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All fifth-grade students will be embarking on a NEW and exciting challenge this school year! “The Great American Challenge” is a chance for students to push themselves, while also learning and connecting to important pieces of our country’s history. This challenge aligns perfectly with our Social Studies curriculum. The Great American Award is not GIVEN to students, but it is EARNED by students. It also encourages young citizens to learn more about our country while taking an active role in their citizenship. Originally established by Clare Tobler in Boulder City, NV in 1989, it has grown into a great success in schools across Nevada.
Students who push to complete ALL 7 challenges will become a “GREAT AMERICAN” and will be honored with a certificate and a medal at the end of the year. These activities will be practiced and studied inside the classroom during any free time they may have and at home. Each challenge will be passed off with a teacher at any time the teacher is FREE. There is no order to passing them off.
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address
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.
Presidents (In order from when office was held)
Presidents (In order from when office was held)
1-2301 George Washington (1789-1797)
02 John Adams (1797-1801)
03 Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
04 James Madison (1809-1817)
05 James Monroe (1817-1825)
06 John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
07 Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
08 Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
09 William Henry Harrison (1841)
10 John Tyler (1841-1845)
11 James Knox Polk (1845-1849)
12 Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
13 Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
14 Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
15 James Buchanan (1857-1861)
16 Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
17 Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
18 Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
19 Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881)
20 James Abram Garfield (1881)
21 Chester Alan Arthur (1881-1885)
22 Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)
23 Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
24 Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)
25 William McKinley (1897-1901)
26 Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
27 William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
28 Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
29 Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
30 Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
31 Herbert Clark Hoover (1929-1933)
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
33 Harry Truman (1945-1953)
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
35 John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-1963)
36 Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
37 Richard Milhous Nixon (1969-1974)
38 Gerald Rudolph Ford (1974-1977)
39 James Earl Carter Jr. (1977-1981
40 Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
41 George H. Bush (1989-1993)
42 William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001)
43 George W. Bush (2001-2009)
44 Barack Hussein Obama (2009-2017)
45 Donald Trump (2017-Present)
States and Capitals
States and Capitals
Alabama, Montgomery (AL)
Alaska, Juneau (AK)
Arizona, Phoenix (AZ)
Arkansas, Little Rock (AR)
California, Sacramento (CA)
Colorado, Denver (CO)
Connecticut, Hartford (CT)
Delaware, Dover (DE)
Florida, Tallahassee (FL)
Georgia, Atlanta (GA)
Hawaii, Honolulu (HI)
Idaho, Boise (ID)
Illinois, Springfield (IL)
Indiana, Indianapolis (IN)
Iowa, Des Moines (IA)
Kansas, Topeka (KS)
Kentucky, Frankfort (KY)
Louisiana, Baton Rouge (LA)
Maine, Augusta (ME)
Maryland, Annapolis (MD)
Massachusetts, Boston (MA)
Michigan, Lansing (MI)
Minnesota, St. Paul (MN)
Mississippi, Jackson (MS)
Missouri, Jefferson City (MO)
Montana, Helena (MT)
Nebraska, Lincoln (NE)
Nevada, Carson City (NV)
New Hampshire, Concord (NH)
New Jersey, Trenton (NJ)
New Mexico, Santa Fe (NM)
New York, Albany (NY)
North Carolina, Raleigh (NC)
North Dakota, Bismarck (ND)
Ohio, Columbus (OH)
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City (OK)
Oregon, Salem (OR)
Pennsylvania, Harrisburg (PA)
Rhode Island, Providence (RI)
South Carolina, Columbia (SC)
South Dakota, Pierre (SD)
Tennessee, Nashville (TN)
Texas, Austin (TX)
Utah, Salt Lake City (UT)
Vermont, Montpelier (VT)
Virginia, Richmond (VA)
Washington, Olympia (WA)
West Virginia, Charleston (WV)
Wisconsin, Madison (WI)
Wyoming, Cheyenne (WY)
National Anthem
National Anthem
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,
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.
Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Preamble
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.
Write the Pledge of Allegiance
Write the Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance
I pledge allegiance
to the Flag
to the Flag
of the United States of America,
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic
and to the Republic
for which it stands,
for which it stands,
one Nation under God, indivisible,
one Nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
with liberty and justice for all.
Write the Pledge of Allegiance,in cursive from memory with correct spelling and punctuation.
Recite, by memory, the 50 states and capitals in alphabetical order.
Recite or sing the FIRST verse of “The Star Spangled Banner” from memory
Recite the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States from memory.
Recite by memory, the Presidents of the United States,first and last names,in the order they served.
Recite by memory the “Gettysburg Address”, given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19,1863.
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