So You Want to Be President

Title: So You Want to Be President 

Author: Judith St. George was born and raised in New Jersey. Then she attended college at Smith College. After graduation she got married and moved to Cambridge Massachusetts. There she started to take an interest in history. This lead her in writing her book So You Want to Be President? She has written a total of twenty books throughout her career.   

Genre: Historical Nonfiction 

Grades: 3-6

Subject Area: History  

Summary: In this book the author talks about the different presidents of the United States. They go through things that the different presidents did for the United States. The presidents covered in the book are George Washington to Bill Clinton. The author discuses the many pros and cons of being the president of the United States. 

Pre Reading Activity: Ask kids who the presidents and what they know about being president. What does the president do/ what is their job. Discuss as a class and write the list of what the class comes up with on a big sheet of paper. 

Post Reading Activity: As a class make a pro/con list about being president. Have the kids copy the list that we make as a class. Then have students write weather or not they would want to be the president of the United States. Make sure the students explain in detail why or why not you would want to be a president.