Sixth Grade Memory Challenges

The Road Not Taken The Gettysburg Address

by Robert Frost by Abraham Lincoln

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth

And sorry I could not travel both on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and

And be one traveler, long I stood dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether

that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can

Then took the other, as just as fair, long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.

And having perhaps the better claim, We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final

Because it was grassy and wanted wear; resting place for those who here gave their lives that that

Though as for that the passing there nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we

Had worn them really about the same. should do this.

And both that morning equally lay But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate – we can not

In leaves no step had trodden black. consecrate – we cannot hallow – this ground. The brave

Oh, I kept the first for another day! men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it,

Yet knowing how way leads on to way, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will

I doubted if I should ever come back. little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather,

I shall be telling this with a sigh. to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who

Somewhere ages and ages hence: fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us –

I took the one less traveled by that from these honored dead we take increased devotion

And that has made all the difference. to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall

Preamble not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have

a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people,

We the people of the United States, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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.

Sixth Grade Memory Challenges

Very Important Countries

Locate and label these 60 countries on a world map:

North America / Europe / Asia / South America / Africa / Oceania
Canada / Denmark / Afghanistan / Argentina / Angola / Australia
Costa Rica / Finland / China / Brazil / Egypt / New Zealand
Cuba / France / India / Bolivia / Ethiopia
El Salvador / Germany / Indonesia / Chile / Liberia
Guatemala / Greece / Iran / Colombia / Kenya
Honduras / Iceland / Iraq / Ecuador / Madagascar
Mexico / Ireland / Israel / Paraguay / Morocco
Nicaragua / Italy / Japan / Peru / Nigeria
Panama / Norway / Mongolia / Uruguay / South Africa
United States / Portugal / Pakistan / Venezuela / Democratic
Russia / Philippines / Republic of
Spain / South Korea / Congo
Sweden / Taiwan
United Kingdom / Vietnam