This document provides an overview of key aspects of life in the United States including the government, technology, food supply, religion, social structure, the arts, and writing. It highlights the White House and President as central to the government, and how technology, farming, grocery stores, churches, neighborhoods, music, theater, newspapers, magazines, and computers are all important parts of modern American society.

1. United States
of America
United States of America

2. Government
 This is the White House!
 The White House is
where the President
lives!
 The White House is very
important to us because
it has a lot of history in it
of all the other
presidents.

3. Government
 Barack Obama is the
current President of the
United States.
 He is also called our
Commander In Chief.
 He makes important
decisions and laws for our
country!
 The President works with
the Senate and House of
Representatives to run our
country.

4. Technology
 Technology is very
important to us
because not only
does it make things
fun it also helps us
learn about things.
 This is an xbox. An
xbox is a video game
system and this is to
show you that even
kids use all sorts of
technology!

5. Technology
 This is a rocket ship.
 A Rocket ship is a plane
that goes into space!
 People called astronauts
go in them.
 They go up into space to
gather information about
the planets or the moon.

6. Stable Food Supply
 Today farming is still an
important part of our food
supply.
 Like ancient Sumer we still
have to grow things.
 Its just now of days we have
more advanced machinery.

7. Stable Food Supply
This is Kings grocery
store. It is where you
by food or drinks.
Unlike in ancient
Sumer we don’t have to
look for food.

8. Religion
 This is a church. A church is a place where
christian people pray to their god.
 Some people go every Sunday some don’t
really go at all and most people go on holidays
like Christmas or Easter.
 There are many different religions and people
celebrate them in many different ways.

9. Social Structure
 This is a football stadium.
 It took lots of people to build
this.
 People go to football
stadiums to have fun and
see a good sporting event.

10. Social Structure
 This is a suburban
neighborhood.
 Neighborhoods are a
bunch of people who
live In the same area.
 Neighborhoods take a
long time to build.
 Everybody lives in a
neighborhood.

11. The Arts
 This is a guitar.
 A guitar is used to play
music.
 It makes a really cool
sound.
 A lot of people play the
guitar!

12. The Arts
 This is the Mary Poppins
theater in New York City!
 Theater is a way of the
arts in many ways.
 It entertains
people, there is music
and acting, and
instruments!

13.  These are
newspapers, magazines,
Writing and computers.
 We can write on all of
them. We type a lot of
things now where in
ancient Sumer they did
not even have anything
like computers.
Newspapers tell us the
news in the world.
Magazines tell gossip
about famous people or
they could tell you about
sports or even good
recipes! Computers is all
writing. You have to
TYPE on the computer.
Almost everything you do
on the computer involves
typing.