{"id":2051,"date":"2009-11-17T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2051"},"modified":"2009-11-17T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T17:48:40","slug":"teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-thats-what-friends-are-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/11\/17\/teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-thats-what-friends-are-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching History with Children&#8217;s Literature: Can&#8217;t You Make Them Behave, King George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/11\/200_can_t_you_make_them_behave_king_george.jpg\" title=\"200_can_t_you_make_them_behave_king_george.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/11\/200_can_t_you_make_them_behave_king_george.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200_can_t_you_make_them_behave_king_george.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cant-Make-Them-Behave-George\/dp\/0698114027\">Can&#8217;t You Make Them Behave, King George?<\/a> written by Jean Fritz and illustrated by Tomie dePaola looks at the life and reign of King George III up until the end of the American Revolution.\u00a0 It does a good job of giving the King a more human aspect rather than only being portrayed\u00a0 as the despot that is normally given to the students.\u00a0 The book starts with the early life of King George and makes him to be a likeable character.\u00a0 As it leads on into his later life some traits start to emerge that lead up to his role in the American Revolution.\u00a0 The book also does a good job of looking at the American Revolution from the English perspective and would be good for students to see that there are differing viewpoints on the revolution.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><br \/>\nThis book would be good way to look at VA SOL USI.6(b,c).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.thinkquest.org\/TQ0312848\/kgeorge.htm\">Library Thinkquest<\/a> provides a brief biography of King George III and his role in the American Revolution.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonteapartyship.com\/\">Boston Tea Party Ship<\/a> is a website that shows some pictures and activities that are related to the Boston Tea Party.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyewitnesstohistory.com\/yorktown.htm\">Eyewitness to History<\/a> gives a description of the Battle of Yorktown where Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Book:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cant-Make-Them-Behave-George\/dp\/0698114027\">Can&#8217;t You Make Them Behave, King George?<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Author: <\/strong>Jean Fritz<strong><br \/>\nIllustrator:<\/strong> Tome dePaola<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Putnam Juvenile<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date: <\/strong>September 1996<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:<\/strong> 48 pages<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range: <\/strong>4-6<strong> <\/strong><strong><br \/>\nISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0698114029<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t You Make Them Behave, King George? written by Jean Fritz and illustrated by Tomie dePaola looks at the life and reign of King George III up until the end of the American Revolution.\u00a0 It does a good job of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/11\/17\/teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-thats-what-friends-are-for\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,50,229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-book-review","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}