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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... Spain still possessed in the Western Hemi- sphere . But most of Cuba's sugar and tobacco went to the United States , not Spain . In fact , many Americans wanted Cuba to belong to the United States . During the 1800s the United States ...
... Spain still possessed in the Western Hemi- sphere . But most of Cuba's sugar and tobacco went to the United States , not Spain . In fact , many Americans wanted Cuba to belong to the United States . During the 1800s the United States ...
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... Spain . Spain brought in more and more soldiers , but the insurrectos kept fighting . News of the fighting in Cuba reached Americans through the news- papers . Each newspaper tried to outdo the others to attract more readers . Some ...
... Spain . Spain brought in more and more soldiers , but the insurrectos kept fighting . News of the fighting in Cuba reached Americans through the news- papers . Each newspaper tried to outdo the others to attract more readers . Some ...
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... Spain . The United States had an immediate advantage over Spain : our navy . The American Navy was larger and had more modern equipment than the Spanish Navy . When war was declared , U.S. Navy ships had orders to attack Spanish ships ...
... Spain . The United States had an immediate advantage over Spain : our navy . The American Navy was larger and had more modern equipment than the Spanish Navy . When war was declared , U.S. Navy ships had orders to attack Spanish ships ...
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