Give Me Liberty Program Information
What is Give Me Liberty?
Our students have the opportunity to participate in a patriotic enrichment program offered to fifth grade students in our state. Our Give Me Liberty program is sponsored by an organization called United We Pledge. The link below will take you to their site, where you can download/view a digital copy of the same booklet that your student will receive here at school. Students participating in this program will work on passing off requirements throughout the year related to citizenship.
A Few Practice Aids
Students may find some of the resources below helpful as they work on some of their requirements.
- The Pledge of Allegiance (written with correct spelling and punctuation)
- The Star Spangled Banner (recited or sung)
- The Preamble to the Constitution (recited)
- Declaration of Independence Phrase (recited)
- The 50 States and Capitals (named and located on a blank map)
- The Gettysburg Address (recited)
The Pledge of Allegiance - Written
Written (no mistakes, no helps)
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.
The Star Spangled Banner
Recite or Sing (no helps)
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?
The Preamble to the Constitution
Recite (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 blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
The Preamble Song - Schoolhouse Rock (YouTube)
Declaration of Independence
Recite (one help)
"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 - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
The 50 States and Capitals
Named and Located on Map (4 helps)
The Give Me Liberty Folder in Schoology has a blank map of the U.S. that you can print and use for practice as well as the blank maps below. How do I access Schoology?
States of the USA Song (YouTube)
Memory Trick for States (YouTube)
Tour the States Song (YouTube)
States Game By Region (Sheppard Software)
Practice States and Capitals Game (Sheppard Software)
View States and Capitals List (PDF)
Filled in USA Practice Map (PDF)
The Gettysburg Address
Recite all at one time (7 helps)
"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 battle-field 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 here 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."