{"id":410,"date":"2008-11-19T19:06:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T00:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/410"},"modified":"2008-11-19T19:06:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T00:06:22","slug":"teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2008\/11\/19\/teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Civics with Children&#8217;s Literature: Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2008\/11\/capital.jpg\" alt=\"capital.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The capital of the United States of America wasn&#8217;t always Washington DC.\u00a0 Read about how our nation&#8217;s capital has moved and changed as well as how the capital city, Washington DC has grown and changed. Capital explains the detailed history of the important buildings in Washington DC, such as the White House:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">James Hoban, the architect, had designed a large, gracious, and comfortable mansion that was quite grand by the standards of eighteenth-century America.\u00a0 Critics, however, claimed it was &#8216;big enough for two emperors, one Pope, and the Grand Lama.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Lynn Curlee&#8217;s book <em>Capital <\/em>is particularly precise and structured.\u00a0 At the end, Curlee notes,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">The word &#8216;capitol&#8217; refers to the building in which a state legislature meets.\u00a0 &#8216;Capitol&#8217; refers to the building in which the U.S. Congress meets.\u00a0 The word &#8216;capital&#8217; refers to the city or town serving as the seat of government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><br \/>\nThis book can be used to teach about Washington DC and the development of our nation&#8217;s capital.\u00a0 In Virginia, it can be used to teach SOL 1.11, which states that students will recognize the symbols and practices that honor and foster patriotism in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountvernon.org\/visit\/plan\/index.cfm\/pid\/1081\/\">Lesson Plans<\/a> about George Washington and his work to establish the capital.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aoc.gov\/cc\/cc_map.cfm\">map<\/a> of the Capitol Complex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Capital-Lynn-Curlee\/dp\/1416918019\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1227124195&amp;sr=8-1\">Capital<\/a> <font color=\"#bb4411\"><br \/>\n<\/font><strong>Author\/Illustrator:\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/curleeart.com\/\">Lynn Curlee<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Atheneum Books for Young Readers<strong><br \/>\nPublication Date: <\/strong>2003<br \/>\n<strong>Pages:<\/strong> 40<br \/>\n<strong>Grades:<\/strong> 1-5<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0-689-84947-8<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capital of the United States of America wasn&#8217;t always Washington DC.\u00a0 Read about how our nation&#8217;s capital has moved and changed as well as how the capital city, Washington DC has grown and changed. Capital explains the detailed history &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2008\/11\/19\/teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-capital\/\">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":[50,848,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-civics","category-social-studies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}