What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Sixth-Grade Education. Revised Edition (The Core Knowledge Series)

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

Series: The Core Knowledge Series

Paperback: 391 pages

Publisher: Delta; Revised edition (June 26 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0385337329

ISBN-13: 978-0385337328

Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds