Week 1

To start our new project each student will be assigned one number that corresponds with one president in the following list. Below is a list of the 44 presidents.


1. George Washington 1789-1797
2. John Adams 1797-1801
3.Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809
4. James Madison 1809-1817
5. James Monroe 1817-1825
6. John Quincy Adams 1825-1829
7. Andrew Jackson 1829-1837
8. Martin Van Buren 1837-1841
9. William Henry Harrison 1841-1841 Because he died In office
10. John Tyler 1841-1845
11. James K. Polk 1845-1849
12. Zachary Taylor 1849-1850
13. Millard Fillmore 1850-1853
14.Franklin Pierce 1853-1857
15. James Buchanan 1857-1861
16. Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865
17. Andrew Johnson 1865-1869
18. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877
19. Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881
20. James A. Garfield 1881-because he died in office Due to an infection
21. Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885
22.Grover Cleveland 1885-1889
23.Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893
24.Grover Cleveland 1893-1897
25. William McKinley 1897-1901
26. Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
27.William Howard 1909-1913
28.Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921
29.Warren G. Harding 1921-1923
30.Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
31.Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945
33.Harry S. Truman 1945-1953
34.Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961
35. John F. Kennedy 1961-1963
36.Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969
37. Richard M. Nixon 1969-1974
38. Gerald R. Ford 1974-1977
39.Jimmy Carter 1977-1981
40. Ronald Reagan 1981-1989
41.George Bush 1989-1993
42. Bill Clinton 1993-2001
43. George W. Bush 2001-2009
44. Barack H. Obama 2009-Present

Once you have been assigned the president you are going to research set up your project blog.

  1. You can do this by going to http://www.blogger.com/.
  2. To make a blog, sign in with your G-mail account information that we have used in class before.
  3. The title of your blog should be the name of your president followed by your name (Bill Clinton by Ashley Williams).
  4. Refer to the example blog to see how your project should be set up on your blog and to answer any questions you have http://presidentprojectexample.blogspot.com/.

Before you begin your research make a new post on your blog titled My President.

  1. Give the name of your president and what you hope to learn about him throughout this project. Question: What is your definition of a president?

Below is a list of links that will be helpful to you when researching your president.

  1. For the first week of our research you are expected to learn about the president's life before presidency (date of birth, schools attended, hometown, family, significant events from childhood, etc.).
  2. Start a new post on your blog for your research titled Life Before Presidency. Question: Do you see any similarities or differences between your childhood and your president's? Post the information you find to your blog post about the president's life before presidency.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents

http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident

http://www.americanpresidents.org/

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/travpres/index6.htm

Week 1 Goals:

  1. Find your president for your project
  2. Set up a blog for your project
  3. Make your first blog post titled My President
  4. Do some research about your president's life before presidency and post your information to your blog in a post titled Life Before Presidency