Summary: The Pledge Of Alleracy, By Barack Obama

Summary: This book, Barack Obama, was an expository. It informs readers about the life of Barack Obama – from his childhood to his adult life as President of the United States. This book talked about how Obama came from a multicultural family with a mom from Kansas and his father from Kenya. It continues to discuss Barack’s elementary and high school years, meeting his wife, and having two daughters. Furthermore, it explains how Obama entered politics and won his first political race in 1996. As time went on, Obama progressed to further political achievements. On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama became the first African American President of the United States.

Strengths: This book has numerous strengths. It contains a wide range of text structures such as a table of contents, highlighted words, visual pictures, a timeline, a glossy, and an index. This text also contains

This book explains who wrote the Pledge and when it was writing. It also talks about the symbolism of the Pledge and how it has impacted America. It also includes the actual Pledge for students to read.

Strengths: This book is very informative. It contains a table of contents, subtitles, and a glossary. It also includes additional sources for teachers and students to use in the classroom. There are a lot of visuals for the readers to see and the pictures show different groups of people saying the Pledge.

Improvements: This book was very factual, which is important; however, there could have been a way to make this book a little more interesting for a young audience. Additionally, most of the illustrations were black and white photos. This book could have contained more colorful pictures.

Illustrations: I would say the illustrations in this book are excellent. There are a lot of illustrations throughout this book. There are also large pictures on most pages when describing the different aspects of the