The Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy

Author : Eric Donald Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618226474
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy written by Eric Donald Hirsch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0394758439
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Literacy written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988-04-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 : 9780590047050
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Donald Hirsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3Q/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy written by Eric Donald Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national bestseller, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy has been widely acclaimed for identifying and defining the core body of knowledge that no literate American should be without. Now in this newly revised and updated edition, the authors provide a comprehensive look at cultural literacy for the nineties. New entries reflect suggestions from hundreds of readers. The dictionary takes into account the growing consensus over the specifics of multiculturalism, the political and geographic changes in the world, and the new ideas and terms that flow constantly from scientific research and technological development. Twenty-three sections, each alphabetically arranged, cover every major area of knowledge. Within each section, hundreds of individual entries identify ideas, events, and individuals, explaining their significance in our culture and placing them in context. More than 250 maps, charts, and illustrations provide information that cannot be conveyed by words alone. A complete index enables quick reference to any topic. The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy challenges us to find out more about what we know and helps us make sense of what we read, hear, and learn. It is a "must have" book for every home.

Author : Eric Donald Hirsch (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy written by Eric Donald Hirsch (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Childers
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231072434
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism written by Joseph Childers and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Eric Donald Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618408535
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy written by Eric Donald Hirsch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Diane Zahler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074347578X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Test Your Cultural Literacy IQ written by Diane Zahler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Author : E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 : 0307567214
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books to Build On written by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and published by Delta. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invaluable grade-by-grade guide (kindergarten—sixth) is designed to help parents and teachers select some of the best books for children. Books to Build On recommends: • for kindergartners, lively collections of poetry and stories, such as The Children’s Aesop, and imaginative alphabet books such as Bill Martin, Jr.’s Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Lucy Micklewait’s I Spy: An Alphabet in Art • for first graders, fine books on the fine arts, such as Ann Hayes’s Meet the Orchestra, the hands-on guide My First Music Book, and the thought-provoking Come Look with Me series of art books for children • for second graders, books that open doors to world cultures and history, such as Leonard Everett Fisher’s The Great Wall of China and Marcia Willaims’s humorous Greek Myths for Young Children • for third graders, books that bring to life the wonders of ancient Rome, such as Living in Ancient Rome, and fascinating books about astronomy, such as Seymour Simon’s Our Solar System • for fourth graders, engaging books on history, including Jean Fritz’s Shh! We're Writing the Constitution, and many books on Africa, including the stunningly illustrated story of Sundiata: Lion King of Mali • for fifth graders, a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream that retains much of the original language but condenses the play for reading or performance by young students, and Michael McCurdy’s Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass • for sixth graders, an eloquent retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the well-written American history series, A History of US . . . and many, many more!