Reading in the Content Areas: Social Studies

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780078617089
• ISBN10: 0078617081
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-16
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Help improve students' content-area reading Focus on one content area at a time Coordinate your reading program with content classrooms Based on the best-selling Six-Way Paragraphs books, theseindividual titles help students master the essential skills needed to organize,understand, and apply information in math, science, and social studies. Hereare the books for your content-area classrooms. Reading Level 4-12 Interest Level 6-12

Table of Contents

To the Student	p. vi
To the Teacher	p. xv
History: What It Is, What It Means	p. 2
The Roman Army	p. 4
What Is Geography?	p. 6
The Caves of Lascaux	p. 8
A Separation of Powers	p. 10
Capital of the Inca Empire	p. 12
What Is Social Studies?	p. 14
The Fertile Crescent	p. 16
"I Will Fight No More Forever"	p. 18
What Is Sociology?	p. 20
Tropical Rain Forests	p. 22
An Earthquake's Effect on Japan	p. 24
A Marvel of Engineering	p. 26
What Did Confucius Say?	p. 28
What Is Anthropology?	p. 30
What Do Fossils Tell Us?	p. 32
Renaissance: A Rebirth of Thinking	p. 34
What Is Political Science?	p. 36
Bessie Coleman, Determined Pilot	p. 38
What Is Psychology?	p. 40
The First Written Records	p. 42
The Beginnings of Democracy	p. 44
The Unmaking of an Anthropology Myth	p. 46
Chinese Waterways	p. 48
Fewer Births, Longer Lives	p. 50
Gold and Silver Worth $30 Million	p. 52
Not Just a White Man's War	p. 54
Pavlov's Bewitched Dogs	p. 56
Where in the World?	p. 58
Shirley Chisholm, Political Trailblazer	p. 60
The Homeless	p. 62
The Sahara	p. 64
The Highest Court	p. 66
The British in India	p. 68
Cargo Cults	p. 70
Xi'an Warriors	p. 72
Thirteen Days in October	p. 74
The Bones Tell Another Story	p. 76
Port Chicago	p. 78
The Global Positioning System	p. 80
An Independent Woman	p. 82
Separate No More	p. 84
The Changing Middle Class	p. 86
The Seneca Falls Convention	p. 88
Brazil's Favelas	p. 90
"Don't Ride the Buses"	p. 92
Antarctica: Is There Something There?	p. 94
Evacuation from Saigon	p. 96
Resurrecting a Spanish Galleon	p. 98
Who Planned This Park?	p. 100
Space Invaders	p. 102
City Planning	p. 104
Archaeological Fact or Fiction?	p. 106
A Deadly Game of Hide and Seek	p. 108
Can the Earth Feed Its People?	p. 110
The Family	p. 112
Alexandria's Sunken City	p. 114
Please Continue	p. 116
The Mystery of the Ancient Ones	p. 118
Bigger and Bigger	p. 120
Very Separate, Very Unequal	p. 122
You Have the Right to Remain Silent	p. 124
1968: A Watershed Year	p. 126
Good, Bad, or In-between	p. 128
Looking for Mr. Spenser	p. 130
Suu Kyi's Struggle	p. 132
Domestic Violence	p. 134
Unwritten History	p. 136
Growing Your Brain	p. 138
Psychological Research	p. 140
The End of a Friendship	p. 142
The Work of the WPA	p. 144
Huelga!	p. 146
Phobias	p. 148
The City on the Rise	p. 150
Answer Keys	p. 152
Diagnostic Charts	p. 155
Progress Graphs	p. 158
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