Descriere: 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
| Editura: Delta | Anul aparitiei: 2007 | ISBN: 9780385337328 | Numar de pagini: 391 | Categorie: Education
Samuel G. Freedman
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School
Small Victories is Samuel Freedman's remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with walls--old, urban, overcrowded, and overwhelmingly minority. Seaward Park High School, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has been ranked among the worst 10 percent of high schools in the state--yet 92 percent of its graduates go on to higher education. The reason is dedicated teachers, one of whom, English instructor Jessica Siegel, is the subject of Freedman's unforgettably dramatic humanization of the education crisis. Following Siegel through the 1987-88 academic year, Freedman not only saw a master at work but learned from the inside just how a school functions against impossible odds. Small Victories alternates Jessica's experiences with those of others at Seaward Park, and as we cone to know intimately a number of the astonishing students and staff, Small Victories reveals itself as a book that has the power to change the way we see our world.
Romalda Bishop Spalding, Mary Elizabeth North, Mary E. North
This classic guide is a total language arts approach that for over 40 years has helped millions of children learn to spell, write, and read. Using all their senses, children learn symbols that represent fundamental speech sounds and how these combine to form words.