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1 A) Vocabulary: 1) America 2) bald eagle 3) Betsy Ross 4) Capital 5) Bill of Rights 6) Congress 7) constitution 8) England 9) flag 10) freedom 11) Great Seal 12) Independence Hall 13) Liberty Bell 14) Lincoln Memorial 15) My Country Tis of Thee 16) National Anthem 17) Old Glory 18) Pledge of Allegiance 19) President 20) Star Spangled Banner 21) Statue of Liberty 22) United States (USA) 23) Uncle Sam 24) Washington Monument 25) White House B) Dialog: 1) What is it? A) What is an American symbol? B) A symbol represents something. A) Can you name an American symbol for me? B) The Statue of Liberty is an American symbol. 2) Have you seen it? A) Have you seen the Statue of Liberty? B) No, I have not seen the Statue of Liberty. A) Do you know where it is? B) Yes, it is in New York Harbor 3) America is based on Freedom. Freedom is very important in America. While the government must have some controls to insure safety for all people, it is very careful not to limit people s individual right to worship or beliefs. Americans have choices about where they want to work, live and attend religious services. The choices we make influence every part of our life. If you chose to live far away from your work (where housing may be less expensive) it will cost you more for gas or transportation to get to work. It may also cost you time. Time is a limited resource and you must choose how you want use it. When you are given freedom, it also requires responsibility. You must do the right thing at the right time for the right reason. When you choose to act in a selfish way, you will find your freedoms become restricted and your actions controlled

2 C) Symbols: 1) U.S.A. United States of America (also U.S.) 2) MOTTO: IN GOD WE TRUST (on all money) 3) Bald Eagle. Power and Strength 4) Uncle Sam (U.S.) 5) Liberty Bell: Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Was purchased from England in Proclaim Liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof (Leviticus 25:10) 6) Constitution: (RULES and LAWS) PREAMBLE: We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America. 7) White House: Where the President lives Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington, DC ) Capital: Where the Congress (Law Makers) meet. Lower House: Upper House: House of Representatives Senate (2 from each state) - 2 -

3 9) Great Seal: Eagle = Authority 13 Olive Branches / Arrows / Stars = STATES Arrows = Military Strength, Olive Branch = Peace E Pluribus Unum = ONE OUT OF MANY Appears on back of $1 Pyramid = Strength (13 levels = states) Novus Ordo Seclorum = A new order of the age MDCCLXXVI (1776) Declaration of Independence EYE Annuit Coeptis = He has favored our undertakings 10) National Anthem: Frances Scott Key Star Spangled Banner (Verse#1) O say can you see, by the dawn s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight. O er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there. O say does that star spangled banner yet wave, O er the land of the free and the home of the brave

4 11) Flag: Old Glory, Stars and Stripes, The Red, White and Blue 50 Stars = 50 States, Blue: Justice 13 stripes: 7 Red = Honor, 6 White = Purity Betsy Ross is given credit for making the 1 st flag. Pledge: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE My Country tis of Thee Sweet land of liberty Of Thee I sing. Land where my fathers died. Land of the Pilgrim s pride. From every mountain side. Let freedom ring. Samuel F. Smith 12) Statue of Liberty: Liberty Enlightening the World, Is also known as: Miss Liberty, Lady Liberty. Gift from France in It is in New York Harbor on Liberty Island (Ellis Island). 152 feet tall on a 150 foot base. 200 feet from the base to the tip of the torch Book in her arm says: July 4 th 1776 A global symbol of freedom. In 1903, the poem was inscribed at the main entrance. The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" - 4 -

5 13) Lincoln Memorial: Gettysburg Address, Battle: July 1863 National Cemetery Dedicated: November 19, 1863 Four Score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. (Score=20 years: 4x20+7=87 = ) 14) Independence Hall, Philadelphia Location where the Declaration of Independence was signed 13) Washington Monument. Tallest building in Washington DC. 555 feet tall. D) Quotes: 1) Speak softly and carry a big stick: Theodore Roosevelt ) Being prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace George Washington ) I have not yet begun to fight: John Paul Jones ) But as for me, give me liberty or give me death: Patrick Henry ) With all her faults, she is my country still: Edmund Burke 6) Go West young man and grow up with the country: Horace Greeley 7) Government of the people, by the people, for the people: Abraham Lincoln 8) That s one small step for man, One giant leap for mankind: Neal Armstrong 07/20/1969 9) Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. John Kennedy 1960 E) Sentences Completion: 1. The flag of the United States is called the and 2. Another name for the American flag is. 3. The flag flies over homes and office building in all states. 4. made the first American flag. 5. The was bought from England in The Liberty Bell rang out when the United States declared independence in The national anthem was written by during the battle of The Motto on all US Money is 9. Liberty Enlightening the World is the real name of the. 10. The national bird is the. 11. America was based on the idea that people should have 12. The name Uncle Sam begins with the letters U.S. which stand for 13. The President lives in the. 14. The Capital is where the makes the laws