Dramatizing+Social+Studies


 * Dramatizing Social Studies by Mary Blymire and Ellen Lippy **

**Activity Category: ** Short Play **Activity Title: ** The Pledge Of Allegiance Explained **Number of Member: ** 2 **Time of Activity: ** 6 minutes **PA Standards: ** 1. 5.1.4.F: Identify state symbols, national symbols, and national holidays 2. 5.1.4.C: Explain the principles and ideals shaping local and state government. a. Liberty/ Freedom b. Democracy c. Justice d. Equality **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">NCSS Themes: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Culture identity, people places and environments, power authority and governance, civic ideals and practices **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Characters: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Ellen- student, Mary- teacher **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Setting: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In the classroom <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">**Props:** American flag

<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">(Ellen is sitting on a chair) <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Mary: Students, could you please stand it is time to recite the pledge of the flag <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">(Ellen Stands) <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Ellen: What do the words in the Pledge OF Allegiance Mean? <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Mary: I will tell you as you say the pledge. <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">(Ellen looks at the flag and puts her hand on her chest) <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.4pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Ellen: Mary:
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">I Pledge Allegiance ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">I Promise to be faithful and true (Promise my loyalty) ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">to the flag ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">to the emblem that stands for and represents ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">of the United States ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">all 50 states, each of them individual, and individually represented on the flag ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">of America ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">yet formed into a UNION of one Nation. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">and to the Republic ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">And I also pledge my loyalty to the Government that is itself a Republic, a form of government where the PEOPLE are sovereign, ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">for which it stands, ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">this government also being represented by the Flag to which I promise loyalty. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">one Nation under God, ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">These 50 individual states are united as a single Republic under the Divine providence of God, "our most powerful resource" (according to the words of President Eisenhower) ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Indivisible, ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">and can not be separated. (This part of the original version of the pledge was written just 30 years after the beginning of the Civil War and demonstrates the unity sought in the years after that divisive period in our history) ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">with Liberty ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The people of this Nation being afforded the freedom to pursue "life, liberty, and happiness", ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">and Justice ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">And each person entitled to be treated justly, fairly, and according to proper law and principle, ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">for All. ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">And these principles afforded to EVERY AMERICAN, regardless of race, religion, color, creed, or any other criteria. Just as the flag represents 50 individual states that can not be divided or separated, this Nation represents millions of people who can not be separated or divided. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">for All. ** || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">And these principles afforded to EVERY AMERICAN, regardless of race, religion, color, creed, or any other criteria. Just as the flag represents 50 individual states that can not be divided or separated, this Nation represents millions of people who can not be separated or divided. ||