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Researching Technological Innovations Help students discover how the White House played a key role in introducing cutting-edge technology that still impacts us today.
Objective Have students pair up and and/or bit.ly/WH-Tech2 for internet Students will apply primary brainstorm technologies research; for those under 13, you may and secondary sources to 1that are important in their daily print (or project onto the board) some present information on lives (for example, phone, school advances from the site, then direct historical technology. bus, etc.). Then facilitate a class students to use books or child-friendly, Standards discussion about technologies we COPPA-compliant research sites. CCSS ELA, Grs. 6–8 use that now seem mundane but Direct each pair to create a RH.1 were game-changing when first Cite specific textual evidence White House Visitor's Guide introduced. (Examples: vacuum from primary and secondary brochure that focuses on their cleaner, electricity, telegraph, air 4 sources chosen technology. Hand out the conditioning, etc.) CCRA.W.4 Create Your Brochure! activity sheet Produce writing developed, Explain that historically, to guide their work in describing organized, and styled to task an audience the White House has hosted, their technology, explaining its CCRA.W.7 2presented, and introduced all impact, and drawing conclusions Conduct short research projects kinds of new technologies. In fact, on how it has shaped life since it's from focused questions, one way we can consider how introduction. demonstrating understanding technology has changed in the Host a showcase in which Time United States is to look at how pairs present their brochures, 120 minutes and when new technologies were or set up a gallery walk. adopted at the White House. Show 5 Materials • Internet access for student the classroom poster, emphasizing pairs (or computer lab time) the tech callouts. Ask: What would • Tap Into the Tech activity make a specific technology at the Supporting All Learners sheet White House a game changer? To increase the challenge: • Create Your Brochure! Guide students toward criteria such Have students prepare a video activity sheet as: enhances human comfort, is or slide presentation to replace • Blank 8½ x 11-inch paper more efficient, builds community or supplement their brochure. and art supplies connections, has a unique Teachers can include a public- • Welcome to the White purpose. Collect ideas on the speaking rubric. House classroom poster board. As a class, decide on five To decrease the challenge: criteria of top technologies. Show students how to turn the Pair up students to research questions on the Create Your technological advances using Brochure! sheet into sentence Check out the White 3the Tap Into the Tech activity sheet. stems to facilitate their writing. House Experience App Explain that at the end, they will to find educational and interactive experiences choose one technology that’s ELA Lesson Online! to further engage most interesting to them. Students students with history. over 13 may use bit.ly/WH-Tech1 Teach students more applications for research Just scan the code with our story-writing activity based on historical above to get started! setting at scholastic.com/whitehousehistory. Activity Name
Tap Into the Tech As you start your fact-finding mission on White House innovations, use this chart to collect info. Then choose the technology on your list that’s most interesting to use for your final brochure.
The Technology Immediate Impact The Bigger Picture List four or five Explain how the Combine your research technological advances technology improved life. and inferencing skills that were adopted at the (Example: It made cleaning to describe how the White House. (Example: the the many rooms at the technology made life vacuum cleaner.) White House easier.) better for all Americans. Activity
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Create Your Brochure! Now that you’ve chosen your top technology from White House history, it’s time to present it in a Visitor’s Guide This chandelier was made by Christoph Palme & Co., brochure. Follow this planner to help you get creative. a lighting design firm that supplied electric lighting fixtures to the White House in 1902.
Page 1 Think of the cover as what sells your technology and makes people want to come to the White House to learn about it. On this first page, include a clear title that reveals your technology. Feel free to get clever and catchy! Also, include a great photo or illustration of your innovation. Jot down several possibilities for your title here:
Page 2 Here, give visitors a short history of your innovation. Who invented it, and when was it introduced? What exactly does it do? How does it work?
Page 3 Describe why the technology was adopted at the White House. What issue did it help with? How did it impact the lives of those living and working there at the time?
Page 4 The back cover wraps up your brochure. Give a short report on how this technology impacted the nation at the time. How did it make life easier or better? What problems did it solve? And how has it evolved over time to serve generations of Americans? Lesson
Developing Narrative Settings Nurture students’ creativity—and their grasp on setting—with a fiction writing activity about a historical moment in the White House.
