President Obama has been in office for 100 days now. Earlier this week I posted some videos explaining the historical significance and current importance placed on the first 100 days. The White House has released a large collection of images of President Obama’s first 100 days in office. The images are published on The Official White House Flickr Photostream. You can view the images in slideshow format here.
Applications for Education
The slideshow provides a wealth of possibilities for a creative writing project. You could have students select an image or two and write a short story based on the actions they see in the image. For example, a student might select this image of President Obama speaking to Senator Susan Collins and write a dialogue of what they might be saying to each other. An assignment of this type could be graded as a social studies assignment and a creative writing assignment if you require students to include factual elements in their writing. In the case of the image with Susan Collins I might have my students find out which issues Senator Collins has been most vocal about and have them include references to those issues in the dialogue that they write.
This slideshow of images from President Obama’s first 100 days could be a good tool for prompting a review political and social events of the last three months. Each image has a “show info” link in the upper-right hand corner. Clicking that link provides a brief caption of the image.
Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:
The Story of the Obama “Hope” Poster
Comparing Obama’s Inaugural Address to Kennedy’s
Growing Up in the White House
