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Patriotism is a love of and loyalty to one's
country. A patriot is someone who loves, supports,
and is prepared to serve their country.
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- Harder - The word
patriotism comes from a Greek word meaning
fatherland. For most of history, love of fatherland
or homeland was an attachment to the physical
features of the land. But that notion changed in
the eighteenth century, when the ideals of
democracy, socialism, and communism strongly
emerged into political thought. Patriotism was
still a love of one's country that included
connections to the land and people, but then also
included its customs and traditions, pride in its
history, and devotion to its welfare.
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- Today most people agree that patriotism also
involves service to their country, but many
disagree on how to best perform such service. Some
believe that the national government speaks for a
country; therefore, all its citizens should
actively support government policies and actions.
Others argue that a true patriot speaks out when
convinced that their country is following an unwise
or unjust action.
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- You'll find that most of our links focus on
patriotism in the United States, but we've also
tried to identify key websites related to other
countries including Canada. Let us know if you have
other links that should be considered.
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- Declaration
of Independence from the National
Archives and Records Administration
- http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/declaration/decmain.html
- Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and
June 28, 1776, the Declaration of
- Independence is at once the nation's most
cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's
most
- enduring monument.
- Other Related Websites:
- 2) Declaration of Independence from Surfing
the Net with Kids
- http://www.surfnetkids.com/declaration.htm
- 3) Declaration of Independence http://www.really-fine.com/history.html
- 4) Declaration of Independence http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/independ/declar.html
- 5) Declaration of Independence from The
History Channel
- http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/declaration/main.html
- 6) Declaration of Independence from the
Independence Hall Association
- http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/
- 7) Declaration of Independence: A History
http://www.wae.com/freedom/dechist.html
- 8) Declaration of Independence: Right to
Institute New Government from Library of
- Congress http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/jeffdec.html
- 9) Virginia Declaration of Rights from the
National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/billrights/virginia.html
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- Flag of the
United States of America
- http://www.usflag.org
- This site tells of the evolution and history of
the flag, its symbolism, the flag code, and much,
much more.
- Other Related Websites for the American
Flag:
- 2) American Flag http://userpages.aug.com/haywire/flag.html
- 3) Betsy Ross Homepage http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/index.html
- 4) Facts About the United States Flag from
The Smithsonian Institution
- http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/flag.htm
- 5) Flag of the United States http://www.usflag.org/toc.html
- 6) Star-spangled Banner from The Smithsonian
Institution
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/ssb/
- 7) Star-spangled Manners http://chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/allhands/ah0697/jun-pg18.html
- 8) United States of America http://www.fotw.stm.it/flags/us.html
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- National
Anthems, Flags and Facts
- http://www.imagesoft.net/flags/flags.html
- Here you can listen to national anthems and
view flags of many countries around the world.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Flag Facts http://www.govspot.com/features/flags.htm
- 3) Show Your Patriotism from PC Teach IT
http://www.pcteachit.com/patriotism/
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- Sir
Wilfred Laurier's Speed to the Canadian Club of
Ottawa
- http://www.canadianclub.ca/Laurier.htm
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier's famous speech on Canadian
patriotism was delivered January 18, 1904 at the
first annual banquet of The Canadian Club of
Ottawa.
- Related Canadian Patriotism
Websites:
- 2) Canada Day Resources http://www1.sympatico.ca/Contents/Travel/summer2001/canadaday.html
- 3) Canada Day 96 http://www.southam.com/nmc/ohcanada/index.html
- 4) Canadian Federation http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/18/index-e.html
- 5) The Middle ... O Canada http://oakwoodvoices.tripod.com/themiddle2.htm
- 6) Oh Canada http://www.southam.com/nmc/ohcanada/news/frank95.html
- 7) Pearson Education Canada/Civics 10 http://www.pearsoned.ca/civics/wlinks.html
- 8) What is a Canadian http://www.pollara.ca/new/LIBRARY/surveys/dec24.htm
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- After visiting several of the websites
for patriotism, complete one or more of
these activities.
