The Pledge of Allegiance

(written - spelled correctly, including capitalization and punctuation - no helps allowed)

 "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."

Symbols of "Old Glory"

                                                                                               *No helps allowed

Our flag has 13 stripes,

one for each of the original 13 colonies,

Red stands for courage

White stands for truth

Blue for justice.

There are 50 stars, one for each state in the union.

Birthday of the flag, June 14, 1777 (Flag Day.)

Symbols of the United States of America

 (recite - no helps allowed)

       Birthday of our country        July 4, 1776

       Motto of our country            "In God We Trust"

       Symbol of our country         The Bald Eagle

       Flower of our country          The Rose

       Song of our country            The Star Spangled Banner

       Symbol of Freedom             Statue of Liberty 

      Flag of our Country             Old Glory

Symbols of the State of Utah

                                          Our 45th State 

 (recite - no helps allowed)

          Birthday                 January 4, 1896

          Nickname               The Beehive State

          State Bird               Seagull

          State Animal           Elk

          State Flower           Sego Lily

          State Hymn            Utah, We Love Thee

          State Song             Utah, This Is the Place!

Preamble to the Constitution 

of the United States

(recite from memory - no helps)

"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."

The Star Spangled Banner

(recite or sing - no helps allowed) 

Oh! 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 over 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.

Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave?

video link for song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh20Xsn_p9k

Line from the Declaration of Independence

(recite - no helps allowed)

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

US Presidents

*Recite in order - 5 helps allowed

Video to help you learn the US Presidents: 

Click here for song video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSneelTw3lg   

States & Capitals

Name and located on a map (or on an app) 2 helps allowed for states - 2 helps allowed for capitals

State Capitals Quiz: 

https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3063  

Memorize The 50 States and Capitals Song RAP! 

Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQaWFEjTcVc 

The 50 States and Capitals

Name and located on a map (or on an app) 2 helps allowed for states - 2 helps allowed for capitals

Watch this music video to help you memorize the states and their capitals:

Click here for video!  

Locate and find the state quiz game:

 https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3003   [2 helps allowed]

Locate and find the state capital:   (click on link below)

https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3063   [2 helps allowed]

Name the continents, oceans, 

and the USA on the map! 

[no helps allowed]

Learn the Continents and Oceans!

Video song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFIS3aLQPfs  

OR this VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDosftdo0rY  

Find the oceans and continents (show your teacher!)

https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3188 

Listen to the Gettysburg Address Spoken [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avVwQXIUpYM 

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:

(recite all at one time - 7 helps allowed)

"Fourscore 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. 

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. 

We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. 

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. 

The world will 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 to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. 

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Source:  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/gettyb.asp  

Video of speech spoken: click here  

Learn the Gettysburg Address SONG!

Video link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAKSjDvxIG8&feature=emb_logo 

Helpful website:

https://sites.google.com/a/washk12.org/give-me-liberty/home