Grammar
Latin (Henle First Year, Units 1–8)
Students continue Henle First Year Latin, working through Units 1–8 across the year to build vocabulary, forms, and translation fluency.
Challenge B
Middle School · Grades 7–8
Curriculum by strand
Exposition & Composition
Writing & Literature
Students keep developing the persuasive essay with The Lost Tools of Writing while reading five novels and a short-story anthology across the year.
Reading list
Debate
The American Experience
Students study America's founding through The American Experience Storybook in the first semester, then prepare and argue a mock trial in the second.
Research
Science: Astronomy, Origins & Chemistry
A year of science in three parts: the history of astronomy, a study of origins with Defeating Darwinism, and the grammar of chemistry with Discovering Atomos.
Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds
Book
Grade 8
Discovering Atomos: A Grammatical Introduction to Atomic Processes in Chemistry
Book
Grade 8
Recommended
The Astronomy Book
Book
Grades 6-12
Recommended
The Story of Astronomy
Book
Grades 6-12
Recommended
Eyewitness Astronomy
Book
Grades 6-12
Astronomy has no single required text — students choose from recommended references.
Reasoning
Mathematics
Challenge B sets no required math text — any math program may be used at home.
Recommended
The Math Map: Monomials
Book
Grade 8
CC recommends its own Math Map (Monomials); any math program may be used at home.
Rhetoric
Formal Logic
Students move into formal logic, learning to identify and name fallacies with Reasoning Together: Fallacies and Marvelous to Behold.
