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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... ships made three journeys that formed the sides of a triangle . Ships would leave Europe stocked with goods to exchange for slaves in Africa . From Africa , loaded with slaves , the ships would cross the Atlantic to the colonies in the ...
... ships made three journeys that formed the sides of a triangle . Ships would leave Europe stocked with goods to exchange for slaves in Africa . From Africa , loaded with slaves , the ships would cross the Atlantic to the colonies in the ...
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... ships to pirate the Spanish ships and claim their booty for England . In the 1580s , Spain , which was Catholic , entered a war with the Netherlands , which was Protestant . Elizabeth decided to support the Dutch . King Philip II of ...
... ships to pirate the Spanish ships and claim their booty for England . In the 1580s , Spain , which was Catholic , entered a war with the Netherlands , which was Protestant . Elizabeth decided to support the Dutch . King Philip II of ...
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... ships had orders to attack Spanish ships wherever they found them . As a result , the first battle occurred far from Cuba . Before the war , the American Navy already had some ships stationed in the western Pacific Ocean . On May 1 ...
... ships had orders to attack Spanish ships wherever they found them . As a result , the first battle occurred far from Cuba . Before the war , the American Navy already had some ships stationed in the western Pacific Ocean . On May 1 ...
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