Obama Speech Lesson Plans

The prez sez do gud in skool.

I was happy to get the call last night from our principal saying they would be showing Obama's speech at PEC on Tuesday. If you've been listening to the public hysteria from local and national news about the speech, you'd think kids were actually going to listen to the speech and not spend the time texting, listening to their iPod or watching the clock. The first time I remember seeing the President on TV was in Ms. Siegel's class in third grade. We watched Carter's inauguration. Through the years, I probably saw every president on TV during the school year, though those were the days when we'd pile into the auditorium to watch it on our one huge color monitor. American government is a part of nearly every grade levels state standards. Here is the link for lesson plans that go along with the speech. Not much about "whine until you persuade your parents to back my health care plan."