Tests and exams are more concrete and objective in nature. However, abstract thinking is given attention during the course of the year especially in the area of writing Eighth Grade English Prep English in the eighth grade prep program incorporates language, literature, vocabulary, and composition as an interrelated study for effective speaking and writing skills. The English prep program also places special emphasis on the study of formal grammar as a tool that is necessary in the development of coherent expository paragraphs. English Honors English Eight Honors at Woodward Academy School is an integrated program of vocabulary, literature, and grammar with composition as the integral factor. The eighth grade Academic English class is designed to remediate weak skills and build successful study habits.
Effort is made to hold the class to fifteen or fewer students.
While some of the course content will be the same as that of the prep classes, tests and other methods of evaluation and the pacing of the class may differ. Academic students attend a required test prep tutorial. The focus of the class is on skill building with the ultimate goal of moving students into prep level courses at a future date. This class is designed to give student writers an opportunity to explore and expand writing skills of a more creative nature. Some areas of concentration are various poetic forms, several prose selections, as well as writing for children and submissions to periodicals.