School Time -- Eighth Grade Curriculum Choices

My oldest is in eighth grade this year. Time flies! We are ending our sixth week of school, and this is shaping up to be a challenging year for him. The work is hard enough that he can't breeze through it without paying attention. I figure this will be good practice for high school and beyond.

So what is he studying this year?

• Algebra 1 with Kinetic Books
• Physical Science from Derek Owens
• Literature from Kolbe Academy
• Poetry with The Secret Code of Poetry
• Grammar from Killgallon's Middle School Grammar
• Writing with Writing with Skill
• Latin from Latin Alive!
• Early Modern history put together by me using History Odyssey as a base and including several books like A Light to the Nations, 2.
• Logic with The Art of Argument
• Religion with Christian Studies from Memoria Press and a study of YouCat put together by some priests we know.
• Geography from Memoria Press

He also is taking piano, and we're hitting some art history watching Sister Wendy.