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The Core Knowledge Series
Edited by ED Hirsch, Jr.
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What Your Fifth Grader Needs To Know
Paperback
Retail Price $12.99
Our Price $11.00
Fifth graders are full of energy, curiosity, and are capable of great things. Hopefully, yours is reading fluently. He should find What Your Fifth Grader Needs To Know easily readable and interesting. He will learn about many things that he may know something about, but this will help him learn more.
Below is a condensed version of the Table of Contents. It should give you a pretty good idea of all the wonderful information your child will be filled with.
- Language Arts
- Stories and Speeches
- Julius Caesar
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- The Iliad
- The Odyssey
- Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
- and much more
- Introduction to Poetry
- The Tiger
- A Wise Old Owl
- Casey at the Bat
- Jabberwocky
- Battle Hymn of the Republic
- I, Too
- Narcissa
- and much more
- Learning About Language
- Direct Objects
- Indirect Objects
- Linking Verbs
- Personal Pronouns
- Agreement in case
- Agreement in gender
- Agreement in number
- Learning About Literature
- Literal and Figurative Language
- Onomatopoeia and Alliteration
- Pen Names
- Shakespeare
- Sayings and Phrases
- Birthday suit
- Catch forty winks
- Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- and much more (a total of 31)
- Geography, World Civilization, and American Civilization
- Geography of the United States and the World
- The Prime Meridian
- Map Scale
- The Arctic Circle
- The Antarctic Circle
- The Tropics
- and much more
- Introduction to World Civilization
- The Maya, Aztecs, and Incas
- European Exploration and the Clash of Cultures
- The Renaissance in Europe
- Fuedal Japan
- Russia
- The Enlightenment
- The French Revolution
- and much more
- Introduction to American Civilization
- North and South
- Westward Expansion: At What price?
- An Age of Industry and Industrial Age
- The Cuban War for Independence
- and much more
- Fine Arts
- Music
- How Melody Works With Chords
- Rhythm
- Mozart
- Beethoven
- and much more
- Visual Arts
- From Gothic to renaissance
- Brunelleschi's Revolutionary Design
- Paintings Like Windows
- Leonardo's Faded Mural
- The Creation of Adam
- The Taj Mahal
- and much more
- Mathematics
- Whole Numbers
- Decimals
- Division
- Decimal Division
- Fractions
- Measurement
- Plane Figures
- Area
- Ratio, Scale, Percent, Average, Graphs
- Rectangular Prisms and Cubes
- Volume
- Rates and Speed
- Functions and Equations
- and much more
- Natural Sciences
- Life Sciences
- Classifcation
- Cells
- Fungi
- Photosynthesis
- Reproduction
- Flowers
- Human Growth Stages
- and much more
- Physical Sciences
- Mechanical Concepts
- Transferring Heat Energy
- Electricity
- Motion, Engines, and Motors
- and much more
- Stories of Scientists
- Isaac Newton
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- Ernest Just
 
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