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11/22/13

Don't Know Much About the Presidents



AUTHOR: Kenneth Davis
ILLUSTRATOR: Pedro Martin
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins
PUBLICATION DATE: 2003
GENRE: Nonfiction, informational
READING LEVEL: 6th Grade
BRIEF OVERVIEW: Here's your chance to learn all about the presidents' important political acheivements, their nicknames, and many more cool facts and quotes.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: Tell the students that at the end of this unit, they will prepare a Presidential Show. Assign each student a president to study. Use references from the book to give each student a catch phrase. For example, "Where did James Monroe go that no president had gone before?"
REVIEWER’S NAME & AFFILIATION: Shellena Palmer; VSU
LABELS: Nonfiction, informational, Presidents, Biography