Product Description
The bestselling author of Cultural Literacy continues his well-received series of books for parents, children, and teachers with a volume designed to supplement a fifth-grade education. This reference contains excerpts from Tom Sawyer and Don Quixote, covers animal and plant development and reproduction, the art and history of the Renaissance, the Civil War, and more. Photos & illustrations.

Building on themes and topics from earlier volumes in the Core Knowledge Series, some of the things you will find in this volume include stories and speeches: selections from Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Don Quixote, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; American Civilization: progress and problems with industrialization, reformers who worked for rights of women, African-Americans, and the urban poor, and the complexities and compromises of becoming an international power; life sciences: classifying living organisms and life cycles and reproduction of plants and animals; geography: climate zones and time zones and how lakes are formed; physical sciences: combining concepts of science and math such as mass, speed, force, and energy; and world civilization

 

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