I picked up a book for school at a Borders closing sale the other day. It is called "Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out" While not a perfect book it has a lot of things going for it and would make a wonderful addition to your school shelf expecially for doing American History. It has numerous pieces of various length, some prose, some poetry, some pure fact, some historic fiction. The pieces are written and illustrated by 110 different authors and illustrators. So right there you can have lots to talk about while looking at the different art styles and writing styles independantly of the story/history itself. It also does a good job of covering the known and unknown people and stories of history as connected to the white house. There is also a wonderful seeming website linke to the book (which quite honestly could be very useful even if you don't have the book).
http://ourwhitehouse.org/intro.html
This site includes lots of teaching tips, links to related sites, info. on civics and how elections work, links to our countries important documents and a wonderful chart with info. on all the presidents.
So take a look and use it as a resouce for teaching about our country.
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