The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Title | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Donald Hirsch |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 944 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780618226474 |
Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.
A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Title | A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Donald Hirsch |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780395823521 |
Presents an outline of the knowledge that should be acquired by the end of sixth grade
The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Title | The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Donald Hirsch |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780618408535 |
Fully updated for the twenty-first century, The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy lists essential facts in twenty-one subject areas to promote successful learning in kids. Child education expert E. D. Hirsch Jr. cuts through the wealth of information available today to highlight terms that a child should be familiar with by the end of sixth grade. With nearly 3,000 concise definitions and including 250 new entries (like Harry Potter, centaurs, northern lights, and World Series), this popular sourcebook makes it easy for children to become literate in mythology, literature, U.S. history, science and technology, and more.
A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Title | A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN | 9780590047050 |
Cultural Literacy
Title | Cultural Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | E.D. Hirsch, Jr. |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 1988-04-12 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0394758439 |
A must-read for parents and teachers, this major bestseller reveals how cultural literacy is the hidden key to effective education and presents 5000 facts that every literate American should know. In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought. An important work that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is a required reading for anyone concerned with our future as a literate nation.
Test Your Cultural Literacy IQ
Title | Test Your Cultural Literacy IQ PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Zahler |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 451 |
Release | 2003-07 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 074347578X |
A practical handbook for students and trivia buffs utilizes a host of multiple-choice questions to test readers' knowledge of American and world history, geography, science, art and architecture, music, literature, myth and religion, quotations, current events, and other topics. Reprint.
The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Title | The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | E. D. Hirsch |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2004-10-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781417739592 |
Provides an outline of the knowledge that should be acquired by the end of sixth grade in twenty-one subject areas.