Kids should be playing, not focusing on Obama's plan
Here is what your children will be subjected to if they are in Kindergarten through grade 6 when Obama addressed the classrooms according to the US Department of Education. Ask yourself as you read it, "Are we creating the Villiage of the Damned with matching little kids that have white hair and glowing eyes?"
Menu of Classroom Activities:
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
(PreK?6)
Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of Education
September 8, 2009
Before the Speech
Teachers can build background knowledge about the President of the United States and his speech by reading books about presidents and Barack Obama. Teachers could motivate students by asking the following questions:
- Who is the President of the United States?
- What do you think it takes to be president?
- To whom do you think the president is going to be speaking?
- Why do you think he wants to speak to you?
- What do you think he will say to you?
Teachers can ask students to imagine that they are delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States.
- If you were the president, what would you tell students?
- What can students do to help in our schools?
Teachers can chart ideas about what students would say.
- Why is it important that we listen to the president and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?
During the Speech
As the president speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note?taking graphic organizer such as a “cluster web;” or, students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children could draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:
- What is the president trying to tell me?
- What is the president asking me to do?
- What new ideas and actions is the president challenging me to think about?
Students could record important parts of the speech where the president is asking them to do something. Students might think about the following:
- What specific job is he asking me to do?
- Is he asking anything of anyone else?
- Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
Students could record questions they have while he is speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger children may need to dictate their questions.
Menu of Classroom Activities (PreK?6)
President Obama’s Address to Students Across America
After the Speech
Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes, or place notes on a butcher?paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, such as citizenship, personal responsibility, and civic duty.
Students could discuss their responses to the following questions:
- What do you think the president wants us to do?
- Does the speech make you want to do anything?
- Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?
- What would you like to tell the president?
- Extension of the Speech
Teachers could extend learning by having students:
Create posters of their goals. Posters could be formatted in quadrants, puzzle pieces, or trails marked with the following labels: personal, academic, community, and country. Each area could be labeled with three steps for achieving goals in that area. It might make sense to focus first on personal and academic goals so that community and country goals can be more readily created.
Write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short?term and long?term education goals. Teachers would collect and redistribute these letters at an appropriate later date to enable students to monitor their progress.
Write goals on colored index cards or precut designs to post around the classroom.
Interview one another and share goals with the class to create a supportive community.
Participate in school?wide incentive programs or contests for those students who achieve their goals.
Write about their goals in a variety of genres, such as poems, songs, and personal essays.
Create artistic projects based on the themes of their goals.
Graph individual progress toward goals.
Comments
Looks like my kid won't be going to school on the 8th.
I'm still trying to find where it says that the "I pledge" video is the same as a personal address from the president. Two completely different things to me.
What is it about this lesson plan that republicans do not like? Service to country? I thought the republicans were the ones who have this grandiose idea of patriotism. Yet, they do not want our children to learn about selfless acts of do-gooding! What a bunch of horseshit!
Liberals/democrats are "open minded", as long as you agree with them. This "lesson plan" is scarier than the proposed "health care reform". It looks like homeschooling may be in my future, unless that right gets taken away by our self-centered, egotistical, communist leader, Mr. Obama.
Yeah, we want W back so he can read us fairy tails while getting b*tch-slapped!
Barry is the Prez. He can say whatever he wants to.
RON PAUL 2012
My kid won't being going to school on the 8th either. Where does our government have the right to teach my child to service the president. Since when do we service the president and not our country....JFK said " ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for you country" maybe Obama needs to a note from JFK.
Puff Daddy, P Diddy, Diddy or whatever his name is this week wearing Obama jerseys. Green Piece lovers driving battery operated cars. Pledging to be a servant to Barack Obama! Pledging to help end slavery. ???? I thought slavery ended a long time ago. We don’t have slavery…what are they talking about? The finger. Healthcare. What is wrong with this is the fact that these are children. Obama is trying to brain wash our children into his liberal way of thinking. Is he already campaigning for a re-election. I am outraged that this country is removing God from our schools and replacing it with brain washing political tactics. Obama before God. Something is very wrong with this idea. I will not support this video and my child will not participate in such propaganda.
I dont know where the goverment sees that it is okay to bring our kids into all this political bull crap but my son is not going to be apart of it... I send him to school to learn to read and be all that he can to make his life better not to be brain washed and have someone talk political crap.. I will not support this and I dont agree with it at all... Stay away from our kids and be a man and talk to the adults... We dont serve the president we serve our country... I pledge to our country and not the president... Grow up Obama.. You should be ashamed of yourself going after the kids.. Cause you know that the adults know that you are speaking a bunch of crap and wont go alone with you so you attack our kids... Not cool that only makes you have more enemys when you mess with our kids...
Maybe he will say Candyman three times and that will make them loyal followers.
Well put Vanessa! I could not agree more. On the other hand - Paul is the typical mush headed racist lib. Patriotism is one of the things that made this a great country and allows nuts like Paul to post his bigoted views. If Obama has his way, ONLY people like Paul will be allowed to voice their opinion! Like Debbie said: Liberals and democrats are "open minded", as long as you agree with them. Otherwise, they are the most hateful people I have ever met. I gives me HOPE is to see comments like the ones by Vanessa, Aaron and Debbie.
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