Book Description
Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.
Author : Eric Donald Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618226474
Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.
Author : E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 1988-04-12
Category : 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.
Author : Diane Zahler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : 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.
Author : Eric Donald Hirsch
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780395823521
Presents an outline of the knowledge that should be acquired by the end of sixth grade
Author : Eric Donald Hirsch
Publisher :
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Civilization
ISBN :
Author : Eric Donald Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2004
Category : 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.
Author : E. D. Hirsch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Civilization
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Childers
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231072434
More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics.
Author : The New York Times
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 142993140X
A handy, smaller, and more focused version of our popular New York Times knowledge books—organized by weekends and topic Fell asleep during history class in high school when World War II was covered? Learned the table of elements at one time but have forgotten it since? Always wondered who really invented the World Wide Web? Here is the book for you, with all the answers you've been looking for: The New York Times Presents Smarter by Sunday is based on the premise that there is a recognizable group of topics in history, literature, science, art, religion, philosophy, politics, and music that educated people should be familiar with today. Over 100 of these have been identified and arranged in a way that they can be studied over a year's time by spending two hours on a topic every weekend.
Author : Eric Donald Hirsch (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Civilization
ISBN :