Product Description

Since E. D. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge Series was launched in 1991, hundreds of thousands of students have benefited from the books’ effective and delightful treatments of essential knowledge for each grade. With 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, reflects the Core Knowledge Foundation’s ongoing commitment to providing a solid educational foundation for today’s elementary and middle school students.

What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know, Revised Edition, includes poems by Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, and Maya Angelou. It introduces children to the Iliad and the Odyssey and to sayings such as “once bitten, twice shy.” History and geography topics include deserts, ancient Greece and Rome, Judaism and Christianity, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. The Visual Arts chapter sketches the history of art, with more than twenty full-color illustrations, while the music section profiles notable composers like Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. A clear overview of sixth-grade math concepts is followed by accessible, easy-to-follow science topics, including plate tectonics and astronomy.

What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know is for all parents concerned about their children’s education. The perfect supplement to classroom education, it gives parents specific and effective guidance in helping their children gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed at school and in society.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #815749 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-26
• Released on: 2006-09-26
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 9.40" h x 1.30" w x 7.40" l, 2.53 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

Review
“A new vision for the education of America is being tested in Florida—and it works.”
—Life magazine

“I wanted to take a moment and thank you for the knowledge I am able to give my children through your series. They absorb the information like sponges and can’t get enough of it. It is clear to me that children have the capability to learn so much more than is expected of them in school.”
—A parent, Florida

“Core Knowledge has increased the enthusiasm and commitment of our teachers and our rising standardized test scores show that the program is effective.”
—Gina M. McKinnon, PDC K–6, Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, Malden, Massachusetts

“We credit Core Knowledge for the improved achievement levels of our socioeconomically disadvantaged students.”
—Joan Jamieson, Principal, Santa Barbara Community Academy, Santa Barbara, California

About the Author

e. d. hirsch, jr., is a professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and the author of The Schools We Need, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, and the best-selling Cultural Literacy. He is chairman of the board at the Core Knowledge Foundation and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.