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- Complete an Internet Treasure Hunt
on Patriotism. Follow the directions
found at Pursuit
of
- Patriotism
by C. Shulof.
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- Make A Suncatchers American
Flag. Follow the directions found at
Suncatchers
- US Flag from
- Kids Domain to make a bead-crafted
flag emblem.
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- Complete A Patriotic WebQuest.
Follow or adapt the procedures found at
one of the following webQuest sites:
- Celebrating America's Birthday (Grades
3-5) by P.G. Brasher
- http://www.netease.net/des/July4/July4.htm
- Four Freedoms WebQuest (Grades 4-10)
by M. Newman
- http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/parkspringsele/Media%20Center%20Web%20Pages/webquest
- s/The%20Four%20Freedoms%20WebQuest/#Top%20of%20Page
- Independence Day! (Grade 3) by J.
Williamson http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/indepday/
- Patriotic Symbols by C.J. Chamberlain
http://www.electricteacher.com/webquest/
- Patriotic Symbols, Landmarks, &
Practices by B. Murphy & P. Rice
- http://www.pavenet.org/FTP/Users/all_share/Cohort1/5319Project/murphy_rice_webquest/Pa
- trioticSymbolsLandmarksPractices.htm
- Patriotic Themes in Country Music
(Grades 5-8) by P. Petty
- http://www.pampetty.com/countrymusic.htm
- Proud to be American http://www.ri.net/schools/smscranston/computer/USPride/USPride.html
- Why Does Our Flag Look the Way It
Does? (Grade 1) by M. Amory
- http://www.geocities.com/amorymr/WebQuest.htm
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- Write To A Military Serviceman.
American Family Radio, in conjunction with
its parent
- organization American Family
Association, is sponsoring a "Dear
American Soldier" letter writing
- campaign. You can learn how to write
either a traditional letter or an email at
the website: Dear
- American
Soldier.
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- Debate Patriotism and the Bill of
Rights. The online articles below can
provide additional
- information and opinions about the
Bill of Rights. Should personal freedoms
insured by the Bill of
- Rights be relaxed in favor of
increased government safeguards for
security? You decide what is most
- important and why.
- 1) Bill of Rights from the National
Archives and Records
Administration
- http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/billrights/billmain.html
- 2) Bill of Rights from the National
Constitution Center
- http://www.constitutioncenter.org/sections/history/1b1.asp
- 3) Bill of Rights http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/constitution/amends.htm
- 4) Bill of Rights: A Brief History
from American Civil Liberties
Union
- http://www.aclu.org/library/pbp9.html
- 5) Bill of Rights Issues at
About.com http://law.about.com/cs/billofrights/
- 6) History of the Bill of Rights from
Massachussetts American Civil Liberties
Union
- http://www.aclu-mass.org/issuebriefs/histbillrgts.html
- 7) James Madison Proposes the Bill of
Rights to the House of
Representatives
- http://www.jmu.edu/madison/madprobll.htm
- 8) Miseducating the Young on Freedom:
The Patriotism Enforcers by N. Hentoff at
the Village
- Voice http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0201/hentoff.php
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- What Is the Best Form of
Patriot? Patriotism and what it means
to be a patriot have varied with
- geographic location and historic
times. Analyze the personal
characteristics that you think are
- necessary to be a good patriot in
today's world. You may find some
thought-provoking and
- sometimes opposing ideas from articles
like the following:
- 1) Americans Are World's Most
Patriotic People from University of
Chicago
- http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/98/980630.patriotism.shtml
- 2) Flag Fever: the Paradox of
Patriotism by B. Hardin from The New
York Times
- http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20011001monday.html
- 3) In Dire Need of a Patriotism of
Dissent by L.J. Averill from October 3,
2001 Chicago Tribune http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1003-03.htm
- 4) Lesson In Patriotism by M. Freund,
September 21, 2001 Jerusalem
Post
- http://www.livingontulsatime.com/wtc/lesson.html
- 5) Miseducating the Young on Freedom:
The Patriotism Enforcers by N. Hentoff
from The
- Village Voice http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0201/hentoff.php
- 6) Patriotism by J. Alter from
Newsweek http://www.msnbc.com/news/634434.asp?cp1=1
- 7) Patriotism & Censorship by
Peter Hart and Seth Ackerman from
November/December
- 2001 Extra http://www.fair.org/extra/0111/patriotism-and-censorship.html
- 8) Patriotism, a Menace to Liberty by
E. Goldman, 1911 http://www.connix.com/~harry/emma.htm
- 9) Patriotism or Nationalism? by J.
