The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Your Child Needs to Know

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Eric Donald Hirsch
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 - 306 páginas
From child education expert E. D. Hirsch Jr., the national best-selling author of How to Educate a Citizen, The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy gathers together all of the essential facts that youngsters should have at their fingertips for school success.

The perfect one-stop homework helper and family reference for children cuts through the wealth of information available to highlight terms that a child should be familiar with from the beginning of the first grade through the end of the sixth.

With nearly 3,000 concise definitions, this popular sourcebook makes it easy for children to become literate in mythology, literature, US history, science and technology, and more.

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Maps
vi
To Parents and Teachers
ix
How to Use This Dictionary
xii
Pronunciation System
xiv
Proverbs
1
Idioms
6
English
12
Literature
18
Politics and Economics
135
World History to 1600
144
World History Since 1600
158
United States Geography
169
World Geography
187
Mathematics
214
Physical Sciences
228
Earth Sciences and Weather
240

Mythology
44
Music Art and Architecture
54
The Bible
75
Religion and Philosophy
87
United States History to 1865
99
United States History Since 1865
117
Life Sciences
251
Medicine and the Human Body
261
Technology
276
Illustration Credits
287
Index of Entries
289
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E.D. Hirsch, Jr. is the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the author of Cultural Literacy, The First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, and The Core Knowledge Series. Dr. Hirsch is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is president of the Core Knowledge Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to educational reform.

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