[Core Knowledge 01] • What Your Second Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated) by Hirsch-Jr., E.D. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgments Dedication A Note to Teachers Contents General Introduction to the Core Knowledge Series I. Language and Literature

Reading, Writing, and Your Second Grader: A Note to Parents

Suggested Resources for Parents and Children

Literature

Introduction

Poetry

Bed in Summer Buffalo Dusk Caterpillars Bee! I’m Expecting You! Hurt No Living Thing Discovery Harriet Tubman Lincoln The Night Before Christmas Something Told the Wild Geese Rudolph Is Tired of the City Smart Who Has Seen the Wind Windy Nights There Was an Old Man with a Beard There Is a Young Lady, Whose Nose The Blind Men and the Elephant

Stories

The Fisherman and His Wife Talk The Emperor’s New Clothes How Iktomi Lost His Eyes The Magic Paintbrush A Christmas Carol “Before Breakfast” (From Charlotte’s Web) How the Camel Got His Hump El Pajaro Cu Beauty and the Beast The Tongue-Cut Sparrow The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal How Wendy Met Peter Pan

American Tall Tales

Pecos Bill John Henry Paul Bunyan

Myths from Ancient Greece

Heroes and Monsters, Gods and Goddesses Gods of Nature and Mythical Creatures Prometheus Brings Fire, Pandora Brings Woe Oedipus and the Sphinx Theseus and the Minotaur Daedalus and Icarus Arachne the Weaver Swift-Footed Atalanta Demeter and Persephone The Labors of Hercules

Learning About Language

Grammar Sentences Two Rules for Writing Sentences Nouns Name a Person, Place, or Thing Singular and Plural Nouns Verbs: Action Words Verbs: Past and Present Adjectives Describe Things More About Words: Antonyms and Synonyms Contractions Abbreviations Using Capital Letters

Familiar Phrases

Back to the drawing board. Better late than never. Cold feet. Don’t cry over spilled milk. Don’t (or you can’t) judge a book by its cover. Easier said than done. Eaten out of house and home. Get a taste of your own medicine. Two heads are better than one. In hot water. Keep your fingers crossed. Practice what you preach. Get up on the wrong side of the bed. Turn over a new leaf. Where there’s a will there’s a way. You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

II. History and Geography

Introduction World History and Geography

Geography: A Quick Review

Settle Down! Making Laws

Early Asian Civilizations

The Indus Valley Civilization Along the Ganges Hinduism

The Holy Books of Hinduism The Tale of Rama and Sita Diwali: The Festival of Lights

Buddha: The Enlightened One King Asoka: From War to Peace China Confucius

Observing the Master

The Great Wall of China An Important Invention Smooth as Silk Chinese New Year

Modern Japan

Let’s Visit Japan

Ancient Greek Civilization

Birthplace of the Olympics A Civilization of City-States Athens: Birthplace of Democracy Rough, Tough Sparta The Persian Wars Marathon Thermopylae Great Thinkers in Athens Alexander the Great The Gordian Knot What Lies Beyond?

American History and Geography

A Quick Look Back

The Constitution

Democracy: A Big Challenge James Madison: Father of the Constitution

The War of 1812

Trouble on the High Seas The War Begins Dolley Madison Oh, Say, Can You See … The Battle After the War

Westward Expansion

Settlers Head West Boats and Canals The Iron Horse Wagons West Moving West Women’s Work The Oregon Trail West to California! The Pony Express The Transcontinental Railroad Already There: The American Indians Forced from Their Lands Indians of the Plains Only a Matter of Time

The Civil War

A Nation Divided Against Itself Slavery in America Stop Slavery or Let It Spread? Another Kind of Railroad Abraham Lincoln: A Man for the Union Yankees Against Rebels, Grant Versus Lee Songs of the North and South Clara Barton The Emancipation Proclamation

Immigration and Citizenship

A Nation of Immigrants Why Did Immigrants Come to America? A Land of Opportunity? An Immigrant’s Story Becoming a Citizen

