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Title What your sixth grader needs to know : fundamentals of a good sixth-grade education / edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  372.242 Hir    ---  Available
Edition Rev. ed., Delta trade pbk. ed.
Description xxiv, 391 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Series The core knowledge series
Note Originially published: New York : Doubleday, 2006.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-364) and index.
Contents English. Poetry ; Structure in poetry ; Myths, stories, and plays ; Grammar and usage ; Sayings and phrases -- History and geography. World geography ; Judaism and Christianity ; Ancient Greece ; Ancient Rome ; The enlightenment ; The French revolution ; Romanticism ; Industrialism, capitalism, socialism ; Latin American independence ; Immigration to the United States ; Industrialization and urbanization ; Reform -- Visual arts. Classical art ; Gothic art ; The renaissance ; Baroque art ; Rococo art ; Neoclassical art ; Romantic art ; Realism -- Music. Elements of music ; Classical music -- Mathematics. Numbers and number sense ; Computation ; Ratio, proportion, and percent ; Measurement ; Geometry ; Probability and statistics ; Pre-algebra -- Science. Plate tectonics ; Oceans ; Astronomy ; Energy, heat, and energy transfer ; The human body ; Science biographies.
Subject Sixth grade (Education) -- Curricula -- United States.
Curriculum planning -- United States.
Added Author Hirsch, E. D. (Eric Donald), 1928-
ISBN 9780385337328 (pbk.)
0385337329 (pbk.)

 
    
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