Tell Me about the Presidents: Lessons for Today's Kids from America's Leaders

by Mike Henry

Overview

Tell Me about the Presidents is for young people in the elementary grades. The author includes an interesting story about each president. The material is usually not in textbooks or taught in classes. At the conclusion of each story are three questions for the reader to answer. This book is a great learning tool that can be used by parents and teachers to teach American history in a fun way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475817041
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/05/2015
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,031,971
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Mike Henry, for thirty-one years, taught American History to students at all levels of the educational spectrum from elementary school to college. Since the inception of No Child Left Behind,he averaged a success rate of more than eighty percent on state mandated testing at a school where the majority of the students were at the poverty level. Mike is a two-time award winner of Who's Who Among America's Classroom Teachers. Following his retirement, he wrote Black History: More Than Just A Month, published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Table of Contents

1.) George Washington "Jack Goes to the Circus" 2.)John Adams "Lost in the Woods" 3.)Thomas Jefferson "Jurassic Jefferson" 4.)James Madison "What is for Dessert?" 5.)James Monroe "The Night the Argument was Settled" 6.)John Quincy Adams "The Leaking Boat" 7.)Andrew Jackson "More Cheese, Please" 8.)Martin Van Buren "I'm O.K." 9.)William Henry Harrison "Almost a Doctor" 10.)John Tyler "It was a Very Unusual Year" 11.)James K. Polk "Always Keep Your Word" 12.)Zachary Taylor "Always a Soldier" 13.) Millard Fillmore "Where are the Books?" 14.)Franklin Pierce "Please Pay Attention" 15.)James Buchanan "Freedom for All" 16.)Abraham Lincoln "The Champion" 17.)Andrew Johnson "It's Never Too Late to Learn" 18.)Ulysses S. Grant "Honesty is the Best Policy" 19.)Rutherford B. Hayes "Tradition" 20.)James Garfield "The Incredable Mr.Garfield" 21.) Chester Arthur "A Sharp Dressed Man" 22.)Grover Cleveland "Believe in Yourself" 23.)Benjamin Harrison "Someone, Turn Out the Lights!" 24.)William McKinley"Always Win with Kindness" 25.)Theodore Roosevelt "Saving the Land" 26.)William Howard Taft "It is Better to Give than to Receive" 27.)Woodrow Wilson "Never Give Up" 28.)Warren Harding "The President's Best Friend" 29.)Calvin Coolidge "The President and the Burglar" 30.)Herbert Hoover "It's the Herbert Hoover Show" 31.) Franklin D. Roosevelt "Simple is Better" 32.)Harry Truman "The Piano and the President" 33.)Dwight D.Eisenhower "Dinner with the President" 34.)John F. Kennedy "A True Hero" 35.)Lyndon B. Johnson "The Joker Strikes Again" 36.)Richard Nixon "Try, Try Again" 37.)Gerald Ford "Be a Good Sport" 38.)Jimmy Carter "The President and the Swamp Rabbit" 39.)Ronald Reagan "The President's Co-Star" 40.)George H.W. Bush "The Family Tree" 41.) Bill Clinton"The Music Man" 42.)George W. Bush "What's in a Name?" 43.)Barack Obama "The Obama Collection" Answer Key Bibliography About the Author