What should your child learn in the sixth grade? How can you help
him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and
more, offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of
parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for
American sixth graders. Featuring sixteen pages of full-color
illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and a thoroughly
updated curriculum, What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know, Revised
Edition, is designed for parents and teachers to enjoy with
children. Hundreds of thousands of children have benefited from the
Core Knowledge Series. This revised edition gives a new generation
of sixth graders the advantage they need to make progress in school
today, and to establish an approach to learning that will last a
lifetime. Discover:
- Favorite Poems--old and new, from Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The
Raven" to Maya Angelou's "Woman Work"
- Literature--from around the world, including Homer's epics the
Iliad and the Odyssey, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and Mark
Twain's The Prince and the Pauper
- Learning About Language--he rules of written English, including
the four kinds of sentences, common English sayings and phrases,
plus an introduction to Greek and Latin roots
- History and Geography--world history from ancient Greece and the
fall of the Roman Empire to the Enlightenment and the French
Revolution; American history of the post--Civil War era, including
the Industrial Revolution, immigration, urbanization, and reform
- Visual Arts--a brief history of art, stretching from the
classical period through the Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic
periods all the way to the age of realism, with full-color
reproductions and discussions of great works by artists such as El
Greco, Rembrandt, and Winslow Homer
- Music--understanding and appreciating music, including musical
notation, chords, and scales--plus biographies of great composers
such as Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin
- Math--challenging lessons, ranging from probability and
statistics, geometry, ratios and proportions to basic pre-algebra
- Science--fascinating discussions of plate tectonics, oceans,
astronomy, the environment, the human body, and the immune
system--plus short biographies of great scientists such as Marie
Curie
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