What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Fifth-grade EducationEric Donald Hirsch Building on themes and topics from earlier volumes in the Core Knowledge Series, some of the things you will find in this volume include stories and speeches: selections from Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Don Quixote, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; American Civilization: progress and problems with industrialization, reformers who worked for rights of women, African-Americans, and the urban poor, and the complexities and compromises of becoming an international power; life sciences: classifying living organisms and life cycles and reproduction of plants and animals; geography: climate zones and time zones and how lakes are formed; physical sciences: combining concepts of science and math such as mass, speed, force, and energy; and world civilizations: European and Native American cultures meet, the European Renaissance, feudal Japan and Russia, the tremendous religious upheavals of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, and the massive political and social shake-up of the French Revolution. |
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... East and Far East , for example , described regions that were near to or far from the cities of London and Paris and the continent of Europe . ( You may be familiar with the Near East if you've read the Geography section of Book Four ...
... East and Far East , for example , described regions that were near to or far from the cities of London and Paris and the continent of Europe . ( You may be familiar with the Near East if you've read the Geography section of Book Four ...
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... eastern coast of Africa into North Africa . As Arabs carried their religion far and wide , they forged bonds between many different peoples in many different regions bordering the Near East . Over time , as more and more people became ...
... eastern coast of Africa into North Africa . As Arabs carried their religion far and wide , they forged bonds between many different peoples in many different regions bordering the Near East . Over time , as more and more people became ...
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... East India Company controlled all trade between the Netherlands and the East Indies . Dutch trading ships traveled as far as Japan and the land that is now Vietnam . The East Indies , especially the port at Java , became an important ...
... East India Company controlled all trade between the Netherlands and the East Indies . Dutch trading ships traveled as far as Japan and the land that is now Vietnam . The East Indies , especially the port at Java , became an important ...
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