From Selma to the State Department, Sojourner Truth to Kofi Annan
and a language called Xhosa—how well do you know black history?
What singer was known as "the Empress of the Blues"? Why the
Missouri Compromise? Challenge yourself, challenge your friends,
challenge your parents. BLACK HISTORY celebrates 5,000 years of
heroism, culture, struggle and achievement.
內容簡介:
Smarter. Fresher. Better.
And now with new content, and new packaging.
Announcing the relaunch ofBrain
Quest,
America’s #1 educational bestseller with over 23.7 million copies
in print. Featuring a complete updating of the content and an
eye-catching, brainy-retro new look, this is a dazzling makeover,
inside and out.
For kids, it’s fun unplugged. For parents, it’s the easiest, most
trusted way to know if their children are keeping pace. Assisting
in the relaunch is an advisory panel of ten of America’s top
educators, each of them winners of Teacher of the Year or Milken
National Educator Awards. The result: completely revised questions
and answers, with up to 20%new material, to bring each deck up to
the standards of today’s curricula. The content is the same that
kids will find on standardized tests, handled in such a way that it
promotes mental flexibility.
關於作者:
Barbara C. Ellis is a public school curriculum specialist working
in the New York City school system and former chair of UNICEF''s Day
of the African Child.