by Samuel Sennott
Here are some curriculum components to be used to design lessons based on considering the Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America on Tuesday January 20th, 2008.
Video of the Inauguration Speech (With Captions)
Part One
Part Two
Use http://mediaconverter.net to download the video, if YouTube is blocked at your school.
Barak Obama Bookshelf from the Tar Heel Reader
Other Readings and Resources
Slater Software Symbol Resources: http://slatersoftware.com/document.html#jan
- A New President 6 pages, 984 KB, PDF (Book, Symbol Supported)
Inauguration – PixWriter v3 Mac wordbank 412 KB, ZIP archive
Inauguration – PixWriter v3 Windows wordbank 812 KB, ZIP archive - Free Symbol Search: http://slatersoftware.com/PixLibrary.html?CHEER.GIF=Cheer!
Weekly Reader Resources (Note they are Flash Intensive(Trouble with screen reading): http://www.weeklyreader.com/election/
Kate Ahern’s blog post: How to Watch the Inauguration Live (via the web) Link to AAC Boards
PBS Front Line: Dreams of Obama: Tons of resources, including a reading list for older readers, interviews, and the link to watch the full program. This is a truly excellent resource.
http://superobamaworld.com (The video game is questionable content, yet it may be just the thing to hook in that one student. Use with caution)
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Nice resources, Sam–thanks. I posted some additional links and resources on my blog http://accessedtech.blogspot.com/2009/01/inaugural-activities.html
including a social script for talking about the inauguration. Yesterday was a pretty amazing day!
Sam,
My class and I had a wonderful morning exploring, reading and sharing our thoughts about the 44th President. Your books and website information were fabulous!! Keep up the great work and thanks so much for sharing with us!
A. Gayle
Beth and Gayle…Thank you very much. Beth, your post has some great resources. I love how Eric is really taking the ball up field with the video stuff: http://speechlanguagepathologysharing.blogspot.com/2009/01/obamas-inauguration-vocabulary.html and http://speechlanguagepathologysharing.blogspot.com/2009/01/presidential-inauguration.html
and good call about the ICS exchange! -Sam
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Love the new look! Thanks for the link.
Just saw Kate posted these: http://teachinglearnerswithmultipleneeds.blogspot.com/2009/01/obamiconme.html
and http://teachinglearnerswithmultipleneeds.blogspot.com/2009/01/obamas-asl-name-sign.html