Building a Federal Town: Washington, DC

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Building a Federal Town: Washington, DC

Description:

John and Abigail Adams were the first President and First Lady to live in the White House in Washington, D.C. Before that, the capital of the country was in New York City and in Philadelphia. Even when the Adams family moved into the White House, it wasnt finished, and neither was Washington. It takes a while to design and build a city from scratch!

Education Levels:

9, 10, 11, 12, Higher education

Subject:

Process Skills, United States History, Writing (composition)

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

The National First Ladies' Library

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Keywords:

District of Columbia, US presidents, Research skills, Timelines, Adams, Abigail, LEnfant, Pierre, Washington, DC, City planning, Capital cities, Adams, John, White House

Mediator:

College/University instructors, Secondary school teachers

Publisher:

The National First Ladies' Library

Contributor:

Averil McClelland

Is Part Of:

http://www.firstladies.org/

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

History, Language Arts, English

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

NCTE-IRA Standards for the English Language Arts (1996)

3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).

Conforms To

NCTE-IRA Standards for the English Language Arts (1996)

5. Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.

Conforms To

NCTE-IRA Standards for the English Language Arts (1996)

7. Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and nonprint texts, artifacts, people) to communicate their discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and audience.

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