American Symbols
A) Vocabulary:
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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
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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.
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 1752.
“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.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
8) Capital: Where the Congress
(Law Makers) meet.
http://www.senate.gov/vtour/
Lower House: House of Representatives
Upper House: Senate (2 from each state)
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.
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 1st 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 1886.
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 4th 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!"
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 = 1883-1776)
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 1908
2) Being prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace George Washington 1790
3) I have not yet begun to fight: John Paul Jones 1779
4) But as for me, give me liberty or give me death: Patrick Henry 1775
5) 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 1752.
6. The Liberty Bell rang out when the United States declared independence in 1774.
7. The national anthem was written by ______during the battle of 1812.
8. 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.
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