Objective Ask: What makes a story • For students of any age: Students will write narratives, interesting? Have students brainstorm » Print and distribute The Places focusing on setting, and 1and collect answers on the board and Spaces of the White House apply the writing process (examples: characters who seem real, resource sheet as a cheat sheet. (planning, revising, and editing) to their work. intriguing settings, colorful details, » Alternately, print photos and humor, compelling conflict, etc). Focus descriptions of each room and Standards on setting (where and when a story takes post around the classroom for CCSS ELA, Grs. 6–8 place), and prompt students to explain students to choose from. CCRA.W.3 what it is. Come up with a definition Write narratives about Hand out the Craft a White House based on student answers and write it on imagined events with details Story activity sheet to guide students the board. and well-structured sequences 5in brainstorming and planning specific CCRA.W.5 Discuss why setting impacts story elements. Students may need to Develop writing by planning, a story. Have students consider conduct additional research on their revising, editing, and rewriting how a favorite novel would have gone room’s setting and time period. CCRA.W.7 2 differently if it had taken place in another Conduct short research projects Assign students to draft and room, country, or time period. For with focused questions revise in class or at home (set a example, how might Hansel and Gretel’s length guideline). Once their narratives Time story be different if they had gotten lost 6 are finalized, create a class book or 120 minutes in a castle...or in 2019 with GPS phones? invite other classes to “visit the White Materials How does the dialogue in a story about House” for a read-aloud publishing party • Access to the internet a fight with a friend play out if it happens in your classroom. (alternately, library time during class versus the cafeteria; or in for students to research) 1930 versus today? • Craft a White House Story activity sheet Tell students they will be writing Supporting All Learners • The Places and Spaces a story, and using a room of the To increase the challenge: of the White House White House during a historic time Instruct students to write two possible resource sheet 3 period as their setting. As they plan their endings, basing them on two different story, they should consider how setting, decisions a character could make at the character, and plot intertwine and turning point of the story. Increase the impact one another. challenge further by having students introduce a second White House room. Research: Students will research a few White House rooms—and what To decrease the challenge: 4they were like in a different historical time Have students “write what they know” period—to gather details for their story using a conflict from their own lives and setting. To kick off, show the classroom tweaking it for a White House setting. poster and discuss the floor plan. They can base characters on people in • For students over 13, direct them their own lives who don’t live or work at to bit.ly/WH-Rooms to see individual the White House. rooms (click on a photo to see a room’s details). Activity Sheet
Name Craft a White House Story On a separate piece of paper, plan out the important elements of your story, like setting, character, and plot. Once you’ve outlined everything, start writing.
Story genre Main characters Plot summary Choose mystery, fantasy, Write down a couple of Use the plot arc stages: 1 historical fiction, humor, etc. 3 words or images to describe 5 exposition, rising action, their character traits. conflict, turning point, Setting and resolution. Describe the specific Conflict 2 room in the White House You can expand on one Resolution by considering: 4 of these problems: How does the main • Room purpose, such as • Between characters 6 character fix the problem? public state dinners, private (example: one person Extra details you meetings, playroom, wants power over another) want to include: workers working, etc. • Inside one character • Room details, such as size, (example: the protagonist decorations, color, history, can’t decide whether to artifacts displayed there, etc. do the right thing) • Time period details, such • External event that the as what technology was character must deal with available, how people (example: something dressed, etc. was stolen)
WRITING TIP Be sure to blend your story elements by having the characters interact with the setting and making the surroundings part of the plot. page 1 of 2
the PLACES AND SPACES of the white house
RESOURCE LIST VOCABULARY
Blue Room Main drawing room used Cabinet a group of advisers of a head of state for receiving guests, noted for its oval shape. Colonnade State Floor. a series of columns set at regular intervals and usually supporting the base of a roof structure Cabinet Room Meeting room for the Dignitaries persons considered to be important president’s cabinet. West Wing. Former Cabinet because of high rank or office Rooms were on the second floor in the Residence. Portico a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns at regular intervals, typically attached China Room Exhibition space where selections from the historic presidential china collection are as a porch to a building displayed. Ground Floor. Ceremonial the system of rules and procedures to be observed at a formal occasion Cross Hall Long, grand passage from the East Foyer an entrance hall in a house, apartment, or Room to the State Dining Room; also a gallery other open area in a building used by the public of portraits of recent presidents. State Floor. Formal done according to customary rules or Diplomatic Reception Room Oval-shaped etiquette; appropriate for or constituting an official room located beneath the Blue Room where or important situation or occasion foreign dignitaries are received after they enter Utilitarian designed to be useful or practical through the South Portico. Ground Floor. rather than attractive Parlor a room for receiving guests East Colonnade Glass-enclosed corridor connecting the Residence to the East Wing. Ground Floor.
