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The Mini Page — 2010 Activities
Honoring Our Presidents
Issue 6
Feb. 6-12, 2010
This week's standards:
- Students understand that history relates to events and people of other times and places by identifying examples of interesting Americans. (Social Studies: History)
Activities:
1. Use newspaper words and pictures to make a poster for a U.S. president.
2. Design a monument for a person in the newspaper. Draw the monument. Write several sentences explaining your monument.
3. Find three people in the newspaper who deserve recognition: an elected official, an athlete and an entertainer. Write a sentence for each person.
4. Which of the monuments (a) have seated presidents, (b) has a standing president, (c) had to wait for 25 years to be finished, and (d) has outdoor 'rooms' ?
5. Which of the monuments featured in this Mini Page would you like to visit?
Why?
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi) (r)
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