WHAT YOUR SIXTH GRADER

　What should your child learn in the sixth grade? How canyou help him or her at home? This book answers these importantquestions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge thatthousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreedupon for American sixth graders. Featuring sixteen pages offull-color illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and athoroughly updated curriculum, What Your Sixth Grader Needs toKnow, Revised Edition, is designed for parents and teachers toenjoy with children. Hundreds of thousands of children havebenefited from the Core Knowledge Series. This revised editiongives a new generation of sixth graders the advantage they need tomake progress in school today, and to establish an approach tolearning that will last a lifetime. Discover:
　　? Favorite Poems—old and new, from Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “TheRaven” to Maya Angelou’s “Woman Work”
　　? Literature—from around the world, including Homer’s epics theIliad and the Odyssey, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and MarkTwain’s The Prince and the Pauper
　　? Learning About Language—he rules of written English, includingthe 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 thefall of the Roman Empire to the Enlightenment and the FrenchRevolution; American history of the post—Civil War era, includingthe Industrial Revolution, immigration, urbanization, andreform
　　? Visual Arts—a brief history of art, stretching from theclassical period through the Renaissance, Baroque, and Romanticperiods all the way to the age of realism, with full-colorreproductions and discussions of great works by artists such as ElGreco, Rembrandt, and Winslow Homer
　　? Music—understanding and appreciating music, including musicalnotation, chords, and scales—plus biographies of great composerssuch as Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin
　　? Math—challenging lessons, ranging from probability andstatistics, geometry, ratios and proportions to basicpre-algebra
　　? Science—fascinating discussions of plate tectonics, oceans,astronomy, the environment, the human body, and the immunesystem—plus short biographies of great scientists such as MarieCurie