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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... story - telling every time they tell a story of their own . Encouraging them to narrate their own stories carries many benefits , including , of course , practicing their language skills . While children at the fifth - grade level are ...
... story - telling every time they tell a story of their own . Encouraging them to narrate their own stories carries many benefits , including , of course , practicing their language skills . While children at the fifth - grade level are ...
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... story of Icarus and Daedalus , or the story of Demeter and Perse- phone - humans are not the only characters in these stories : there are also many gods and god- desses . The Greek gods , you recall , were in some respects like human ...
... story of Icarus and Daedalus , or the story of Demeter and Perse- phone - humans are not the only characters in these stories : there are also many gods and god- desses . The Greek gods , you recall , were in some respects like human ...
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... story is as adventurous as Mine , ours , yours , his and hers will all fit in the blank . But we can also change " Jane's story " to " her story . " The possessives that come before a noun are a little different from those that stand by ...
... story is as adventurous as Mine , ours , yours , his and hers will all fit in the blank . But we can also change " Jane's story " to " her story . " The possessives that come before a noun are a little different from those that stand by ...
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