East Room Great ceremonial room of the White House. State Floor. Ellipse Oval-shaped park to the south of the White House. East Sitting Hall Family sitting room. Second Floor. Executive Residence Original central portion of the White House and where the first family’s East Terrace Open area above the roof of living quarters are located. the East Colonnade. Executive Mansion Another name for the East Wing Building on the east, connected White House. to the Residence by the East Colonnade; contains offices of the first lady and her staff, and the main Family Dining Room Originally the main family entrance for visitors touring the White House. dining room; today used for special events. State Floor. Entrance Hall Formal reception area for visitors coming through the North Door. Also Green Room State parlor used for small known as Grand Foyer. State Floor. gatherings. State Floor. page 2 of 2 Ground Floor Originally a utilitarian basement Rose Garden One of the main flower gardens below the State Floor; redesigned with reception of the White House, located on the west side of rooms in the Theodore Roosevelt renovation the South Lawn; used for outdoor ceremonies; of 1902. also known as the West Garden.
Jacqueline Kennedy Garden One of the main Second Floor The level that appears as the flower gardens of the White House; located on the “upstairs” from the street and houses the private east side of the South Lawn; also known as the family quarters. First Ladies’ and the East Garden. Solarium Private family recreation room above Ground Floor Corridor Central passageway the South Portico. Third Floor. connecting Ground Floor Rooms, the West Wing, and the East Wing. Ground Floor. South Lawn Outdoor area on the south side of the White House. Library Library with a collection of books on American history, thought, and tradition. South Portico Semicircular colonnaded porch Ground Floor. with open-armed stairs on the south side of the White House. Lincoln Bedroom Guest bedroom that was the office and Cabinet Room of President State Dining Room Dining room for State Abraham Lincoln. Second Floor. Dinners and other official dinners. State Floor.
Map Room Sitting room used as a situation State Floor Main floor of the White House, room by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt containing the public rooms. during World War II. Ground Floor. State Rooms Formal rooms on the State Floor, North Lawn Outdoor area on the north/ including the Blue Room, Red Room, Green Room, Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House. State Dining Room, and East Room.
North Portico Three-sided, colonnaded Third Floor Originally an attic above the entrance porch on the north side of the Second Floor, redesigned for use by the first White House. family in 1927.
Oval Office The president’s office. West Wing. Truman Balcony Second-level balcony added to the South Front of the White House President’s House Original name for the by President Harry S. Truman in 1947–48. White House. Vermeil Room Exhibition space where a President’s Park Approximately 85-acre collection of vermeil (gilded silver) is displayed. preserve designated by President George Ground Floor. Washington when the capital was planned in 1792; includes the White House, Lafayette Park, West Colonnade Column-lined open the Ellipse, and the grounds of the Eisenhower passageway that borders the Rose Garden and Executive office and Treasury Buildings. connects the Residence to the West Wing.
Press Room Assembly room for news reporters West Wing Office wing of the White House covering the White House. West Colonnade. that contains the Oval Office and offices for the president’s closest advisers. Queens’ Bedroom Guest bedroom named for the visiting royalty who have stayed there. Yellow Oval Room Oval-shaped room located Second Floor. above the Blue Room that serves as a formal drawing room for the family quarters. Second Floor. Red Room State parlor used for small gatherings. State Floor.
Roosevelt Room Central conference room located across the hall from the Oval Office. West Wing.