Sobran http://www.sobran.com/columns/011016.shtml
- 10) Thinking Through Patriotism from
the November 20, 2001 Christian Science
Monitor
- http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1120/p11s1-leca.html
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- Compare and Contrast Nationalism
and Patriotism. Identify the
similarities and differences
- between nationalism and patriotism.
Put your findings into a chart or graph
using software like
- Inspiration,
Illustrator, or other graphic
software package.
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- Take a Different View. What is
it like to be a partriot in a different
country from your own? Take the
perspective of a person living in another
country. Would you consider the citizens
of this country patriotic? Why or why not?
How do they show their patriotism?
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- More Patriotic Websites
- Constitution
of the United States from the National
Archives and Records Administration
- http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/constitution/conmain.html
- Here you find an online copy of this historic
U.S. document and more.
- Related Website:
- 2) A More Perfect Union: The Creation of the
U.S. Constitution from the National
- Archives and Records Administration
- http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/constitution/conhist.html
- 3) Constitution of the United States http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconst.html
- 4) Founding Fathers: Delegates to the
Constitutional Convention from the National
- Archives and Records Administration
- http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/constitution/confath.html
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- Patrick
Henry: Give Me Liberty Or Give Me
Death
- http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/henry-liberty.html
- Here is the famous speech made inside the
Henrico Parish Church (Today known as St. John's
Protestant Episcopal Church) on East Broad Street
in Richmond, Virginia, Thursday, 23 March
1775.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Patrick Henry http://darter.ocps.k12.fl.us/classroom/revolution/henry.htm
- 3) Patrick Henry http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/biohen.htm
- 4) Patrick Henry http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/henry.htm
- 5) Patrick Henry - Give Me Liberty or Give Me
Death from Yale Law School
- http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/patrick.htm
- 6) Patrick Henry Writings and Biography
http://www.lexrex.com/bios/phenry.htm
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- Patriotism
from The National Flag Foundation
- http://66.199.128.240/us-docs/patriotism-page.htm
- This site has lots of information about the
flag and its display plus some of the early
- American documents and more.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Archiving Early America http://www.earlyamerica.com/freedom/index.html
- 3) Scanned Originals of Early American
Documents
- http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/conpict.html#const
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- President
Lincolns Gettysburg Address
- http://www.insiders.com/civil/t06sb1.htm
- President Lincoln followed Edward Everett's two
hour address from the podium. Four-score and
seven years ago, Lincoln began his now-famous
speech. He spoke just two minutes and uttered a
mere 272 words. He considered the talk a
failure.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Gettysburg Address from the Library of
Congress
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/
- 3) Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
- http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
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- Thomas
Paine Library from Liberty
Online
- http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Paine/Default.htm
- Thomas Paine was an author and revolutionary
activist who took part in three revolutions. John
Adams said: "Without the pen of Paine, the sword of
Washington would have been wielded in vain."
Paine's impact on philosophy and politics helped
mold the age of democratic revolutions and
reverberates down to this day.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Biography of Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/tpaine/paine.htm
- 3) Paine, Thomas: Common Sense http://www.bartleby.com/133/
- 4) Remains of Thomas Paine from PBS
Liberty
- http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/paine.html
- 5) Thomas Paine http://www.ushistory.org/paine/
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- Pledge
of Allegiance - A Short History by J.W.
