The Power of the Presidency – Lessons with Final Review Quiz

The Teaching Unit for this course can be downloaded as a PDF file in the “Attachments” window. Upon course completion, you can take a Final Review Quiz, by clicking the “Take the Quiz” button. (You must subscribe to this course in order to take the quiz.)

1. Introduction: ELA Skills activities included in this Unit:

  • Guided Reading
  • Vocabulary Development (New STP strategy)
  • Journal Writing
  • Speech Making
  • Improvisations: Theater, Poetry
  • Pre-Tests:
  • What you already know about the presidents
  • Citizenship questions about the presidents

2. Mount Rushmore

  • Why the four were chosen
  • Who created the Mountain of the Presidents
  • Selection from In The Shadow of the Mountain
  • Find out more
3. The Past: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, T. Roosevelt

  • How each president was viewed in his time
  • How each president is viewed in our time
  • How each president is viewed through the arts
  • What the U.S. Constitution says about the powers of the presidency.

4. The Present: Journal Writing, Internet research, Presentation of report

  • What are the characteristics of a great president?
  • What U.S. presidents possess those characteristics?
  • What other world leaders possess those characteristics?
  • Internet research on the greatest leaders of our time?
  • Presentation of report based on research and interpretation.

Questions