My Name is Jimmy Carter Links to LOC Resources: Jimmy Carter Taking His Oath Jimmy Carter's Picture Jimmy Carter's Boyhood Home Ashley Grech– Rock Hill, SC– Winthrop University – 2011 Author: June Behrens My Name is Jimmy Carter Regensteiner Publishing Enterprises, Inc. (BYR); 1997 Book Summary: Explores Jimmy Carter’s life beginning with his walk to the White House in 1977, and ends with his campaign in Setting: Several locations throughout Carter’s life. Objective: Students will examine the life of President Jimmy Carter.

What important events happened in the President’s life? Students will draw a President’s name out of a hat and create a timeline of important events that happened in the President’s life.

If the President was a poem it would say? Students will create a poem about the President they chose from the hat and draw an illustration to go with it. (If student uses

What would you do if you were elected President of the United States? Students will create a poster for their campaign trail, and list three things that they would do if they were president and why they would do those three things.

Standards NCSS: –People, Places and Environments South Carolina: –5.5: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the social, economic, and political events that influenced the United States during the Cold War era. –5-5.5: Explain the political alliances and policies that impacted the United States in the latter part of the twentieth century, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the United Nations, and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).