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DescriptionPresident Obama’s Address to Students Across America September 8, 2009PreK-6 Menu of Classroom Activities: President Obama’s Address to Students Across America Produced by Teaching Ambassador Fellows, U.S. Department of EducationSeptember 8, 2009Before 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 and 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 being the President delivering a speech to all of the students in the United States. What would you tell students? What can students do to help in our schools? Teachers can chart ideas about what they 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 can 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 can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people? ...
Ah yes--when in doubt, speak to the ones who can't or won't debate you. Indoctrination at it's finest.
You got off your ass, now get your wife off her back.
What's the big deal, I think it's great he's speaking to the kids........it's really cool
^exactly. My son told me that the first priority when we decide what kind of dog to get (we've been talking about it recently) is one that's good for the environment. WTH? I said, they all poop and that's fertilizer so there!
Obama’s classroom campaign: No junior lobbyist left behindBy Michelle Malkin • September 2, 2009 05:02 AMPhotoshop: Leo AlbertiMy syndicated column today digs a little deeper into President Obama’s September 8 speech to schoolchildren. The school guides now featured front and center on the www.ed.gov website were developed by the White House Teaching Fellows — a group which includes several activist educators as you’ll see below.Downplaying academic achievement in favor of left-wing radical activism in the public schools is rooted in old neighborhood pal and Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers’ pedagogical philosophy. It was the Chicago Annenberg Challenge way when the two served as board members of the educational foundation — and it is the Washington Obama way now.***Obama’s classroom campaign: No junior lobbyist left behindby Michelle MalkinCreators SyndicateCopyright 2009“ABC†stands for All Barack’s Children. On September 8, young students across the country will be watching television. Yes, they’ll be parked in front of the boob tube and computer screens watching President Obama’s address on education.Instead of practicing cursive, reviewing multiplication tables, diagramming sentences, or learning something concrete, America’s kids will be lectured about the importance of learning. And then the schoolchildren, from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, will be exhorted to Do Something — other than sit in their seats and receive academic instruction, that is.Education Secretary Arne Duncan dispatched letters to principals nationwide boasting that “This is the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation’s school children about persisting and succeeding in school.†But the goal is not merely morale-boosting. According to White House event-related guides developed by the U.S. Department of Education’s Teaching Fellows, grade-school students will be told to “listen to the speech†and “could think about the following:†...
