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Patriotism, Good Citizenship, and Important American Symbols

This week we are studying in depth the intent, meaning, and importance of many American symbols, documents, songs, and speeches.

In doing this, we are using some neat tech resources:

Star-Spangled Banner Smithsonian Site

Our Country's Flag

Flag Manners

The Pledge of Allegiance

The Declaration of Independence


The Constitution

The Bill of Rights


American Symbols


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  1. Thanks for posting this! Austin and I had some great talks looking through this information tonight.

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  2. Today i learned that one of the flags fifteen stars was cut out and given away in the 1800s. Its present whereabouts are unknown

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  3. I learned that that the flag is very old. and has many holes in it and it
    has huge stars. and many stars.

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  4. I learned that there is a preserved flag in the Smithsonian.

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  5. Today I learned that a star is approximately 2 feet long by its self!

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  6. Today I learned that a star on the flag is 2 feet long.

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  7. did you know that each stripe measures 23 inches long

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  8. I did not know that one of the stars was cut out and given away.

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  9. Today I learned that the American Flags original stars were about two feet long and two feet wide.

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  10. today I learned that all of the stars are 2 feet long

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  11. Today I learned that the stars on the flag are 2 feet big.

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  12. Today I learned that the American Flag we looked at had part of the flag cut off. It was at first 30x42 feet and now it is 30x34.

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  13. Today I learned that more than 8 feet of the original flag was gone after
    the war.

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  14. I learned that there is an "A" sewed into the flag by Louisa Armistead, commander of a U.S. fort

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  15. today I learned that the original flag was 30 by 42 feet high!

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  16. Today I learned that some stars are made of cotton.

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  17. I learned a lot about our old flag and little things that mean a lot to the United States of America.

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  18. In the 1800 a star was cut out of the flag .

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  19. i now have the star spangled banner memoriezed in my head!!!

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  20. Grace and Lillian said

    we learned a lot today!!!!

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  21. I learned that Francis Bellamy was born in Baltimore

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  22. we learned that one star on the original flag is 2 feet long.

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  23. this is us! hello! We learned a lot today! This blog is awesome

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  24. Each stripe measures 23 inches long.

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  25. i love this website mrs.blake

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  26. i am 100 years old peace out mrs.blake

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  27. I learned about the American symbols and how they wrote them.

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  28. only 103 americans died in the war of independence but 273 british died.

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  29. I learned that the declraection of indapendets was made in the indapendets hall

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  30. I learned that Thomas Jefferson was once a senator.

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  31. I have looked at all the websites on this and most of them are pretty cool.

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  32. Today I learned that the stars on the flag are made of cotton.

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  33. I learned that there is 15 stars on the flag. 13 for the colonies and 2 for the next two states in the union, Kentucky and Vermont.

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  34. i learned that the colonies decided to add kentucky and vermont

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  35. I learned the flag was made from plants

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  36. I learned that the areganal flag was 33+42 inches

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  37. I learned a lot! One of the things I learned was that they they used cotton for England.

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  38. I never new that they made a kind of snack on july firth

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  39. I like the earn the 14 star game I learned that only one person made the 13 star flag.

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  40. I think that we would not have our freedom this minute unless the english people stood up to the Queen.I think our right are important because they give us choices.

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  41. I like most of the websites. There is a interactive flag on one of the sites. The flag is intrestesing.

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  42. I learned that some parts of the flag were removed for souvenirs for people.

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  43. I learned that they cut out a star of are old flag

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  44. I learn that a star of the flag (original) was cut out and given as a souvenir to someone

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  45. Today I went to the smithsonian site and I saw some very sad stories that other people have posted and one girl's father died in world war two and I realized how lucky we are to have people give up so much for us. I learned that the flag is in the Smitsonian museam.

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  46. Thousands of people died and it makes me sad

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  47. I learned about Americas flag and how they let someone take a pece of
    it in the 18 80s!

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  48. This blog is so cool! I never thought that the flag was so big. I thought that it was five feet long and three feet wide. I never knew that they cut off pieces of the flag and kept them. I would never think that they would do that.

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  49. I learned that there are three branches of the government ( Legislative, Executive, and Judicial ) and each branch has different things they have to do to help our government and our country.

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  50. I learned that parts of the flag are given for souvenirs.

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  51. I learned the Statu of Libety is 305 ft tall

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