Thursday, November 20, 2014

America the Beautiful, Katharine Lee Bates

America the Beautiful is one long poem stretched throughout the book that is the song America the Beautiful.  The book has a lot of really cool features for readers to enjoy.  The illustrations go along with the poem and paint a visual picture for readers that go along with that stanza of the poem.  Each picture comes from a location of the United States and in the back of the book it tells readers where each picture came from and a little blurb about the place.  There was also a map that showed where the places the pictures came from.  It also talked about the author of the song and showed an original copy from when it was written.  I really liked this book.

I would use this book to teach about American history.  We would talk about the author of the song and why it was written.  I would also use the map to teach students about maps and map making.  Then we would talk about the different places and their importance.  This book is a great book because it can teach students many different things about American history.


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