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The following unit allows students to gain an in-depth look at the White House – its structure, role, and history - based on the content featured in C-SPAN’s original production, The White House: Inside America’s Most Famous Home, programs featured throughout C-SPAN’s White House Week, and on C-SPAN’s White House website.
Teachers can record the following programs that will air during C-SPAN’s White House Week, or view them streamed at www.c-span.org/videoarchives to show in your classroom:
- C-SPAN’s documentary, The White House: Inside America’s Most Famous Home -
airs 12/14/08, at 9 pm ET & PT (105 minutes)
- White House Tours by Presidents and First Ladies - airs 12/15/08,
at 9 pm ET
- Behind the Scenes: The Working White House - airs 12/16/08, at
9 pm ET
- The White House Gardens & Grounds - airs 12/17/08, at 9 pm
ET
- The Lincoln White House - airs 12/18/08 at 9 pm ET
- Interviews with President and Mrs. Bush - airs 12/20/08 at 9 pm
ET
For more information on C-SPAN’s White House Week, visit C-SPAN’s White House website.
For traditional 45-minute classes:
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Two-weeks to teach the entire unit
For 90-minute block classes:
- One-week to teach the entire unit
NOTE: Since the unit’s lessons - with the exception of the first three - do not
build on one another, teachers can opt to pick and choose specific lessons they
would like to teach and/or switch the order of the lessons that appear in the unit
layout.
Each lesson in the White House unit highlights a specific theme addressed in C-SPAN’s
documentary, White House Week programs, and/or White House website.
The unit includes a culminating assessment designed to help students synthesize
content covered throughout the unit, and can be completed during extra class time
or as a homework assignment since outside research and writing is required.
Clicking on the lesson number takes you to a PDF of the actual lesson plan.
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