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Read Works

Read Works: President Barack Obama

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text about President Barack Obama. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Hello, Mr. President

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text about President Barack Obama. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My New President [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"My New President" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about an African-American teen who learned about the government by working in Barack Obama's campaign office on Saturdays. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My New President [Pdf]

For Teachers 8th
"My New President" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about an African-American teen who learned about the government by working in Barack Obama's campaign office on Saturdays. It is followed by constructed-response questions...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Hope and Change

For Students 9th - 10th
In 2008, American voters, tired of war and dispirited by the economic downturn, elected a relative newcomer to the political scene who inspired them and made them believe that the United States could rise above political partisanship....
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: A New Day [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"A New Day" is a one-page, fictional reading passage about children who learned about civil rights marches while visiting their grandfather in Mississippi. They helped people register to vote before President Obama was elected for the...
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Curated OER

Pbs News Hours: Q&a: Calderon Visits u.s. With Security, Immigration in Mind

For Students 9th - 10th
Shannon On'Neil, Latin American studies fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, answers questions posed by PBS about Mexico's President Felipe Calderon's visit to the United States. The Q & Q covers a range of issues from...