Baer
- http://www.vineyard.net/vineyard/history/pledge.htm
and
- http://www.ifx.net/~wjohnson/pledge.htm
- You may be surprised by some of the history of
the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Related Pledge of Allegiance
Websites:
- 2) Red Skelton: I Pledge Allegiance http://home.att.net/~poofcatt/july.html
and
- http://www.shrineclowns.com/skelton.html
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- Frances
Scott Key
- http://www.alltel.net/~davefowler/FSK.html
- Here you find a brief biography of the man who
wrote the words to the 'Star Spangled Banner.'
- Related Websites:
- 2) Francis Scott Key 1780-1843 http://www.usflag.org/francis.scott.key.html
- 3) Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott
Key
- http://www.ceai.org/tip05.html
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- Directory
of Holidays from Miama-Dade County
Public Schools
- http://www.patriotism.org/page2.html
- This web site features information of the
people and the events surrounding our patriotic
holidays.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Fireworks and Web Sites: Have an Online
Fourth of July from Minneapolis-St. Paul
- Star Tribune http://www.startribune.com/idea/cgi-bin/theme.cgi?theme_id=385
- 3) Frequently Asked Veterans Day Questions from
the Department of Veterans Affairs
- http://www.va.gov/vetsday/page.cfm?pg=11
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- Websites For Teachers
- Americana
Vest & Shirt and Patriotism from
Hobby Industry Association
- http://www.i-craft.com/teachers/plans98/vest.html
- The students will recognize and explain the
importance of various patriotic symbols and create
a patriotic vest.
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- Celebrating
America's Freedom from the Department of
Veterans Affairs
- http://www.va.gov/pubaff/celebam/caindex.htm
- Here you find fourteen essays about America's
national symbols and customs, plus a list of
possible school activities for Veterans Day.
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- I
Pledge Allegiance to the ... What ?!? by D.
Blumberg Drossner
- http://www.constitutioncenter.org/sections/teacher/lesson_plans/html/10208bg.asp
- This lesson uses a multidisciplinary approach
to experiencing loyalty and patriotism. Students
investigate the Pledge of Allegiance and develop an
understanding of the meaning of the words
recited.
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- Lessons
of Liberty Booklist from the Council for
Basic Education
- http://www.c-b-e.org/makediff/qlessonslib.htm
- Here is a suggested reading list from the
Parents' Choice Foundation.
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- Memory
Shall Be Ours: Celebrating Memorial Day by
L. Starr
- at Education World
- http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson119.shtml
- This lesson plan article activity ideas for
introducing the meaning of Memorial Day into the
classroom.
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- Nationalism
and the Olympics from Copernicus
Education Gateway
- http://www.edgate.com/summergames/inactive/lesson_plans/lp8.html
- Pride in one's nation is important, but
feelings of patriotism should not infringe on the
rights of others.
- Related Website:
- 2) Olympic Games from eduScapes
42eXplore http://eduscapes.com/42explore/olympics.htm
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- Patriotism
from Scholastic
- http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/profbooks/patriotismactivities.pdf
- Here is a collection of activities on
patriotism for the classroom. Be patient, this pdf
is a little slow loading.
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- Patriotism
vs. Civility from CNN
- http://fyi.cnn.com/2001/fyi/lesson.plans/11/05/stereotypes/
- What is a stereotype? Use this article and
corresponding questions to discuss prejudice and
discrimination with your students.
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- Pen-Pal
Patriotism from Time for Kids
- http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,185339,00.html
- Learn how a U.S. Navy warship in the Persian
Gulf has adopted a fifth grade class from
California.
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- Veterans
Day (Grades 6-12) from Miami-Dade County
Public Schools
- http://www.patriotism.org/veterans_day/page2.html
- This lesson is designed to enhance student
understanding of the Veterans Day observance.
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- Renewed
Glory of Old Glory (Grades 6-12) by A.
Zimbalist and J.Khan from the New York
Times
- http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20011001monday.html
- In this lesson, students investigate how
increased patriotism as a reaction to national
crisis can serve as both a uniting and a dividing
force. Students discuss their views on the issue
and interview adults representing different
generations to gauge their historical
perspectives.
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Larry
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