, and first aid
Mental hygiene
Substance abuse
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| Mathematics |
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Maintaining skills in fundamental operations
Factoring and products
Sets and simple sentences
Numeration systems
Using fractions and decimals
Ratio, proportion, and percent
Equalities and inequalities
Simple formulas and equations
Graphing an equation
Powers and roots of rational numbers
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Polynomials
Metric and non metric geometry
Pythagorean Theorem
Scale drawing
Right-triangle trigonometry
Customary and metric measurement
Permutations
Probability statistics
Statistical terms
Mathematics of insurance, banking, and taxes
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