Civil Rights: Fighting for a Cause

All Men Are Created Equal Susan B. Anthony and Votes for Women Eleanor Roosevelt Mary McLeod Bethune Jackie Robinson Rosa Parks Martin Luther King, Jr. Cesar Chavez

Geography of the Americas

The Geography of the United States Today Central America and the Caribbean South America

Suggested Resources

III. Visual Arts

Introduction Lines in Art Taking a Line for a Walk Lines and Movement Looking at Sculptures Looking at Landscapes Animals, Real and Imagined Abstract Art Architecture: The Art of Designing Buildings Learning from the Ancient Greeks A Building with Curves A Beautiful Castle A Modern Museum Suggested Resources

IV. Music

Introduction Many Kinds of Music

Patriotic Music Folk Music Classical Music

Meet Some Great Composers Families of Instruments: A Closer Look

The String Family The Percussion Family Keyboard Instruments Bach at the Keyboard Writing Music Down Follow the Notes Pitch: High and Low A Musical Scale Do-Re-Mi

Some Songs for Second Grade

Clementine Old Dan Tucker Home on the Range Goodbye, Old Paint Buffalo Gals Casey Jones

Suggested Resources

V. Mathematics

Introduction Suggested Resources Working with Numbers to 100

Skip-Counting Some Special Math Words Even and Odd Numbers Between, One More, and One Less Counting with a Tally Using Graphs Writing Numbers as Words Reading a Number Line Review: Addition Facts to 12 Review: Subtraction Facts from Numbers to 12 Addition Facts with Sums of 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 Subtraction Facts from 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 Adding in Any Order, and Adding Three Numbers Doubles and Halves Sum of 10 Checking Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Finding the Missing Number Missing Number Problems with Greater Than and Less Than Working with Equations Tens and Ones Adding Numbers with Two Digits Checking Addition by Changing the Order of Addends Adding Three Numbers Subtracting Numbers with Two Digits Checking Two-Digit Subtraction Adding and Subtracting Horizontally, Vertically, and in Your Head Adding and Subtracting 9 in Your Head Estimating and Rounding to the Nearest Ten Fractions

Working with Numbers to 1,000

The Hundreds Counting Between Hundreds Count On! Place Value Expanded Form Comparing Three-Digit Numbers Adding Three-Digit Numbers Regrouping Tens as Hundreds Subtracting from a Three-Digit Number

Money

Coins and Dollar Bills How Many Make Up a Dollar? Quarters and Counting by 25 Counting Money Adding and Subtracting Money Word Problems

Measurement

Measuring Length Measuring Weight Measuring Time

The Calendar Clock Time to 5 Minutes Half and Quarter Hours How Much Time Has Passed?

Geometry

Plane Figures Solid Figures Points, Lines, and Segments Lines of Symmetry

Multiplication

What Is Multiplication? Practicing Multiplication Multiplying by 10 Three Rules for Multiplication Word Problems and Missing Factors

VI. Science

Introduction Life Cycles

Cycles of Life: Frogs and Flowers The Cycle of the Seasons

Spring Summer Fall Winter

The Water Cycle

Evaporation Going Up, Going Down Condensation and Precipitation Putting It All Together: The Water Cycle

The Human Body

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

The Microscope

Cells and Tissues, Organs and Systems

What Happens to the Food You Eat?

Daniel Hale Williams, a Brave Doctor A Healthy Plate of Food Vitamins and Minerals Florence Nightingale

Insects Everywhere!

Meet a Fly Insect Legs and Body Parts Meet a Beetle The Insect Exoskeleton Meet a Cockroach Are They Insects? Insect Life Cycles Meet a Praying Mantis A Simpler Kind of Metamorphosis Meet an Ant An Ant Colony Meet a Honeybee In a Beehive Meet an Entomologist

Magnetism

What Do Magnets Attract? Magnetic Poles Using a Compass

Simple Machines

Levers Wheels The Force of Friction Elijah McCoy, a Great Inventor Pulleys Inclined Planes Wedges Screws

Suggested Resources

Illustration and Photo Credits Text Credits and Sources About the Editors

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